One of my favourite parts of working on a comic is doing little bits of body language for each character, tiny things like Kat sticking her tongue out (which she's done in past pages), or the way Yegir pulls up a chair and lounges in it with his hair flipped over the back while Wall hunkers down cross-legged on the floor (also recurring). Trying to think about how a particular character takes up space and moves.

There was a page a while ago that I had a really fun time with in this regard -- Chapter 4, Page 29 -- where there was a panel with everyone running, and I tried to give everyone a different style for their run. If we'd had this neat blurb system back then, I would have commented at the time, but hey, why not -- I saved an in-progress shot from that panel, so here it is! Kat's almost done getting her inks cleaned up, Yegir still has his sketch showing under the in-progress inks, and Wall's all sketch. You can see where Kat's even changed a bit from sketch to inks, with her arms and legs stretched out further for a bigger contrast from Wall, who's more tucked in -- her sketch is faintly visible still. Anyway, thought folks might find it interesting to see!
Check out the panel!

Hello Aikonaughts!
Just want to tell you about a Game Development tutorial I wrote: How to Use BSP Trees to Generate Game Maps
Check it out and let me know if it's helpful to you!
Later!

Had a ton of fun with this page, especially with the backlit business in the second panel. Also a fan of Kat's knee strike in the first panel, and the overall progression to sunrise.
It sounds like folks are enjoying the emotion system -- glad you like the little portraits! I had a really busy week and hadn't had a chance to respond to all the feedback in the comments, but I do appreciate it, and it helps make the comic better. Thank you!

It's always pretty fun working on dimly lit pages (I like how the second to last panel came out lighting-wise), but I want to give a shout-out to Tim for the middle panel here, as the layout was his idea. I rather like how it came out!
In addition to this week's page, I've also been working on emoticon avatars! Probably the badass one is my favourite, but I like how Enceladus's shy one is facing away from all the others, too. Those were interesting to work on, and I hope y'all have fun with them!

Hello, Aikonaughts!
Just want to let you know that I'll be at the Saint Louis Science Center's First Friday event again this coming Friday (November 1st) from around 6 pm. I"ll be showing off some games for people to play (Space Chase, Blasting Agent), and discussing Game Development with anyone interested.
So if you're in the area, come over and say 'Hi'!

Science Center's First Friday

Really excited about the new design!
I had a lot of fun working on the new portraits for the awesome new cast page, and actually wanted to show a couple of the sketches from the process. My sketchwork is pretty messy, and I'm always pretty awed by those artists whose sketches are so expressive and clear. I thought Yegir and Malleck's sketched looked pretty cool though, so here they are!

Malleck's Sketch
Yegir's Sketch