#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!
Here’s another hypothesis for discussion.
Brandon’s current wrist/hand discomfort is because he’s reverting to his nocturnal Nox form and one of his five digits is re-absorbing to the natural four-fingered state. He’ll be illustrating once again after he has full digital control.
Dr. Beaver: hey thinks for your feedback on my drawing. I have been wanting to draw full body characters with poses but I have no experience in that and I’m trying to learn recently from some YouTube videos.
About the character looking flat I’m still experiment with trying to shade and im trying to improve but I’m basically teaching myself and it isn’t easy but I’ll try my best 👍
My main problem you mentioned is drawing too big and I do that because I can’t find that perfect size I love adding details especially the eyes
Maybe someday I’ll be able to make my own comic like Brandon well at least that’s my dream
Glad my rambling helped a bit!
But while I’m at it… i might ramble some more!
I learned this tidbit mostly by making plushes, a craftsman (or woman) will see the flaws in their creations more clearly then most others.
This principle clicked for me when I started making plushies because. what to me looked like a horrible closing stich (witch to me it was plain as a marker smudge) others told me they didn’t see! So one day, I desided to test if it was true and not just nicerries. I made another plush, I put it in someone’s hand and asked them to point me the closing stitch (which is supposed to be the ugliest one) and to my amesment, they were completely off!
But to me it explains rather well why artists and makers can get imposter syndrome. We spend hours making something and we know where and what the defects are because we put them there! But for others it’s pretty much a where’s Waldo game but they are not sure what they ar looking for.
Boom! With rambling skills like those, I fear to imagine what I will be like as an old man!
Maybe I could get a job as fortune-cookie wrighter?
Is this going to be the end for this comic or is it going to continue because I hope it continues by like this comic you should do is make it where the bully comes back but this time he did his research hang out with some shady people of course you haven’t explained what’s on the other side of the door yet as well in the Underworld so that could happen I’ll be waiting.
It’s going to continue, I’m just on vacation for a while to refresh my brain and hand.
A good time to take a holiday. The snow has finally melted off of my property, I can safely put the shovels away, and can start wearing just ONE layer outside. The sun feels so nice!
Indeed. It was a winter that did not want to leave.
Yeah it got as low as 30°F here in Florida…
Oh yeah, so chilly in your tropical state :P. I could still have a snowball fight right now, if I wished to.
If I scrape the frost off of every window in my neighborhood during the coldest time in Florida I might be able to make a snowball.
I’ve heard that some homes in Florida don’t have built in heater systems. Just like some northern homes don’t have A/C.
Yeah it’s true, when I go up north to Vermont every year I’m blown away by the lack of A/C units up their.
I’ve seen this comic a few times on the TWC and decided to take a break from my own comicing and take a look. Two days later and I’ve finally caught up after reading a few more pages every chance I got! I don’t want to wait for the next page but I know I must.
Hope you come back from vacation feeling refreshed and healed and I look forward to seeing what’s next. The Monster Under the Bed is now on my weekly reading list!
Hey sweet, that’s great!
You do realize that this is Brandons autobiography. I can hardly wait to see what shadow looks like in real life.
Boy, they’re all look gorgeous and so fitting with each other. :3
Shadow can pull of a dresses too wet just damn she looks good
“too well” XD wtf happened
Fireslayer i’m dying from that too wet, too well what the hell did you mean to type XD
Perhaps “too-whit, too whoo”?
Let’s just pretend that never happened
“The readers will remember that…” MUTB Telltale series.
(whistles) Too-to-too-ta-too phhhhhh.
However. the evidence suggests that many contributors either don’t, or can’t, read well so Fireslayer’s probably safe from massive co-ordinated capaigns of contumely.
I’ll be safe either way I’ll just need to make my icon a cardboard box it’s full proof
WARNING:
It’s not fireproof from the inside!
A cold winter?
But who took the picture? I never saw a tripod. Is midnight in there somewhere? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for the story, so far Brandon. I’ve been enjoying it for a long time, and look forward to when you return; I hope your break from updates helps you feel better. Don’t hesitate to get your wrist looked at, if it is doing something worrisome…remember if Jim Hensen had checked out what was wrong, instead of pushing through it to get the project done and making an appointment for the weekend, he’d still be running the Muppets; you have fans who will disappointed if you don’t take care of yourself and return to this story someday!
Technically that’s not quite true as Henson has passed. So if he’d still be running the muppets, it’d be from beyond the grave.
Not if she can get away with it. I mean, come on! Who needs ’em?!
Craig may have noticed but Shadow was far more interested in RIPPING HIS FACE OFF!! than obsessing over it.
Remember when she and Tim were raiding the fridge?
It’s just not an important matter, flashing the flesh.
Alabados sean los dioses, esto es lo mejor que he leído en mucho tiempo, gracias por hacer una historia tan hermosa.
indeed XD……
“Translated your welcome”
Praised be the gods, this is the best I’ve read in a long time, thank you for making such a beautiful story
indeed!!!!
I’m surprised that Ruth didn’t unmask for the photo, or normal life if the two species are living together in peace by now… (PS: Is this plotline going down the path of a matur3 Monster’s Inc, with laughter being switched for sexual tension?)
Nope!
So the “scare points” from the brooches/buckles aren’t there to provide power to their civilization?
No. They aren’t even collecting anything. It just reads/analyses the fear and tabulates it into a number, adding it to the current score.
It’s a calculator, but I got tired of correcting people a long time ago… so I just let them think whatever they want. XD
“now then, everybody say ‘family!'”
And nobody says it
Rip Thomas
I actually did a version where they are all yelling it in their respective text colours… but, it looked way too busy, so I took them out.
All the best and we’ll be here when you get back.