P.O.W.! Challenge 56 (A-B) Steampunk and Vision Quests

[donalfall]

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All future POW! Challenges will roughly follow the format below, unless otherwise noted for a special event.

SPECIAL NOTE: For the next two challenges only, we are dropping the "C" challenge because of the two-month holiday period, which really makes things difficult for everybody. We'll go back to normal in January.

In all cases, you can interpret the art any way you wish, and the more creatively, the better. Any media. B&W or Color, unless we specifically point out otherwise.


Topic 56A: A Steampunk Love Story

Bring the Victoriana! Give us pages of Steampunk, gadgetry and monocles. Extra points for those who give that authentic woodcut look. The general theme is up to you, but make sure to get the love in. Whether it's man-woman, man-man, man or woman-steam gadgetry, whatever. It's a love story, give me the love.

Topic 56B: The Vision Quest

This isn't a World Mythology quest, but it's close. Make it psychedelic, make it metaphorical, make it meaningful. Lean into African and/or Australian themes. The nice one here is that it doesn't need to be linear or have a strict narrative, or even make strict sense, but bonus points come from putting in lots and lots and lots of colour.

Either or Both-Deadline: Sunday, January 15th, 2012, 11:59 pm anywhere in the world.

You can present your solution as a minimum of THREE to any practical maximum you wish which adhere to standard comic specs as below...and, yes, you can have the first or last (or both) as a splash page if you want--just don't get TOO extreme on page counts. REMEMBER: You don't have to have a complete comic to qualify for polling--if you realize you're running out of time, try to get at least THREE pages finished by the deadline. That's all you need to qualify for polling..

Standard Comic Book Size:

--Trim size: 6 5/8" x 10 1/4"
--Live art area: 6" x 9"
--Bleed size before trimming: 6 7/8" x 10 1/2" (1/8" in all directions)

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Good luck.

A little note here for all of you who have supported the P.O.W.! Challenges...thankyewthankyewthankyew...

Just a reminder--those of you who didn't get a chance to finish exactly the way you wanted to, or ran into deadline problems, remember there is a sticky section where you can post your stuff when you do get it up to speed.

[arttorney]

So, anyway, are Australia and Africa mandatory or merely suggestions?

[Codexier]

Oo! I'm in for Steampunk Romance.

I'll try starting off with a script this time. My comic is based on the ballet called Capellia, though I've changed the ending for a darker conclusion. I'm setting it in a steampunk Bangkok. I have 48 hours worth of airplane rides between now and the due date, so this will give me something to do. The dialog is crap...I know.

Page 1 - Doctor Coppelius creates the windup girl
- 3 Small Panels - Doctor Coppelius puts the final touches on the windup girl - Inserting gears, sewing parts, putting in an eyeball.
Narration spans all three panels: "Whether out of genius or vanity..."
- We see the final product sitting up on the table (beautiful Frankenstein) with the Dr. grinning
- She emerges into a courtyard and raises her face to the sun (the Dr stands in the doorway).
- Franz sees her from his balcony and wonders who she is. "Who is this beauty...this vision of perfection?"

Page 2 - Franz falls in love
- Close up of the Windup girl looking intently at a butterfly on her mechanical finger. Off stage: "Hello?"
- Franz running into the courtyard huffing... "Hello!"
- The windup girl regards him without emotion.
- Franz takes her hand and we have 3 panels of him dancing with her.
- We see Franz walking away completely smitten (comically...like hearts in the eyes or something silly).
- Swanhilde (his betrothed...which has forgotten about), sees him with the windup girl and is angry. "Humph! I'll show that lousy sap!"

Page 3 - Swanhilde masquerades as the Windup Girl
- Windup girl with Swanhilde's hand over her mouth
- Swanhilde pulling windup girl into dark..she is abducting her
- Swanhilde tying up windup girl
- We see windup girl in the background, bound and naked. Swanhilde is wearing her clothes and painting her face to look like her. She is considerably heavier than the windup girl.
- She is outside in the same courtyard, comically echoing the scene from page 1.

Page 4 - Franz finds out he is in love with a windup girl
- Calls on the doctor in his lab.
- Asks for the doctor's permission to wed the girl
- The doctor laughs and tells him she is just a doll, a plaything.
- Franz storms away embarrassed and vengeful

Page 5 - Franz breaks the windup girl
- Franz confronts the windup girl (which is really Swanhilde). "You...you...played me like a fool. We'll see who the plaything is now!"
- Silouette of violent scene
- Franz hits her in the back of the head with a large wrench.
- Franz is suprised to see blood and realizes what he's done.
- "I just wanted you to notice the fool you were being."
- Last panel - we see wrench in hand, gripped tight and the windup girl looking up at him expectantly.

[donalfall]

arttourney - only suggestions. I'm a laissez-faire topic setter.

Codexier - exciting! Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh, so to speak.

[clitherland82]

Totally want to do the steampunk one. I love the Victorian era, and steampunk's pretty damn cool. Looking forward to it and what everyone comes up with. Now I just need to get something going...

[GRLILLO-GROD!]

Ah, this sounds great! i'm a fan of victorian era finery from mouldering lacquered stripe hatboxes to outsized queen victoria's bloomers on auction (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8863969/Queen-Victorias-bloomers-sell-for-9000.html). And special bonus happy treat for me - i fell in love earlier this year so i have lots of great fresh source material and a need to record. prolly i'ma push my piece a little more toward turn of the century edwardian / just before wwI / dieselpunk kind of aesthetic if that's okay.

gotta write write write for now! brainstorming > beats development > add to slag heap > outline > roughs

wasn't there talk of a collaborative project?

-dives into sketchbook... splash.

[donalfall]

GRLILLO-GROD! yup, but Ilaekae was out of town and hasn't all the balls lined up right this second. The team-up throwdown is coming soon!

[GRLILLO-GROD!]

okay i have been struggling with the cloud to discern something compelling, then a little while ago i remembered this little gem that i found online um... 4 years ago?

Okay maybe not so much love but still titilating and at least lovely. :)

ANON, LONDON - 11 APRIL
We met by the river, just in front of the Eye, and it was good to see him again. We didn't have much of a plan for the day so we wandered across the river and up to Oxford Street. After that we weren't really sure what to do. We were going to have some lunch and we were just thinking about where to eat when we came across Hyde Park. I saw the park and I knew what would happen if we lay down together there, and I wanted it; somehow I knew he wanted it too. It was warm and sunny, unseasonably so, and we stretched out side by side on the dappled grass.

We talked and talked, and I made a really long daisy chain, which he picked the daisies for. Whenever he handed me one, our fingers would sort of linger. What happened next felt like a dream, because it was so silent and serene. My hand was on his hand - we weren't holding hands then, just my fingers resting on his palm. Then, and it was completely quiet, neither of us said anything, we just stroked each others' hands and fingers; I ran my hand up and down his arm very gently; I could hardly breathe. I could feel his fingertips trace my palm, and I ran my hand up his arm and across his chest, and then back, slowly.

My head was right next to his and I touched his hair. I giggled a little, and then I kissed his cheek. He turned his head gently over and I kissed his lips. My first kiss, and it couldn't have been more special.

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6290950.stm

[Angel Intheuk]

Ooooh the vision quest one sounds like fun :D, I love a good love story too but I dont' know if I'm up for drawing cogs and wheels on everything :D. Besides I have been reading about Peyote and Ayahuasca for a story :D cool.

[j.s. sabastian]

so i guess that's it....for now... i just gave up my wacom tablet. which was my only way too post my half ass art work here :nohope:
but it was for a good cuase. my cousin seem's too think he knows about art becuase he took some graphic design classes and is still using a mouse too do his digital work most likely with vector graphics. he needs this tool.............................................. .besides i need to upgrade!!!!!!! so that will be my christmas present this year LE1600-1700's are dirt cheap finally i can afford one! yeah!

[NicoleWG]

I'm definitely doing the Steampunk one. I'm going to base it off an interview I heard on the radio. It's a married couple were the husband got aseptic meningitis and lost his memory of everything that happened before 1995 and his wife had to teach him how to talk, walk, read, eat, etc and she never divorced him or put him in a care home because of her marriage vows and she loved him. It was very beautiful and I almost cried on the way to work. To steam punk, I think I'll make the husband mostly cybernetic instead. I'll have a script shortly.

[ex-machina]

i'm aiming for the vision quest....hope i don't miss the topic too much :sungod::sungod:
here's the first three panel inked, what so you think? is the (storyline-) gap between the second and the third to big? Well actually there isnt a story between, but maybe how he walks out of the door or down a stair or something like that...
it wouldn't be a problem but i want to keep it simple, otherwise i'll never ever get it done...:-(
Codexier: Sounds a lot like "Der Sandmann" by E.T.A. Hoffmann, a german writer, which is actually the base for the ballet (the story is a lot darker than the one of the ballet) and one of my favorite books! Looking forward to see a steamy Bangkok!

[donalfall]

ex-machina I think the transition is fine, it's a couple of panels that set the scene. If you're doing the Vision Quest story you can be as disjointed as you like any way. Vision/Dream logic doesn't have to be linear. I know this is probably the mundane scene for the set-up, but it can be cool to hint before the Vision part that things are already disjointing. :)

[ex-machina]

Wooooooooohooooooo Folks!
Never had that much fun to draw before! I think i have some extra nitro boost of all those sugary christmas-cookies!
So here's Page 2 inked. I may put some backgrounds on it, espcially the last panel cries for one...
Idea for the teamcontest: we make teams of two eventually three people, then there is one topic. 1. step: get the story together 2. step: one draws (and inkes) the comic 3. step the other does the coloring or inking etc...
It's not a big wow-idea, but it just came to mind and i thought to share it with you...
oh i will edit my previous post tomorrow so you can see the last panel of page 1...but now its def. to late....

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[NicoleWG]

I finished the script, and I'm working on drawing it. I also have some concepts for the wife, but I like them all for different reasons, but I'll scrap the one on the top left probably. I'll figure it out at some point. There's no page limit is there? Mine's kind of long and I can't get rid of anything because it's all important.

[donalfall]

NicoleWG "a minimum of THREE to any practical maximum" don't worry about your page count if its all impirtant. Make sure to post at least 3 if you're dropping behind so that it gets into the poll. :) Your progress is looking good.

[Scarbo]

Hello.

I signed up at conceptart.org a couple of years ago specifically to take part in the Panels of the Week challenges, but never got around to it ("You last visited: October 25th, 2009 at 05:07 PM" Sorry I'm late, what did I miss?).

Count me in this time.

[ex-machina]

Well, this is just a little new year greeting of my character, a bit early i konw, but i'll be away for new year, so - Happy new year!

NicoleWG: nice sketches so far! looking forward to see more!
Scarbo: Welcome back! It's never too late! :-D

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[Scarbo]

Trying to attach a quick sketch; mainly to work out what the characters look like. Now I just need to figure out how to make the story work on four or five pages.

[j.s. sabastian]

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S TOO ALL YOU CRAZY P.O.W! PARTICAPANTS!!!!!! i might uploade some steampunk material soon! tomorrow i move back to the city i just moved from thirty day's ago.. and i am soooooooo sssssooooooo grateful!!!!!!!!! peace- moving blow's

[ex-machina]

some colors...:sungod:
Scarbo, good sketches, keep them coming!
cheerio!
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[Scarbo]

All right, trying to work a bit more on the style for this comic (also getting used to drawing the characters).

I'm also thinking about whether to try hand lettering in Painter; the scribbles in these pictures are done freehand without any guides or planning, so if this is legible it should be possible for me to do the lettering completely digitally. I'll probably switch to pencilling the drawings first, though (as soon as I get back to my scanner).

[Scarbo]

I tried posting some sketches last night but they haven't shown up since I'm a "new user". It worked fine with just one image the other day, but not with two, so I'll try to post one image again. If that doesn't work I'll just have to post text until someone has time to approve my posts.

A badly reproduced image from my sketchbook this time (no scanner until the weekend); just trying to get my ideas going. I'm starting to have the basic outlines of a script as well.

[Scarbo]

I got stuck on character design instead. Still not quite there, but going in the right direction.

[Scarbo]

I'm re-posting one of the sketches that got held up by the spam filter the other day; if I wait any longer I'll just start redesigning the characters again...

[Scarbo]

And here's the other one. The second character here is an old design (from the distant past of the day before yesterday), but I still like the stats.

Now on to actual pages (or at least thumbnails).

[donalfall]

Good going Scarbo! I was busy with visitors over the last few days, just finishing off a few pages for a Steampunk Love Story.

HAPPY NEW YEAR POW'ers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kjesta]

First off, happy new year everyone :sungod:

I've started so many challenges in my sketches and never once finished anything, I really want to try it this time around and maybe even take a day off to do so. I'm going with A, even though I have no idea yet how I'll manage all that funky mechanics stuff, I really suck at drawing technical stuff.

Usually I write epic-length novels of at least 200k words, so I'm double proud of having managed to find a plot that takes place on 6 pages, haha. It's a bit of a twisted love triangle thing, including self-love of some sort, and well... Dunno. It's weird and I have only written a general script for each page but I'll work it out in more detail tomorrow. This was written quickly in the last hour:

page 1:
- young heroine (F) is shown working on an automaton girl in her workshop when her admirer and only friend (M) comes in with a box of spare parts that he sets down on the ground and says: "I suppose you'll be too busy again to go out for dinner with me tonight...?"
- look at F's face from the insides of the doll's mechanics: "I'm sorry, but..."
- next panel cuts to dolls half-assembled face, F: "...I'm just reaching a critical stage here."
- M looks frustrated but seems to be used to being turned down, F's oblivious voice: "How about giving her curls?

page 2:
- guy sitting by himself in a bar, barkeeper asks "F turned you down again?", M: (downing his glass) "Yeah..."
- barkeeper voice-over: "Even being kicked out by her parents only managed to make her more obsessed with her tinkering. Strange girl." (paired with montage of F at various ages taking apart toys and being chided by her parents, eventually standing by herself with a suitcase in front of her house's doors)
- cut to F in the workshop, she caresses the doll's face with proud fondness
- F falls asleep with her head on the doll's chest
- doll arm is suspended by a wire or sth but it slips and comes to rest across F's back, winds up looking like an embrace

page 3:
- finally the doll is finished, F shows it off to M ("It's taken so long...") and winds up agreeing to a date with him after all, still elated with pride and joy over her creation
- M sitting in a fancy restaurant waiting for her, looks at his watch
- montage of his pocketwatch and scenes of F with her doll: fixing up the doll which results in the doll looking more and more like herself without F noticing
- M closes his watch in frustration after two hours and leaves the restaurant

page 4:
- passage of time: F spends time with the doll and falls in love with her own creation, reading to her, dressing her up, making her dance, sleeping next to her after giving her a goodnight kiss...

page 5:
- M comes in, sees F sleeping next to the doll
- wakes F furiously and tugs her roughly to her feet: "You don't care about anyone but yourself!" (combine with a panel of F and the doll side by side, clearly looking very much alike)
- he grabs something and hits the doll with it, breaking it before storming out
- F is left by herself, looking at the doll's broken face on the ground, we only see her face because it's reflected in a mirror shard (we see her from above)

page 6:
- voice-over of F: "Maybe it's true... I love myself the most in a world that doesn't value what I treasure more than anything. But now I come to think... Is that really a bad thing?"
- she rises from the ground and picks up her tools
- "Maybe it's just enough for me."
- finish with a big shot from outside the window, seeing only the silhouettes of the window bars, her tools, and F holding the doll as she repairs it so that it also appears like she is holding a wounded lover

Oh the sappiness... And the pseudo-philosophical drama! I've got some really nice visuals in my head but I'm not sure I could pull that off. Well, we'll see!

[j.s. sabastian]

@SCARBO i really like your enthusiasm! in our world four weeks go's by really fast. IMP. stop spending anymore time on character design!!!! it's great that have a inspiring story line but you should be thinking/working of character placement in the panels which i haven't seen yet, and even dialogue bubbles. when creating this you must envision the overall picture.
another thing i notice you jump back and forth from digital to natural pencil and paper to save time pick one!------IMP your pencil works a lot stronger.

[Scarbo]

Thanks for the feedback! I've been working on page and panel layouts, but won't get to scan them until tomorrow at the earliest.
My planned workflow goes Pencilled pages -> Digital inking -> Great profit (but I may have to change the last step).

[Kjesta]

I didn't make much progress with my sketches but I'm typing the script with CeltX and working out the page division further. Hoping to get further into character design tomorrow.

I also set up a very basic concept of Henrietta's workshop. (Henrietta is my heroine's name.) Just learning to use SketchUp so it's nothing fancy, just so I have something to look at.

[Kjesta]

Sorry for the double post, but you will now be treated to my craptastic doodles of doom for page 1.

[NicoleWG]

I didn't pace myself very well so I didn't finish inking digitally. I spent too much time drawing on paper. I don't think I'll finish, but I'll see what I can get done though.

[donalfall]

Keep going, NicoleWG - you have a whole week left. :) 3 pages gets you in the poll! I'm really excited about seeing all of your work. Lots of new faces this time round.

[j.s. sabastian]

i decided to actually work on pencil/pen steampunk pages as crappy as they are i limited it to four pageswich will be uploaded in two day's

[Angel Intheuk]

Lots of good stuff coming out of this topic :D

I'm ashamed to put my scribbles on here, but hopefully you get the idea, they're mainly notes and sketches so they're a bit incoherant :D. I'll post the proper sketches soon.

[Kjesta]

Angel Intheuk, I love how loose your lines look! Very nice, it actually reminded me to loosen up again myself and that helped me so much drawing today. Thanks a bunch!

I'm almost finished with pencilling the first page now. Whew, drawing comics is so hard! I'm glad that I've got SketchUp to help me with perspective at times, just to figure out some angles. It's a lot of fun though, drawing environments. I'm very proud of what I got done today! The first panel isn't my favourite but I really like the bottom left one. (Sorry for the crappy photo...) I decided to put the speech bubbles in via computer later on but I also need to write the title... Let's see how I manage that one.

Too bad it's past midnight already, I'd love to keep drawing :(

[velderia]

Well, this is what I have so far (Topic: Steampunk Love Story):
(Thumbs):
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(Rough - Page 1):
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[Scarbo]

All right: pencilled roughs are done, and the scanner isn't working. Let's have a bad digital photo instead.

Looking good so far, everybody!

[Kjesta]

Okay, I'm almost finished with inking the first page. Whew! Loads of fun but it's also really hard. So many perspective errors... Ah well, maybe I'll redo the page one day.

Have a photo.

Everyone else's is looking good too! Nice going, I'm excited to see how they will look finished :rocker:

[Kjesta]

I feel like I'm spamming this thread with my WIPs so you guys just tell me when to stop... But drawing for an hour or two has been my only actual work today (was sick) so I feel the need to boost my self-esteem by showing it off. Rough pencils of page 2. Far from perfect yet but I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

Critique is always welcome! I'm not sure if I'll make the deadline because I'd have to finish inking by Saturday afternoon in order to have it scanned on time but we'll see.

[Angel Intheuk]

Looking really good Kjesta :D I don't think you're spamming I'm glad you're posting, it's giving me a kick to finish mine. I've got my story roughed out and I just need to neaten it up now and put some colour on but I might not have time either to finish it how I want :D

[karacature]

I've never posted on concept art before, and though I very much doubt I will be able to complete this since I only just read the challenge yesterday, I thought perhaps posting an idea is better than not posting at all.....right? ;) So here's my take on a Steampunk romance.....reinterpreting a fairytale:

Steampunk romance
Dialog: Father came home from the city yesterday. (Establishing image of cottage with forest behind it)
Blew in with the storm. (Door opening and old man stumbling in)
Clutched in his hand was the most wondrous mechanical rose. He carried it as a burden, though it was gossamer-light. (Daughters helping him into a chair)
(Inset of Rose)
He told the most astonishing tale of a magnificent castle in the wood, that housed wonders beyond the magnificent rose… (silhouette of castle)
(Various mechanical objects)
That even as he spoke bloomed with the heat of the fire as the metal warmed (Rose opening, three inset panels)
(beauty’s face, her delight with the rose)
(Father’s face turned away from it, and the other sisters comforting him)
But with a price…. Someone must return, alone. (Daughter sneaking out the door, looking back toward lights in the cottage)
(Footsteps in the snow, her tiny figure against the massive forest)
Splash page: Beauty and the beast (Beauty Foreground, silhouette of cyborg-type beast in BG, steampunk/nouveau border and title)

I haven't decided if I want to make the outside world strictly mundane with no steam-punk technology to make the castle really the draw for Beauty to want to go and explore it, or to make the people into mechanical dolls and just the motivation follow the standard save-father's-life.....

[Kjesta]

Angel Intheuk, thanks! I'm holding my thumbs for you to finish on time and to motivate you further, here's an update on my own comic :) (And now to bed, it's almost 3am... And I have to finish this thing until 1pm... Oh dear!)

Almost done inking page 2 and I've almost completed the pencil roughs for page 3. I think page 2 is better than 1 and 3 will end up better than 3, at least I hope so, haha. Ignore the Escher-esque chair my male main character is sitting on... I always mess this kind of thing up, sigh.

Oooh and do you see those shiny little sound words? My first sound words ever!

[j.s. sabastian]

so hears my rush job wish i spent more time penciling it out! Great job my peep's!!!!!!!!!!:hugsmile:

http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/jssabastian67/steampuncklove1.jpg
http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/jssabastian67/steampuncklove2.jpg
http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/jssabastian67/steampuncklove3.jpg
http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/jssabastian67/steampuncklove4.jpg

[velderia]

Made some changes. I felt like the ending wasn't getting quick to the point enough... A bit stumped on the inking but almost done:

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[karacature]

I'm new to participating in challenges, though I've popped in to view and vote on CA before... I tried posting my outline yesterday but it didn't show up in the thread.
Here's my outline:
Steampunk romance
Dialog: Father came home from the city yesterday. (Establishing image of cottage with forest behind it)
Blew in with the storm. (Door opening and old man stumbling in)
Clutched in his hand was the most wondrous mechanical rose. He carried it as a burden, though it was gossamer-light. (Daughters helping him into a chair)
(Inset of Rose)
He told the most astonishing tale of a magnificent castle in the wood, that housed wonders beyond the magnificent rose… (silhouette of castle)
(Various mechanical objects)
That even as he spoke bloomed with the heat of the fire as the metal warmed (Rose opening, three inset panels)
(beauty’s face, her delight with the rose)
(Father’s face turned away from it, and the other sisters comforting him)
But with a price…. Someone must return, alone. (Daughter sneaking out the door, looking back toward lights in the cottage)
(Footsteps in the snow, her tiny figure against the massive forest)

Splash page: Beauty and the beast (Beauty Foreground, silhouette of cyborg-type beast in BG, steampunk/nouveau border and title)

I've started my roughs but since I only found this topic two days ago, I might not get the pages finished enough for voting, but I'll spend today working on them as well. :)

[velderia]

I don't know if I'm going to make this on time... Should have planned this better.

Edit: Some WIP:

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[ex-machina]

time for some crits:
velderia: very nice coloring, nice color-palette! good and clear panel-architectur.
j.s.sabastian: nice to see some tradional stuff from you! It's looking great!
kjesta: good line work! clear and strong! The bottom-left panel on the first page is superb! never mind the smaller perspectiv errors.
scarbo: good sketches! I hope you can inked them at least!
Angel intheuk: I really hope to see this one done! nice sketching and promising story notes!

I will probably finish this time, but iwont color the whole story. It's so much work to do and I still got other stuff to do...
I will post some stuff later!

[Edit] here's page 3
i know, i screwed up the taxi massivly...
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[klortho]

I was sick for a week, so I could only do 3 of 6 pages of this "Vision Quest" story.

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[Scarbo]

Yeah, I've blown the deadline on this one. I've got a bunch of really good excuses but I'll go ahead and assume that nobody wants to hear them :)

I'll try to clean up what I have and post it in a day or two, because it's good for my morale. It's been great to practice my rusty comics drawing skills; now I'll just need to work on those even more important "meeting my deadline" skills. Great work, everybody who made it and almost made it!

[Kjesta]

Wow, some really great stuff! I'll post more thorough comments when I'm done with my own but it's so inspiring to see all of your work, folks.

Now, I've got a bit of a problem: after actually managing to finish my artwork digitally (at least as far as it'll get for now), I can't figure out how to resize my images to work here as an attachment. Anybody know how I get it down to 96dpi in GIMP? It'd suck if I failed the deadline because of this!

Edit: Oh oh oh, I think I did it :D Haha, I'm such a dunce sometimes.

Edit 2: Alright, here's my monster. I'm not completely happy with it, I still have so much to learn about working with my ink and nibs, but I think it's not too bad for my first try at making a comic. For the next time I participate, though, I'll try to work on my digital drawing skills! Paying 8€ just to get my drawings scanned at the copy shop was really hefty.

Final thoughts: I might actually work more on it and shade/crosshatch/fill it more, that's actually my favourite part of working in ink but I didn't have time anymore.

[clitherland82]

Unfortunately I had some things come up and I can't do this POW :( I didn't even get a page done. Hopefully I'll be able to do the next one though! I do look forward to seeing what everyone's come up with though.

[Angel Intheuk]

Kjesta Aw that's a really sweet story, nicely drawn too :D
Klortho Haha like it! great style.
ex-machina Thanks, I like your story idea too. I'm interested to see where it'll go.
Velderia I agree, lovely colour palette. Hope you can finish.
J.S Sebastian Cool! Nice work, I like the sense of action and humour.


Well here's what I got so far, it's changed alot from the notes. I wanted it more disjointed but I got carried away and made it all structured. :) Just got to put words in so it makes sense, hopefully I'll finish in time. :)

EDIT: Here's the finished one :D

[ex-machina]

kjesta: nice story! as i told before, your inking is great!
angel intheuk: Great! I like your story. I konow it sounds harsh, but for me it's more like a (advanced) sketch for a comic....
Am i the only one who sees some sarcasm in the story? I'm mean, comparing goa(?) top the beatles... I mean no offence to any goa-listener, i like it too sometimes, but it's just NOT the same feeling....
Here's mine:
rape it!

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[Angel Intheuk]

ex=machina Don't worry, it doesn't sound harsh, I'm glad for the feedback. it's definitely not finished, I really only worked on it for a few evenings and I'm not really happy with it myself, but it's still slightly more than I did last time so I'm getting there :D. The story is supposed to sound a little ironic that out of all the profound things that enter your head when tripping sometimes the things that stick with you are the most trivial, like understanding where the Beatles were coming from during their psychadelic phase (which I never had before until I took mushrooms) I just need to work on my storytelling. :)

[Choob]

Dayum, POW's finally popular again. Great work guys, don't think I've ever seen so many awesome comics in one thread before. ex_machina, awesome story man, love how the vision guy looks.

Also, donalfall, have you guys got a badge for POW yet? You could make a request thread, I'm sure you'd get some people willing to help out.

[donalfall]

Sorry to be late in here you guys, I've been down with a flu (again). Second flu in 3 months - I physically wasn't able to get out of bed a few days last week. :( But I'm pretty much back on track again and I'm going to throw up my POW and the poll within the next 24 hours, so if anyone has any last minute retouches or a few pages you are *almost* finished, you have a few more hours, if that helps?

Droid I had someone lined up to make a badge, but I think they've blown the assignment off for other obligations, which is fine. I might start a badge/banner thread, good idea dude!

[donalfall]

Ooops, I had a little fever relapse for a few days. Poll will be up in the next couple of hours.