Part Two: Sandswept – Page 14 – Red Moon Rising

Paperwork-themed wisdom from the Captain.

—Annnnd we’re back! Sorry for the mostly unexplained and extended hiatus, it wasn’t very planned on my part. To be blunt I was feeling really burnt out on drawing from taking on more freelance work recently, so progress on RMR suffered quite a bit as a result.

On the plus side, I managed to hustle and get back on the update train, which is important because this page marks Red Moon Rising’s fifth anniversary!

I’d be lying if I said I realised this in time to do any kind of anniversary themed event, but I guess that would be breaking a long tradition of understated anniversary celebrations for my wee webcomic here, so I’m happy just to be updating! Cheers, everyone! You’re all fantastic!

Bang! And the dirt is gone! —Drawing these two is pretty fun, especially with some mad floor level lighting. Also, airship innards and gubbins and such. A surprising amount of research went into this page! Elsewhere, I did some filler art for The Zombie Hunters this week, so feel free to go check that out. And finally, it was my birthday on Sunday (hooray) and I got an amazing cake. It’s all coming up Rose!

A couple of new faces, the Commander and the Envoy. —New characters! I had a bunch of fun designing these guys, I’ll be posting up some related concept art on my tumblr shortly. Also new vote incentive, provided by awesome commenter Ink. It’s the final panel of page 19 with some… alternate dialogue. I feel like in some alternate universe Ezius would absolutely be an obnoxious salesman. What would you do for a klondike bar?

Back to this old chugger. When we last saw it, it was a bit on fire. —Another long delay, sorry about that. It was mostly due to me not wanting to wreck my hand again, but also the fact that this was a big, challenging spread to paint. I don’t think I realised how long it was going to take when I started, but it’s done now and I guess that’s the main thing! Hope you guys like it.

Meanwhile, elsewhere. —Those of you following my twitter might have seen I’ve been having quite some pain in my drawing hand for the past couple of weeks, so sorry for the egregious delay on getting this chapter started. The pain has mostly subsided now, so it’s all good.

Not ringing any bells there, E. —That’s a wrap for this scene, and chapter 1 of this second arc! I’m really happy with this page turned out and how the art’s going in general. I’m especially enjoying drawing Ezius, but we’ll be moving to a completely different locale and set of characters in chapter 2, so that should be fun. The keen-eyed amongst you may have noticed a few changes to the site, namely that the comic has gained about 100px in width and height. I thought this would look better in general, so I’m slowly rolling it out through the archive. Additionally, the first 11 pages (i.e. the prologue) of the first arc have been updated with edited art at the larger page size, and I think it’s a huge improvement. This is part of a medium-term plan to update the older pages in preparation for doing a book (yes!) so stay tuned for more news on that. In the meantime, enjoy the improved art. Finally, the update day for the comic has changed from Monday to Tuesday. RMR almost always ends up updating on Tuesday due to my own personal schedule, so this basically just makes it official.

The Zombie Hunters Kickstarter has less than two days left on it! I’m happy to say they’ve made their goal, so if you want to get a book from them it’s a good time to jump on board.

So generous! So reasonable! —Not much news this week, except that I’m enjoying the hell out of colouring these pages. It took a bit to figure out, but I’m loving this colour scheme. Makes me wish I had a massive garden to hang out in. Edit: Almost forgot, I posted the photoshop file for the previous page on my tumblr a few days ago. If you’re interested in how RMR pages come together it’s worth a look. The Zombie Hunters Kickstarter is still going! They’re nearly at their goal, so if you want what is definitely going to be an incredibly high quality book, chip in soon.

That bird is outta here. —Sorry for the delay on Ezius’ witty rejoinder, it may not come as much of a surprise but hey, I got ill again. Some sort of stomach bug that I actually thought was panic attacks for a while, it was seriously doing my head in. In brighter news, I made a new photoshop brush that’s all over this page and is probably my favourite thing ever. It’s like a textured roller sort of thing, I wish I could marry it. Also, I’m pretty pleased with panel 2. Up the nose shots are pretty hard to draw, but I think that one turned out pretty well. And it turns out spears are brilliant fun to colour. Who knew?

My friends Jenny and Greg over at The Zombie Hunters are still doing their Kickstarter! They’ve nearly reached their goal, so if you’re at all inclined do check it out.

Awkward. —Slightly late with today’s update, but only because I was so busy… well, drawing the update, so I hope you can all forgive me. I’m pretty happy with this page, which isn’t something I often say! Really settling into this art style. Thanks for all the observations and crits recently guys, I appreciate it! Helps me get better. 🙂 Edit: A lot of you are probably already reading The Zombie Hunters by my friend Jenny, and they just launched a Kickstarter for the second volume of TZH! Spread the word if you can, because I can guarantee it’s going to be top notch. Jenny and Greg have been working really hard on this, their comic is fantastic and deserves all the support it can get.

Playing it cool. —Still faffing about with the art a bit. I feel like the previous page was a bit over sharpened, so I tried to soften this one up a bit. After all, they’re in a lovely sunny garden having a civilised conversation. Wouldn’t want to ruin the mood.

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