great job @Kiki
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i love this so much! the ride/mbv/lush debate bit was delightful lol
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That was the most crucial page from the start, it secretly tells you the most about these characters!
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This was wonderful! I enjoyed it so much ā even listened to Ride while I was reading <3 <3
Loved these drawings!
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i loved it!
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This is the canon experience!
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Kadokawa announced the winners of their worldless manga contests. There were 7 winners for the unthemed, but they only picked a single bronze for the themed (Don Quixote) contest. I wasnāt really expecting much butā¦ Itās a little insulting they didnāt even bother to pick for the gold or silver awards?
The winning entries had some insanely good drawing and paneling. Super impressive stuff, but, uh, they werenāt very interesting stylistically or narratively. Most of these look just like any other manga and Iām seeing a lot of panels that I recognize from other stuff. Nothing wrong with that normally, but thereās a surprising lack of original thought. Thatās a problem with the manga industry in general imo. Lots of shonen made by artists who are inspired exclusively by other shonen.
Oh well, cutthroat industry and they need to find stuff thatās commercially viable.
Anywho, hereās my (not-commercially viable) entry. It was fun to bang this out in a short timeline. I think the tones are completely screwed up on mobile, but they looked alright on desktop in 1080p and 1440p. Iāll need to experiment more with different platforms next time I do something like this. First time making a comic in a manga workflow so I learned a ton. I wish I could have done the whole ~20 pages
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With the slow arrival of autumn I recently took my recumbent bike out in damp conditions for the first time since getting it on what may have been the hottest day of summer. When I arrived at work I found the bag on top of my rack had a mucky wet line down the middle of the back and underside of it. For the first time I looked properly at my mudguard:
And realised it is nowhere near long enough. I went to a few bike shops but couldnāt find anything in the right size and shape, so Iāve made an improvised one out of a plastic milk bottle and some zip ties:
Weather forecast is itās summer again for at least another week so I wonāt find out how well it works just yet but I am cautiously optimistic. It looks ridiculous, but itās a recumbent bike so it had that already. There is a small gap between the existing mudguard and the improvised one but Iām hoping thereās enough overlap to catch anything thrown up.
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I would have done the scene where Pancho is scared by the sound of the fulling mills in the middle of the night but has to go number 2. He doesnāt want to wander too far from the sleeping Don Quixote so does it a couple of meters away but the scent awakens him. But thatās me.
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That absolutely rules. I had to cut like 14 pages to get it done so I stuck with riffing off the scene where Don charges some merchants, falls off Rocinante, and then they kick his ass while heās down and Pancho brings him back home.
Ended up having to cut Pancho entirely, but I really wanted to draw Rocinante as a sad looking old horse with a silly haircut and I got to do that.
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Iāve spending a lot of time playing around with visuals in Unity and making test assets to find a visual style, but I banged out this sprite in like 2 hours and I kinda like it. Itās still hard to draw at this angle so I had to play around with the proportions a lot.
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My game HERD NERD was selected as one of 3 winners! Each winner receives the same prize.
So I wrote about how I first discovered Jeff Minter and Llamasoft:
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