Some scanned and lightly processed pencil drawings....

Some scanned and lightly processed pencil drawings. Sharing the whole page would spoil a whole lot, so here's a partial view.

Hakazi is stuck. He doesn't like being stuck.

Two frames of a comic. The first features the security guard holding Hakazi by the front of his coat, Hakazi is banging on his arm to try to get him to let go but it doesnt work because the guy is too damn big. Hakazi screams, "The fuck! Were you grown in a lab?!"
The second features the guard looking afraid, staring at something out of frame, lighting it with a flashlight and saying "I... I dont believe it." Hakazi is visible almost out of frame and giving him the finger while shouting "Believe THIS asshole!"

Like 4 Sep 2023 at 17:58 | Open on merveilles.town

20 comments

jkossen

@rek Looks great and like something I'd very much like to read 😃 Will this be available in the 100r store when it's finished?

4 Sep 2023 at 19:37 | Open on mastodon.social

R E K

@jkossen someday, maybe :). I'm still playing with the characters and story at the moment.

4 Sep 2023 at 22:46 | Open on merveilles.town

Jummit

@rek Honestly, I like this style of linework a lot. When I tried scanning pencil drawings I can never get it to look good. Care to share more details about the workflow?

5 Sep 2023 at 8:03 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

R E K

@Jummit you mean that it comes out messy, or? I’m a pretty messy drawer, so I usually have a bit of cleanup to do.
Which involves playing with levels in Gimp to darken lines & lighten whites, then for persistent messes I add a new layer and set it to ‘overlay’ then draw over with white, leaving the darker important lines untouched.
Anyway not sure this is what you were looking for :>

5 Sep 2023 at 15:39 | Open on merveilles.town

Jummit

@rek Yeah, sorry for not being more specific (I don't really know why my results aren't as good so I don't know the unknowns), but I will try to play with the levels and do some touch ups.
I have a feeling that I didn't set the scanner quality as high as it could and that's why I got some artifacts, so that's another thing to check.
Thanks for the tips and inspiration nonetheless, and I'd love to see more details of the process!

5 Sep 2023 at 15:47 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

R E K replied to Jummit

@Jummit yea depends what you start with (how clean it is), scanner settings, etc :).
My scanner settings could be a lot better, I could probably get better, cleaner results. I’m just lazy ^_^;;...

5 Sep 2023 at 16:12 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K

Sometimes... it feels like I’m animating XD!

I’ve already shared a bunch of these, but it’s funny to see them all together (the ‘smiling-but-worried’ one is new tho).

Guard dude looking excited but also devious.

Guard dude pleased as punch, grinning and looking at something with a flashlight

Guard dude grinning but generally looking very worried

5 Sep 2023 at 16:23 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K

“What a monster looks like depends on who you ask.”

Indeed, some monsters wear suits and ties.

12 Sep 2023 at 23:02 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K

I've been struggling with this particular sequence for a long while because the scene takes place at night, and I wasn't sure how to make it look good. I've been on/off it for weeks, mostly cause I was frustrated, but also cause we've been moving the boat a lot.

I think I've finally found something I like :>.

Hakazi and Dae see well in the dark, but the guard doesn't (uses a flashlight to see).

a page from the comic Hakum, featuring a scene where a guard is fighting Dae and Hakazi in the dark.

16 Sep 2023 at 21:26 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K replied to R E K

Time for The Great Squishing :blobhaj_reach:

Hakazi is pinned to the ground with Dae, looking angry, laying partway on his back, banging his fist against Hakazi’s squished up head.

20 Sep 2023 at 15:40 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K replied to R E K

Hit hard in the face, bit violent.

Think I’m getting better at drawing my OCs getting the stuffing kicked out of them.

Not sure they’re glad of it though.

Hakazi getting palmed hard in the head, and not having a very good time overall.

23 Sep 2023 at 3:24 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K replied to R E K

Forever experimenting with this project.
I’m looking to do less on the computer, so I’ve abandoned the idea of shading digitally, and am trying to do it by hand with pencils. So far so good?