TopHeavy

Daily Update 11/15/24

Alright, so now we come to the end of the cel-shade pass. Since this is a step in a larger process, it's ok that it's a little sloppy. The goal here was to establish lighting. Looking at what I've...

Daily Update 11/14/24 (Weekly update will be on Friday or Saturday)

 So today, I broke a rule and it really slowed me down. I redrew a panel. But it was a panel in desperate need of retooling. The thing is, the redraw took about half the day so I only got two ...

Daily Update 11/13/24

I've completed another four pages with basic cel-shading. It's still sloppy, which I find super unsatisfying, but I'm trusting the process and focusing on the broad strokes. I should have all the c...

Daily Update 11/12/24

We continue with the basic (kind of sloppy) cel-shading. I plan to return to cel-shading for comics after Toph Heavy, but I still don't like moving this quickly. I feel like I'm making a lot of mis...

Daily Update 11/11/24

4 more pages. I broke my rule and did a slight redraw in one of them. I actually like some of these cel-shaded pages, which bodes well for the render stage. Final page is a little rough because I h...

Daily Update 11/10/24

We keep moving forward. Today, I took a slight break. Instead of 4 pages, I only cel-shaded 2. We'll be back to 4 tomorrow.

Part 3 - Chapter 5 - Page 9

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Daily Update 11/9/24

Another day, another 4 pages of step 1. I think 4's my limit. I was hoping I could do 6 or even 8. I want to get through step 2 as quickly as possible so I have enough time to make steps 3 through...

Daily Update 11/8/24

I got as far as I could with basic cel shading today, but I only finished four pages. I know I need to work faster, but my brain is fried. That step where I soften the transitions and make them mor...

Weekly update 11/7/24

Well, shit.

Before I go into my plans for the next couple of months, I want to be clear about something. It is quite possible that nothing changes and I keep producing what I'm producing. T...

Build-a-Comic- Round 1

OK, so we may have to do an SFW pivot. (Don't worry, I'll still be working on Toph Heavy for now.)

 I want to include you guys in this pivot as much as possible so over the next few we...

No update today

Today there was an election. As of 11:16 PM MST, it's not looking good for the Democrats and I am liquored up. I am both too inebriated to draw and very concerned about whats happening. Not just ab...

Daily Update 11/4/24

So today I had to do a couple of "redraws" and a fix to the 180-Rule. The 180 Rule is a rule for movies but also applies to comics. The idea is that when you have two characters facing each other i...

Weekly Update 11/1/24

Hey there. These are the next two pages from Chapters 5 and 6. If you've been following the WIP tier you'll notice some DRASTIC differences from where we started. To begin, I realized that the anat...

Daily Update 10/30/24

The renders continue. I had to redraw some parts of the first page. The legs and the butt didn't look right. It was like they were spread too far apart and her legs were too skinny. Everything need...

Daily Update 10/28/24

I will try to stay on schedule, but I was sick this weekend, and I'm still getting over it. Luckily these were relatively simple pages and even in my weakened state I was able to complete the firs...

Weekly Update 10/24/24 - HUGE update

BIG Update this week. I've got chapter 4 all lettered and done and ready for you to download, and I have the first page of Chapter 5 and the first page of Chapter 6. I think I've got this rendering...

Weekly Update 10/17/24

I got some bad news. The monitor I use for most of my work died tonight. It kind of flickered and then wouldn't turn on anymore. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I concluded that the problem w...

Daily Update 10/15/24

I have two more pages for this chapter (including this one.) And I've started to add words and dialogue to pages. I'm worried that I may be rushing this page a bit because I'm so excited to get to...

Finished Work

Considering I post WIP stuff so often, accessing the things I've finished can be hard, especially for people who have just joined. So here's a pinned post that has dropbox links to completed work. ...

Weekly Update 10/10/24

Not much to update you with this week. I rendered the replacement page, and it wasn't working for me. I couldn't figure out why at first because I liked the drawings. I realized that the story and ...

Daily Update 10/8/24

I know I said there may not be a post, but then I started working on this extra page, and... well... it's not turning out like I want. It doesn't feel like it "fits" with the other pages. I'm unsur...

Weekly Update 10/6/24

This upcoming week is my Birthday, so I'm not sure exactly how much I will post next week, so I want to post where I'm at with what I've been working on. The following aren't completely complete, b...

Daily Update - 9/30/24

I did a lot of work over the weekend even though I know I'm supposed to take breaks. I just couldn't stop. I even added a page for shits and giggles. That makes me goal for this week a whopping 4 f...

Weekly Update 9/26/24

So this week began with me dropping a page. It was an idea I couldn't execute, and I didn't want to waste time figuring it out. I moved on to the next two pages, which turned out much better. I eve...

Daily Update 9/25/24

Alrighty, kind of a long WIP post today because I wanted to share some more of the rendering process.

Let's start with the flats.
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Daily Update 9/23/24

This is the progress I made on the next page. There is something about the coloring that feels.. off. I think the issue is a combination of soft edges and post-processing washing out detail. I need...

Weekly Update 9/20/24

Another week done, once again I only got one page done this week but that's because I was distracted by like 3 other projects. For this page I had to completely redraw the first panel and add some ...

Daily Update 9/17/24

I almost scrapped this page. However. in trying to draw a replacement page over the past couple of days I realized that I like this one, and it just needed some fixing. So let me show you what I d...

Weekly Update 9/12/24

Apologies to the WIP tier for the lack of updates this week. I wasn't working at full capacity because I injured myself last weekend. I wish I could regale you with an awesome story, but it's as ba...

Weekly Update 9/5/24

Well, I didn't get a page rendered this week like I wanted, but I did get plenty of other stuff done. I finished inking and flatting the three replacement pages. Ya know, I'm not sure about the fir...