#swingtale!papyrus

Title: Sing One Song

Plot:  Slight panic ensues when Victor (aka Swingtale!Mettaton) somehow breaks his stylus before a show, and and no other singer can match his skill to serve as his stand-in. You would think that Nib’s appearance at this moment would be a bit of a miracle, except for one problem: Nib can’t sing swing-style.

Pages 1 to 5 - nib-mettaton.tumblr.com/post/189835581223/

Pages 6 to 11 - You are here!

Want to read this story comic-book style? Check this comic out Comic Fury: nib-mettaton.webcomic.ws

Credit where credit is due:

@swingtale by @ghostofpokeninjager

Pfft, I lied to myself, I uploaded the second half of this comic on Christmas Day. Consider it a Christmas present. ;)

As much as I really, really wanted to finish the @swingtale​ comic by the end of October, work is going to pull me away from the sketchbook for a good chunk of time. Unfortunately, this likely means the comic’s release will be delayed to either November, December, or January (depending on how fast I can ink and letter everything during the holiday-heavy season). 

I honestly hate having to delay releasing comics for such a long period (especially considering that I announced this in August and this comic is short!) but it is what it is. Anyway, if you’ve been following me since the beginning, you should know by now that I always post a sneak peek of my work to at least make the waiting tide a bit more bearable. So here ya go. 

Reference sheet and dry run draw test for next upcoming comic, wherein Nib enters @swingtale (made by @ghostofpokeninjager).

One of the stipulations for entering SwingTale was that visitors would end up having pie-cut eyes (like you see in the 1920s cartoons) and that everything would be monochrome. 

I do my comic in black-and-white monochrome, but more in a manga/comic style. So sepia-monochrome would be a bit of an interesting art challenge to tackle. I had a jar of faux walnut ink and did some testing with that using a dip pen, in combination with colored pencils and markers. I think it looks okay, but I found that doing the line art in dip pen was an unnecessary time sink, so I’ll need to invest in some brown fine liners. I also need to figure out how to get a greyish brown for Undyne’s skin color, but that’s more of a color-mixing problem that I can tackle later.

I ended up giving Nib a different outfit here. His default outfit actually did fit the 1920s era, but that of the Victorian Era and not the Swing Era. I couldn't have Nib step into SwingTale looking like he just came from Downton Abbey, so I took off his tailcoat and gave him long pants and Swing Era shoes. Ended up playing with the shoe styles of the SwingTale characters also for fun (because, why not?).