Category: Blog

Time for a status update!

The site’s been having, uh, technical difficulties. The visual editor has been malfunctioning and the only way it’ll work is if I disable my NextGEN plugin. The Art Gallery will be temporarily down until that’s fixed.

Work on Chapter 05 is… well, it’s coming along! I downloaded Lazy Nezumi and it makes inking in Photoshop SO much more satisfying, and has a bunch of helpful tools that should help improve my workflow. I’ve also been in a pretty good mood lately and that always gives a boost to my productivity. I’ve been suffering from some back pain lately, but that doesn’t stop me from drawing, so.

Speaking of productivity, I’ve finally updated the Cast Page! Everybody’s go shiny new updated artwork, and I’ve also added new profiles for Kate, Gene and Suzy! Feel free to check them out!

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The character art on the cast page is looking pretty outdated.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.

Been having some technical issues recently. I was getting an error message so I had to use FTP to delete Jetpack and then reinstall it so that I could get my site stats back. Everything seems to be in working order now.

Progress on the upcoming chapters is coming along slowly but smoothly. I’ve got just a few pages of Chapter 05 left to pencil, then I can move on to inking and colouring. My script for Chapter 06 is in need of some fine-tuning before I move on to thumbnailing. I need to get some damn beta readers.

As for the site, Wyrmaou has been added to the Kreature Archive, and I’ve uploaded some art to the main gallery.

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.

Goodbye and good riddance, 2016. What a phenomenally shitty year, both for the world in general, and for me personally. Unfortunately Brexit and Trump can’t be undone and all those dead celebrities and gorillas can’t be brought back, but maybe I’ll manage to finish more than three stupid chapters this year. At least I’ve got Kong: Skull Island and that Godzilla anime to look foreword to.

Anyway, the Kreature Archive’s been given a holiday-apropos update in the form of Xenova. Enjoy, and happy new year.

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!

Progress report: still working on setting up Chapter 05. After compressing some of the latter pages I wound up with 8 instead of 10, so I got two more pages to thumbnail still.

Also: Spiklash, Mycowitch and Scumling have been added to the Kreature Archive! That makes 100, not counting meta forms or breed variants! I’ll probably make something to commemorate the occasion.

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.

I’m sick of looking at the old one, soyeah. Profiles for Nompod and Dairy Rizzlyg have been added to the Kreature Archive. I’ve also posted some new art in the main art gallery.

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.