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Monster Knight Chapter 2 Comic Post-Mortem
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
Monster Knight on Tapas
Link to Tapas https://tapas.io/series/Monster-Knight/info I am working on remastering the original Chapter 1 of Monster Knight for reupload (because more comic side projects is exactly what I need on top of my regular uploads, lol.) I’m not going to be redrawing the pages, but I am going to be revising them for any continuity errors that came from me basically just making up the visual design and workflow page-by-page. I might fix one or two things I find intolerably fugly. I’m probably never going to do revisions like this ever again because I now have 90+ pages of comic to revise if I think something is wrong, in Ch1 or Ch2. Fixing old art is a slippery slope. I
I made a Tapas account.
Edit: Tapas Page for Monster Knight: https://tapas.io/series/Monster-Knight/info I made a Tapas account. The plan is to upload Monster Knight to a proper comic-formatted site for people to read. I’ve found that sometimes I want to share my weirdo comic with people I meet so people can see what I’m spending all my free time on. Tapas might make that easier. It’s been pretty painful pointing people to a DeviantArt account because this website is just not user friendly at all to the modern comic reader and people without existing accounts. You have to fight with this website to make it act like a regular webcomic site. How it looks on a phone (aka how almost everyone reads webcomics these days) is a completely different can of worms. Since I don’t want to figure out how to web-host myself (or deal with censorship on Webtoon), it’s going on Tapas. I’m going to go back to Chapter 1 and fix some of the easy-to-fix mistakes, then probably throw it up there whenever I’m done with
Monster Knight Chapter 2: preproduction
Yo. Happy New Year. I’m still here. Still making comics and trying to get better at doing that. I like stories a lot, but I’m not actually much of a storyteller myself. I mostly just think of silly things and draw them, and I’ve had a tough time turning those things into compelling narratives. This is probably why the story setting Wolf Country is the way it is. It’s over a decade old now, and it’s pretty much just a loose amalgamation of things I found amusing over the years. This makes it pretty difficult to squeeze a coherent narrative out of it, even though I’ve used its characters as the vehicle for my art improvement for a long time. It will probably always be just a brain-playground for me. So Monster Knight is going to be my attempt at creating a proper narrative out of a different set of weird ideas. The reasons being because its newer, I feel like I’ve got a lead on what the story might be, and because it’s much easier to just flip the table over and build things up
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I could never kill the big red one but it was so epic when I finally killed one of the big black finny things that lived in the sand.