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.
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IT’S YOUR FAVORITE!
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.
and the chat goes wild
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.
CHEEESE
I made my own emoji font for Chuckie’s chat.
DEPLOY! THE! CATCHPHRAAAAAAAAAAASE!
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.
DO NOT REFUSE THE CALL TO ADVENTURE, SMALL RABBIT WOMAN
YOU ALREADY SHOOK THE CLOWN’S HAND, IT’S TOO LATE
who is this spooky dude sheesh
seriously his voice has reverb for emphasis, how does he do that, who does that, what kind of weirdo is this