dep edge kombat II

I've spent the last few days working on new strips, and another video game strip.  You can probably guess from the title of this post which game I was trying to mimic.  Since it may not be up for a few days, here's your exclusive first look at the aforementioned strip.

two new strips

I put up the 14th and 15th strips today.  It was a lot of posing and modeling and distorting and nonsense to set up, but I'm mostly pleased with how they turned out.  Some things I'd like to fix:  the outline of the door, and the bottom of Dimitri's bathrobe (the perspective doesn't line up).

Still, it's progress.

the image gallery

Yes, I'm kind of buzzing right now.  I have, in fact, had a few beers.  While I'm aware this post lacks the professional tone that characterizes most blog posts, I've decided that I do not care.  What I'm going to do now is improvise.  Let's pick a random image from the image gallery and start riffing.  

Yeah.  Check that out. It's a toilet.  All made of angles and sharp[ness].  In Soviet Russia, toilets defecate on you (metaphorically).  Now, you may ask yourself if it's possible to make a less blocky toilet, and the answer is a resounding yes!  But if it's a passing object that is not central to the plot of the story, the amount of time I'm willing to spend on its creation is minimal.  I could have used a few 3d modifiers to smooth it out, but that's not edgy, and the comic's not called 'depravity's smooth'.  Nope.

And....this rug.  This stupid rug.  I actually did use the modification to smooth it out, and look how it turned out!  Terrigle.  No, that's not a misspelling, it's a new word to describe the level of terriblosity in the turnout (existing word being assigned new results-oriented meaning related not to number of people attending an event but, instead, an end result of an action, as if English could be so logical.  Sucks to you, English.  Whoa, check it out!  Multiple sentences enclosed in parenthesis.  Prolly get an ungry [secret third -gry English word] e-mail from my sister decrying linguistic rape--[unwarranted double-dash followed immediately by bracket!]) of this image.  But whatever.  Not so much going on in the caring-about-that-shit-right-now department.

Going for three. Nothing bad to say about this one.  It's the baddest friggin' ashtray in the history of the world to this point and will probably be used as a marker to denote the current year, as in today is July 9, 0.  And that 0 shows that it is the year 0, meaning it's been exactly 0 years since the creation of this hastily thrown-together image of this ashtray that I made.

Yeah, I can't keep this up, I really can't.  Time to cry into my pillow and re-watch 6 episodes of Arrested Development.  In my head.  Because I memorized them.  Because I have nothing better to do.  Except blog. To you. *tear*

newspaper articles

Today's project was making a suitable 'about' page for the dep edge site.  Rather than tiny blurbs about the characters, I thought it would be fun to write newspaper articles with pictures of the main characters with titles that gave a little insight into their respective roles.

While I wrote the entire articles, I made them just big enough to be barely legible so that the titles alone could communicate the idea contained within.  It was a lot of work, and involved formatting, printing, and digital manipulation, and ended up being very time-consuming.  

But I think it was worth it.

blueprints of the auto shop

I spent the evening making blueprints and taking snapshots of Auto Erotic.  I've always loved seeing diagrams and blueprints of the headquarters of comic book heroes, so I decided to give Dimitri the same treatment.

I'm kicking around the idea of making blueprints for other structures in the Depravity's Edge universe, like the Lucky Neko bar and the Futanari Dojo, but it's a time-consuming process.  If there's any kind of demand for them, it's something I could do at a later date.

the first outdoor comic strip

Well, sort of.  It takes place at night and the area shown is not very extensive.  Which is a shame, because I spent most of the day working on making a whole street, complete with streetlights, sidewalks, roads, and office buildings.  The most extensive work went into making Dimitri's auto shop, as shown here.

But none of that is in this strip.  Just didn't fit with the overall tone, and I think the first wide shot of the place should happen in a daytime scene.   In case you're wondering what the sign says, it says: 'Love your car, love yourself'.

Good times all around.