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Once I settled on the "Quizard Duel" concept, it wouldn't take long for that idea to be immediately followed by, "Hey, I could just straight-up put ...
2023-07-24 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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For the longest time, I struggled with what I wanted the "Media" section of the Fair visit to include. As the outline was getting further along, &nb...
2023-07-20 16:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I plan a lot of stuff with my writing - particularly the most important plot beats - but stuff like the pins Leon and Luca won last chapter? I actually didn't have a strong concept for when I added it to the script. Thankfully, I trust future-me enough to figure out what to do with the odds and ends of my scripts.
Needless to say, the pins...
2023-07-18 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Staging for the coaster section of the chapter. I had a time and a half trying to figure out what to make the actual carts look like. It's just kind...
2023-07-17 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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"Hey Timmy, what's YOUR favorite piece of KttFF concept art?"
"I like the one where Gage sketched out a WHOLE PAGE of details for a bathroom!"
I &n...
I knew Leon would come clean to Luca about /not/ using her holo-tablet for studying history, and instead looking up stuff about the key, though I didn't initially expect it to happen this early in the chapter. Honestly though, I feel this is a good chance to re-establish the budding friendship between these two. No hard feelings and all that. 2023-07-11 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Luca's turn for some development practice! It'll never stop being funny to me that some of these characters, I've drawn for YEARS now, and yet I sti...
2023-07-10 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Mostly a study of how actual cat ears work, along with rechecking the proportions of Leon and Luca. AND getting more practice with Luca's leg ...
2023-07-06 15:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
If there's one thing you can count on with me, it's that if there's a more simple layout to go with on a given page, I'm ABSOLUTELY going to leap at the chance to do something way more unnecessarily complicated.
Oh well. At least it'll give me more of a chance to show off some of the background building designs I've sketched before the end...
2023-07-04 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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A bit more finalization, along with testing out some more alternative designs for the main Fair grounds platform. This would ultimately be the last ...
2023-07-03 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I consider this to be the point when I truly had a strong foundation for what the Fair would look like. I realized by this point that I didn't ...
2023-06-29 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The cover thumbs for Chapter 3! This one was a struggle. I had a lot of ideas in my head for the framing, but few of them really conveyed what I was aiming for. Thankfully, I was finally able to settle on one... functionally the first one I /did./ Go figure.
As per usual with the other chapters, many of the elements I used for this cover p...
2023-06-27 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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By this point, I was being better about using reference to inspire parts of my setting. It's fitting that much of the stuff here was inspired by &nb...
2023-06-26 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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It took quite a while to figure out how I wanted the Titanwood trees to look. The base was inspired by rainbow eucalyptus trees, but none of the &nb...
2023-06-22 15:33:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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... Huh, still playing around with those modular tree base designs by this point. Well, in any case, as you can see, I figured out a more simple &nb...
2023-06-19 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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FINALLY, the Fair is starting to look like it would in the comic! Though I do admit I am sad I never found a spot to show off the expansive sprinkle...
2023-06-15 14:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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It doesn't read very well, in hindsight, but I LOVE the top sketch. It gives a view as Leon and Luca walk along one of the tree platforms and ...
2023-06-12 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Fair is starting to take shape! I reached the point where I aimed to include a bunch of criss-crossing walkways reaching out from the central &n...
2023-06-08 16:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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Now we come to one of my FAVORITE things got to design: The Spring Fair! These are the earliest sketches for what I had in mind, and it's safe to sa...
2023-06-05 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Another set of designs that I had a blast working on! Notably, there's a pair of cameos prepped here - Riiser in the bottom center, and the McElroys...
2023-05-29 15:41:19 +0000 UTC View Post
[Originally drawn around Aug 2019]
Looking back, I like how these all turned out (at least in their final incarnations), but I was drawing most of them during a summer vacation where I was EXTREMELY SICK, and just wasn't feeling it. Still, it did lead to some concepts I really like. The Health And Safety ...
2023-05-22 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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A detail that doesn't often get explored in (what little there is of) solarpunk media is the question of "What are the winters like?" Solarpunk often has a lot ...
2023-05-15 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Despite how much brainpower it takes to create these environments, it's easily one of my favorite parts of developing the comic. This is where the r...
2023-05-05 17:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Despite the fact that I’ve been drawing Leon for over a decade at this point, I’m /STILL/ constantly shifting around details of his design. Proportions are still a major detail that I st...
2023-05-01 14:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Orb-Its concept was actually one of the earliest of the series, one that serves as a summation for the solarpunk elements of the comic. Open to ...
2023-04-24 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Another reader question, this time from AtomicBritt, creator of 2023-04-20 16:02:13 +0000 UTC
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The Plakzaken are probably one of my favorite alien designs I've come up with. I lumped together a ton of plant aspects to come up with their final ...
2023-04-17 16:39:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Melody's not quite as sure about her future as Leon is, it seems...
Thank you to ArtUniverse01 for the question!
2023-04-13 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Since we got a name for them, /technically/ at the end of the Chapter 2 Intermission, I figure there's no longer a need to hide it! Everyone say...
2023-04-10 16:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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More poncho studies from around the time I was starting the comic! Again, it would be literal years before he actually gets to wear it in the comic,...
2023-04-03 14:52:25 +0000 UTC View Post