Aramore - News

Uni dropped a bit of work on me, but I'm back on track and pencilling the next two pages.

Hope that works. I found some time to do this though :)

Sometimes you get time at uni to do hobby work, in between all that sitting in the animation base room, staring at a maya rig that just won't bend the right way.

This page was done very traditionally, started as a sketch, and went through all the scanning, cleaning and colouring that most people do all the time. I also painted two of the backgrounds, which came out looking quite nice.

So apparently uni takes up alot of time and effort.

And apparently I don't manage my time very well.

Dunno if there is anyone still reading this >_<. No matter, it's mostly for my own sake anyway.

I got back into the groove at last, and after all that dancing, I got settled into University work flow (or doing it all last minute). So I was able to find time to steal amongst all the working to do a page.

The background seems inconsistent, and the library appears to be much brighter than the one shown in Chapter 3. I like to imagine the library as loads of little cosy rooms connecting to one big hall, the conversation is supposed to move around the rooms a bit. I'll do some schematics later. Maybe.

Yeah, it's been almost a month since I last updated, must have slipped my mind. As always the culprit is finding the time, and when the time is found, being in the right state of mind to draw.

I'm thinking of starting to do it the old school way, as in, drawing the pages out on paper and then going through the whole process of inking it digitally, as a general rule I can draw much faster and easier on paper.

Or maybe I'll take my peers advice and scrap the comic as it is and start again with better planning and writing. As it is I keep finding myself running out of steam on the story front, anxious to get to the "good" bits that I've perfected in my mind, and then disliking the drawl I often come up with in between.

Maybe I'm just being emo :P.

Ho-ho-ho, it feels like forever does it not?

I would have done this page sooner but apparently university requires something called work to be done in order to complete it to a satisfactory level. So work my little fingers to the bone I have (in between playing STALKER Clear Sky and watching North by Northwest).

Ah yes, onto the page in hand, what is to be said about it? I'm filling in the cryptic allusions to fungal corpses, and tying it together with chapter 3, thus making it more than a tragic backstory for our mute heroine.

You may notice the art in this chapter is extremely simplistic and oddly detailed. I realise that layering on photoshop effects does not make a good image, and so I am starting to learn to leave many things undetailed and work on the general flow of things. Learning being the operative word.

I've also been reading alot of V for Vendetta on the train. I'd recommend it to anyone, good for the mind.

Did somebody say detective story hijack?

Because I think I heard somebody say detective story hijack.

This is actually just a short diversion explaining Carlos Rekir a bit more. He just seemed to come out of nowhere in chapter 6 and steal all the dialogue.

University is going well, had my first real lesson today, and we made a space ship in Maya.