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Well, it's done...

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sort of. I hit about a thousand and one snags while I was doing this. The latest was last Monday, seven days ago, when I started to tone all these pages. Long story short, I don't know what happened to the original files ( some of which were from two or three years ago, maybe longer ), so I had to scan all the pages and tone them again. A longer story that I might go into later would be why this is being printed in two parts and that we're only ever going to be printing the second part. But I digress. This is almost, completely finished. Because I don't have the original files any more, I have to go back and type all the lettering on the pages. I have a cover and pinup to do, but those are just the icing on the cake. I'm almost not even concerned with those because one drawing stuff like that is easy to bang out, it's when the same amount of paper needs a hundred things all over the place that I get bogged down. Like the panel above. It's about the size

Funny Faces

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The program I use for tones is weird. When you're in the program, it doesn't show you the exact tones that will be there in the end, the program can't process that many little dots, it just sort of shows you an example of what they'll look like when they're exported. So you're sort of seeing a guess until you export the tones and open them with photoshop. Sometimes the dots will fall in unexpected odd places. I thought this was funny, so I took a screenshot.

Oops.

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I meant to put this here yesterday.

4-18-12

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Lighter in hand. Also, I noticed this today- I've done that for a while- cover up logos, but I guess I never gave it much thought. It's always bugged me that companies will put their logo all the **** over something, to the point of making it an eyesore. That's bugged me since I was a kid. I never understood how car dealerships got away with permanently tagging cars they sell. If I ever buy a car new from a dealership, a stipulation will be that there's no dealership tattoo on it- unless they cut me a huge advertising discount. I have stamps and stickers I put on my things whenever there's an obnoxious logo staring me in the face. When I started to print on these, I started printing over their logo and "label". (I also think it's dumb to label something what it is- I don't know why paper companies print COMIC BOOK DRAWING BOARD on top of the comic book drawing board. You wouldn't buy a rug that had RUG stitched into the front

4-17-12

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4-16-12

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4-10-12

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All the pages for this are drawn. I just finished the last one. They still have to go all the way through the production process, but they're all drawn. I have, I believe, sixteen pages to ink, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up toning all the pages, even the ones that are already finished, over again. I also have a cover, pinup, and all the interior design stuff to finish. So that's sixteen pages to ink, twenty two or twenty three pages to tone, a cover and a pinup. And inside cover stuff. I have twenty days. That feels like plenty of time to get this done.

Crapload of trading cards

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Well, I've got a crapload of these now. It was a really good deal that I couldn't pass up. I wasn't too confident about the quality for the price, so I only ordered a medium batch, but I was pretty surprised at the quality. Black and white line art is kind of iffy to print, especially the tones on something small like that- the printer will print bands across the tones almost always.  I was surprised that they meant 600 dpi when they said it ( usually when cheap printers say they can print 600 dpi, they can really only print around 350, tops ). Like I said, this was a really good deal. If I had known that they were going to print this nice, I would've ordered a huge batch of them. But if I need more I can always order more from the company, they'll just be a little more than they were this time. I try to order stuff like this when I see a sale or a good deal. This stuff's outrageous at normal price. I think one of the online printers stopped sending me

4-6-12

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I thought this turned out okay.

VanderHugeStudios.com

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Well, I finally got around to unlocking and updating the other blog . But as you may be able to tell, it will be updated extremely sparingly. And that's the project I'll start on fairly soon. By the beginning of next month. I felt like I needed to distance myself, or at least my name, from the project. So I gave it it's own website. And that's the website ( VanderHugeStudios.com ) that will be printed on everything instead of the one that's my name. I guess I figured that my name being on something once was enough. Thinking about it, at some point I probably assumed that I'd have to self publish and that's what formed the studio. Maybe not so much a real need, but a perceived one. But anyway, that's why I thought I needed two sites. One for me for whatever I might want to do, and one as an official, dedicated studio site. One for personal and one for business, I guess. I'm going to try to post something every two or three days. Now that I hav

April Fools'

Or- A Schedule Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand Tonight is my last night working at a hotel. Hopefully, forever. There are a few reasons why. Firstly and most importantly, it was a waste of my time. I mean, I know I was getting paid, but having this job was putting me more and more behind from where I wanted to be in life. I know I may never get to where I want to be, but working was making it nearly impossible. I was getting further and further behind. Starting now the Calamity comic is first priority. It HAS to be finished by the end of April. Solid deadline, no buts. Then, starting May, I work on a long book. A little more than one hundred sixty pages altogether. My guess is just drawing it will take at least a year and three months. I'm not worried about publishing right now. Self publishing is the plan. I've got a printer for the book, quotes, and convincing samples from them, so that's already taken care of if need be. But, honestly, I think there are some far crap