Pandadrake

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Wolf Country: The Beast in the Woods (Animation) by Pandadrake, visual art

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About Pandadrake

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Artist // Hobbyist // Digital Art

United States
Deviant for 17 years

My Bio

Monster Knight on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Monster-Knight/info

I currently draw and write a fantasy/comedy/horror comic called Monster Knight. Latest page are uploaded here first.

I also entertain a more comedic modern werewolf setting called Wolf Country, which uses many of the same character designs. A couple old comics in my gallery are set in Wolf Country. Most of the work in that setting is just silly doodles whenever I feel like it.

I began reading comics as a hobby with webcomics and reverse-engineered my tastes to include mainstream published work. I hope to be able to figure out my way to comfortably draw my own comics and write my own stories.

If you see any Pandadrakes anywhere else it's probably not me.

I don't do requests or commissions.

Favourite Visual Artist

Naoki Urasawa, Yōji Enokido, Yasuhiro Nightow, Mike Mignola

Favourite Movies

Iron Monkey, Drunken Master 2, A Better Tomorrow, In Bruges, Terminator, The Incredibles, 7 Psychopaths

Favourite TV Shows

The Good Place

Favourite Books

The Discworld series (City Watch)

Favourite Games

GHOST TRICK! Phoenix Wright Series, League of Legends, Monster Hunter 3, Shadow of the Colossus, Warcraft 3, SSB:Melee, Oblivion, Team Fortress 2, Bioshock, Fable,

Tools of the Trade

Clip Studio Paint Pro, iPad Pro, otherwise Wacom/Huion

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Pandadrake

Jan 15, 2024

Monster Knight Chapter 2 Comic Post-Mortem

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Yo, this is a comic postmortem for Monster Knight Chapter 2 for myself so I can record and reflect on my comic process and see what did improve, and what could be improved for future projects. Monster Knight is my latest "large" comic project and the latest section, Chapter 2 (92 pages), took me about 3 years to draw. Chapter 1 (36 pages) also took me about 3 years to draw. The entire comic was done completely digitally in Clip Studio Paint Pro. I consider myself a very slow artist, and this was my project where my focus was on increasing the speed of my comic-drawing so that I could complete enough pages for a single issue of a standard comic (20-25 pages) in a reasonable amount of time. It's really difficult to assess your own improvement/mistakes when you're not doing it conscientiously, so this was me recording what I deliberately changed about my workflow and how/if it worked out. Things that went well Pages are drawn faster Corner-cutting to speed up my process ended up