Scott Bieser

Strips 243-244

I'm not sure how this happened but the pencils data for this page has been lost. The page file still exists but there's no pencils. I have no idea how this happened. Sorry, completists.

Strips 241, 242

Re-introducing Theophilus, mass-murderer extraordinaire and Hugo's long-lost alter-ego.

Strip 240

Some fancy flying there, boss.

Strips 238-239

Showing the growing friendship between Eithne and Ralf

Strips 236-237

As someone said, a nice, clean, TV-friendly shooting.

Strip 235

Featuring the amazing disappearing ratchet wrench. I meant to show her dropping it when she tripped on the WorkBee unit in the airlock (third panel), but forgot. 

Strips 233-234

Strips 231-232

Meanwhile, back at the Ha'arrokk ... somebody forgot to lock the door.

Inks:

After Harvey

Dear Patrons,

While I managed to keep up with the Quantum Vibe posting schedule on the main website during and after Hurricane Harvey, the art postings for the $2.50-plus Patrons has fallen completely off track, and for that I apologize.

Where I live we had water high enough to flood my car, although thankfully not my house. A lot of peopl...

Strip 230

It's not a proper Space Bazaar without some bazaar characters.

Strip 228-229

Does Eithne know what she's doing?

Strip 226-227

It's not who you know, it's what you know. And vice versa.

Strip 225

Don't you hate that boss that is constantly hanging around watching you work?

Strip 223-224

Eithne takes the initiative, rather to Ralf's chagrin.

Inks:

Strip 221-222

Challenge here is designing alien characters that are anthropomorphic enough to be relatable but also weird enough to be otherworldly. Sort of.

Inks:

Strip 220

Eithne gets disguised as a space-warthog. Inks below:

Strip 218-219

Really stretching my imagine-3D-structure brain muscles. Inks are below:

216-217 Inks

I think I've got this Warp Drive effect down now.

216-217 Pencils

Getting comfortable in the cruiser. In this sequence I had to really think hard about the layout of the cockpit and other interiors.

Strip 215 inks

One trick to doing those backgrounds quickly is just set up the bare-bones in the pencil stage and add a bunch of detail in the inks. This is only possible working digitally.

Strip 215 pencils

I got a bit wiser and simplified the backgrounds a bit on this page. I still relied on a fair bit of copypasta.

Strip 213-214 pencils

That first panel took me the better part of a day to pencil, and that's even with a lot of copy-pasting. But I had to work out some issues with the perspective.

Strip 213-214 inks

Aaand with inks and further details. Most of the details on the CUSH-zombies was added in the inking stage to save time.

Strip 211-212 Inks

 That impact shot in the fourth panel looks mighty impactful, huh?

Strip 211-212 pencils

It's always a drag when the CUSH show up.

Pencils for 210

The icosphere was generated in Bender. This is about as sophisticated as I can get in Bender. You don't have to pay money to download and install Bender but it costs a lot of brain cells to learn how to use it.

Inks for 210

The texture on the CUSH Icosphere was made by hand-drawing five of those triangles and then copy/rotate/distort/paste onto the other surfaces.

The Transwarp effect in the fourth panel was made with so much futzing around in Photoshop that I worry I won't be able to figure out how to do it again.

Inks for 208-209

Murphy should've been a character in Love & Rockets.

Pencils for 208-209

One of Murphy's superpowers is showing up with perfect timing for a punch-line.

Pencils for 206-207

Don't you hate it when the boss interrupts your work to complain about an errant co-worker?