Smittee's Corner

It has come to my attention that the reason my pen is having so many problems for my tablet is that it is the same nib I have had since I bought it about 4 years ago. It is worn out and all sorts of silly shapes. I have ordered new ones and they should be in by at least the 9th. As soon as they come in, I will finish the new comic and upload it. FYI: My fiancee watches as I draw them and he really likes how this one looks so far. So, I'm even more excited to get it finished up.

Happy Odaiba Day! Yes. today is August 1st, the anniversary of Digimon (and my mom's b-day)! I drew the digimon above to celebrate. I have been a Digimon fan.... forever. Although. I didn't really start with the first series...well, kinda. I was visiting my sister and I was watching the episode were Lilymon appeared as Palmon's ultimate form. I wanted to watch more, but would not see the show again until series three, which I fell in love with and its dark themes. Been a fan of the series since! The new episode of Dumpling and Wolfie is out, with a slightly new look. I decided to try to draw directly to the computer. I've been drawing it and scanning the drawings in. Then, I used the drawing tablet to clean it, organize them into a comic, and THEN colored them. It was a looong process! If any of you can compare it to the other ones and tell me how you feel about it, I can see where I might make some changes or keep it up. There are also a bunch of new art tha...

This video explains in details the issues about to come up dealing with Copyright law, as well as their past attempts to do things that would make it difficult for artists of all kinds to keep the rights to their work, along with past works covered under the current laws. In the description on this video, they have past events of these issues, as well as ways to write to the copyright office explaining how we feel as artists. This is important to all of us, and I want to make sure, as many others have, that this is spread and shared. The more chances we have to understand the issues and know how to get involved, the better! As an important notes, I'm going to read up on the video, the past events, and any other information I can get on this, in order to be more informed. Anything I find, I will edit into this blog and make sure it is known.

I made more wood burns: 3 Moogle Heads and an Ifrit. The Ifrit is full color. To get to my shop is  Smittee's Dumplings  . Pictures of the new art is below.

Last month's episode was posted during last month (yay!). And this episode was able to be posted up the first of the month of July (woot). I'm currently working on next month's comic, while also debating on it's length. It's going to be a shorter episode, but that makes way for the longer one to come. Which I may have to split the longer on into two, just to fit it. @.@ To be honest, I'm surprised out how this part has gone. I was expecting it to take less strips to make, but soon realized how long it really needs to be. It's not a big deal, but it is just surprising.  History of Dumpling and Wolfie (short version): Not only was Wolfie originally a fox, but the story was something I did in a notebook in high school. Just shared it with friends and giggled about it. Then, it became a web comic. Some of the very first episodes are the recreation of the ones in the book. And, to be honest, I planned on keeping it the silly. goes-no where, quirky comic. A...

Yes! Instead of messing with an older copy of photoshop, I have signed up for the new way of Photoshop. (As a student, it's only $10 for the subscription and the latest version of photoshop). So now, the new comic is up on the website, and now I'm starting on next month's comic. Woot! http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/72/91/41269172/photos/undefined/dumpling%20and%20wolfie%2025%20.jpg This is the direct link tot he comic and.... http://www.dumplingandwolfie.com/ A reminder of the website.

There was corruption with photoshop. When I reinstalled, it now doesn't want to work at all. Sooooo, this has ended up taking longer than I expected. When I finally got the base comic done, I felt a great feat was done, just because of how many times I had to restart that same comic over and over again. When it got to the point that just starting to color it would make it freeze, I yelled out in frustration. When I get it all working right again, the next episode will come out complete. If it doesn't come out till next month, well I guess you'll get two that month.  For those (whoever you are) still waiting, here is the sneak peak. There is no dialogue, so you'll have to guess what is going on.