Page 46 [07 Jan 2010|09:12am] nhaar   You can always tell when I'm sick because pages will be really bad. Or...not as good as they could be. I sort of cringe at last weeks page still, though this one I'm pretty fond of. As you can probably tell, I went back to my old 'style' of coloring for this. The painterly stuff I was trying before wasn't quite working out the way I wanted it to. And while I can still appreciate the painterly style, I think a happy medium is yet to be found. I just recently picked up Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" and read his thoughts on the "Masking effect" of using a slightly more cartoony character against a more realistic background, so that the reader can connect with that character while experiencing a very stimulating environment. I've noticed it before, and I like it to a degree...though of course there are instances where character and background are toooo far apart, and then it just looks funny. But still, it's something to think about. I've always had a tough time with night lighting, and scenes that are lit very lowly. I think my biggest problem with the last couple of pages (more last week's page, but a liiitle in the week before that too) is that the lighting and color sense just isn't that good. I think I remedied it in the page to a degree...though now I wonder if there's too much of a disconnect between this page and last weeks page....I'll probably end up redoing that page in the future because of it. I'm definitely getting a little better at discovering that color palette....it makes me think I should probably invest some time in color keys for some of the more important scenes, so that I don't have to create a palette straight onto the first page of that scene. ( Two old version pages today! ) Man, I really wrote a lot! Whyyyy post comment

all comics all the time [06 Jan 2010|05:10pm] nhaar So this wintersession I get to work on Cealdian exclusively, for credit, with a really great teacher who has already given me some good tips. Good things always happen when I get to work on one project without having to worry about other things, so I'm pretty excited even though it's a short period of time (about 6 weeks). I was actually really lucky to get this since he only had one independent study space left and I asked him, er, yesterday...while most get filled by November. The plan is to get three comic pages a week done. I don't know if that is possible! I would like it to be possible, because that would mean I would have a twelve page buffer by the time the six weeks are up...and there are twelve weeks in spring semester. And spring semester is full of very engaging classes by some tough (in the best way!) teachers.  I also have to do some larger layout pages for the comics. I'm a fan of the little thumbnail, I'll probably still do those. But the plan is to do these larger layout pages since my biggest problem these days seems to be layout and placement and composition. This way I can send them off to Nick (mah teacher) and he can stick them straight into photoshop and mess with them before going to finish. The toughest part is going to be getting the lineart done in time..but like I said earlier, one of my resolutions is to be a little faster with the output. I told Nick "oh it's four books with 12 chapters of 20ish pages" and he goes "oh! A four year project!" And I was like :\\\\ I'll be lucky if i get book 1 finished in four yearrrsss D: He also gets a copy of the whole Chapter 3 script and knows who the mysterious figure is >:D Hopefully he will not SPOIL IT ON THE INTERNET that would be really weird actually. Also I am drinking this antioxidant drink which contains "gojiberry and YUMberry". Um. Nice try, but I don't think that's what it's actually called D: Honest Tea is not being very honest. post comment

I'M SORRY GAWD [05 Jan 2010|04:38pm] nhaar Color theory you can be such a jerk. But I keep coming back to you, like a blue moth to an orange flaaame. 1 comment|post comment

Ow. [04 Jan 2010|07:57pm] nhaar Owww wtf why is this happening arrghhh ! D: D: D: DDDDD: I thought the pain was going away and now it's back and I've already weaned off my pain pills and by weaned I mean violent throwing up and I don't want to take them again but also OW this is very disturbing! 1 comment|post comment

Page 45 [02 Jan 2010|11:09am] nhaar Colored! A couple days late. You guys this page is kind of messy. I'm a little out of practice and woobly. But ah, that's ok. I'm not going to fret. There's like almost a thousand pages of this comic...if I fret about each and every one of them, I'm not going to live long enough to finish it! That's one of my comic resolutions for the new year: no fretting! I am the queen of fretting about the comic. Here are some of my other comic-related-resolutions: - I'd like to be able to get pages finished from start to end in a single day...or as close to a single day as possible without sacrificing quality. - No fretting!! - Get the script to a happy place. At the very least, get the Book 1 script to a happy place, and at least outline Book 4. - Get two pages a week done during wintersession! - Get to the point where, when people talk about Cealdian, they mention the quality of the story before the quality of the art (this is huuuge for me! And also a cause of much fretting.) - Better art anyways! - Talk to some publishers. - Talk to some more comic artists! - Make a new website layout. Learn some stuff about html so I am not an idiot. - Work on the comic faster in general! Get a ton more pages out! Cealdian is my first comic and my baby, but the more I learn about comics and storytelling, the more stories I want to tell, and I have a ton ton ton more. So I'd like to get to those before I become a babushka XD (oh man it's going to be so awesome when I am a babushka. I am going to be so awesome and gnarled. I'm going to have grey hair and it's going to be wicked long and I will live in a chicken leg house and my fingers are going to just be ALL OVER THE PLACE like branches of a tree and I will wear a girdle and it will do NOTHING because my entire abdomen will just be one big congealed blob of flesh that has long since fallen prey to gravity and I will have like several cats and I'm going to wear Polish textiles and fur slippers and headscarfs and I will have very few teeth and BOOTS I will wear SKIRTS WITH BOOTS THAT DONT MATCH OMG and I will waddle through the snow in them and my house will be full of carved wooden figures and weird eastern european clocks and strange religious items that don't quite match up and it will smell kind of weird and and You guys have NO IDEA about my weird obsession with old women- I LOVE THEM they are so amazing I CANT WAIT YESSSS) O_____o Um. We're just going to ignore that and chalk it up to after affects of the fever, ok? Yea.... Old version of the page will be on Thursday! 2 comments|post comment

Rough Christmas for mee [27 Dec 2009|11:24pm] nhaar One word description of the last five days: uuuughhhhh ( Cut for lengthy medical stuff ) We left buffalo a day early so I can get an appointment tomorrow. Trying to figure out, um, why there is still excruciating pain. I'm sort of upset we had to leave and that my whole Christmas was sort of a wash of not-good-ness, though I'm sitting on my bed now and Emrys is asleep next to me and is so happy that we're back, so that is nice. So that is my Christmas story right now. Hopefully they will not have to perform surgery or anything crazy like that. I've heard this problem is pretty common, though the pain isn't quite so common, so if anyone has any insight/experience and wants to share, then that'd be cool. 4 comments|post comment

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