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2006-05-03

so i wasn't going crazy Hellbound has been featured for several months.


... well, ok, i might still be crazy

Because I can almost swear that I have seen Hellbound as a Featured site for, like, several months?

I'm not saying I don't like Hellbound. I just bring it up because It was probably overlooked (unless i lost my mind a bit) with Xepher being so busy with his job(s) and such. (that and a few other hosted sites seem to not exist here any more, but still are indexed).

But my other question realted to the Featured Site. Is it possible to make our own Xepher.net Phase 2 Featured site list? I mean like go through our custom Phase 2 list on the pulldown and have it change each week... or something like that. I liked customizing my newsbox, so i was seeing if there was any more that could be done.

I dunno just a thought i was thinking.

I like to think I have more hair, but yea I see what you me. But in real life... I actually do look very close to Gordan Freeman:



Though right now, i'm looking a bit more like David/"Fes" from my comic. (only I'm much better drawn in real life ... and I have pupils in real life too )


oooo please don't use the "z" in my name. Reminds me of when "That 70s Show" came out, and then people online kept tormenting me by calling me "Fez" instead of "Fes". I mean, no offense, just sayin' *hugs!*

I saw an idea for a grind for overproductive artists.. the ones that update almost daily.. with the goal to be UNPRODUCTIVE.. and you loose when you do more than X amount of comics a week ! they were joking, but I'd think it'd be a challenge to not progressing the story as fast as you'd like!

I would love to be apart of something like that! Perhaps I'll see if I can try it next time. In any case i'm going to read up on their community and such. and also, Good luck!

yea, those crazy people in billing Thanks for the heads up

Say, wait a sec, can't you put your resume on Monster and look for that type of programming work that way? I mean, I think its free to put up your resume and such... I think it would be worth a shot.

I think I'm am on the right track now.... nevermind how her hand looks, mistrokes with the pen



I definetly want her to have fingers, though the digits don't really exist in BDK, and I think the bare feet are ok, but I'm going to try some toe-less shoe designs (since its taking place in a state park campsite).

But She is definetly looking a lot better from starting with her original design and then changing a bit here and there. Adding the fur fuz looks pretty good (not too much like Ernst's fur). I wanted wiskers, but I tried it and it really kinda messed the look up badly. so no wiskers for sure.

But I'm definetly liking this much better than what I originally was trying!


Other than fine-tuning, The only thing i'd really wanna do (unless i missed something) would be to just, ever-so-slightly, is give her dress a touch of grey... just enough to contrast it from the rest of the whiteness... seems too white, but then again may look just fine when actually in context.

hey, that sounds like a pretty cool idea!

Yea definetly gotta do that full black. These were moreso sketches as my ink pen is dying  

I guess I have not seen as much crossovers then, It just seemed to me to be more adapted to other people's styles (granted much more talented ) But I will definetly try that approach! sounds like it would work well!

The eyes was also the big thing... I never could decide how I should do eyes... so I ended up making pupil-less eyes... I wonder what my guys would look like if made them with different eyes

But certainly, thanks for the ideas on how to tackle this!

Now I have obtained permission from Mat to borrow Lucy Koneko (from Badly Drawn Kitties fame) as a special guest to my current arc in my comic. I know when people borrow each other's characters, they tend to draw them in their comic's unique style.

So I'm looking for some outside opinions. I need to make sure that I draw Lucy well enough that she will be recognizable in my style.

First I have His image of Lucy. Next is my rendition of Lucy mimicing his style (I did the same for my BDK wedding Fan Art), the next is my 2nd adaptation into PSI (my comic) format..... Below are my characters of PSI.



I added the © notices because this image could easily leak elsewhere, and I wanted to make sure Mat's creation is properly credited

If worse comes to worse, I can easily just draw the BDK style while surrounded by my style. I've always been bad with cat mouths and breasts. Other than that, I *think* that the style conversion looks decent, as I add "fuzziness" to several places (ala my style). Still have some work on the arms, but not much.... Its easier since Lucy is mostly black fur.

Note: Its hard to find an image of Lucy or Lydia where their feet are shown. I'm guessing they are shoeless (in most cases anthros are), but the shoes that Lucy is wearing is something I'm introducing into my comic world. The toes and claws portion is opened for better walking and climbing control natural to an anthro (rather than a human). I'm still working on her pair since its the least of my concerns.

any tips, comments, or suggestions would be helpful. I'm going to get some sleep to go to work tomorrow, Then I'll work on some more sketches after work.

Well I have seen some of your comics, and it looks like a lot is done in pencil. I used to do mine in pencil (no inking) and I opened the scan in Irfan View (a free image program, nice to use, I find Gimp too complicated http://www.irfanview.com/ ) and I go Enchance Colors, and I select the GAMMA portion (which I think you can find on other programs too.) ... Its starts at 1.00 ... I used to turn mine down to .60 and .30 to darken the pencil to look more like ink. (Gamma does not effect absolute White (255 all colors) or Absolute Black (0 all colors))

Note: Gamma always starts at 1.00 for current image... .01 to .99 is darker and 1.01 to 6.99 is Lighter.
What I ultimately ended up doing was drawing everything with pencil like I used to do, and then Scan it and make the whole comic (minus the text and such, but I would add the frame lines (100% black)) then change the gamma to maximum dim. Print that out, then INK over the faded lines to a crisper (less scetchy) look, and then scan that page in, and put the finishing touches on.... (I use MS paint for forming and editing, and text).

currently I am trying out Trace paper and Ink over my pencil works. But if this helps you get some ideas, cool.

I don't mean to impede your style, I'm just saying this if you might find it useful.

So if that is something that will help you out with your backgrounds or something, if that is what you'd like to do anyway. You can test it out with using color pencil too, but I find that you don't want to move the Gamma too much, but you can also darken your color pencil as well. But can get a bit touchy depending on how you want the image to look. .. its just that pencil in an form or color does not seem to scan very well, especially for resizing to smaller images.

so just my ideas, But still, sometimes the pencil backgrounds kinda look cool behind the inked characters, as if out of focus... which may be what you are going for anyway :p

Yea Xephers in a bit of a busy string for the past couple months.

Heh, No problem I just do my part I'm always up for input! anytime!

By the way, you could probably go to the User panel and change your "website" location.







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I work in the service industry, If we did that, the hotel would probably go under in one day.... also, noone in town may hire us again. I have too strong of a work ethic.