It’s the third week into the comic and I’ve finally introduced one of my main characters! I need to build up a backlog and start posting more frequently. That said, it’s a good thing I’m drawing these pages weeks in advance because the 5th panel on this page was just awful in the initial version; I managed to salvage it just a few days before posting this. The panel layouts on these early pages are… functional, but unimaginative. I was rusty at comic making when I started work on this chapter. This intro panel for Ben is where they start to get a bit more dynamic.
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A month in and we’re finally seeing a goddamn battle in a webcomic called “Battle Kreaturez”. I need to put my nose to the grindstone and build a bigger backlog so this doesn’t take another four weeks just to finish. But drawing comics is haaaaaaard ;____; For a fight scene this panel layout is still too overly utilitarian and not dynamic enough. Oh well, at least you can tell what’s going on.
Ben’s humiliation continues. I feel like this page was where I finally shook off the rust and hit my stride in regards to comic making. I’ve standardized my approach to constructing the pages, and the artwork and panel layout have become more dynamic.
Fighting fighting fighting more fighting. I wasn’t satisfied with the initial drawings for this page and ended up redrawing most of it. I think the kick and the blade block are the only panels left over from the first version.
Skyler was a very recent addition to the story. Like, so recent that if I hadn’t gotten delayed this summer he’d have never appeared at all! I threw him in as just some mean jock to kick Ben while he’s down but he intrigued me so I decided to expand his role and elevate him to major character status.
Chapter 01 draws to a close on a nice even number. I’d initially planned on having a few more pages after this one but they didn’t add much to the story and I want to introduce the rest of the characters sooner rather than later.
Also, I was hoping that I’d be able to draw more than ten pages before being forced to take a sabbatical, but my Yiynova MSP19U+ has been damaged, I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to get it repaired and this is the last page left in my buffer. I can’t even use the filler pages I prepared in advance for this exact sort of situation because they feature characters that haven’t been introduced yet -___- Soyeah. I might not have another page done in time for next Friday.
Starting up this webcomic has just been one unmitigated disaster after another. What a phenomenally shitty year 2015 has been.
This title page ended up being way more work than I bargained for, but I’m really proud of how it turned out. Eventually I’ll probably go back and draw a title page for Chapter 01. That fucking river nearly drove me mad. Clear, shallow water is surprisingly difficult to draw.
I might publish other webcomics someday under the “Amphurious Comics” brand, but for now my plate is full with Battle Kreaturez. I took the picture of the toad in that logo myself; the same individual appeared in our yard multiple times over the course of 2015. I hope she survives the winter!
Characters who wear the exact same clothes all the time are a personal pet peeve of mine. Since mindlinking essentially turns the Kreature into an extension of the Tamer’s body, Kreature Tamers are considered a type of martial artist. So I put Ben in a martial arts uniform :>
Fighting fighting fighting more fighting. These last two chapters have been really action packed! My inner writer yearns to flesh out these characters; my inner artist just wants to go on auto-pilot for a few weeks with some nice simple talking heads. Either way I’m looking foreword to taking a break from all this action. I advertise Battle Kreaturez as a character driven webcomic but so far it’s just been one battle scene after another!
There may or may not be a page this Saturday. Due to procrastination extenuating circumstances this is the last page left in my buffer. Will I get page 3-1 AND a title page completed in time? We’ll just have to wait and see. I’d like to go at least another two months without resorting to my emergency filler comics.
As for obligatory site updates: Kristy has been added to the cast page, which is looking like a real sausage-fest right about now. Worry not Kristy, there will be more female characters soon enough. Also Siervar has been added to the Kreature archive.
Another page finished just barely in time! This one took longer than expected because of all the damn backgrounds, especially those damn cages in the third panel, though bizarrely it didn’t take as long to finish as page 01 despite being more complex. The last panel wasn’t in my initial batch of thumbnails but I threw it in to explain where Wally came from.
I based my designs for Dennis’ 18 and 12 year old self off his former incarnations from previous drafts of the series. Dennis’ parents were also based on their designs from the first draft, since that was the one where they were most prominent.
In site update news; no new Kreature profiles this time, sorry. However, I have added textless versions of panels 3 and 6 to the art gallery.