Belated Secret Santa for imsopopfly on tumblr. Got picked to cover a pinch hit for the contest, which looks to be running into March again this year. The prompt was for Wizer Freon to get a spin-off where he solves minor crimes with cameos by other characters, and since he’s such a goofball I gave it an 80’s cop show vibe.

It’s been a while since I’ve done artwork on my laptop since the desktop is so much more powerful and drawing at the desk is more comfortable in the first place, but since I’m back to attending class on campus I took some time to update and er, attempt to recalibrate my stuff a bit. It seems I have gotten a little bit finer control over the past year doing it regularly since I had to firm up the pressure sensitivity on the Bamboo to get things closer to where they were- then after looking at my before and after pictures (above) I realized that my monitor colors are apparently way off and the screen was angled in a way that my proportions look skewed. To think I used to do *all* of my drawing that way.

I’m rethinking my ‘breaks’ a bit since I get to feeling rusty pretty damn fast when I step away too long. I wasn’t especially satisfied with any of my practice stuff today and wound up cutting stream so I could make early dinner and get some reading done. I was feeling pretty good about my body construction for a while, but lately I’m feeling kind of limited in posing again so I think I’m due to revisit drawing *actual* bodies again. Even though I’m not great with realism in general, dipping into that pool every now and then does seem to polish my skills up.

Hopefully, I’ll get to drop the game alpha bomb soon. Still dragging my feet on the statistic part a bit, but I did finally figure out some lore to use as a base to help tie things together a bit.

Also, finally got around to experimenting a bit in Manga/Clip Studio a bit. I dig the tools it has for setting up panels but I haven’t figured my way around the page management tool or figured out how to make the frigging thing let me work in full color yet. I presume I’m just missing it in the menu since some of the premade assets are in color but are turned greyscale when I place them. I uh, need to practice with that marionette tool a bit more if I’m going to use it, though.