Fifty strips in the bag means I'll take a moment to engage in a little introspection time. If there's anything I've picked up in the last year it's confidence. There was a time when this whole thing was a terrible task, and it took a great deal of time and effort to produce a fairly sub-standard three panel strip with inconsistent characters and no background. Now I'd consider a full comic page a day- from blank page to finished inks and scan- a perfectly reasonable goal if you put your mind to it.
There's a sneaking suspicion that this whole exercise hasn't been as useful as it could have been. It's been fourteen months and I have improved- as was the goal- but am still making a lot of the same mistakes. I want to use larger areas of black more, but I don't have the eye for it. Perhaps if I could borrow one each off Mike Magnolia and Frank Miller, then I'd have two and they'd each have one which is plenty.
I used to do a lot of digital fixing and colouring but now I tend to take the 'lazy' route and shade with grey brush markers. It's quicker and easier to control than my mouse. What's interesting is that I used to hate inks because I'd make terrible mistakes and have no way of fixing them. Now I am more confident to just splash around with ink and hang the consequences. Oddly enough I'm starting to inadvertently avoid digital colouring.

I'd also like to take this chance to thank the little crowd of watchers and commenters that've been kind enough to stick around my corner of the web. It does make the experience a fair bit more enjoyable; as I've mentioned I thrive on thoughtful comments whether positive or negative, and you've all been very encouraging. Thanks a bundle!

-Tim

I've been playing with the WOTC character builder, and drawing some of the results- I have no use for the characters, so if you want 'em you can have 'em. They can be found here at my main account.

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'allo, 'allo. Special greetings to those of you who found your way here from my ~tigermoph account.

Now here's the tale. Some time ago now a young fellow by the name of Little Timmy found himself in a game of 4E DnD, run under the ever-baleful eye of Dungeon Master ~Calron. Lil' Timmy's character and a ragtag bunch of other chaps woke up to find themselves- inexplicably- deep in the murky depths of a dungeon filled with a seemingly random selection of adventurers, monsters and loot.
Any situation like this is going to give rise to more than its fair share of comic-worthy moments; this account will serve to hold them. The whole concept revolves around me putting less effort into quality and more into comic content, and of course getting a decent number of strips out at a reasonable pace. I know that it is neither funny nor good, but I don't care and here's why.

Updates on or around every Saturday. Watch this space!

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Artist's tip: If you care more for pretty pictures than plot, start reading at page seven, where the artwork starts getting into its stride.


-Catronia