2014-05-28
Silk does a lot of growing up on this page, and it was fun to draw that. It’s also good practice, as Locus will be having similar moments here very soon.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Patreon last week! I was gonna set up a Patreon thing for Godslayer, but Vic (creator of Zik and the cyberstud who makes all these Locus Comics websites possible!) said to me, “You know, I can do all this Patreon stuff right here with WordPress plugins.”
And he did! It’s pretty cool, really. I can offer all the things Patreon offers, and I can throw the 5% that Patreon takes off the top into advertising instead. Thanks, Vic!
At any rate: stop by next week! It’s the page you’ve all been waiting for…you just didn’t realize you were waiting for it.
Or something.
And we’ll talk more about Godslayer, too!
After Wendy asked about Moondogie:
Moondoggie is actually the creation of my friend Hambone, who did some surfing Back In The Day. When the character needed a name, I asked him what would be the most common surfer name he could imagine, and Moondoggie was the best candidate.
There was a guy named Moondoggie in those old Annette Funicello surf party movies, and that name spread around to the point where there’s an anime character named Moondoggie somewhere.
As for her hand, I think the odd index finger might be throwing the rest outta whack. I probably could’ve slowed down the inking a bit, too. 🙂
After Thomas remarked on wing anatomy:
Oddly enough, thinking it through is kinda what stalled this comic for almost 20 years. I drew the succubi anatomy and spent a year trying to figure out how to put a shirt on her or otherwise cover her breasts. I couldn’t figure out a way to do it that didn’t look fake but did look good, and put the whole story on the shelf. I switched to part-time RPG illustration work for a couple years.
The succubus design got snuck into the Midnight Realm, which is a Talislanta RPG book:
It’s free! Check it out. It describes what the place in issue 20 looked like billions of years ago.
Midnight Realm was a good place to practice the succubus/incubus designs.
Fun news for Tal fans: I’ll be illustrating a new Tal book soon! Stay tuned!