Whoops! Forgot to post a blog yesterday. There was a point in the day where I said to myself, I need to write something but then I never went back and actually did and therefore…no blog.
Back during the holidays, I drew a picture of the whole cast hugging each other which was the most complicated piece I’d drawn for the strip yet. This past weekend I completed a strip which wasn’t as complicated but was certainly ambitious. It was for the 300th strip which pops up next Tuesday. It took me all week to finish, working a little bit each night. On Saturday I put everything together and drew the rest of the strip. I estimate the one panel took me about ten hours or so to draw in all which is about the time it took me to draw Steampunk Barnaby (the most intricate of the mashups).
What’s so special about the panel? Well, I don’t want to spoil it but there are 32 separate elements in it. I drew one big sketch in MyPaint with several pencil layers and then saved each layer separately and broke each down into several groupings of layers. When they were all done I used Photoshop to rearrange them all more tightly together since in the original sketch I tried to avoid overlapping too much. We’ll talk more in a couple of weeks when the strip is posted.
Today is the last day of my first four-day weekend of the summer. I still have one more strip to draw since I let myself get behind due to the work involved in the 300th strip and you know, wanting to take it easy. Next weekend should run a lot smoother and hopefully I’ll get down to working on some other projects.
Anyhoo, that’s all for now. This week’s first strip will be going up shortly. I wanted to post things in order which meant writing a blog first. Have a good week y’all.