Ship too small to keep quiet.

So I noticed that the latest post of my webcomic was not going to be posted till the 31st. I started to think that perhaps I should make that come out just a little bit earlier.

You can get to the Steampunk adventures webcomic page here

 

Bjorn tries to keep quiet.

In this part of the comic Bjorn is trying to keep quiet about this morning activities in the captains cabin. He made a promise to Xue to keep the nature of their relationship a secret from the rest of the crew being that most people in this age does not quite understand that the captain and Xue may be bisexual not alone polyamorous. The problem Bjorne is having is that ships have thin walls and not a lot of room for secrets. lets face it with only three women on the ship the crew are always going to know their whereabouts.

 

How I do it! Part one! (Air Pirate)

So I know there is a lot of people that read my comic that know more about making comics then I do …. but there are a few folks out there that have no idea what so ever. so I’m going to walk you through a day of drawing for me. This is going to follow the path from sketchbook to your web browser.

This is drawing is of  “Sarah the Steampunk Polyamrous Air Pirate” (Some title huh)

This image .. She is PISSED OFF! She just discovered someone trying ….oh wait I’m not going to give that away! The drawing was done over a few days with my sketchbook. and a 4H hard pencil!

Drawing of Sarah

This is how it looks right after being scanned into iphoto.. The problem I have been having is that the paper is too big for my tiny scanner . so you notice that the center of the image is sharper then the edges. this is because I place my hand down on the center of the image so it can be properly scanned .. I’m looking to fix this problem later.

The image was Scanned in as full color and not gray scale. at 300 DPI. I choose to not use gray scale or B&W because of some issues with Iphoto only liking RGB color pallets.  I use Iphoto to keep my images organized till I can have a chance to edit them in GIMP

Once I have them in Iphoto I categorize the image so I can find it quickly later . Keyword and bookmarks are my best friend.

Sarah in Gimp

Here I start to remove the background caused by the light escaping because my scanner is too small for the size of paper I use. One the background is removed it will be easier to add any kind of background that I wish!

Once I have done that. I add Layers ..

• Jacket
• Clockwork Arm
• Hair
• Sarah skin
• Eye Patch
• Brass works
• Gun
• Bullwhip

The idea is that each object should have its own layer .. I like to make changes to those layers later on.

Next time I will show you what happens when I add color.

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Diffaculty drawing chapter 3

So chapter 3 has been a huge problem. It has been the most difficult to draw. And not just on a physical draw correctly kind of way. But also in the area of motivation. It has taken me some time to get past that. Here are the problems I have had to overcome

- introduction of the poly pirates
Not that I’m in the closet about being poly or anything it’s just I want to be more then “father knows best of. Polyamory”. Who wants to read about people who are perfect I want to have some real issues to overcome without giving the lifestyle reputation of being dysfunctional. So I have been trying to write something that will be fun at the same time not be a “how to manual”

- Nudity. What!!!! Nudity?!?! Yes the pirates get necked. I don’t feel like censoring my work at the same time it’s part of the story. So I have been working on a compromise. I’m also going to have a few versions when to goes to print. These will very from the version I would let my son read to version that will have disclaimers all over it. Do other writers run into this problem?

- violence
I’m not talking about your standard comic book violence. I’m talking about harming someone on a deep personal level. I had a hard time drawing this because I could not relate to someone who would want to do such a thing. I had to resort to reading some clinical info as well as some fiction. Both of those will give me nightmares. However this has made the scene where bjorn gets his revenge on such violent and twisted individual so much clearer in my mind. In fact my problem is finding a reason for bjorn not killing him.

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Still working

So I know that a few of you are wondering if I’m still alive … yes I am .. I’m just getting ready to move to Sydney AU . The problem is that is taking up most of my time. Here is the good news .. I have like 23 new pages drawn and written .. however I have to have my copy editor go over and purge my comic of spelling errors (I don’t know if you noticed but I can’t spell )