Dreamkeepers

Today's Art-ifact

A pretty version of planning thumbnails plus room design.

Today's Art-ifact

Final piece!  Because if you're in jail, the best thing to do is break out.  Including the line art of the scorpion piece, this is the tenth illustration.

Chapter 7- Restrained Resolve

Iron bars slammed home, flakes of rust peppering the stone below.

Xyk took his time getting back up, his body wracked wit...

Pledge Pin: New Designs Incoming

The latest batch of Pledge Pins has gone out- feat. Lilith, an Air Ryuu-neko, and Scuttles with a horde of sandmen.  (NOTE- Scuttles glows in the dark!)

The spring set of Pledge Pins has passed design phase, and is headed to manufacturing now.  Included in the next batch will be:

Namah (Jan), Scinter's Mark (Feb)...

Today's Art-ifact

Working on lighting.  Dave decided to paint in the rock shadows instead of my hard blocking.  Whew for me!

Today's Art-ifact

Characters and shadows in motion.  Also, that's a lot of rocks.

Today's Art-ifact

Pencils in pencil jail.  Perspective is a pain, but when it's right, it's brilliant.

Today's Art-ifact

Blues for sure.  And have some perspective drawing.  And fun fact: in college Dave would host mini groups explaining to a few of us how to do our perspective drawing homework that was due in the next half hour.  I got a very solid 'A'.

Today's Art-ifact

We've had many thumbnails, but here Dave makes them pretty and shows his thoughts on the scene.

VOTE: SKOM April

Let's make something fun!  Sketch of the Month ideas from the Dreamkord- we LOVE these ones, really exciting to see which one makes the cut!

BUTTONS ACTIVATE:  Vote for your favorite.

SKOM announcement (and V6 sneak peeks)

Liz & I are busy bees- but with Dreamkeepers V5 delivered, UberQuest rescued, and Bethellium shipping (plus the incredible time-relief of having more help running Vivid) we would love to start doing Sketch of the Month again for those making it all possible- you.

2023-04-26 21:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post

High-Res Prelude 516

High Resolution backers, you now have the power to have Boore and Tinsel saying anything you imagine:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tEAYCN8bN2XsbsLSljmqaHb2WTE9GTf3/view?usp=share_link

Prelude 516

Namah is agog at someone (seemingly) grilling Tinsel for real!

...In her defense, she's like 9 here.  And so the Boore fascination was born.

Game Stream tonight

Oh, and if all goes well, we'll be talking to the developer @GameYark

and playing the game's demo on stream tonight at 7pm EST.

Find out how bad old people are at video games!

http://twitch.tv/dreamkeeperscomic

Dreamkeepers Tee Run

Now you can have the Good Girls of Anduruna all over you- literally.   Limited-time Dreamkeepers tees live now: https://dreamkeeperscomic.com/store/main/Apparel

Vivid has BIG plans this year, and every single 👕 helps keep artists, animator...

Vanth & Harmony Dangerous Wonderland

I decree this book will be LOVELY. 🌄 The world needs more beauty, and we aim to bring it.

Slipcase art that will be embracing the foil-stamp hardcovers.  My heart weeps for anyone that misses their chance at these- In Demand lasts only until the printing begins:

2023-04-12 21:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post

High Res FOR YOUR SAFETY

Now you can make it say whatever you want.  POSTER POWERS GRANTED:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7pCgKiDXdQu6RiUKsqJOCMTzEXhePdZ/view?usp=sharing

FOR YOUR SAFETY- Tinsel Brigade

Finished art from yesterday's stream- a Dreamkeepers Volume 6 panel.   The comic panel won't have the text, but this is the standalone version so we thought it would make a great propaganda poster.

BE SAFE!  OR ELSE.

Today's Art-ifact

Here's the shaded areas of this backstory piece.

Today's Art-ifact

This isn't the next step in creating the illustration, it's actually the last.  This is the final 'glints and glows' layer without anything else.  Note how much work goes into this, so much you can figure out most of the scenes.  Let's keep working!

Collection 2 Extras & Formatting

Stuffed with extra art and illustrations!  Prelude Collection 2 will include a lot more content than we can fit in the free section of the website.  

Getting the gargantuan hardcover formatted for print now- campaign is In-Demand *only until* printing initiates.  2023-04-08 20:42:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Today's Art-ifact

Line art to Rosa's flashback backstory.  She's had a rough upbringing.  Better color it!

Today's Art-ifact

Blues to Rosa's backstory.  Fun fact: the illustrations are rating appropriate, aside from violence.  Language is the story's only crime.  The ring appears.

Today's Art-ifact

Thumbnails again.  If this seems confusing, it's a flashback/story moment.

Vivid Widebeam: Year of Games

Transmission incoming:  Vivid Widebeam, Year of Games. 🎮

Read our free independent webcomic (and grab your complimentary QuickXyk PDF) over at:

https://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com

Sneak into some action in the YARK demo:

...

Today's Art-ifact

Finished piece.  I just realized everything is shiny because the rain stopped.  And this piece has been locked up 'for years!'

Scene 4- The Proposition

Fury spent, the thunderheads left Shaniko Valley awash in a violet dusk.  Xyk followed Rosa's pale form as she sidled through the humid gloom.  Passin...

Today's Art-ifact

Lighting and shadows in play.  My background colors are always placeholders, unless the scene reappears.  Dave's call.

Moushley CSP file

Clip Studio file ready for download:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_a4ke1vYIKxCE9yQRDhqt6gh1R1bbRim/view?usp=sharing

Moushley Cozy

Warmup art from today's stream- little bit of Moushley👗, then on to a Dreamkeepers comic page.

Today's Art-ifact

My flats.  Didn't have to color in the rock and brick detail, but I like to keep Dave happy. It's how we work.

Today's Art-ifact

Sweeping left to right, we have the pencils.  Didn't have to do all that little detail on the rocks and bricks, but yes we did.  Note the perspective blues don't show in scans.  That's why non photo blue is popular.  It doesn't scan unless you reprogram your scanner.  Usually in animation.