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[11/19/2009|10:13 pm] |
Aw.. poor little dude!
So I have next week off and I think Jess and I are going to get Domestically Partnered maybe? If we can get up off of our adorable asses.
Also if I can get up off my adorable ass I will finally get around to setting up Tomb with an online store and maybe some project wonderful ad coverage. I am doing nothing to promote this comic except wait for Jess to mention it again.
And maybe I'll get a chance to play Left 4 Dead 2 Fast 2 Furious.
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[11/17/2009|10:49 pm] |
Oh maaaaaan, total buzz kill taking that!
Also, in personal news, I am balls deed in ennui!
I just don't want to do anything ever. I beat Brutal Legend and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the past 2 weeks and I think I had fun playing them? I don't remember. I played them as a distraction. It's pretty weird to have this feeling in my brain, a feeling that I don't want to do anything but also that if I did anything I would just fail at it. Like if I started drawing I have a feeling in my arm that it wouldn't work. That the lines I was drawing would go askew. Almost like my arm is against me! I could chop it off I suppose...
I'm taking Thanksgiving week off and I don't even know why! What am I going to do with that time? Bum around the house and annoy Jess probably as she tries and gets some work done!
I totally know that what I should do is power through it and just work it out but man, whatever. I just want to sit here and wait for Star Trek to come on! Which is on in 20 minutes, woo! |
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[11/13/2009|01:08 am] |
QUICK BARBARIAN! CHEESE IT!
Man what do you even want that thing for?! |
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[11/10/2009|08:47 pm] |
And here's todays comic! I will try not to forget in the future!
Eric
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[11/10/2009|08:45 pm] |
I totally forgot to post a page on Thursday so here is Thursday's page!
Not pictured is the Barbarian shitting his loin cloth.
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[11/04/2009|09:13 pm] |
Hey duders, so a few weeks ago I took a week off from work and did a bunch of stuff, some stuff I did was play World of Goo, some other stuff I did was teach myself Game Maker, another thing I did was draw.
Basically I need to learn to draw better, faster, easier. I need to learn how to draw digitally with no scanning in between, I hate scanning! So here are some drawing tests with commentary and a lot of self back-patting! The self back-patting is more me trying to understand what I did and why it looks better than my usual drawing style than it is me being pompous!
This was the first series of panels I did. The first panel is standard Eric. This is how I would draw if I didn't actually try to do anything different. It's noisy and stiff and doesn't excite me. The panel after that I drew very loosely and quickly. I drew it in about half the time of the first panel. Granted it has half the stuff in it but it already has more energy to it. Panel 3 is a zero undo drawing and it's wonderful. Those fingers are so cool and it's all so spontaneous because.. it is! The final panel also has no undos in it, if I needed to touch up a line I just drew over it with the background color. I also set the minimum size my brush could shrink to to something like 10% or 13% so I didn't end up with rat tailed lines all over the place. It also prevented me from getting too into the details of the drawing and left a nicely balanced image.
The top 2 panels are wonderful drawings full of quick decisions. Things are happening in them that I can tell a different Eric hates or would spend forever trying to prevent. The varying line along the shield edge is something part of me hates. Not a big part at all but somewhere in my brain something says "fiiiiiix iiiiiit..." The bottom 2 panels are less successful I think because I think I messed with the brush and the minimum diameter was greater than 13%
Here I was trying to see what sequential panels would look like and how quickly I could draw them. This was pretty quick but it feels amateurish to me, I don't know why. Something to do with the gray tones I think? Maybe amateurish isn't the word, but it feels too slick. Too HELLO I AM A COMPUTER or something
Last one! This is another shot at a sequential story. I dunno, I still see the tones as too slick, maybe because they have no texture to them, no variation.
The thing is, with me it seems I have to constantly remind myself that it is OK to do different styles of art. I did not draw people the way I drew the people in my Tomb comic. I had to do a lot of sketching and referencing and stealing to understand how I was going to cartoonerize the human form. I had the skeleton drawn and figured out well before I had humans figured out. I think most times my brain doesn't know how to simplify forms as easily as other people do and I guess a big part of that is just drawing more.
Oh also a game I worked on Band Hero DS was released the other day, hooray! I also did a little tiny bit of work on Band Hero Wii so if anyone buys it and goes to start the game, that opening screen in the Wii lobby, I did that! Tell your mom as she tries to understand the drums. She'll be impressed!
Anyway, have a nice night!
Eric
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[11/03/2009|10:17 pm] |
Hey everyone! How are you? I'm doing alright, I just beat S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadows of Chernobyl about 20 minutes ago [What with my comic done I get to play the games I've bought in the last 2 years!] and it was... fun? I think? Maybe not? I'm glad I played it maybe? It certainly scared me more than any other game has every scared me before but it also pissed me off more than any other game, even more than all Ren and Stimpy games on the SNES and Gameboy! I know, right!
Eric
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[10/29/2009|09:16 pm] |
Page 18 locked and loaded!
Have a happy Halloween all you people that do that sort of thing! I am going as a dead cowboy covered in arrows. I was just minding my own business, taking the land from some natives and they went and shot me! What the eff, natives!? WTE?!
Eric
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[10/27/2009|07:59 pm] |
Oh man, that Boner cut that other Boner in half! Sucks!
Anyway, I spent a lot of time before drawing this comic concepting what skeletons would look like. I knew I was going to draw a lot of them and did not want to get stuck drawing something too detailed. I like how they turned out and they weren't that hard to draw. Hooray concepting?
eric!
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[10/23/2009|12:09 am] |
Oh man, those Boners are in for it now!
Have a nice weekend or don't! NO PRESSURE
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[10/21/2009|12:40 am] |
And the second update! Now I'm all caught up.
While working on this book I started calling skeleton warriors by their new name, Boners. It makes sense!
"A boner rose up and lunged at me but I managed to beat it off." See!
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[10/21/2009|12:37 am] |
Heylo, so the server me and some friends are on was upgraded last week and I couldn't post a new page so here are two in a row! I was really nervous about this page when I first drew it, sometimes I think I don't like to draw because it's hard and then a year later I look at it and don't understand what my problem was!
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[10/13/2009|10:01 pm] |
Hello everybody!
I took a week off from work and now I'm practicing drawing and messing around in Game Maker. Sometimes I envy people who don't constantly have to be doing something. Sometimes I just want to sit... On the couch... And do nothing... Maybe play Brutal Legend?
But NOOO! If I do that I feel like I'm WASTING TIME!
Sometimes I even feel guilty that I started watching Star Trek the Next Generation on tv at night... But then Jess and I start making "duuuuh duuuh doooof" noises when Riker comes on screen and it's worth it.
I love you!
Eric
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[10/08/2009|08:40 pm] |
Hello everyone! It's Thursday again so here is a new page!
Have a nice weekend!
Eric
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[10/06/2009|06:54 pm] |
Man oh man! Destroyed by your friend's arm! If this comic had words the barbarian would say "Let me give you a HAND" at this point.
Good thing this comic doesn't have words, RIGHT?!
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[10/01/2009|09:02 pm] |
It feels so weird to be showing these pages that I have kept so secret from everyone for 2 years. The only person to see past page 4 was Jess. It's also crazy how disconnected I am from the book now. Like I put these pages up and have to look at them again to remind me that I did it. It's like as soon as I saw it as a book I saw it as something that wasn't mine anymore. When I see it on other people's desks at work or especially in photos from SPX it's really weird. Anyway, I'm going to open up the Lulu.com store soon so now people will be able to buy it that I will never even meet! CRAZY!
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[09/29/2009|10:49 pm] |
Penis doesn't count when it's an animal right?
Also, thanks to EVERYONE who showed up and said nice things to me at SPX. Jess and I had the best time there and we agreed on the ride home that it was the BEST SPX EVER NO JOKES
Love,
Eric
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[09/24/2009|09:11 pm] |
Ladies and Gentlemen... I give you... Penis. Thank you, thank you.
Also, WOO SPX! I'm so excited to sell this book! I hope people buy it, that would be crazy embarrassing if they didn't! Though I guess I'd just give up after a while and get in the hotel pool...
Oh now I'm torn!
See you this weekend!
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[09/22/2009|08:15 pm] |
Man, Barbarians always have all the cool shit! I could have used on of those when I a kid and the door to the attic was IN MY ROOM!
Also, does anyone know how to set up an RSS feed easily and freely? I'm trying to set one up on http://kafkaskoffee.com/TombComic/index.php this site but man oh man... I really want to use RSSpect but I forgot my password and there is no way to get it back as far as I can tell. Any help is helpful!
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[09/17/2009|11:14 pm] |
Ooooh I wonder what that thing is?!
Do people think it's alright that I post the entire new page here or should I like tease the first panel and make you click to read through to the page on my website? Are humans entirely too busy to click a link now-a-days?
I can barely click the post button I'm so busy!
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