#eventually comic wip

When you finally come back to your comic and you question your past self's decision making skills.

I wanted them both leaning forward, but didn't realize how awkward my initial final sketch looked until I was getting ready to clean it up and noticed they both looked really stiff.

Ah, one of my favorite past times, drawing these bozos with the same expression :)

Hi everyone! I know once again I've been inactive here, but I'm still trying to work on Chapter 3 Part 2 and other stuff; it's just been very slow going.

I actually would like everyone's opinion on a page!

Here's a shot of Leo holding Mikey:

And here's the same shot, but Mikey is positioned differently:

I think the first shot looks better, but I wasn't sure if the shape of his shell looks correct to portray Mikey laying on Leo.

Sneak peak for part 2 of chapter 3! I sadly don't have much to offer because I was taking a bit of break on it.

I took longer to get back to it than I had intended because every time I tried to go work on it my brain would say "but what if we streamed drawing it?" and I'd have a 2 day debate with myself on what to do, then rinse and repeat a dozen times.

As much as the idea of streaming sounds fun, my indecision has made me drag my feet on actually working on the comic and getting it done sooner.

Thank you everyone who gave their input about Mikey's shell! It was really enlightening!

So, I was surprised at how divided people's opinions were and a lot of you made some good remarks regarding how both versions look.

With that in mind, I did some episode rewatching and screenshoting to see if I could find some good examples of Mikey in his shell. Specifically scenes from The Gumbus and The Mutant Menace. These 2 episodes are some of the only times I know of, off the top of my head, where we get a really clear shot of Mikey retracted into his shell.

Not a lot of the shots are at the angle I needed, but they still helped me realized why the shell was giving me issues.

Looking at multiple shots from the freezer aisle scene, and flipping them upside down to be facing the way I needed, made it all click.

The animator's weren't so much changing the angle of Mikey's shell; they were really more so keeping the shell at the same angle and changing the shape of the markings on his shell!

Here are the original 2 shots I had asked about:

And here is the new version of the shot; where I rounded the top some and drew and adjusted the perspective of the markings:

Definitely an improvement, I think! This is a step in the right direction, but I can see that the markings need to be curved downward more.

If you guys have any suggestions or feedback, let me know! C:

P.S. Here's some silly screenshots for your enjoyment!

Hey! I had hoped I would be further along on the progress of the comic, but I went on vacation - then caught some type of bug from said vacation and have been trying to recover.

UPDATE 1:

I'm closing commissions for the time being!

Nothing serious is happening, just want to do some updates to what's available for commission. I have some ideas on what to add and I want to take some time to determine the best ways to go about doing it.

It's a little under a month since I started commissions and I've learned a lot about how much time is put into it. I truly over-estimated myself on how quickly I can finish pieces.

I will probably just make a whole new post with the updated info on it.

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UPDATE 2:

In other news, I am, once again, stuck on Eventually chapter 4. Which by this point isn't really news and is more of a daily occurrence.

It's not a bad sort of stuck, mostly just trying to decide on how to go about doing part of it, but I also discovered a pretty major oversight on my part involving layout.

So, I don't know who remembers, but in the first chapter of Eventually there's a shot of Leo sleeping in the hospital bed. It very clearly shows his right arm in a cast (plus bandages I completely forgot about).

I completely blanked on which arm the IV would be attached to. I constantly reminded myself that his right arm is broken and in a cast but just totally overlooked that meant he couldn't have an IV attached to that arm.

Now, this was a definite whoopsie, but I caught it! (I'm also seeing as I'm typing this that the hospital bed does not match how I originally drew it, but that's a different-day-me's problem).

So, this is more of a tip I guess for people still learning 3D modeling.

Please, for your own sanity, save your shots as keyframes.

That means, instead of doing what I did, which was move the models and the camera around over and over again without being to get back to that layout if I changed it;

Have a default of the models as your first keyframe, where you leave them exactly as you positioned them originally

Make a new keyframe on the timeline and rearrange the models and cameras as you please

Rinse and repeat the 2nd step as many times as you need different shots

This will definitely save you from the hassle of having to go back and try to fix your shot and deal with maybe or maybe not getting it similar to what your original shot looked like.