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Once I settled on the "Quizard Duel" concept, it wouldn't take long for that idea to be immediately followed by, "Hey, I could just straight-up put Seto Kaiba in." I needed someone for Leon an...
2023-07-24 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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For the longest time, I struggled with what I wanted the "Media" section of the Fair visit to include. As the outline was getting further along, though, it made sense that this scene would be ...
2023-07-20 16:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I plan a lot of stuff with my writing - particularly the most important plot beats - but stuff like the pins Leon and Luca won last chapter? I actually didn't have a strong concept for when I added it to the script. Thankfully, I trust future-me enough to figure out what to do with the odds and ends of my scripts.
Needless to say, the pins will be /pretty important/ for this chapter.
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Staging for the coaster section of the chapter. I had a time and a half trying to figure out what to make the actual carts look like. It's just kind of a vaguely space-themed thing. The real p...
2023-07-17 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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"Hey Timmy, what's YOUR favorite piece of KttFF concept art?"
"I like the one where Gage sketched out a WHOLE PAGE of details for a bathroom!"
I honestly couldn't help myself. It was genuinel...
I knew Leon would come clean to Luca about /not/ using her holo-tablet for studying history, and instead looking up stuff about the key, though I didn't initially expect it to happen this early in the chapter. Honestly though, I feel this is a good chance to re-establish the budding friendship between these two. No hard feelings and all that.
2023-07-11 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Luca's turn for some development practice! It'll never stop being funny to me that some of these characters, I've drawn for YEARS now, and yet I still don't feel like I know how to draw them.<...
2023-07-10 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Mostly a study of how actual cat ears work, along with rechecking the proportions of Leon and Luca. AND getting more practice with Luca's leg structure. Every once in a while, I just kind of f...
2023-07-06 15:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
If there's one thing you can count on with me, it's that if there's a more simple layout to go with on a given page, I'm ABSOLUTELY going to leap at the chance to do something way more unnecessarily complicated.
Oh well. At least it'll give me more of a chance to show off some of the background building designs I've sketched before the end of chapter hiatus.
The city we're entering ...
2023-07-04 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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A bit more finalization, along with testing out some more alternative designs for the main Fair grounds platform. This would ultimately be the last of the sketches I did for the structure of t...
2023-07-03 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I consider this to be the point when I truly had a strong foundation for what the Fair would look like. I realized by this point that I didn't have to make it mono-colored; in fact, by using a...
2023-06-29 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The cover thumbs for Chapter 3! This one was a struggle. I had a lot of ideas in my head for the framing, but few of them really conveyed what I was aiming for. Thankfully, I was finally able to settle on one... functionally the first one I /did./ Go figure.
As per usual with the other chapters, many of the elements I used for this cover page aren't strictly going to be reflective of cert...
2023-06-27 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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By this point, I was being better about using reference to inspire parts of my setting. It's fitting that much of the stuff here was inspired by Ratchet and Clank, since that was one of the ma...
2023-06-26 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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It took quite a while to figure out how I wanted the Titanwood trees to look. The base was inspired by rainbow eucalyptus trees, but none of the canopies I tried felt quite right. Eventually I...
2023-06-22 15:33:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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... Huh, still playing around with those modular tree base designs by this point. Well, in any case, as you can see, I figured out a more simple alternative instead. And one I'm proud of! Unfo...
2023-06-19 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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FINALLY, the Fair is starting to look like it would in the comic! Though I do admit I am sad I never found a spot to show off the expansive sprinkler system of the Fair, it's at least worth it...
2023-06-15 14:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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It doesn't read very well, in hindsight, but I LOVE the top sketch. It gives a view as Leon and Luca walk along one of the tree platforms and looks over to the Fair at the center. By this poin...
2023-06-12 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Fair is starting to take shape! I reached the point where I aimed to include a bunch of criss-crossing walkways reaching out from the central platform to some HUGE trees... but struggled t...
2023-06-08 16:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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Now we come to one of my FAVORITE things got to design: The Spring Fair! These are the earliest sketches for what I had in mind, and it's safe to say it shifted drastically. The connections be...
2023-06-05 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Another set of designs that I had a blast working on! Notably, there's a pair of cameos prepped here - Riiser in the bottom center, and the McElroys bottom right. Adapting real people for my s...
2023-05-29 15:41:19 +0000 UTC View Post
[Originally drawn around Aug 2019]
Looking back, I like how these all turned out (at least in their final incarnations), but I was drawing most of them during a summer vacation where I was EXTREMELY SICK, and just wasn't feeling it. Still, it did lead to some concepts I really like. The Health And Safety (HAS) Officer in particular is one I like; i...
2023-05-22 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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A detail that doesn't often get explored in (what little there is of) solarpunk media is the question of "What are the winters like?" Solarpunk often has a lot of visual focus, and winter can often be con...
2023-05-15 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Despite how much brainpower it takes to create these environments, it's easily one of my favorite parts of developing the comic. This is where the real magic happens in terms of developing thi...
2023-05-05 17:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post
[This is being posted as part of the hiatus for KttFF’s second chapter. The comic will resume with CHAPTER 3 on August 24th, 2023]
Despite the fact that I’ve been drawing Leon for over a decade at this point, I’m /STILL/ constantly shifting around details of his design. Proportions are still a major detail that I struggle with. I keep trying to find good look...
2023-05-01 14:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Orb-Its concept was actually one of the earliest of the series, one that serves as a summation for the solarpunk elements of the comic. Open to all, customizable, free to use, and encourag...
2023-04-24 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Another reader question, this time from AtomicBritt, creator of Cirque Royale<...
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The Plakzaken are probably one of my favorite alien designs I've come up with. I lumped together a ton of plant aspects to come up with their final concept, and it provides such a fantastic de...
2023-04-17 16:39:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Melody's not quite as sure about her future as Leon is, it seems...
Thank you to ArtUniverse01 for the question!
2023-04-13 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Since we got a name for them, /technically/ at the end of the Chapter 2 Intermission, I figure there's no longer a need to hide it! Everyone say hello to the PARADOX BUBBLES! Don't worry if they...
2023-04-10 16:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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More poncho studies from around the time I was starting the comic! Again, it would be literal years before he actually gets to wear it in the comic, and, naturally, both Leon and the poncho lo...
2023-04-03 14:52:25 +0000 UTC View Post