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.
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.