You know the drill, here's the new page and here's the scan of the original art of the page.

Here I am at the halfway point of chapter 2. I've enjoyed making this comic so far, but something that stinks about it is that it doesn't give me a lot of time to draw things outside of the comic. Each step of the process of making a page demands many hours out of me. I sometimes find myself not wanting to draw in my free time since that's all I'm doing when I'm not free.

This bit of complaining might sound like I view creating a comic as a burden, but I've actually started viewing it as trying to break bad habits. Before this project I went from just drawing whatever the hell I wanted with no deadline attached to it, to to needing to have a fully penciled, inked, lettered, and colored comic page a week. I may be on my 33rd page I still have a lot of learning to do. I have to learn how to focus on my work more and manage my time better.

I don't have much more to say other than I need to work harder, but the encouragement of you readers would be much appreciated.

Thanks
-TiMBo

Page 32 is now up and in the places that you would usually expect it.

Now I want to use this spot one my comic's website to talk about another comic, Y The Last Man.

Comics have a hard time folks. I don't mean the people creating them (Although creating them is pretty tough), but I'm talking about the way they're precived. The master status that they've had for years, decades to be more exact, is that they're only an outlet for the superhero genre. I haven't done a lot of international research on this topic but I'm betting it's mostly an American problem. Go to anyone you pass by in your day to day routine and ask them what the first things that come to mind when they hear the term comics or comic books and most of them will say Superman, Batman, Spideman, or characters of the like from the two big comics publishers. Although you might get a few propel there who mention Charlie Brown or Calvin and Hobbes.

Now I'm sure if you're reading this that you're smart enough to know that comics can do so much more than superhero stories. Yet when I hear people say "I'm not really into comics." I can't help but think that they're really referring to the genre's I've mentioned. They just need to find a different comic and story being to show them that the story being told is just as important, if not more important than the form it's being told in. After reading the first two volumes of Y The Last Man. I feel like this could be that comic for so many people (Well... Streets of Galsha first then this comic :-p).

For anyone unfamiliar with this comic, the premise is that though some freak reason, all the male mammals on planet earth die simultaneously, except for a young man named Yorick Brown and his new pet helper monkey in training and they have to figure out why that happened. While the hook of the series is a very interesting "What if?" story, what's really interesting is what this series tells us about ourselves. It shows how we have created a pretty unfair world for women over the centuries. Since all the other characters other than Yorick are women they are defined by their distinct character traits and not their gender roles.

The series is written by Brian K. Vaughan who came from working on a lot if television and the comic can can have the feeling of a TV show, but is that necessarily a bad thing? I would like people who have never read a comic before to try this and it would be more accessible to them if it bared similarities to something else they might already be familiar with.

So yea in loving this comic so far, I might post about it again for the middle and ending of the series.

Thanks for reading

-TiMBo

Well page 31 is up now which also means you can go check out the original art of the said page on my Deviantart site.

Sorry I'm putting this page up later in the day but I was distracted by this little guy!

Yup I have a cat now. Just getting used to having it in the house and all so I was playing around with it most if the day before going over to this site and updating things and I realized something that was kind of scary for me.

I thought I was still in te early part of chapter 2, but I'm actually nealy halfway through it. I was feeling a little complacent for a while but now the work on this comic is catching up with me. I have a lot of pages to color this week but now I have a little co-pilot in my lap to keep me company durring it!

-Thanks for reading!

-TiMBo

WOW! We're up to 30 pages so go check out the 30th one! Also check out the scan of the original page on my DA site.

Now let's talk about brush pens. For professional inkers or people wanting to be professional inkers, brush pen can be a dirty word. For a long time they have been these spongy felt tipped things that fall apart very easily. When I started getting a feel for inking with a real brush, I thought that these other so called brush pens were junk too. However i was looking for a good brush pen since carrying all the tools around to ink with a real brush was a pretty big pain. It wasn't until a little over a year ago that I came across the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. It was not disposable, but refillable. Instead of a felt tip it has nylon bristles. It can do dry brush effects with either quick strokes or drying the brush a bit. It's a nice tool and a good alternative to carrying your brush, ink bottle, water cup, and towel everywhere you went.

So am I totally satisfied with this brush pen? Not completely. The bristles are real nice but not quite as smooth as real hairs. The ink dispensing can be temperamental, fluctuating between not dispensing enough ink that the brush will dry out and need a rinse or dispensing too much to where the brush becomes globby. Although I will say the the pros outweigh the cons in this case. I do want to try other brush pens. There is one that has actual sable hairs in it that I would love to try out but it's pretty expensive (Maybe you can help me in that venture by clicking that donate button up there! Wink). In the main time this comic will be mostly inked with the pocket brush.

Keep on Brushing!
-TiMBo