13.43 Endstone Fantasy Comic Webcomic
Aug24
So I’ve decided Endstone will go back to color, at least until the end of this chapter (which is almost upon us).
For all you comic creating geeks out there, I’ve stumbled upon a new method (for me) for laying down color (flatting). This method involves using reference layers in Clip Studio Paint. The computer basically estimates where the colored areas should be (and fairly accurately). It saves me hours of tedious work getting the proper color between inked lines. If you wanna know how, shoot me an email and I’ll pass along the details.
Most of the time I’m a curmudgeon, but in this case I love technology. 🙂 See you soon.
Edit: Here’s a great YouTube video on how to use reference layers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAOJ-Q5sws
Most stealthy zombies ever !
Indeed.
It’s sorta amusing to see the ongoing clash of mindsets between Kyri and Cole. I do hope they manage to find a middle ground, though!
They’re conversation was fun to write. Actually the two characters wrote it and i just listened. 😉 We’ll see how it plays out…
Still i do wonder how a manicure could alter years of martial training… Kyri, could you explain please ? xD
So in this Universe the Tal-Shar is realy and not made up by Spock to fake killing Kirk?
Or is Kiri just really desperate to get out of that Manicure?
Is that really from Star Trek? Hahaha. I hope it is cause I’ll keep it. 🙂
Tal-shaya was the original wording:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tal-shaya
The Tal Shiar (Romulan Secret Police) was later named after it.
Ha. I’m a huge Trek geek so this probably was a subconscious thing. 🙂
Meanwhile, in the background, a zombie apocalypse is brewing… 😉
There’s always a twist, my friend. 😉
I love the color, but the strip doe not need it to be good. The writing makes it great.
Thanks again letting me know, Ying-Ko. It keeps me going.
I suppose color most likely attracts new readers. At least that’s my theory.
Old ones too, Tony. :p
Let’s just say it makes the experience more lively than it already is. 😉
OK a vote for color. 🙂 Thanks.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the color style is very simple here, just flat colors. I figure that’s better than no color at all. It took me about 20 minutes to do this page, which is acceptable. It’s just takes such an incredible amount of time to draw each page.
Good thing you found a way to color the page just as good with less effort. 🙂
We don’t need CGI after all. 😀
May I throw in my two cents?
I’m a black and white artist by preference, but the flat colors add a lot to what is already a fantastic story and very good art.
Another vote for color. Thanks for letting me know. 🙂 I’m not very confident with color (I don’t know color theory for example) so my goal is to enhance the art with color and hopefully not ruin it in the process.
Hello, new reader here… Interesting comic, looking forward to see where it’ll take me. Fairly consistent too, considering how drawn-out the pacing is in webcomics (wish the pun were intended).
I have just one question; why is Thunderhead suddenly less fluent in English? I have just read the entire archive and nowhere does this character lapse into “I no spik guut Linglish, herp-a-derp, hyuk!” (I exaggerate, of course.) At this point in Thunderhead’s experiences, her cultural gaps should be more subtle. Yes, the manicure thing is definitely weird to her (and to me). When would she ever had the opportunity to learn of such a thing? But her language skills are excellent. She’s even picked up on colloquialisms such as “whatever.”
I think she and Cole should be allowed regular mother/daughter miscommunication without the crutch of a false language barrier.
Aw, jeez. I sound like I’m saying “yur comiks grate but all dese things suck xp” That’s not my intention at all. Sorry.
Hey thanks for taking the time to comment. Welcome. It’s great having new readers. 🙂
As for Thunderhead’s English regression, the only defense I can offer is “character drift.” This comic is over seven years old and as I get to know the characters a little better they are going to develop and change. Of course I don’t want this change to be too jarring, and maybe I’ve failed here, but I find Kyri more interesting if she’s struggling a bit to fit in. If I had to do it over again I probably would have made her even more English impaired at the beginning but what’s done is done.
My rules for Thunderhead at this point are 1. She understands English (or American) very well. 2. She struggles with idioms like “spend” time (and she just learned “whatever” btw 😉 ). 3. Being raised in the forest, tamed in a monastery, and living a secluded family life, she is unfamiliar with the finer points of human culture (manicures etc). 4. She has a thick accent (which hasn’t come up yet in the story).
Also, I tend to think how Spock developed in Star Trek. In the pilot episode he’s smiling but as the series goes on he settles into his defined character. Hopefully I can do something like that. It’s difficult and that’s where the art is I suppose. 🙂
That makes total sense…
For your point #2, I did get that that was new for her, I liked how you did that.
For #3, I totally got that. (Oddly, I think *I* didn’t know what they were til I was out of highschool in spite of growing up in a major city).
For #4, don’t worry, you covered that a while ago. It came up nice and naturally during backstory. ?
Hmm… It just occurred to me that it makes sense that you did not have Thunderhead speaking poorly at the beginning of the story. She would’ve already spent years speaking English. Also, the ten years spent in limbo seemed considerably less to both her and Jon. So her language was also in stasis; it did not worsen nor did it improve. She comes back to the present speaking as fluently (or not) as before.
You did well in showing different stages of her learning both English and human culture in her timeline.
All that aside, as I read, I found myself thinking that if I suddenly found myself in this society, I’d be scolding these people; “You are all HUMAN, you IDIOTS!”
Yeeaahhh… I’d’ve been hanged within a week.
Don’t worry, Kiri, they can leave your calluses alone in a mani. They leave mine alone when I get a pedi- I work on boats, so work sandals are necessary and calluses protect!
(Yes, I’m hinting that she should do this. I think it would be sweet.)