Panel One: Extreme closeup of Fern's hands as she ties her wrappings into a secure bow knot. From off-panel, Cal asks, "That's it?" SFX: >tug< >tug<
Panel Two: View over Cal's shoulder as Fern slumps in the hanging seat she's tied her herself. One loop runs under her knees, and the other under her shoulders. Her arms hang out to the sides in a defeated fashion, and her gaze is downcast. ">Sigh< My family doesn't get it," she says. The background is dark and gloomy. SFX: SLUMP
Panel Three: Full-width panel in the middle of the page, with Cal and Fern in profile. Cal crosses his arms, listening, and Fern has flexed so that she's looking at him upside-down. "I'm just not into performing! I like the people and the spolight, but I love just doing the moves more," she says, "I want to know how the whole... Machine works."
Panel Four: Extreme perspective panel with Fern's outstretched hand in the foreground, and her face in the background. Her expression is soft as she looks at her hand. "It's just... Amazing," she says. The word balloon and background are both dreamy-looking.
Panel Five: Wider shot of them. "Ugh! Why am I telling you all this?" Fern says, curling upside-down to the point where she's facing away from Cal and hanging by her knees. SFX: Swing! She's covering her face with her hands to hide her blushing. Cal is bent over, laughing. "It's okay! he says. SFX: >Ha ha!<
MORE Fern Lore! Do you think she's telling Cal this because he's the first person who bothered to really ask, or because he's just got the vibe that makes people just... Talk?
I think it's a bit of both.
The Ren Fest continues to kick my butt and eat my time. Which is a good problem to have - I'm selling a lot of chainmaille, but that means I have to make a lot of chainmaille each week to keep the cart full! I also have to rest my hands so I don't get a carpal tunnel flare-up, which would cause more delays.
But I'm still chugging away! October will see me back on schedule, more or less.
It's almost FALL!
Bran
I tried to find way to embed my tracker into the site so that it automatically updates from Google Sheets, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to make it work.
All I can offer you is the link, so if you want to follow my progress and see where I am:
If you know how to do this, please drop me a line so I can add it as a widget or something! I’d really like for everyone to be able to see it.
Yep! I’ve set up a Patreon for the comic, and I’ve decided to keep things dead simple for now.
For $1, you can see next week’s comic early!
That’s it.
No fancy membership tiers with merch, no digital download packs, no interviews or super-special content. I know what my plate can hold right now! I did set up patron goals so that I’ll add a bit more when I get people, but by the time I hit those numbers I know I’ll be in a good place to handle it.
Those are pretty simple, too – When I hit 100 people, I’ll add some extra art each week, when I get to 200, I’ll put everyone two comics ahead of the site, and when I have 300 people, they’ll be 3 pages ahead. It’ll still only be $1, though.
Will I set it up so that I keep putting people ahead as the numbers grow? I dunno. I know three pages ahead isn’t that hard for me to do, but more than that? I guess we’ll see. ^_^
But for now, I have a simple Patreon page where you can see next week’s comic right now for $1.
https://www.patreon.com/Rabbit_Dance_
Thanks for hanging with me for so long! I appreciate it!
-Bran
Enjoy this bit of fun! DJ and Cal and Aziraphale and Crowley
Hey! I’ve got the first issue of Plague Rat DONE and it’s being printed right now!
I was fortunate enough to find a local printer and I can literally just go pick them up when they’re ready. It’s a run of 100, which is a great start. I’ll be putting the reminder up on the website after the con, and adding in a few fun bonus items for people who order physical copies.
I’ll keep you posted on how things are going here, and of course, you can always check out the Discord for more immediate news and to ask questions.
That’s right! I’ve been having technical and health issues, but I managed to finish two pages at once so you’re getting page nine right now and page ten Wednesday. I set it up for noon EST, so unless the time zone went wonky on me it should update as planned.
If you want to watch me work on the next page, come on over to Twitch and hang out in the chat! Obviously you’ll learn the occasional spoiler, but I try not to talk too much about plot elements unless I’m actively drawing it in front of you.
But in good news, we are vaccinated! We both got the first dose of Moderna, which means we’ll be 100% ready by the time Steel City Comic Con rolls around in June. Evie has a table with her books there, and my goal is to have a finished first issue there, too.
I know I’ve been late a lot, but what’s been getting me are the background elements. To remedy that, I’ve been learning Blender, a 3D program, so I can have whole rooms ready to go. Clip Studio Paint has the ability to import 3D models and render them as linework with textures and all, so this should speed things up quite a bit! I actually have a lot of experience in 3D modeling and animation, so all I have to do is learn how to do it in Blender vs 3D Studio Max. It’s a bit of a curve because Blender *thinks* in a way Max doesn’t, but I’m getting the hang of it.
Actually, the cart you see on page nine is a 3D model that I made in Blender! The horses and wagon wheels are 3D models purchased from the Clip Studio Assets library.
Well, I’m off to bed. Enjoy the new page!
– Bran
Last week’s comic took longer than I expected and this moved things out of whack, but don’t worry! I should have this week’s comic up by Friday night. I’ve already got the whole page sketched out and I’m working on the inking.
If you want to watch me work on it and chat with me / listen to me ramble, I stream on Twitch pretty much every night, and some late afternoons. My username is Rabbit_Dance_, or you can click here.
Until the next update – Stay Safe!
– Bran
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