Chapter 9, Page 36
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This past week has been an absolute pain in the arse and there’s been a shortage of art generally…life, illness, and friends needing my help all happened so the comic had to go on hold a bit.
Still, having rescued Vivienne from Kitsuka seems a fairly natural place for a break…
I’d been considering the idea for a while but I’ve now got around to setting up a Patreon page!
Check it out for various artistic goings-on 😀 https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28098189
Hey readers. My trusty art PC is suffering from an unknown problem at the moment and currently languishes in the repair shop until further notice. I’m borrowing my husband’s computer in the meantime, which I’ve installed Manga Studio on and connected my tablet up to, but a lot of the custom layouts, backgrounds, and the like which I use for Five Comic…are on the hard drive of my computer so I don’t have them to hand right now. Consequently, we’re missing our nice red distressed Chapter 9 border and a few other things that prevent today’s page from looking quite how I wanted it to.
Still…as Indy says here, we. Move. On.
Here’s to hoping Art PC is easily fixable, whatever’s wrong with it.
That snuck up on me a bit fast! So now it’s time for another Festive Filler Fing ™ and to thank all you delightful readers for another year, and wish you all an awesome Xmas, new year, and anything else that’s going on, and I’ll see you all on the other side.
The comic will be back on 7th January. In the meantime, come and say hi over on the Facebook page.
Laters!
LONG POST, but the TL;DR is: I’m going to be taking a break over the summer to catch up, and while I’ll be posting all the concept sketches and suchlike here, the actual comic itself will be back on the 3rd September.
I’ve come to a bit of a realisation this week. I mentioned needing to take a little break from the comic, and while I originally planned this to only be my usual “back in one week”, it occurs to me that that won’t give me quite the breathing room I need. Personal stuff: I’ve unfortunately had my plans messed up a bit these last few weeks by the unholy trinity of migraines, anxiety and depression, which has…not exactly done wonders for my ability to sit behind a computer and draw, so I ended up a bit behind. I’ve also got commissions (including a book I’m illustrating) to stay on top of, not to mention work on concept sketches for the slightly-more-ambitious-than-previously vehicles, landscapes, car chases and scenes of chapters 8 and 9, and build up a buffer of pages like I had back in the early days of the comic, rather than my current schedule of racing to get a page done in a week and occasionally producing pages that look “okay I guess, but it’s not what I wanted.”
So yeah, I think taking a summer break will do my brain good, and my art good, and ultimately lead to a better chapter 8 and beyond. The usual weekly updates will return on the 3rd September, and in the meantime I’ll keep the lot of ya spammed with all my concept art, sketches and tangentally related bits for the upcoming chapter.