Smars Comics

So I got a super wonderful surprise at my front door today... I'm laying there after a nights craziness at work slowly dozing off while bobs burgers plays on my laptop in the distance and the NOK NOK NOK really loud, i get up and deliriously stumble down the hall to the door and open it and there's the UPS guy standing there with a large box at his feet. my eyes must have lit up like planet sized orbs because he smiled and chuckled at me. it had arrived... a full five days ahead of when they said it would. my new Yiynova MSP19U tablet monitor! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! this has been a long time coming down the pipe. me wanting to move to a paperless system of making art. I was burning through pencils (both Carmine red and F lead) and paper so fast in the last few months it made me want to break down and cry. i was going through about one and a half pencils per comic and I do three series a month basically so you can imagine how much it was all costing m...

I don't know what to say honestly. I've been trying to get this series launched since February 2013 and it's finally finished and making me very very happy with the end results. that's the main reason I haven't really been talking it up or getting any work on it done. it just wasn't making me happy. some of the ideas excited me, but they were just loose ideas floating around in a weird foggy soup. oh my brain. the main task I was aiming for outside of just telling a good story, was making a digital comic work in a way I hadn't personally done before or even seen by anyone else. I wanted to make a digital comic that engages the reader in a fun way, has a good solid story and visually pleasing characters. But i needed a challenge too, a creative challenge or the project just wouldn't feel fulfilling at all. I wanted a comic that excited me when I was writing it, drawing it and then challenged me all a long the way to think of creativ...

I've been trying to get through the last pages of the 1st chapter of Myth of Eustro, and I felt like I needed to rework one of the characters colour palette. Cid. I always planned for her to take off her cap from time to time, but I wanted to change her cape. I needed it to be less bulky and heavy looking and instead make it shorter and lighter looking in material so she would look faster and more like she could be out there on the plains of planet Ephon fighting monsters everyday. I mean... doesn't that cloak look really heavy? yah, it does, She used to wear a striped scarf a long time ago... of course that's also when she was a male character, not a female character Original Cid design. not a woman, elf, or cat. but I hadn't been really happy with her colours this whole time. they were based on an older palette, a place I wasn't in any more mentally. (using dark colours)  So I gave Cid back her scarf and started playing ar...

  Munch Chunky will be returning next wednesday on the 11th! I know it's been so long since the last issue came out that most of you maybe don't even care anymore about the fate of this series. (it's been four months now) But I want to give you a reason to come back and care about these silly little furry animals. I'm turning the key to the engine again and revving the motor, but the vehicle has had some slight modifications to it's body. Vague i know... basically Munch Chunky will start back up from Issue 3a with a new added 25 pages of content. PLUS , every issue after it will get an additional 25 pages of added content until I catch back up to where the series left off originally. The reason for adding new content? I looked at the story and thought certain parts were missing. these parts were flashbacks I was going to have drawn by a friend of mine, but he can't do it at the moment or... ever it seems. no names shall be named and no blam...

i'm sort of here and there with these previews. or are they considered teasers? which ever. i was actually very relaxed while working on a lot of this issue, i don't know what it was what it is I guess i should say since i still have about 11 pages left to work on. i realize with this issue i'm going to have to find a balance within the ongoing fight that Sevanoh and Nohni are involved in with the element eater, it's kind of a swirling den of baddies, but my poor hand can't handle drawing all the characters at the same time... all the time. hrm... split them up? i don't know, i still feel like you would see the other passing through the BG (background) of the other. speaking of BG's i did a lot of BG creating in photoshop for the whole basement fighting scenario. i mean the pattern on that floor required it of me. but there's hardly anything in that place at all but a few banners on the walls... i'm going to have to make the next o...

      PREVIOUS    ♦     NEXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this issue took longer than my usual 10 hours a day to finish. yep... 10 hours a day. i work an hour on each page, and do (at minimum) 10 pages per day. it's the only way i can get each issue done but this issue had some elements that really slowed me down. the mud was a bit of a hassle as well. but not as much as the other thing(s). you'll know it when you see it.  XD