I find the more I loosen my line work the more I'm enjoying the results. When I first started down this path I was trying to carve with ink. Modeling to some degree after some Frank Miller works, but the cleaner stuff just wasn't doing it. That or I really hated drawing in Flash. God, I hate Flash...

But then I sat down and started doodling my old City of Villains character, Risu, and ended up with this:



I really like that character, shame the game got boring. Seems to be a common fate with my MMO characters.

Side note, this is awesome.

Not everyone keeps up on the news.

(Yes, the icon is derived from the guerilla Gorillaz marketing campaign.)

Some one forgot to upload the strip last night. Remedied.

The cross-stitch was a gift from Jin Wicked. It's framed and everything.

Hey Ian, could you make me a copy of my IM icon in your handwriting?

You know the one I mean.

...And already a ball joke.

No, I don't hate Macs. I cut my pixelated teeth on them. What I hate is that advertisement campaign.

(Panel 2 came out rather bad.)

Before I colored the panel, it looked like this:



It's an interesting sketching method I've picked up while working. It involves a fat, broad brush, then widdling down the strokes with the eraser. Fun stuff.

Haven't decided on an update pattern yet. Maybe mon/fri. Also leaning toward tue/thur. Of course any comics at all is a good pattern to go with.