Added 1 new A* page:You may notice the "original art" button below the lower left corner of today's comic--yep, I got the original-art-buying system finished and hooked up over the weekend, so you can now buy the original art behind pretty much all of the traditionally made illustrations on the site, both in the comic storyline and in the episode galleries. And because I have hundreds of these pieces of A* art carefully stacked up from the past year of doing them and *not* putting them up for sale, and because I'd like to get sales going and get them to lovely new homes, they're all currently for sale at just $50 each, instead of the $100 I'd planned initially--I don't think I can let them go for just $50 forever, though, so this is most likely a limited-time price--but at the moment, anyway, if you were planning on buying one, well, now you can buy two! :)
And you may find it interesting to click the "original art" link next to some of your favorite drawings even if you aren't going to order them, because the original art page for each one shows them in a color photo, zoomed out slightly and usually at a bit of an angle, which will show them in a different light than the straight-on, cropped black and white scan you're used to seeing. Like for instance, I do the A* pages on 17" x 7.5" pages, and go pretty much right up to the edges, but the version you seen in the comic is actually from just 16" x 6.75" of that page, so there are always border areas in the original artwork that you don't see in the regular comic.
Anyway they really do look even better in person than they do in the online comic pages, so if there's a comic page or art gallery piece you particularly like, I hope you'll think about making it your very own. :)
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Speaking of the original art, I added a new piece to the episode 17 gallery--it was another one where I was messing around with a little gouache (that's a fancy name for opaque watercolors, apparently) to add color over the ink:
The original art page for that one is right here. I have a little kit of some nicer (and transparent) watercolors now, and now that I'm done with big feature additions to the site, finally, I hope to be able to do some more sketches and things for you on weekends, so maybe I'll get to do some more watercolor experiments in the near future.
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*Today's* art was one of those that seems to be going okay, and I'm working away at it patiently, and then bits don't seem to want to resolve themselves nicely, and then after a while of trying to fix them its clear I can't fix them, and redoing them doesn't work either, and then finally the whole thing is revealed as an irretrievable train wreck and it's now very very late and I have to start the whole page over from scratch. Ooh! Maybe that's healthy sometimes though, and I should do more of the very direct approach of the second try you see in today's comic. At least, it seems to have some decent points--but I suppose I'll have to see how I still feel about it in a few days. =P
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