Back to Blogging

So I've decided to get back to blogging. Some folks are intimidated by the whole DeviantArt thing, and I want to get more in-depth on stuff than I feel like I can on their journals, so I'm gonna supplement DA and the other stuff I do with some bloggery. The focus here won't be pitching anymore since I'm almost entirely fed up with it now. I have maybe two more pitches I want to try down the road, and I'll post about those as I work on them, but I have lots more to talk about than that.



So, for those who don't know, I've been doing Frog Raccoon Strawberry as a web comic over at http://www.dummcomics.com every weekend. The comment box gets some unusual comments, both positive and hate-filled, but lots of people read it and I'm having fun, so I've got nothing to complain about! The strip is a bit of an experiment as Strawberry's something I wanted to do a lot of strange things with, so it's only natural. I thought it might be cool to post the roughs here so you can see what the drawings look like pre-cleanup.



This is what our "scripts" look like. I say "our" because I do the strip with John Berry, the amazingly talented creator of Evil Josh and Billy. eviljoshandbilly.keentoons.com/ We usually brainstorm the strips together via Skype or Gmail chat and then one of us draws up a script in the form of a rough layout. I did the one above. I'll show you one of John's sometime.









Here are the roughs. I draw these by hand, scan them, and send them over to John. John then cleans them up in flash, and sends them back to me. I take those, paint some backgrounds (usually very quickly) in ArtRage Deluxe 2 and put it all together in Photoshop. If you guys like seeing this stuff, let me know and I'll keep posting this kind of thing.