#149 “Family”
And so, Chapter 3 comes to a close… and the real story begins!
Here’s a major ‘Thank you!’ to everybody for following along with the little one-man show I’ve been putting on these past 3 years, I can’t imagine I would have ever gotten this far into this project without your support and love along the way! I do it for you guys!
That being said, I have to tell you all that I am going to take a break from the comic for a little while. Now, don’t worry! I’m not going on indefinite hiatus or anything like that, I simply need a bit of a vacation to refresh myself. As you are probably aware, the schedule has been rather tenuous at best lately, and I feel I am creatively fatigued, and lately physically so.
Last week, due to whatever circumstance, my drawing hand/wrist was causing me problems (tiredness, numbness), perhaps due to over-exertion at both my day job (factory work) and working on the comic too. It lasted nearly a week, however, today everything seems to be okay again. *phew* I’ll be monitoring the situation in the meantime, and acting accordingly.
Over the break, I will not be gone away. I’ll be working a bit behind the scenes, planning and scripting, and, yes, even building up a buffer without the pressure of a time constraint. Perhaps I’ll do a bit of work on the site itself, so stay tuned for the next update. If you have any questions, go ahead and ask! I read everything in the comment section.
I expect to be away at least one (1) month or so, though I shall judge how I feel at the time.
See you soon!
Stay tuned!
Holy crud has it been 3 years now?! O_O; … I’m starting to feel old.
i just found this comic by chance a while back and decided to check it out and got hooked, lol, the whole sock thing in the begining reminded me of tweaks underpants gnomes from south park, ha ha, is there any relation to that ep? looking forward to your next update man.
I honestly just needed some article of clothing for her to take that could be left on the floor and easily missed. So, socks it became.
Of course, if you throw underwear at the wall and it STICKS, use the washing machine on a more regular basis.
I discovered the series this morning whilst searching for good wake up wank material. And have just spent the last 4 hours binge reading. Now I have an emotional investment. I came for smut and stayed for story.
Seriously though, I am truly enjoying this, and must commend you. Although I didn’t like your art style at first it rapidly grew on me. And even though there wasn’t the sex I was hoping for. I feel my affor-mentioned emotional investment will make it so much better when it does. If it does. (hopefully the former, but you do you dude.) Awesome work, fun characters.interesting side plots. Keep up the good work and I eagerly await the next chapter.
Hey Brandon I finally was able to create something original how did I do?
https://longrangebushido.deviantart.com/art/Pukai-2-740802297
Also set up a actual deviantart
I am not Brandon, and I am not an expert, but I figure that any good constructive feedback is welcome.
So here I go!
First, the color choice is good. Normally you only want no more than 6 different colours in a “shot” beacause, fewer more contrasting Colors tend to stick longer in people’s heads. To much, and the outside observers won’t be able to distinguish easily or quickly wat it is you just showed them.
Second. Your drawing looks flat. For that you have to practice shading and drawing objects in 3D. Shading means drawing the shadows cast by things often onto themselves. For example, the entire page is only drawn with 5 colours, but it deals like more beacause of the shading. There is only: black/grey, blue, red, yellow and flesh colour but by making the right stuff a bit darker and tint the shadows with the opposite of the light in the scene, you get a picture with few but memorable colour.
Third. The pose.
I am certain that it looks better in your head then on your drawing. One thing that will make it more interesting to the eye and more fun to draw is to draw the entire body of your character. Give them different poses and practice etirative drawing. Etirative drawing is just drawing bits like an eyeball or a hand and drawing lots of etirations (meaning versions/copies) so you get better and faster at drawing those bits. The best and cheapest tools for practicing drawing still is pencil, paper and time.
Another trick is to draw smaller. If you draw something really upclose, you tend to look at all the unfilled spots and put way to much detail and it just doesn’t look right! Try drawing your character, the entire body, from foot to scalp, in a space no bigger then a matchbox, or if it’s to small, a playing card. Making tings small will push you to rely on clean shapes and lower the stakes. Because a drawing the size of a matchbox takes much less time then a drawing the size of a painting, it means if you screwup, it only took you 10min instead of an hour!
Hopefully this will be something helpful to chew on, and take care!
Beautiful!
Since Tim is wearing an Agis (not sure of spelling) does that mean he can visit Shadow’s world?
Ah…memories… Nostalgia hurts.
any chances of guest pages? or fan artto fill the pause?
Hmmm… hadn’t put much thought into it, honestly. We’ll see!
You do the right thing taking care of your heal before keeping the comic, force yourself over your limits only is good in the anime xD in real life (at least when creative work is to be done) it just ends up fucking everyting up, i hope you recover soon 😉 (and not only because i need to know how will this go on XD)
you’ve given us three years of free content without asking for anything. In that you want a holiday and take some time off who the hell would I be to argue against it.
Take all the time you need, all I’d ask is you keep us updated on things.
I’m late at the party, but good rest Brandon! Thanks for the very nice story you provide us despite how tiring it can be. I’ll be waiting for the next page ^^
So adult Tim HAS an Aegis… I’m very curious how he got it 🙂
Need a longer break ?? Take it. I’ll wait for the next chapter.
*sob*
*throw myself on my bed*
*start crying into a pillow*
😀
Seriously. Get rest as much as you need. Fix your wrist completely and don’t loose an enjoyment of creating your masterpiece 🙂
How many weeks will you be off.
Unknown, but at least a month.
*totally didn’t come here completely forgetting about your hiatus. (i’m pretty dumb)
It’s okay, I’m sure you’re not the only one. 😉
I was obsessed with this comic, it’s the best comic I’ve read in my life
Thanks! I really appreciate that!