VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

whoops! Was so distracted by my new iPad that I almost neglected to draw a new strip today.

thank god these dudes are so easy to draw.
It’s weird how they are a joy. the family-stories always seem like they’re going to be easy, but end up feeling like a failure. and the doc-stories seems like they’ll be hard, but end up being fun and weird (and rarely polished… may need to rethink that style. I keep daydreaming that i’m going to “go back” and “polish” the doc stories into some full color frank frazetta meets mike mignola masterpeice. annnd. it is starting to dawn on me that this is a foolish dream).

eh. hmm. not much to report. watched ninja assassin. watched last week’s episode of Fringe (and it was good! yayyy for the retro/1985 gimmick). And most of my iPad usage felt like staring at tv. soo. i’m feeling a bit “over-filled” at the moment.

I picked up two new iPad drawing programs (sketchBook Pro and ArtPad). Had been planning to get the new Brushes, since it was used to demo at the launch announcement. but. it just doesn’t seem as cool/feature-filled. … Also, i find myself endlessly frustrated that no iPad program will let you draw with multi-touch. it must be more than oversight. there must be some technical limitation. yeah? hmm. or i just haven’t heard of hte app that offers it.

daydreaming about making this my first app with the iPhone SDK. which would be great if it turned out super easy to figure out. ha ha? what’s that? there’s no fucking way? and it’s a horrible idea for “your first iPhone/iPad app experiment?” hmm. we shall take this under consideration. yes.

eh. in theory my dream is to use my iPad to both practice color painting, and to prep quick (like, thumbnail) layouts for
comics. and for any storyboard work.
wish there was a way to mix my comic scripting (usaully in a spread sheet, to keep panels separate) and these visual. an easy/quick way i mean. hmm.

also, need to remember to look into the iPad apps that purport some sort of “animation” relation.

… in other news, I was going to rant about this silent strip “Tomb” which a friend sent my way. but. guess I’ll save that for tomorrow.

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oh yeah, to address the comic more directly:
the idea is that one dude spots the corpse. they approach (you can see the same bony hand in same spot in frame two, to show that they’ve moved closer). in the final panel, the ideas is that the camera kind of pulled back and turned down. so we see their boots, and we see what they see. a long dead dude. A clever reader might note that it appears this corpse was once clothed in the same material they’re wearing. the idea with this detail is to “thicken plot.” also, it’s not very well drawn, but we’re supposed to see some binoculars around the skull’s neck.