I just updated the Characters page since we have a new character introduced now! The information in her bio isn’t really spoilers since it’s nothing you won’t learn on the next few pages.

Fun fact: The picture used for her bio is from the upcoming issue 2.

As part of my keeping you all entertained during the two week dry spell, I thought I’d write a quick article about my fantasy influences. Since I’m writing a comic about elves in a vaguely medieval setting it’s probably clear that I’m a gigantic fantasy nerd (as scarce as good books and movies in the genre are.) Here are some favorites of mine from my childhood that have probably contributed to shaping my view of fantasy worlds and writing, or at the very least have contributed to my love of fantasy as a genre.

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I realize that after years of me drawing one set of characters on deviantART, Tides sort of comes out of left field for alot of long time followers of my stuff. Why the hell did I spend so much time developing the angel cast of characters and then suddenly come out with a fantasy comic about elves?

Well, sit down kids and I’ll spin you a yarn. It’s all about the creative process and how sometimes even that is completely out of your control…   ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

EDIT: Now extended to the 21st due to a broken wacom pen. Uuuugghhh!

Sorry about that folks, I really hate doing this sort of thing. It started when I lost all of page 12 to some weird glitch in Manga Studio when it decided a certain layer had way more information on it than it actually did. I was working around it for a while (with the program telling me it didn’t have enough ram to even select and delete areas of the layer) but after accidentally merging another layer with that one the program crashed. And then crashed any time I tried to open that particular page again.

So I had to start over. On the plus side the page’s layout is better this time around. But I still need to re-do the inks, backgrounds, tones etc. Arrrgh.

So since I’ve been struggling to keep up anyway I’m taking this opportunity to catch up on pages, also to give myself some time to work on art that isn’t comic pages because I really really need to before I go crazy. So you’ll be seeing some character art soon enough. I need to work on the cover for Issue 2′s print version as well.

Like before I’ll still be making posts during the hiatus, just random stuff about the comic or history of the comic, speed drawing videos and anything else people may be interested in!

Okay, I realized I needed another hiatus post. Sorry! I’ve been working, and drawing, and… and playing Dragon Age 2. Elves look weird in that game. And speaking of weird looking elves, here’s some of my old Tides artwork! Hopefully it’ll make some of you younger artists out there feel better about yourself while it thoroughly embarrasses me! These are all from the early 2000′s.

Excessive use of the dodge tool to my everlasting shame. This is our mysterious stalker in the comic, if you couldn't tell.

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