Thorns

The Saga continues.

I've never done a icy-speech-bubble before, I think it came out ok.

What happened the first night we had dinner at the resort. The other restaurant we went to was much better in this respect.

Latest page of ACOS. I'm happy with the dramatic angles here, I think this is my first real use of non-rectangular panels.

OMG I've updated Hapless

Apologies to anyone who finds this a bit syrupy, Part Two will probably be much more to your tastes when I get around to drawing it :)

Latest page of ACOS, now that our homepage FIANLLY seems to be back up. At LAST.

Feeling WELL dizzy for some reason today, had to come home after a whole hour of work (most of which was spent staring very hard at the screen to keep in focus)

But somehow I managed to do the next page of ACOS. I originally rejected this exchange from the draft for the previous comic, but decided it forms a necessary pause. This decision was reached after like two months of trying to get the next Amniat page to follow on from the one previous. Thanks again to nico_wolfwood for beta-ing (am too lazy to send you completed image for second beta, you're all free to give feedback anyway and I just might edit it :))

Also! Found essay by the person who requested the Buffy vid (which I've already recced fangirlishly) Origin Stories about what she wanted for the vid, goes into the ickyness of the Whole Spike Thing in a way I very much agree with (though I didn't connect the show's separate issues with (a) race and (b)the Spike storyline in my head until seeing the vid)

And now to spend some time with the delightful (if somewhat preachy) Agnes Grey.

New page of ACOS, super high quality thanks some very helpful beta-ing from the very generous and smart nico_wolfwood (if nothing else I was too self conscious to send it to her till I'd double checked for spelling mistakes etc :))

Hey, I had to do one eventually. It was funny to compare this to drawing ACOS, since it is about a "talking cat" but it was still very different to write and draw (and I was reminded that I suck at drawing animal legs and human feet)

Latest ACOS. (Third this month! And it's a short month!) Dedicated to the friends and family who helped inspire it, you'll know who you are if you read it :)

And yes, there's a spelling mistake, since I already resaved it twice to fix two others, I'm waiting till tomorrow by which point I'll have probably found another one. EDIT: I can't believe I forgot to do shading! This is what happens when I post when I'm sick.

New ACOS, done entirely in pen!
Well, except the colouring, corrections, and an extra sound effect I added at the last minute. I tend to consider the "drawing my own panel edges" a failure, I and straight lines are not on the best of terms. Still, overall the pen thing is working pretty well, though I'm still not sure if not being able to mess with the picture too much once it's inked is good or bad. It means I don't spend so long fiddling pointlessly, but also means I can't fix the sort of large scale errors of flow etc that I only notice once it's "finished" (like the fact that what's going on in the penultimate panel isn't very clear)

Also, I belatedly realised that it might help I I bought decent (or at least not crap) paper.