Puppet work

Progress on the Old spoon man is going well. More urgent though, is the Mawile puppet I need to finish in about 2 weeks.

So far the foam skull and felt head are about done.

But I still need to add some extra features and alterations before it can fit the exact shape. I've been doing some minor sketches

And here's the picture I'm using the most for reference.

This guys been easier to make than I thought, though. I might just do this more often.

The Creepy old man and the fork

This one is a joke I've been meaning to animate for about 6 months now. I don't want to give away anything about it, but I can at least say I'm far enough into the project that it will definitely be finished.

Eh!? what now?

I draw people giving a wtf look way too often.

The old guy was wierd to draw because of how his cheekbones were inside the contour lines. I don't think I've done that before now.

Back on the Sigma star Saddle

Plowing back into that Sigma Star Saga cartoon sketch I stopped working on last year. While I work to find a better suited style for Bridgette brian and the bunny, I'm going to at least fit this project into my schedule.

Magic 8 ball girl's current fillers are taking longer than expected, but the exercise of doing a small comic each day is getting me used to my new living conditions.

wraking my brain here

So I decided to rework the physics engine for the magic 8 ball girl adventure game from scratch, which widdled down to rewriting the way the jumping and falling worked so that it fit into an exact grid and I didn't have any more risk of falling through the floor.

Worked so far, but the jumping lacked that nice gradual feel to it. So I'm currently working out a script that would make the height of the jump gradually decrease until they started falling.
I'm overthinking a lot of it, and there're probably some in depth tutorials on it, but I've got a stubborn streak when it comes to stuff like this.

More character concepts

This little guy's been in some planning stages for a long time. Probably will never see the light of day outside of this blog, but if he does, it will take a hell of a lot of work.

and no, he's not related to Tiny Fortune.

I've never been to good with shading, but then I remembered this blogs supposed to be about improvement, so that's no excuse. On that note, maybe I should draw more backdrops.

Brian rework possible.

Other than a few test drawings, I haven't really really drawn Brian Green in years. So I drew Brian blindly without trying to keep her looking like her original design.
The eye's I'm not to sure about (possibly playing too much cave story). I do like how they make her look a little less human and her eyes are supposed to be prosthetic, but they'll be a lot trickier to make expressive.
Her right arm's always been damaged, but I've never visibly shown the damage before. Might be too much though.

I do like how Urchin like she is in this picture. fits her character pretty well, although she may look a bit too weak.

Bringing back the blog

It's time to keep myself in check again. Daily updates are back.
This comic was made over the weekend. I actually haven't played Dragon Quest three since I stopped updating the blog so it's surprisingly appropriate to make this comic.
Here's a sprite I used for reference

One thing that was taking up a huge amount of time over the year was sketching up the comic. Having to draw the same picture in pencil and then in flash made me realize how different the mediums are. I even noticed differences in the pencils when I switched them

These sketches were from when Collin confronts Ada about her being the Ace of Clubs. At the last minute I realized Ada would be finally admitting it was Stacie that she was going to have to kill and if this was the same time this was happening. And while it made for big moment there were too many things to focus on at once.

Luckily, Timboy already knew about Ada, and didn't know much about Stacie, so he was a perfect neutral to talk to Ada, while Collin's part of the story kept his own focus talking against Jody.