Hi, all! I’m back from my adventure in Japan – thank you so much to PitFace and Ironscarf for writing amazing guest newsposts while I was away. It’s so lovely being part of a site where someone’s always willing to jump in and help out (and you two ...
Travel Journaling
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 22, 2016Inspiration through Travel
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 1, 2016
I have to admit that I’m not one of these people who loves travel for its own sake. I like it as a general concept – seeing different parts of the world, the historical sites and the way people live – but I'm an anxious person by nature, and a ...
DD Electric Meetup THIS SATURDAY, and Blue Strawberry Animation
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 24, 2016
Tomorrow is our second monthly DD skype chat!
If you weren't there for our last one, this is how you participate:
1. Download Skype (and create and account) if you don't already have it
2. Add “ozoneocean” as a contact, and be online any time after 11am New ...
My favourite parts of comic making
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 17, 2016
I’ve written newsposts before about how much I hate inking. Since Lazy Nezumi was suggested to me by the wonderful Amelius that headache has abated somewhat, and I thought I’d talk today about the parts that I really enjoy.
Character Design
The bit before you have to start ...
A Roundup of Recent Fixes!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 3, 2016
We've been implementing various bug fixes and improvements over the last little while. For those of you who don't always check the forums or the Facebook group, here's a little roundup of what we've done so far.
The Top Ten: The top ten is now based ...
Casual Comicking
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 27, 2016
For the last few years I’ve been focusing almost exclusively on university. I’ve been working on some stuff off and on (see my lonely little title page here), but I haven’t finished an entire issue of a comic since the year I graduated high school. Basically, you ...
Are Friends Electric? (Guest post by Gunwallace)
HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 29, 2016
“Well, are they?”
Gary Numan (and Tubeway Army) posed that question in 1979. These days it has more relevance that ever before.
“It's cold outside, and the paint's peeling offa my walls.”
As winter approaches in the Southern Hemisphere (winter is coming) my thoughts naturally turn a little ...
It's time to make some TUTORIALS!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 22, 2016
So…how many of you know that DD has a tutorials section? If you’ve happened to hit that little button near the top of the page at any point, you probably found something more than a little embarrassing…
2013? Yikes.
Genejoke recently had the excellent idea that the tutorials ...