the th like an f pronunciation is localized usually to the eastern and southern seaboard, if im not mistaken (cockney accents are the more gruff, less-polished of the lot).

the spanish thing of pronouncing the c like the th is a Catalonian(Barcelona) thing. ive never heard about the z to a th though. now apart from barcelona, ive only been to madrid and i had been drunk and wasnt really listening to pronunciation.

Ah you know I thought I heard the announcer do it once or twice with "c" as well, but I didn't hear it enough times to be sure--he was mostly doing it with player names, I guess.

The game was in Zaragoza, and if you follow the pronunciation link at the top of that page and look up the "θ" symbol on the resulting IPA for Spanish page, it does indicate that c and z are pronounced like "th" "in central and northern Spain only"; Zaragoza--which the announcer duly pronounced "Tharagotha"--is northern.

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• A* Episode 11, Page 12

Framed some of the pieces for the show today; working with freshly cut glass isn't quite as fun as it sounds! I've got to go do more of that tomorrow, so we're probably looking at just a single page per day for the rest of this week. Hm... The next page is pretty simple visually; maybe I'll be able to squeeze out two tomorrow, if I'm lucky!

Now that we finally have this semi-new character fully introduced, I've been able to put her name and the new episode on the episode list page.

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• A* Episode 11, Page 13
• A* Episode 11, Page 14

Did more framing today, gotta go actually put the things up tomorrow, and then the show of prints will be on. On like...a show!

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• A* Episode 11, Page 15

Now if you read episode 10 (EDIT: oop, actually more like episodes 8-9!), you know that isn't quite what went down, but hey, what she doesn't know won't hurt her--or will it? :o

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• A* Episode 11, Page 16

Perriman's Perfected Cloning Techniques, now in handy bottled form! Miracle life-extending formula improves vigor and restores taste buds! Is Perriman's right...for you?

Here are the storyboards for page 16:



I like how the lines in the first one came out, but in the end I think the straight vertical orientation was a little too similar to the neighboring pages in this sequence.

Next week should see me able to generate more pages than this week, since I won't have to be framing any more A* prints to hang on gallery walls...I don't think. :P

Added 2 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 11, Page 17
• A* Episode 11, Page 18

I hope we're all clear on Selenis now!

I did an unrelated drawing over the weekend, just for the heck of it I guess. It's very slightly maybe NSFW, so I'll tuck it behind this little clickable icon version which even the most paranoid boss couldn't possibly object to (could they? :o):

(maybe slightly NSFW!)


It was just sort of an image that popped into my head, but this ended up coming out somewhat differently, so maybe I'll have to try another one at some point. I also wanted to try loosening up a bit; I think sometimes on A* I get a little too particular and cramped up--too conservative, if you will--and the resulting image isn't quite as lively as it could have been; Friday's page 11:16 particularly struck me that way, for instance. And it was fun to work looser without layers and (much) undo. So I gotta try to keep that in mind when working on my actual comic stuff.

Nice drawing for a quickie.
Sometimes very fast sketches are better than finished ones.
(Also, you shouldn't use glass in your frames. Not only is acrylic or plexiglass better because you won't get slashed framing your drawings, but many galleries won't take glass fronts because of the hazard of breaking glass.)

Episode 11 has a fascinating twist already.... !
Zea doesn't know anything more about Selenis 32 but she will be back, I am assuming, in a "slightly augmented" form if Vero got the station to work.
Will they work together or will they recognize each other as enemies?
I vote for more skin-tight suits ! !

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• A* Episode 11, Page 19
• A* Episode 11, Page 20

Oh there I go cutting her off in the middle of a sentence again. What will the end of it be? "...and bake us all cookies" would be nice, I think.

Hey instead of reading this, you could be checking out the latest page of my weekend fairy tale comic, "The Princess and the Giant." Yep, right through this handy clickable link image:



^ That isn't actually part of this week's image; it's just an oldie but goodie. The Princess was too tiny in this week's image to turn her into a banner, but there's a lot of other stuff going on around her, so give it a look!

Added 2 new A* pages:

• A* Episode 11, Page 21
• A* Episode 11, Page 22

Tomorrow we get out of this holding cell--one way or the other!

And of course it's just *now* that I figure out what was bugging me about the face-on drawings I was doing in here. See if you can spot it in this comparison of page 11:22's initial shading, then the revision:



See it? Basically, I was shading too much in gray rather than in black. This ain't Supermassive Gray Hole A*! *cough* So what I had been covering with shadows needed to be all black, and then I line some thin shaded borders around that, and voila, higher contrast, more drama, yay. Glad I figured that out, because the excessive number of shading layers I kept laying on the previous two pages to try to compensate for the lack of black shading was *really* time consuming, not to mention boring to draw.