Character Reactions

It's been awhile since anyone's posted a news entry, so I guess I'll do so! Character creation is a very personal thing, I feel like; you get to know them and craft them in any way you like, and the best characters have reasons for behaving so, and are plausible. From the slightly external viewpoint that I have with these characters, being that I am something of a secondary creator, for some reason I really like Toben, possibly the best. Maybe I feel like her motivations are the clearest, or that I can relate to her? Ooorrr, maybe I had a role playing character kind of like her in college.

He was crazy like her, always rushing in first. No fear, no second-guessing. Maybe I was playing the person I wanted to be? No second-guessing... Or maybe that was the easiest character to play. Never having to worry about what his reaction would be in-charater, it was always "CHARGE!" Even when I knew it was a terrible idea, he was still running in, head of the pack.

So anyway, even though she's got no magic and no fancy weapon, she's still all about getting shit done. Her group isn't the best at organizing things or planning, but whether they're in or not, she's going to first! Good job, Toben, on being brave and leading by example.

Oops

Know what I forgot yesterday? Updating! Even though Seth made these really nice preview images. Automatic updates . . . would be so awesome.

Sneaky

This is not a formally approved-by-Seth page. I'm just sneaking it up! Oh, it isn't quite Sunday yet either. BUT WHATEVER. Here is page one which will probably be subject to some tweaks. I really shouldn't get to far ahead of myself with pages before I have a chance to actually finish more and Seth and I can get in fistfights over them. Tentative page 2 update in two weeks. Next weekend IS Christmas afterall. I have things to do.

I'm also toying with a new coloring style...

Chapter Start

The cover for next issue is up!?!?!?!

I would like to give a (probably very ambitious) start date of two weeks from now for the first page. Haha, let's see how well that goes. O_O

And jeeze, Jake, could you be a little less positive the next time you yell at me?

Contributor

Last night I assisted Anne in erasing the pencil marks off the pages of our next issue. While I doodle concept art from time to time, sketch the layouts of the pages, and quickly etch an occasional (terrible looking) stick figure during the drafting process, erasing the pencil marks from Anne's ink drawings has been the most directly involved I've been with the art of Val'Cielle to date. However, I was asked if I could draw more during the layout process. For almost the entirety of the comic, I've been giving Anne these super small layouts which really only show panel placement. Now I've been asked to expand those out to a full page and draw crude stick figures in the panels to help Anne's understanding of place, interaction, etc. I imagine this will give us a treasure trove of hilarious looking (i.e. awful) stick figure drawings to look forward to in 2012.