Black Rabite

*gets pushed in front of camera*

What? What?! How long? But I hardly even did anyth-… oh, hello dear viewers. Today on “Cooking Up Graphically Challenging Constructs With Tim” we will have a look at what fussy work it is to digitise your drawings with a vector graphics tool.

Actually, it wasn’t all that bad. So here it is. Shiny, tasty and still scaldingly hot: Episode 4 of Murphy’s Law.

In some aspects, it was quite easy getting my sketches into Illustrator. The faces, for one, were quickly done. Other things like the hands were not. Oh, those hands. It’s hauntingly difficult to draw them as it is, but only using paths and anchors, it’s pretty close to hell. Still, after I did the first two panels, I only had to reposition some of the characters’ joints to make them look alive and not just copy-pasted. To add some more dynamics to their actions, I also added a little entropic white backdrop to the characters.

Anyhoo, I think it turned out quite well. Didn’t care much for shading, though. Will have a look at this tediousity on the next few episodes. Well, maybe after I cranked out a few more like this. Gotta learn how to crawl before you can levitate.

PS: Gotta love the pattern on Chief Randolf’s shirt. <3

In my eternal quest to make my comics suck less, I have hit quite a few walls, while smashing others in. I tried pencils, ink pens, ball-point pens, felt tip pens, crayons, coal and digital tablet goodness. Those experiments always took too much time to really integrate some regular comic into my life.
While designing a bunch of tactical maps for WoW (don’t judge me) I picked up quite a bit of proficiency with this wonderful program called Adobe Illustrator. I had tried to use it to make comics more quickly way back a couple of years, and again a couple of months ago, but frankly, I sucked too much at it. Collecting what was left of my ego, I went and tried again:

Well lookie here. Looks just like the original. Well, apart from the sloppy pencil lines and crayon colouring. With a few modifications to his facial features I may be able to pump out those comics more quickly. Well, at least they’ll look more like something from the 21st century. Next ep will be all illustratoriotionorized; just takes a bit longer to build the character templates for the first time. Stay tuned.

Imagine me sitting in a wall closet scribbling this note on a scrap of paper, looking tense and just waiting for the zombies to find me. There is little light and the ominous moaning is growing ever louder. Only I’m typing this now. On my PC. And there are no zombies around. But I may be looking tense.

Still, a zombie apocalypse would have been a great excuse for me not posting again. But what the hey, this is the internet. I don’t need to explain myself. It’s not like you’re going to come to my place and beat the living crap outta me for not updating, right? RIGHT? Okay, definitely looking tense.

Basically, I had the next ep of Murphy’s Law finished at around mid-July, but then I remembered… I had wanted to make a nice chapter-title-heading-page-thingy. Even before I posted the first damn thing. So, to fix this, I decided to put it in just after the first big bang. Just like in the Bond movies.

And here’s the actual story-laden page 3 of Murphy’s Law:

After I added the punchline, I suddenly realized I’d already heard that somewhere. Took me ages to figure out: Fight Club. So, don’t consider it stealing or recycling… consider it an hommage. *coff* ;<.<

It’s strange… back in the days I didn’t really mind not having an iPod. Might be because I had a CD-Player. And a Walkman before that. Might be a reason that a week without having music at the ready all the time… was horrible. There is no motivation in getting up and taking the bike somewhere outside when you can’t have some beats to get you down the road.
Now my Pod’s finally back and better than before! Well, slightly anyway.

Anyhoo… second ep of Murphy’s Law! If you haven’t been expecting it like a child waiting for Christmas, you’re not worthy to read it. Don’t say I didn’t tell you when your eyes melt in the sheer awesomeness that is…

… COLOURED CRAYON GOODNESS! Thought I’d add a little colour to the comics after all. I did mention I still liked using crayons, didn’t I? ;D
Must have been ages since the last time I did, tho. Somewhere back in school, I suppose. Nice to see they finally added a skin-coloured crayon to the pack. Makes stuff much, much easier. And pinker. ._.