#thirdfloor

Work has slowed down my comics progress, but I move forward, if slowly. See it all here.

See the story so far here.

The new version of Affinity came out while I was working on these and so I had to take some time to learn the new layout. Good news is that all the features I use are still there, just moved around a bit. Bad news, even though it is free it checks your “free” subscription before you open the program. That makes me worry about what future holds. I’ve been around awhile, and an app getting bought…

Page 18 starts the second chapter of The Third Floor. As you may notice, there are slight layout and color changes from chapter 1. I want each chapter to have its own look. It’s nothing drastic, just setting a different basic template for each chapter.

I am in the midst of making some edits and designing a initial logo, but the first chapter of The Third Floor is finished with page 17. I don’t have all of chapter 2 thumbnailed, but I know the basic beats and have some dialogue worked out, so I’ll get started on it soon enough. It’s nice to be getting something done. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve had a long stretch here of abandoning…

I realized that I have never posted about my full pencilling* process. What follows are the steps that I have learned to help me create a finished page. These are not the “correct” way to create a comic, but for me they are the ones that work. Let’s take page sixteen of one of the projects that I am working on, The Third Floor. I started by thumbnailing the entire first chapter. “Thumbnailing”…

While this year has continued the trend of abandoned projects– Cleft and Slough and Stair– I also feel good about The Third Floor and Mutant Fist. So maybe 2025 will see some completed work to share. But a finished work appeared this year. My short comic “Hands” was published in Shenandoah back in spring. I also finally started Before Comics. I had been thinking about this project for a long…