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Marc
18th, May, 2010

[092 - 2000] Disgustingly cute

Comic chat
Re-wrote the script for this one (and the following few) several times. It’s troublesome how I have to keep re-writing my own old scripts due to them not ‘flowing’ right after looking back at them.
I did the rough sketches for this comic one night but I wasn’t happy with them. However, they must have grown on me as I simply hard-pencilled over them the following night and changed very little (though I felt some looked better beforehand but they wouldn’t have scanned very well). I didn’t draw them in sequence though (because I forgot I was gonna start with a close-up), so lots of cut/pasting had to be done.
I think there’s some cute-overload going off in this one, especially with Shiro and Lapin. I think the final expressions look insane and they made me grin as I drew them.
The phrase “disgustingly cute” was from me misremembering how other players/characters described Lapin upon meeting him in a ‘Teenagers from Outer Space’ RPG I played. After looking back over the logs, it was actually “ridiculously cute” and “horribly cute”, but ah well, fit’s Kuro’s thoughts fine as he hates ‘cute’ stuff.
This was gonna be one of the early spin-off comics featuring just the mascot characters. I still don’t know if I’m gonna end up doing that since the scripts can be adapted for the normal comic pages. Actually, for now, tell you what, they’ll be merged into this comic. Hopefully this will mean I’ll be able to upload comics more frequently as they’ll be (at least a bit) quicker to produce. So here we go, this is the first of the quickies with little or no backgrounds or inking… no panels either by the looks. Hope you like it anyway, tell me what you think ^_^
EDIT (2010-06-24): After a forum-based suggestion from Ruth, the comic has been updated with scribble-like lines dividing the scenes into rough panels. T'was a very silly process I used - I printed and then scanned the page after drawing the rough lines in-between like I had originally planned (before I drew the comic in the wrong order and messed up that plan).

Stuff and things
Just so busy lately. Came down with another cold (then a bug going round work) and due to an upcoming tournament (with epic prizes including trips to Hawaii) I am addicted to Pokemon (again), hmmm, what else is new?
Ruth and I have been working on a bit of an epic project when we find time. She had an idea for a story and together we’ve developed it into something much, much bigger. We plan to turn it into a webcomic after we finish all the character designs and planning stages. We’ll also start with a backlog so it doesn’t update as slowly as THIS webcomic. I’m really excited about it as I’ve always wanted to do a joint-story or comic with a friend but none have ever properly kicked-off, this one keeps going and going though. Due to other commitments and such, it’ll be some time before it’ll see the light of day, but thought I’d mention it.
Ven! Fish! We gonna get on with our projects too? ;p

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