Feb 25th, 12
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This was yet another page of the comic that featured a few cameo slots. There weren’t as many this time as the previous crowd shot, but several of the panels still had spaces available for people to throw in their creations. I was hoping to have the pencils done before this show so I could focus entirely on getting the page inked, but it didn’t work out that way. In fact, I STILL wasn’t done with the pencils by the time this show was done. Man, sometimes my productivity levels just aren’t up to speed, hehe.
Hit the jump to view the video.
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Jun 14th, 11
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After a couple weeks of forgetting to hit the “Record” button on the video feed, we’re back!
Tonight’s show centered around the next Peter & Company page (#159) where everything goes terribly wrong for Whitney at her party, and likewise for Peter as well. This whole series of pages has featured cameo appearances of other artists’ characters. I’m really enjoying filling in the crowds with actual pre-existing characters instead of simple cookie-cutter generic designs.
The video’s after the jump, as usual.
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May 26th, 11
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Tonight’s show was pretty interesting.
For this week’s page of Peter & Company, I wanted to have a huge crowd of kids at Whitney’s 13th birthday party, with her surrounded by a group of guys all fawning over her. I really didn’t want to just use general cookie-cutter characters, though, so I thought it would be a cool idea to include the original characters of some of the other artists/fans who follow the comic on FurAffinity. I put out an open invitation in a journal detailing the plan, and when the time came to draw the page, I turned on the feed and let people throw down the reference images for their characters.
The end result was a new record for myself — 20 characters in a single panel — with each one (not counting Peter and Whitney) being an OC from someone on FurAffinity. It’s like an awesome FA version of “Where’s Waldo.”
Hit the jump to watch three hours of penciling madness.
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May 21st, 11
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After several months of renovations and gradual repainting efforts, the work room is finally assembled once again. Now that the drawing tables are clear and the Macs back up and running, productivity levels should shoot back up and the show will resume a regular broadcast schedule once again. Awesome!
To celebrate, tonight’s show was dedicated entirely to producing the pencils for the next page of Peter & Company.
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Mar 24th, 11
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So after taking a bit of an extended break during the process of renovating the house, Whitney and I have returned to hosting duties on the show in order to get back into the habit of producing artwork on a regular basis. Tonight’s show ran for the usual length of time and got about halfway through the new page of pencils for this coming week’s Peter & Company update.
Scheduled shows will be a bit less than usual (probably two per week instead of three), since the renovations are still going on. We’ve actually had to set up a temporary art space in the dining room since the work room is a massive jumbled mess right now. The renovations include painting every room, removing old wallpaper, and the installation of a completely new bathroom (which is currently in the early phases), so it will be some time before we can get our old art space back up to full speed again. This will just have to do until then.
Hit the jump to watch tonight’s video.
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Feb 2nd, 11
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Well, tonight was interesting! After going through two hours of pencil work on the next page of Peter & Company, I managed to finish up all but the top two panels on the page… and then was shocked to find that an ink spill accident on the table inadvertently resulted in several of the panels being completely ruined.
I have always loved the feel of traditional drawing techniques. No matter what your chosen or preferred medium, however, you always run the risk of having these sort of tragedies occurring to your work. Photoshop can crash or corrupt your save file, the ink can spill, paint can smear or drip unintentionally, and it always ends up with additional work having to get done to catch up to where you were. Such is the hazard of being an artist, but it comes with the territory. There’s no use crying over it when it happens; just take a brief break to recompose yourself, take a deep breath, and get right back on that horse. The silver lining is that 99% of the time your second attempt at drawing the same panel will end up looking even better than the original.
Regardless, I’ll always embrace traditional inking with a brush, but man… the ink can be a harsh and cruel mistress sometimes.
Hit the jump to witness the tragedy yourself at the tail end of the video (actually, it’s not NEARLY as bad as I’m making it sound; as I can salvage most of the damage in Photoshop and will only have to redraw a minimal amount. Still, it sucks that it happened at all).
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Jan 12th, 11
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Tonight’s show was a return to form for the Inking Room, with the Head-Cam resuming functionality (in reality, I just had to figure out a way to fool Whitney’s iMac into registering it as the default webcam for streaming, which was a bit of an ordeal). Anyway, the show ran the full two hours and got the panel layout, lettering, and half of the panels finished in pencil. I still have the first three panels and all the backgrounds to finish before I ink it, but I feel good with the amount I got done over a couple hours of work.
Hit the jump to view the feed, as well as a couple gratuitous shots of Whitney’s cleavage when she would come over to mess with me while I was working. Your new cohost, ladies and gentlemen. 
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Jan 10th, 11
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The first video stream after the holiday break was a slightly different format than what has been the norm up until now. Due to my laptop dying in mid-December, I had to switch to using Whitney’s iMac in the living room to do the stream. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it to register with the webcam, so I had to use the front-installed iCam to get the stream running. This means it was nothing but a full frontal view — so there aren’t too many closeups on the actual work being done — but it was still a productive evening, with both Whitney and I doing some good sketch work over the course of the program.
Hit the jump to give it a watch. The cam was fixed after the broadcast, so the Head-Cam will resume functionality after this point.
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Nov 11th, 10
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On tonight’s show, I finally managed to get through the pencils for the Peter & Company Halloween portraits I have been planning on doing since before the actual holiday. I’m a bit overdue with it, but hey, better late than never.
Basically the concept is just to take the kids’ costumes from the Halloween comic and draw them in parody images of the corresponding characters. Since most of them (except Iggy) are film characters, I used references from stills or posters to determine how each one is posed. I’ll be inking and coloring these over the weekend, but won’t be broadcasting it on camera since — as is mentioned in a few posts and journals elsewhere — tomorrow is my birthday, and I have plans with the family that last through the weekend. The only day coming up that I might be able to do a show is Saturday, but it remains to be seen if I’ll have the time to turn on the cam. I’ll be making a post on the Facebook/Twitter feeds if it works out, so just keep an eye on there if you’d like to catch it.
Otherwise, hit the jump to check out the video from tonight’s show, as well as scans of the (almost) finished pencils for each character’s portrait.
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Nov 1st, 10
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Tonight’s show was a doozy: it consisted of about four hours’ worth of drawing, inking, and incessant laughter at some pretty nonsensical stuff. I wanted to get this comic done as soon as possible in anticipation of the weekend’s festivities, so I really pushed myself to get through it in a single sitting.
Hit the jump to watch the video in two parts — first part pencils, second part inking. Also mixed in to the videos is a sketch of Korgar that, much like the image of Einhorn, I have great plans to reuse to a ridiculous extent.
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