Hola from Cabo! I’ve been doing my best to learn spanish while i’m here.. having a semester in it does help me understand i must say, but the majority of the people here speak english very well so it’s not a necessity. Bad part is that it just means that everyone here is expecting us tourists, so everything is just as baller.

On a tangent: did you notice “hello” sounds really similar in a lot of languages? Para examplo (i have no clue if thats even how you say example in spanish): “Hola” means hello, but swap the ”a” and “o” and its “Halo” and pronounce it chinesey, you get “ha-low”, which sounds like “hello” which is awkwardly similar to “nay-ho” for fobbers out there.

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I found this how-to on youtube that shows one guys method of drawing eyes so i decided to try it out. Then I went bonkers and drew everything. I’m stuck drawing line-figures in this style it seems. I need to branch out and try to draw something more naturalistic. Dah well.

“ai lao-le, i shower, I’m always-onliiinee~”

So this is backwards, but i was reading online how to design a character, and one of the key steps before you even draw anything, is to make a silhouette. Then after you do it, you identify the major basic shapes in your character, and see if they work well together. I have no idea which shapes work together, but i thought I’d try to give an RH silhouette a go, and that’s what i came up with 5mins later. Not bad, considering i wasn’t expecting it to come out looking like anything more than a mangled psychologists ink blot.

One thing to note that I learned, is that a key to a good character design, is so that people can recognize it by it’s silhouette. Check out these i found online. Who knew character design was more than just drawing a thing out and having it in a cool pose.

And if you’re gotten this far please click this for hilarious remake of Take On Me song.

Woo hoo! The first couple pages are done. It took me a week and a half to do it, but I’m happy with the way it turned out. Alright, now to see if we can keep this going. I changed up the style at least 3 times while making the first 2 pages.. this title page is basically one of my original RH drawings, but still one of my favourites.

About the comic itself: I really, really hope to finish chapter 1. It’d be so cool. Go, go Romo for putting his writing mind to use for me. Enjoy

So this is what i have so far for the first page first panel for the comic. I think I’ll try to stick with this style for the time being, kind of a half and half between using all ‘lines’ and some solid tones. Gawd. 4 more panels to go for page 1
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A while ago, i tried to start up a comic with Romo about Lee Harden who’s a Private Eye, but that failed after the 6th page because it was so time consuming to think of how to draw each frame. But with some new resolve and a different game plan, we’re going to revive him.. and junk the old story line. We’ll still call it Noir Means Black, because that is the best title for the series still as far as doing it in the “film noir”genre and making fun of it goes, but we’re changing the name of our leading PI from Lee harden, to Richard Harden.

Why? To make the link from Private Eye (Dick) Lee Harden -> Dick Lee Harden -> Dick Harden much more blatent. I think I’ll revamp Harden’s image.. for 2 reasons: I forgot how to draw the character, and I’m ever changing the style of the comic.

Hopefully I’ll be done the first page soon.