Part 1 – Chapter 14 – Red Moon Rising – a steampunk fantasy webcomic

Bang.

—Right, phew. That was one long cliffhanger, sorry about the immense wait. It was basically due to another string of technology failures (tablet pen, heatsink, I’ll see you in hell) which it seems a bit petulant to recount now.

Anyway, that’s a wrap for Arc 1! And by Arc 1 I mean… everything from the start of the comic up until now. There’ll be two more arcs, so lots more pages on the horizon.

On a related note, I’m taking the opportunity to have a working break before the start of arc 2, so Red Moon Rising will return on the 25th of March. I’ve got several things in the pipeline, including a store (finally) and a return of twice-weekly updates, helped along by a new art style. Also, hopefully a new website if I can fit it in, because jings, this place hasn’t changed since like 2010.

Also, I get to draw things that aren’t in this one courtyard! God, that’s going to be good.

So thanks everyone for your incredible patience and support. There’s going to be a lot going on here very soon! 🙂

One final magic face-off. Unsurprisingly, Danil has the upper hand to the end. —Whewww, sorry this page took a bit to get out. One of my flatmates showed up with laryngitis the other week and you can guess that probably didn’t go down very well with my terrible immune system. I’ve been in a bit of a sour mood ever since, which I’m rapidly trying to get over. These pages are becoming a real slog, but I’m pretty happy with how they look so… I don’t know. I swear this scene is nearly done though. Thanks for being patient, you guys. It’s so very nearly done. I close my eyes and all I see is magic and courtyards

A hard landing for Adrianna, and a confident stride for Danil. —Sorry for the delay on this one, had a bit of post-Christmas faff. Kept redoing whole sections of this page, the urge to make everything just so at this point is… overwhelming. Anyway, I’ll try to keep it more timely for the rest of this scene. Though obviously, we’re coming up to the end soon. dun dun dunnnn

Sorry to break it to you A, but I think that shirt might be on its last legs. —Happy new year folks! Starting the year here as I intend to go on – with lots and lots of fire. and many happy returns

Right back where we started. —Sorry this is such a late post, guys. I was visiting my parents for most of the week so that kind of precluded an update any sooner. Plus I ended up redrawing each individual panel at least once, so I uploaded some of the dropped sketches as the vote incentive. On the plus side, I had a total blast with the lighting. blue light aaaaa

clonk —Whooo, 300! Geeze, that’s some milestone. That’s a lot comic pages. Jings. I wish I had something planned, but unfortunately I’ve been a bit under the weather (again) for the last week or so. Sorry about that. However, do feel free to envision fireworks or streamers or something while I continue to work away on killing off all of your favourite characters. Edit: On the plus side, I’ve been receiving lots of neat fanart from Iz Elliot which I can post up! Most relevantly, here’s a proto-Batman Airin. And slightly less relevantly, here is Bracken feeding some ducks. Bracken loves ducks. Canon.

Awkward. —Man, this page took a long time. Panels and panels forever. I’m gonna go have a wee lie down. Edit: I almost forgot to mention, awesome reader SRFirefox started a TV Tropes page for Red Moon Rising. A TV Tropes page, I’ve finally hit the big time. Feel free to add to it!

Ah. —Welp. In better news, there’s a new vote incentive. It’s a commission of an alleyway I had to take a second run at, so you guys get to see the discarded first draft. Might rework it into a shot of Ashul later?

Danil probably needed a bath anyway. —More on time than last week! I’m going to take that as a small win. There’s also a new vote incentive, a screenshot of something I’ve been building in Minecraft which you guys should find familiar.

Unfortunately it turns out Danil isn’t all that waterproof. — Jings, sorry about this turning into a Wednesday update. I was having some weird technical issues with my tablet, but mainly I just underestimated how long all these very specific magic effects would take to draw. I hope it all reads well, I’ve never drawn a magic shield being smashed into bits by a tidal wave before. And in perhaps unfortunate timing with this particular page, I hope any of you caught up in Sandy are doing ok. Do stay safe.

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