Battle Kreaturez

Gargyulax and Arctihound have been added to the Kreature archive! I’ve also added a Kristy pic to the art gallery.

I’m still working on page 4-10. My Celexa’s been making me drowsy. I’m so goddamn sick of working on Chapter 04. I should ban myself from the internet for a few days and burn through it.

Progress report: I thumbnailed Chapter 05 the other day! I’ll get right around to thumbnailing Chapter 06 once I give its script another going over.

Also: Sporoth and Urangu have been added to the Kreature Archive! I’m hoping to have 100 Kreatures in the archive before 2016 is over.

Progress Report: Finished thumbnailing Chapter 05, more-or-less. The solution to increasing the page count proved surprisingly simple; I just extended the montage sequence that was already present in the story by another page. I think I’ll get myself warmed up with another Interval or two before I plunge into Chapter 05.

As for the Kreature Archive, we’ve got holiday-themed updates in the form of Snowble, Snowblin and Snowgre. Stay frosty!

Chapter 05 has been coming along fairly well. I haven’t started inking or colouring it yet but I’ve got all the backgrounds laid out and I’ve pencilled a few pages. I bought myself a portable light pad for X-Mas; a Huion LB4. I’ve been printing off perspective grids and it’s been making backgrounds a hell of a lot easier to draw. I highly recommend one to all my fellow artistic luddites who still prefer the feeling of drawing on slabs of dead tree carcasses.

As for Kreature Archive stuff, we got meta forms for Minithorn and Slimok: Medithorn/Megathorn, and Gunkag/Oozerm/Blobrog. These guys have been sitting in my backlog for a while now, I’ve been cutting back on the meta forms in favour of boosting the main count to 100.

Sheesh, no status reports since February? Time to fix that.

Progress on Chapter 05 has, unfortunately, been coming along much more slowly than I’d anticipated. Part of it is admittedly procrastination (ugh, crowd scenes, why do I do this to myself) but I’ve also been doing script revisions, development for upcoming characters, restructuring my outlines and practicing some new art techniques. Inking in Clip Studio Paint is REALLY fun and I’ve been tempted to switch over to it entirely but I think I’m better off sticking with Photoshop until I’ve gotten the basics down.

The character art on the cast page is looking pretty outdated. I’m gonna need to set aside some time to redrawing them. Also promotional art. When I’ve created my backlog I want to start promoting my webcomic more aggressively and try to expand my audience.

Uuuugh. I hate doing this, I’m still hoping I can get my act together and get the next 2-3 chapters done by the end of spring, but I miiiiiiiiiight need to extend the length of the hiatus to fall. Nobody reads webcomics during the summer anyway. I hope my handful of readers can be understanding! If/when I ever do another webcomic I’m not gonna launch it until I’ve drawn at least 50 pages in advance.

Anyway, that’s more-or-less what I’ve been up to lately.