wow this is really cool, do you do these on paper with pencil?
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We’re nearing the end of summer vacation.. funny how it seems only two comics will pass before High School kicks into gear. What was even worse was that at the time I drew the eighth grade finale, we were already into the end of July if I remember correctly.. and High School tends to end in the end of June at the LATEST. So yeah.. I had very little time to squeeze summer vacation comics.
This is the first comic where I’m actually beginning to use shades to tell the characters apart. It was weird having Mike be a particularly white character when he’s meant to be grey.. so yeah. Mike gets his shading.. and this is also when I decide to make Blur a blue-violet.. hence why he’s also shaded.
Lucy is gonna use “Hell nyo” a lot during the progression of the whole series.. it sometimes comes out of a habit. Goodness, it was because I was once lurking in a forum and someone responded to a topic with “Hell nyo” when a girl posing as Dejiko posted several images or something. I forget exactly.. but that thoroughly amused me and.. nyeh. Lucy sometimes spouts out a “nyo”.. she used to do that a whole lot more back then.
One amusing bit to add is that I actually did RESEARCH to find what books to have Mike reading. My friend Evarion was going to ninth grade at the time and he was made to read “Things Fall Apart”.. so that’s why I chose that as the book for Mike to read. I feel embarrassed because when I went to Honors English in my senior year, I was made to read “Things Fall Apart”.. I don’t know why I was issued it so late yet Evarion got it so early in his school! Maybe my school was just stupid.
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Drayor, yeah. The older ones were all done in pencil, on lined paper. The source scan for this one is http://img.soaringrabbit.com/original_17-1.jpg but you can see the one above has been cleaned up from that.
Comment ID #5383
thats cool, i do mine on notebook paper but when i scan it, sometimes the holes show up and sometimes they don’t. any advice?
Comment ID #5384
Levels tool? Manual correction?
Comment ID #5773
take off the fkin holes? just kidding im a noob to this crud, i can write books not draw them
Comment ID #7082
lol, do they ever stop teh angst fest?
Comment ID #7873
do u ever stop smoking weed?
Comment ID #9115
probraly not
Comment ID #19033
When you think about it, Mike is kinda like Daisy and Lucy is more like Paulo than anyone else.
Comment ID #23067
Shows why Mike got into Daisy’s class and Lucy got into Paulo’s class.
Comment ID #28629
Ha, I had to read “Things Fall Apart” for my senior global studies class!
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THINGS FALL APART! aawww i hated that book. okonkwo is a bitch and committed suicide. HA
Matt March 31, 2010, 3:26 AM EST.