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Oh man, I am so not happy with Osgood’s walking pose in the last panel. But I’ve never been very good at ACTION POSES! so maybe I ought to be happy with what I got.
This comic almost didn’t come out this morning! My computer’s having resetting problems. I don’t mean to say it resets randomly, that’d be way worse, but I mean when it resets saaaay, after my damn art program crashes catastrophically on me and eats up so much system memory in the process that I can’t bring up the task manager so I have to do a hard reset, my computer then just sits at the boot screen and does nothing. So then I have to wake up my poor boyfriend and get him to work some magic inside my computer to get it to boot again.
Luckily I didn’t lose much progress on the comic at all. Just had to redraw some word balloon tails. The nice thing about Open Canvas (which is what I use) is that even though it crashes all the goddamn time, when it restarts it magically has your picture in it somehow still, even if you never saved it once. Thank god. I hate drawing word balloons like a lot, and I’d hate to have had to do that twice this morning.
I’d use photoshop, except that I hate inking in it (you can’t rotate the picture freely, I can’t draw stright horizontal lines!)
Osgood looks nice with that hair style.
I can’t wait to see what’s going on *_*
I can’t wait to see what’s going on either, also I’m a little curious about “Kilroy Was Here”, I couldn’t help but notice it because the backgrounds really draw you in!
Also Osgood’s walking stance in the first panel is great, classic “walking while thinking” pose. If one tried it in real life one would probably run into a wall.
Yess update :D Haha, restraining order… Osgood is scary in a good way. I’m looking forward to seeing what she’s up to!
Oh, and FYI, to make straight lines in photoshop (horizontal or vertical) you just hold down shift while making a line. To make a straight line that isn’t on a straight axis you hold down shift, click a point, then while still holding shift click another point and the program will draw a straight line connecting the two points. Now if PS could just develop a way to auto save the way other programs do it would be perfect >:\
Osgood’s manic grin in the second-to-last panel is priceless.
I’m imagining Schtein’s robe being pink.
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I think my face might fall off from so much laughter!
And, I agree- you make the best backgrounds of any comic.
Kilroy’s just like classic WWII – Korean War graffiti you’d see basically anywhere. You probably still see them places today, though as I understand it they’re more common outside of the US now under different names. Since the comic takes place in an alternate future where everything’s sort of like fancy high tech 1950’s I thought it was appropriate. Also I heard Mr. Roboto on the radio the other day and it’s been kind of stuck in my head ever since, which is what got me thinking about Kilroy. :(
Wow, this is amazing! I just found this today and I love it! I’ve been trying to find some decent sci-fi webcomics and this is fantastic! yay for life :P. Can’t wait to see more!
Go OSGOOD! Fix the problems and save everyone’s job! YEAH!
I’m sure Schtein would have come up with the solution if he was ten years younger and still had that youthful optimism. lol
I really love this comic, the cartoonish style it has is wonderful. Schtein is just wonderful, simply wonderful.
I just found this through Alexds, and I just LOVE it. Like, an unnatural amount. Schtein is just the kind of character I adore, and Osgood is not insufferable at all, like a lot of strong willed female characters. This is amazing! And I just love how you took a simple art style and made a funny comic with a strong, complicated, and serious plot. That’s difficult.
“…my gloves”, My favourite line, ever, and the expression on his face just makes it EVEN better.
Hey, uhm, do you have an event-file of your process in open canvas? I’m asking out of interest, if I might ink stuff in OC, too…
btw, I like how messy Herv’s hair is looking in this – he looks quite younger like this, doesn’t he?