Darkside Rainbow

 
That’s right, the obligatory Halloween comic (with a teensy bit of animation, gasp!). Let’s see…a cranky hermit of a writer who gets really twitchy about people touching his stuff, keeps his home just a little untidy without being slovenly, and spends the day pacing around in his boxers muttering to himself about bad writing and writing in general? Yeah, I’d say I’m shaping up to be another Mort Rainey. This is not a good comparison. I only hope I don’t end up putting a screwdriver through my cat; I rather like the little furbutt.

(If you don’t know who Mort Rainey is…go read a bloody book, kid. And no, I’m not really as batty as Mort. Look at me as the saner version. Well…if not saner, at least not dangerously violent. …ever notice that most writers tend to be just a tiny bit unhinged?)

If this one looks a little more like I was practicing mastery of the ancient Drunken Artist Style, that’s because I was drunk when I drew it.

I’m kidding, I’m kidding (I don’t drink nearly as much as I make it sound here - maybe one nightcap a month or so). Art’s just one of those things where some days you’ve got it, some days you don’t. Last night I didn’t really have it; might have had something to do with the fact that I’m wearing month-old disposable contact lenses, I don’t have another pair to switch them out with, my prescription’s expired, and every time I call my optometrist’s office to make an appointment, no one answers the bloody phone. Pain in the arse. So my eyesight’s not all it could be, right now.

Yeah, yeah, excuses, excuses. This one’s another fully tablet-drawn one; I’m starting to prefer doing it that way, as since I normally build my backgrounds in Photoshop anyway this just makes for easier layer compositing without having to edit out whitespace or painstakingly paint so much of it in. Cuts my work time down from eight hours to four or five. Hopefully, if I get my tablet PC (though I’m seriously considering a cheaper knockoff version of a Cintiq instead) next month, it’ll take even less time and look less scribbly.

Aren’t you just fascinated by these little details of the comic creation process? [eyeroll]

Anyway, I’ve got things to do, so I’m out of here. See you tomorrow with a rant, a snark, a snicker, and gods only know what else.

~Adri

P.S. Thanks to everyone who wished me well when I was under the weather over the weekend. I’m feeling a bit better now, even if I’m not wholly up to speed yet.

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