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Extravehicular Activity

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"Commander on the bridge!"

Slowly chippin' away at the comic and every page seems to bring a new lesson. Still haven't got to the nightmare of coloring anything properly.

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[FTL travel may cause slight nausea to the unexperienced]

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Calibrating brushes, tweaking fonts, optimizing pipelines, streamlining workflows...

Dude, I just wanted to draw a silly little scifi comic!

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Still getting used to this digital stuff.

Biggest hurdle so far is to find the correct scale to draw in. I seem to zoom in way too close and end up with a small and cluttered pieces. That grid really helps with that.

Also, making the background look like my ancient sketchbooks fools me to forget I'm using a pen display.

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*PEW PEW* Vol.2

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Doodling details is a bit more pleasant now. Finding a way to balance them is not.

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100% digital doodle and an epiphany.

For the past three years, since I finished the Voro trilogy, I've been really struggling to get back into drawing comics. I've been writing a new script for a while now and was pretty excited to start drawing, but no matter what I tried, everything "finished" looked like absolute garbage to me. After more than a year of trying, I grew so frustrated I was just about to call it quits for good.

Then came along a random job offer to work as a prop artist in an animation project. I was pretty hesitant as everything had to be done on pen displays and my digital drawing skills were even more abysmal than traditional ones. But I was almost broke and needed the money, so after a decent panic attack, I accepted the job.

After couple of weeks of some rough times, I finally got the hang of it and as an absolute shock, I found myself actually enjoying drawing again. So much so infact, that I've decided to switch to completely digital medium for my future endeavours.

I've still got a lot to learn in technical aspects, but the fundamentals remain unchanged. It's just a pen and an empty canvas. Have fun with it.

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*PAFF PAFF PAFF*

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Rushed cleanup of sketches.

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Torpor bay.

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Finally managed to design proper space-proof headgear for the main character.

Exposure to the vacuum of space is not as deadly as usually assumed. Common fears of flash freeze or your body simply exploding are greatly exaggerated. However, without proper insulation your lungs may rupture and your bodily fluids can boil. Including your eyeballs.

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just some space people

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Switched from traditional pencils to a mechanical one. Haven’t drawn with this thing for almost two decades and I can’t understand why I ever abandoned it. So much smoother experience and much better for scribbling small details! And cheaper too!

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A test page for my next comic.

Working with colors brings an entirely new level of nightmares to this endeavour.