Upgrading
Just a small heads up to let anyone who’s visiting the site at the moment know that I’m in the process of upgrading it, and things may appear extremely broken over the next couple of days. Thanks for...
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Right! Phew. So the website was seriously broken for about a week there, and not for lack of effort on the part of myself and my hard-working host. It was a bit of a parade of unfortunate circumstances...
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Good thing no one in this comic can hit anything with a crossbow. — Bloody hell, past-me sure picked a great moment in the script to develop back pain. I had forgotten that I stopped right before a...
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Eyes on the road, Galak! — I think “thok” is my favourite sound effect. It’s so multi-purpose. Anyway, yeah! Two updates in a row! How about that. The new tablet’s working out pretty great, I’m making...
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No “thok” this week. Only “ghk”. Sorry! — I’ve been trying out some different background drawing methods that are a bit more viable with the Cintiq. For whatever reason I always found doing lineart for...
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That face ain’t gonna stay pretty for long at this rate. — So, chapter end! Sorry for the site downtime during the week, there was a server migration happening and it was pretty much unavoidable....
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Mixing things up a bit for the cover this time round, I couldn’t really get this image out of my head. I have to say, one of the unexpected upsides of getting the cintiq is being able to use a normal...
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TOOT TOOT MAKE WAY FOR AIRSHIP — Hey, New Zealand readers! Some of my good friends are trying to kickstart a board game café in Auckland, and I would kill for something like this in Dundee, so please...
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Nailed it! Or… they only crashed a little bit, at least. — So I started a print store on Society6 ages ago without really mentioning it to anyone, and they’re doing free worldwide shipping for the next...
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Landed! So now what? — Not much buzz on the page this week, though I did have a very good time drawing it! Ugh, I love colours so much. Getting all that green in there was quite satisfying.
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Stood up. Awkward. — Wow, this page was a pain. Not due to the page itself, but I came down with a cold about halfway through the week, just as I was starting work on this, and had to slog through it...
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And the dirt is gone! — Ah, British ad jokes. Anyway, turns out I was a massive liar last week when I said I was feeling better. A massive liar. I’m off to go sleep until Monday.
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:) — In the ongoing saga that is my health, I’m pleased to say I’m mostly feeling better! I think working on this page cheered me up a lot.
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Who invited these nerds? — I think this is my favourite page so far. Congrats to my friend Liam who, after asking several times to be drawn into the comic, has finally made it in as a one man band.
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The ship on top of the cake is made of chocolate. The exhaust cloud is made of spun sugar. The trees are made of marzipan. See you next week!
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For Samara’s expression in the first panel, I mostly just thought about what kind of face I would make if someone put something I take very seriously on top of a bunch of cakes.
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Top banter, Sam. — Pretty pleased this went up on time considering I spent most of the week in bed with what I think now was stomach flu. Now time to spend the whole weekend sleeping!
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Someone’s always left holding the cake. — I was trying to avoid this, but unfortunately there’s going to be a small break in the update schedule as I’m going to be out of the country for the next week...
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I’m back in Scotland but fresh off the plane and still not back to my work computer, so no update this week – we’ll get back to the party next Friday. Fortunately, the wonderful Xenia Streck has...
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Comforting words from Jasper. — Back! I was in Italy while I was away, and don’t even get me started on how many photos I took. Enough to keep me in Dakaia-relevant stock images for the rest of my...
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