Sonic HRT #14 - progress

Thursday, August 28, 2024 - 11:22 PM

I always forget that there's ways I can do behind the scenes stuff! I always love seeing the process of other artists, it's fun to realize I can do the same myself. Sometimes I get so stuck in trying to pound it out, I think this will be a way to keep myself excited and enjoying the ride itself. Hells yeah, let's get excited!

So it's funny. When I started doing Sonic HRT comics in May, my rules for myself were that I needed to keep it simple, easy. No backgrounds, unless elements of the background were pivotal in telling the story. No shading. The first several installments I even barred myself from hiding the sketch layer. I tried to limit my pre-production to keep things as streamlined as I could manage. I didn't block out the pages as pages, I just went frame by frame and then put them into a page at the very end...but that wasn't actually less work, in some ways it was more.

So I've thumbnailed this based on workflows that've worked well for me writing New Normal and the ways I storyboard It Doesn't Matter. ^_^;; Tho' I've less blocked out these pages by page, I've only blocked the first page of this installment...I'm still using my tools to keep things easy, instead of needing to fight it later.

I'm really enamored of the therian HRT-verse as a way to explore bringing the really awesome, fantastical, magical, affirmations of our true selves in the grounding of our current lives. It...helps that my current life is pretty rad. I'm away from my abusive ass family, living in a beautiful place with my fantastic mates, doing work I thrive at and am passionate about doing. Doesn't mean there aren't rough spots. My mental health is still...not great, recovery's a bitch. Capitalism sucks. My mates are also mutually traumatized and stuff bubbles to the surface at odd times. But I like exploring the concept of a really, really cool transition in all this.