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She's probably just doing the eyebrow thing that Spyro tends to do.
"I heard you have a dragon problem?" (Chapter 50 / 50) It is done!
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DragonFreak
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly!
*swoons over Spyro*
I'm glad you liked it! Cramming in references to the thread (or to earlier chapters) wherever possible was one of my favourite parts of doing the comic.Nysic said:
Suuuure they are. (Well, M4E is at any rate, maybe.)Derpl Zork said:
He was always fun to draw, too - some avatars were pretty hard to not utterly mangle (including Edo's, argh), but some, like Guilmon, clicked right away.
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The comic, from beginning to end, was fantastic.
I can neither confirm nor deny this.
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I can neither confirm nor deny this.
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how're you doin'
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maybe there'll be an official sequel
all good things come in threes y'know
all good things come in threes y'know
Nope. Any more work I plan to do on this is just fixing up older panels, uploading the last in the in-progress stuff (probably tomorrow, when I have the fast computer at my disposal), working on the UP article and other such things pertaining to the completed story. Any new content will be up to the fans - and will be as welcome and appreciated as always! Sequels, prequels, more interquels, alternate chapters or AUs, shoutouts, whatever - if it makes you happy, go crazy.
Speaking of which, I stumbled upon the Wikiball version of Chapter 47 (by Vocal Beat) by chance today, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen it before, so here it is for anyone else who may have also tragically missed it:
(Also, read the whole series it's great.)
Speaking of which, I stumbled upon the Wikiball version of Chapter 47 (by Vocal Beat) by chance today, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen it before, so here it is for anyone else who may have also tragically missed it:
(Also, read the whole series it's great.)
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I agree with Walkazo. This story is told and the two of us don't need to add to it further. If its scope is to expand beyond our telling of the tale, it'll be up to the fans.
DragonFreak
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly!
Ok but what about Dragon Problem Tamers????????
Wow Vocal Beat got Edo's humor down exactly.Walkazo said:Speaking of which, I stumbled upon the Wikiball version of Chapter 47 (by Vocal Beat) by chance today, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen it before, so here it is for anyone else who may have also tragically missed it:
(Also, read the whole series it's great.)
Kyoko Sakura
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So, I just now read all of this from Chapter 1 to Chapter 50 (including the side chapters)
DragonFreak convinced me. Anyway, that was awesome!
DragonFreak convinced me. Anyway, that was awesome!
DF knows what she's talking about. Glad you liked it too!
They'd probably try and force you to work for them instead. But don't you dare - being killed so ignobly would motivate me to stick around beyond the grave and figure out how to kill people in that state from Ghost Jam, and if you're on the usurper's side when I come to reclaim my library...Duskull said:
It's a bad idea:Nibbs said:
DragonFreak
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly!
LOLOLOLOL. Oh man disappointed that it won't work but at least my curiosity is solved.
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Should have slashed an obedience plug-in.
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I'm sorry. The program you've been watching has been cancelled in order to make room for more Spongebob.
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oh my goodness I'm laughing so hard
GalacticPetey
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Sorry. Just had some Korra PTSD.
Rest in pepperonis comic. also what happened to me? maybe I'm ded.
Work in progress stuff for Chapters 48 and 50:
Sketches / work in progress:
(the bottom right three of the last image were reference shots I used to make sure I always had the axe being swung by the dominant arm from different POVs and positions)
(figuring out how to do the eye flames)
(When the tentacle on the right turned out terrible, I used the page to sketch out the exact shape I wanted, from a rough sketch in my dayplanner I'd done months earlier. I used brown so as to not waste precious black marker life. The left was my second attempt, sketching over the first, but I coloured it in too much to make it look adequately glowy and wasn't happy with my stance either anyway, so I went back to the first and drafted my outline too (took two tries), and used the l panel to experiment with how I should do the background. I was originally going to have the "Boom" in that panel, but after testing out a but here too, I decided to keep it clean of words instead.)
(right is practicing with the tentacle colours, plus a black sketch that reminds me of a vulture - can't remember what it was originally anymore; left was rejected due to the tentacle taking too long to thicken, and I figured I could do better with my look too)
(it took a few tries to get this right: partly because I couldn't draw in a big circle freehand and partially because I was too picky: if I hadn't already traced a CD on this one to use as a guide for my next attempt, I probably would have relented and used it; the left circles are getting the colours right)
(spacing the Samus/Shiggy/library/cityscape and shattered plaque panels, and figuring out which hand to have Javelin going "hmmmm" with)
(top is figuring out the scale/spacing on a section of rejected 737 flicker lights, hence the lines; bottom is a failed attempt at Edo's corpse, which I then practiced drawing Marowak overtop of - sadly, the best version of Marowak I managed was here, on the left: originally in red but then I went over it in black to try and trace to some extent on the final version - which I still didn't like as much as this, so I kept it around, even tho having the two faces overlapping obscures it a lot - but in a weird, abstract art kinda way if you wanna put a positive spin on it, lol)
(best drawing of Edo I've done, imo; sadly, it was too small and sketchy for the final product, and I couldn't quite reproduce it exactly on the larger scale)
(Bottom right: at first I considered drawing me looking back at the city like how Marowak's leaving it behind, but I'd already done a couple cityscapes, and I didn't want to do a shot of looking down on the assembled crowd (bottom left) since crows shots are a pain and I already had a similar shot like that; so I went with me looking at the fire - but after I drew it, I decided to flip it so that the fire and my direction is opposite the sunrise and Marowak in the final shot; fortunately, I had forgotten to draw the horn notch at first, so after I made the decision to flip, I just drew it on the "other" horn so that it'd be right once it was scanned in and flipped.)
Rejected panels, etc.:
(rejected because too many eye shots)
(the left 876 was cropped in the final version; the right was replaced)
(not sure why I didn't use this...)
(full-size "Cooking with RAGE" to show off the details; the Toad was actually drawn in highlighter markers since I knew the scanner would wash them out like this)
(didn't look quite enough like the original for my liking)
(originally I was gonna splice this in, but then I thought it was too much trouble; this shows that the image was originally drawn the other way, however I wanted to move the words around more so I flipped it, even though the picture's now mirrored to the one in Starlow's office was - but knowing them, there's probably more pictures around anyway: perhaps this one's from Mario's office)
(after doing it freehand failed miserably, I redid the whole plaque on a separate piece of paper and then cut and pasted it onto the panel; I only coloured the panel portions, but I kept the snipped bits and scanned them in to so that I could digitally reassemble the original paper just for the hell of it)
(the flames were too high here, however I was able to splice the eyes onto the final version, whose face wasn't as satisfactorily drawn; like here, I also drew the star as being complete (but covered in hotdog bits) until I showed it to Edo and he pointed out that 876 smashed the star, so I had to edit it to be in pieces on the computer)
(Marowak looked terrible in my first attempt at 809, but his horse stick was adorable)
Messing around and words:
(didn't want to distract from the actual cake splat)
(I forgot it was all uppercase at first; then I did it a few times to choose the best one)
(experimenting with hue replacement for the flicker lights and axe flashes of 737 gave me a funky Andy Warhol sorta thing and what reminds me of a golden Mayan sundisk or whatever - so I kept them; I also find this shade of purple I stumbled upon so trippy for some reason, so I use this as a reference swatch)
(I had to save drawing this panel until after the climax was posted, unlike the rest of Chapter 50, which was finished at the end of February, in case there were any latecomers to shove into one last cameo shot. But since my brother was editing the ending sequence into a video for me, I made a placeholder in the meantime.)
(preparing the final "the end", I made this somehow by accident, but it was cool so I saved a copy before hitting "undo" and continuing with my real work - in hindsight, I should've used this for Dragon Problem Tamers instead of merely reusing the bloody "The End" panel for randomness.)
Sketches / work in progress:
(the bottom right three of the last image were reference shots I used to make sure I always had the axe being swung by the dominant arm from different POVs and positions)
(figuring out how to do the eye flames)
(When the tentacle on the right turned out terrible, I used the page to sketch out the exact shape I wanted, from a rough sketch in my dayplanner I'd done months earlier. I used brown so as to not waste precious black marker life. The left was my second attempt, sketching over the first, but I coloured it in too much to make it look adequately glowy and wasn't happy with my stance either anyway, so I went back to the first and drafted my outline too (took two tries), and used the l panel to experiment with how I should do the background. I was originally going to have the "Boom" in that panel, but after testing out a but here too, I decided to keep it clean of words instead.)
(right is practicing with the tentacle colours, plus a black sketch that reminds me of a vulture - can't remember what it was originally anymore; left was rejected due to the tentacle taking too long to thicken, and I figured I could do better with my look too)
(it took a few tries to get this right: partly because I couldn't draw in a big circle freehand and partially because I was too picky: if I hadn't already traced a CD on this one to use as a guide for my next attempt, I probably would have relented and used it; the left circles are getting the colours right)
(spacing the Samus/Shiggy/library/cityscape and shattered plaque panels, and figuring out which hand to have Javelin going "hmmmm" with)
(top is figuring out the scale/spacing on a section of rejected 737 flicker lights, hence the lines; bottom is a failed attempt at Edo's corpse, which I then practiced drawing Marowak overtop of - sadly, the best version of Marowak I managed was here, on the left: originally in red but then I went over it in black to try and trace to some extent on the final version - which I still didn't like as much as this, so I kept it around, even tho having the two faces overlapping obscures it a lot - but in a weird, abstract art kinda way if you wanna put a positive spin on it, lol)
(best drawing of Edo I've done, imo; sadly, it was too small and sketchy for the final product, and I couldn't quite reproduce it exactly on the larger scale)
(Bottom right: at first I considered drawing me looking back at the city like how Marowak's leaving it behind, but I'd already done a couple cityscapes, and I didn't want to do a shot of looking down on the assembled crowd (bottom left) since crows shots are a pain and I already had a similar shot like that; so I went with me looking at the fire - but after I drew it, I decided to flip it so that the fire and my direction is opposite the sunrise and Marowak in the final shot; fortunately, I had forgotten to draw the horn notch at first, so after I made the decision to flip, I just drew it on the "other" horn so that it'd be right once it was scanned in and flipped.)
Rejected panels, etc.:
(rejected because too many eye shots)
(the left 876 was cropped in the final version; the right was replaced)
(not sure why I didn't use this...)
(full-size "Cooking with RAGE" to show off the details; the Toad was actually drawn in highlighter markers since I knew the scanner would wash them out like this)
(didn't look quite enough like the original for my liking)
(originally I was gonna splice this in, but then I thought it was too much trouble; this shows that the image was originally drawn the other way, however I wanted to move the words around more so I flipped it, even though the picture's now mirrored to the one in Starlow's office was - but knowing them, there's probably more pictures around anyway: perhaps this one's from Mario's office)
(after doing it freehand failed miserably, I redid the whole plaque on a separate piece of paper and then cut and pasted it onto the panel; I only coloured the panel portions, but I kept the snipped bits and scanned them in to so that I could digitally reassemble the original paper just for the hell of it)
(the flames were too high here, however I was able to splice the eyes onto the final version, whose face wasn't as satisfactorily drawn; like here, I also drew the star as being complete (but covered in hotdog bits) until I showed it to Edo and he pointed out that 876 smashed the star, so I had to edit it to be in pieces on the computer)
(Marowak looked terrible in my first attempt at 809, but his horse stick was adorable)
Messing around and words:
(didn't want to distract from the actual cake splat)
(I forgot it was all uppercase at first; then I did it a few times to choose the best one)
(experimenting with hue replacement for the flicker lights and axe flashes of 737 gave me a funky Andy Warhol sorta thing and what reminds me of a golden Mayan sundisk or whatever - so I kept them; I also find this shade of purple I stumbled upon so trippy for some reason, so I use this as a reference swatch)
(I had to save drawing this panel until after the climax was posted, unlike the rest of Chapter 50, which was finished at the end of February, in case there were any latecomers to shove into one last cameo shot. But since my brother was editing the ending sequence into a video for me, I made a placeholder in the meantime.)
(preparing the final "the end", I made this somehow by accident, but it was cool so I saved a copy before hitting "undo" and continuing with my real work - in hindsight, I should've used this for Dragon Problem Tamers instead of merely reusing the bloody "The End" panel for randomness.)
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