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This is from the last Saturday Tales comic that I did and looking over the series I remember getting so frustrated that everything felt unfinished and unpolished. I pushed myself into unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory where I learned a lot but was never happy with.

One of my many many projects is to rework this series into a standalone-ish graphic novel. I got enough content to make the page count but it needs a complete story arc.

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This week we're diving deep into the world of Fathom, the 1980s superhero comic from Comico! Join us as we surf through character’s history, and discuss whether it was a splash hit!
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Same drawing but inked and colored differently for different stories.

I'm getting 1992 Littlest Pet Shop playset vibes from it. Just need to add some bushes or something.

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How the weekend project turned out.

I found it a bit too easy to go over board or not do enough. Finding that middle ground was a challenge but still quicker than doing a digital ink wash.

Also this is suppose to be the comic with the unhinged robots. What am I doing?

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Weekend project. Trying to figure out how I'm going to color this comic.

I did a bunch of two color combo studies that I probably won't use because I don't understand color theory all that well but I kind of like what I got going on here. I also did a digital ink wash version that looked nice but took ages to complete and I don't have time for that.

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Eleven more thumbnail pages. If I was following a story circle I think this would be through stage four or five? I never could figure out where the final boss confrontation is just before that at the "great loss" bit in the Hero's Rhombus or whatever.

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Still rewriting my Halloween comic. The process has been a mixture of loose outlining and thumbing informing each other and various edits. I just hit a point where I need to work more on the outline to continue thumbing but Saturday morning is for drawing. Time to switch projects.

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I think the issue that I've had with social media this entire time is that I'm looking for a type of creative community that only ever existed in that brief window when message boards were at their hight.

I want to find a community of creators that focuses on the craft of comics. I'm in a ton of communities with creators trying to figure out how to make a living from their work. I have a lot of non art related technical knowledge to share but it all one way.

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I like this panel from my Home & Away short comic. I like to do short montage comics between bigger stories to give myself a bit of a break but also to illustrate the passage of time. It allows for little character development moments that might not have a place in more focused stories.

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Over the decades I've created a cast of pulp adventure characters. Think Hanna-Barbera Jonny Quest (or more accurately Venture Bros.) than superheroes. I've been meaning to do a proper drawing of all the characters. Some of the mini panels here are older drawings subbing in as line art.

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Here is my second attempt on figuring out the colors for this comic. The process is quicker and some of the colors need a bit of tweaking to harmonize better but I still don't know. I might just go back to a limited pallet for this one. I just don't know what those colors will be. I've done blue, purple, and pink with yellow as the secondary color a lot. Green and orange would be weird choices with the beach location later in the comic. Maybe an earth tone?

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I'm not sure about these colors. Normally I work in a limited pallet and I'm not sure if the effort was worth what I got.

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