Collection: Part One: Waterlogged
Perspective! It does my head in sometimes. Still, I got to draw a tree in there, so I guess I’m fine with it.
My desktop broke today! Again, I know. Fortunately I started on this early enough (and saved frequently enough) that it’s done on time for once, despite the new heap of technical difficulties. Some of my RAM died and my desktop is barely useable for making the comic with, so… On the plus side, I’ve ordered a new computer. On the negative side, I think I needed that money for food. ohh welll
Desktop computer is on the blink now. Technology! Still, it seems that whenever my desktop computer breaks, my laptop is there to back me up, and vice-versa. Can’t really complain.
Well, my laptop done broke again, which was more of a problem than I realised at the time since I needed the photoshop file for page 190 to get the photo of Renshou for this page, which, as it turns out, was still on my laptop. Whooooooo.
This page. This sceeeene. Webcomics are difficult. khaaaaann I made a last minute change to the script which ended up in this scene being replaced and then rewritten three times, which burned through most of my weekend. I’m realising webcomics are great because you can be flexible in this way if you decide to change something for the better, but it did in this instance delay the page horrifically. Sorry. D:
Anyway, I’ve been meaning to say but hey, look, Clockworks came off hiatus a little bit ago and it’s awesome. I mean look at that. It’s a troll wearing giant robot armour. Look at that.
Poor Adrianna, I think everyone saw this coming except her. Just to warn those of you expecting some sort of Baywatch-esque rescue, that’s the end of the scene. Though you can probably assume she doesn’t drown. Probably.
A bunch of things! Firstly there’s a new vote incentive which is a quick painting of Lethe since I’m trying to get back into the way of painting stuff and I got some sweeeet new brushes.
Secondly! The Comic Creators Alliance is happening again this year. For those of you that missed it last year, it’s an initiative headed up by Lora Innes where webcomic creators donate a small piece of art to be compiled into a wallpaper that’s then available for download through donation, with the money going to various good causes. If you’re a webcomic creator you should check it out, and I’ll be letting you know when the wallpaper is available!
Thirdly! I rearranged the sidebars on the site a bit so everything should load a bit quicker. I also added a twitter and formspring widget on the bottom left there because some people had been asking for them for whatever reason.
I usually make comic-related announcements on twitter, so if the page is spectacularly late you can probably find out what kind of bus ran me over by checking my twitter feed. Formspring is for asking me stupid (or occasionally non-stupid) questions, so if you want to find out something about the comic or whatever, have at. Also, I did up the archive page a bit, so if it looks dumb or broken please let me know.
Dahhh, it’s 2am on Saturday here, this might be my worst Thursday update ever. Sit down and let me spin you a small yarn.
Basically I got caught out by the snow – I did some much needed food shopping, stopped at a friends, waited for the snow to stop, and whaddaya know, it didn’t until it was way too dark to be a good idea.
That was on Thursday, made it back to my flat Friday afternoon and had to spend most of the day boarding up my window with cardboard and duct tape in order to make my bedroom warm enough to sit down comfortably in for eight hours so I could get the page finished. I had been working on my laptop in our living room before, but I left my power cable at said friend’s place because I’m good like that, necessitating the window redecorating. So, mainly “screw you snow” with a dash of “I’m an idiot” for good measure.
the end
Edit!: If you guessed correctly where the statue first showed up, please proceed to the previous page to collect your complimentary bonus points.
Bonus points for anyone who can figure out why that statue looks sort of familiar. (not the chapter page, I’m giving you all, way more credit than that)
Sorry about the delayed update, if you’re in the UK you’ve probably heard that eastern Scotland (and lots of other places) just got buried under all of the snow ever, so going out and actually getting some food before getting completely stuck was something of a priority. It’s probably not as much snow as some of you are getting, but it’s pretty crazy for this time of year! Probably as much snow as I’ve ever seen. Also had to move my whole drawing set up through to our living room because god damn my room is cold and screw that.
Bracken knows exactly what that look means.
I think I never quite recovered from New Zealand time, some part of my brain still seems to think it’s fine to work on the page the day it’s due to be posted, which is incorrect. I’m slowly working on it. It also seems like I don’t have time any more to reply to comments, which is kind of crummy of me considering how important all the readers are in keeping RMR going. So that’s something I also intend to fix in the near future. In the meantime, hello to the new readers! You are all grand.*
* All the old readers are grand too.