Hero Black/White

Well, I've refined the character design for my comic character. A bit simplified. Yeah, I know I gave him some funny looking feet, but they're easy to do consistently. Also, the comic'll be in black and white(and grays). It looks nice and it's easier to make nice looking Black and White than to make nice looking color. You have to do a lot of shading work to improve the style of color. Color covers though. And my plan is to release this in chapters instead of pages like most web comics do. So, I need an opinion. Should I do all of the thumbnails going down the page or should I do a list of links or should I do something fancier? I'm not sure how that last one works but you know.

Also I killed the link within somehow, but whatever that thing was kinda stupid anyways.

V.

V has always seemed like a rather angular letter to me. Perhaps because it's just one sharp point. For this reason I used no curves in the production of V. I also, at a later point in the design process, decided to use only colors that would be purely a blend of 255 and 0. The striking result is here.

U.

When it came to making U. I was left in a state of uncertainty. What would be a good U? Nothing immediately came to mind. I though, perhaps the chicken would roost in the bottom of the U. Strangely this idea quickly lost it's appeal. With myself uncertain about it I abandoned it. Eventually I glanced the beak. It's almost a shame I didn't use this for C.

T.

Well, as happens every so often I'm releasing a spew of my alphabet letters. I'm excited. I'm almost done with this project.

SHWA-BAM! This is the letter "T"  Usually it looks like a tall line with a wide line dropped on top of it. I decided to add a bit of flare on the left side so it wasn't boring. Then I went to myself, "But where does the chicken go..." Then the lower-case hit me. "t" Little thing popping off the top. And I was like, "Okay!"

So that's that as far as T. goes.

Kung-Fu Comeback!

Well, I decided to let the Kung-Fu Chicken make a comeback because I wanna watch the Karate Kid(Starring  Will Smith's son and Jackie Chan) some time. Maybe when it shifts into the Dollar Theater in a month or so I'll catch it. Anyways... WHA-CHA! Kung-Fu Chicken is deep in his training. Balancing himself on a log sticking out of the sea. He ain't even near any docks or anything like that. He stands strong against the striking world of swirls he lives in.

Circles Are Fun

Circles are a fun shape to play with. Well, more accurately I was playing with ellipses when I made this, and I got to have fun pretending they were all semitransparent. I think it all came off looking like it was, aside from the orange on the yellow brown mix but I couldn't find a shade that looked better. Anyways, the reason that circles are good is that they are... Actually what I was about to say is expressly untrue. I was gonna say they're a shape that's easy to render in 3D, but you can't actually do that. Still, it's easy to construct things out of those not-spheres.

Sweeping Strokes

Many works call for subtlety and gentle strokes, however if one is too subtle in their work it won't be noticed at all. For this reason I chose to use more distinct versions of the colors when I applied the shading. Originally I intended to use a white background but the contrast looked poor so I ended up settling for a gray one. I feel that the impression given by this piece leaves a smile on the face of the viewer.

Thank you for your time.