We’ve got enough script for me to start drawing this chapter, and the commission queue’s clear, so let’s see how many pages I can knock out before it’s time to take a few more commissions!
*coughs quietly and points to the Comradery/Patreon links in case you have more money than you know what to do with*
The lower censor bar was a lot smaller and mostly horizontal in the rough.
Every time I look at the diagram of Zaffo’s brain it makes me giggle.
Also she is a self-insert and yes we say that about me too.
Alba was hoping for maybe a little more drama after that big crazy grin but, well, Zaffo’s unflappable.
I’ve had a bunch of pages for this sitting on my machine for a while and I’m finally getting around to dropping them all into the queue. Yay!
I’ve had a bunch of pages for this sitting on my machine for a while and I’m finally getting around to dropping them all into the queue. Yay!
I did some weird stuff with the style for this comic to set it up for the multiple-image single-panel-scroll look I started with and it is currently screwing with how the single-image full pages are displayed. I’m working on fixing this, at least they are showing up now. Sorry about the extra horizontal scrolling o individual pages if I haven’t fixed this yet; they work right in full chapter view!
I should put something in here. I used to put something in here for pretty much every page back on Rita, didn’t I?
I should also edit the style for this comic to make it easier to get to the comments for an individual page.
Maybe I should get on some kind of comics ad network again too. It’s been so long since Rita and everything’s different now and I just wanna draw pages and not think of anything else.
JOB TWO ACCEPTED
If I ever get anyone to make “Now That’s What I Call Funtrain!”, the lyrical direction will be for them to get a good, infectious beat going, and improvise about having a good time riding the Funtrain until they have completely exhausted every clever idea they have.
Originally the drawing of Funbistro 5 was going to be at the bottom of the last page but I decided it needed to dominate an entire spread and think this was a good decision. Mostly because it made me replace it with a panel of Alba going quietly insane while “Now That’s What I Call Funtrain! (3h of Dubtwonk Reversal)” plays.
seriously his voice has reverb for emphasis, how does he do that, who does that, what kind of weirdo is this
YOU ALREADY SHOOK THE CLOWN’S HAND, IT’S TOO LATE
CHAT ACTIVATED!
Oh. Thats’s the kind of guy he is. An influencer.
“Dang, you even shaded the crowd, too!” – Lan, who just recently did a big-ass crowd scene for his own comic
“hahaha no, I made Illustrator shade it for me with a complex little stack of gradient fills and boolean operations, here’s all the shapes I drew for just the crowd, if you wanna murder me now I completely understand” – me
I figured this trick out somewhere in the past couple of years and it still feels kinda hilariously like cheating sometimes. I’ve been using it sparingly in this comic but I’ve been going utterly apeshit with it in a lot of standalone images (mostly smut).
Someday I should do a blog post about how it works, it’s super powerful when I combine it with Astute’s Opacity Brush plugin to paint opacity masks a lot faster than unexpanded Illustrator can manage. And it feels so obvious in retrospect even though it took me twentysomething years of using Illustrator as my main tool to arrive at a place where I could say “hey what if I combined this effect and that particular detail of this other effect”, and half another year of fooling around with it before really getting it down to something easy to re-use, and get about half my shading done the instant I lift the stylus up from drawing a shape. I’ve still got to think about it but I get a ton of it for free and that’s pretty cool.
I made my own emoji font for Chuckie’s chat.
If you are starting to find the chat a little annoying, that’s fine! You’re supposed to. Imagine what it must be like for Alba.
Nobody knows how Chuckiemaus7777 gets away with not having custom Foodclown emoji for his chat to spam. This has gotta be the fortieth time that’s been the sponsor.
Expect erratic updates or maybe another gap, I had a bunch of pages in the queue but let that spool out without staying ahead. There’s only five more pages left in this chapter, we’ll see how long they take.
