I hope that someone gets my, message in a bottle
on February 11, 2014 at 11:41 pmVictor:
So I know I don’t post here very often, BUT I’m attempting to be more active on Twitter now! If you want to talk/listen to me like you do with Courtney all the time then be sure to follow me @abscondwithapie!
Courtney:
Whoooa! Thematic panel borders! That’s right, the old black ones are boring me and I’m trying some new stuff out.
This comic was drawn in Manga Studio! And colored in Photoshop, as always. Victor got me MS because other webcomic artists rave about it, and passing 300 pages seemed as good a time as any to try new things. I was reluctant at first, because I thought Photoshop had everything I needed, but you know what it doesn’t have? A panel-maker! A bubble-maker! A thing where WHEN YOU DRAW IN A PANEL IT AUTOMATICALLY PREVENTS YOU FROM GOING OUTSIDE THE LINES. Not to mention all the 3D reference models, which I haven’t even really played with yet. You can expect me to do some cool stuff with perspective in the future now that I have better tools to help me envision things.
Thanks for convincing me to try something new, Victor!
That guy had way too much fun designing his Island’s traps and trials.
Yeah. You have to hand it to the old guy. When he retired from plundering, he found a more constructive use for his energies.
Oh wow, MS seems awesome! And the expressions in the panel are GOLD-
…Skaervs has Orange Rage EYES now too?
I think he always had Orange Rage eyes, it’s just hard to see them usually.
Well you see, whenever we see Skarva in Orange Rage, we’re actually seeing things as he sees himself. There’s an expression “seeing red,” which means greatly angered to the point everything you see is masked by your rage. Well Shark-men can only see light wavelengths down to 670 nanometers, leaving the color orange as the closest thing to red they can percieve. Thus when Skarva is “seeing red,” he is actually “seeing orange.”
…oh…~
*claps* c:
So his eyes are normally deep purple.
When he’s excited, they can flash, turning more pinkish.
When he’s raging, they can turn orange.
His eyes change color like this because of all the pent-up magical energy in him.
And now you know! I should make an official reference for him someday that lays all this out…
Turn out that one of the pages they thought wasn’t it actually is and they need to apply Lemon Juice and heat it up to bring out the invisible ink that will give them a clue to search on Idenau Coin which will lead them to searching through boat where Goldgills betrays them and then the ship blows up and then they go to America to steal the Declaration of Courtney’s Tablet where the story stops because she kind of needs that to keep drawing.
This is great Courtney. So many wonderful faces!
I use Manga Studio, and I fully endorse it. It’s wonderful.
Does this mean Nicholas Cage is playing Skärva? Oh no…
http://kannamaru.tumblr.com/image/76437460186
I AM AFRAID
That joke would be pitifully wasted if the pirate who found it opened it up on the correct side the first time…
Yeah. It was a 50/50 gamble. And pirates like to gamble!
I’m guessing enchanted paper. Whichever way you open it, you see the “wrong” side first.
I hope one of them was covered in map puns.