Posts Tagged ‘TGT Webcomics Podcast’
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Okay, well I had wanted to try and finish up my Halloween Themed strips by today (Friday) but I have so much fun drawing I.R. Hungré that I have a few more Halloween strips that I’m still going to do. So, for this year, in the Capes & babes universe, Halloween is going to be an EXTENDED holiday!
I also wanted to mention that as I started this strip, I wanted I.R. to have a bunch of his movie posters displayed on his wall. I was brainstorming, I had thought about putting up the poster from the first movie Joey and Marc saw together (check the archives way back when) but then I got a brilliant idea to do movie posters like the old B-horror fest of years gone by – the ones that tried to totally exploit sex whenever possible. Once I came up with THAT idea, suddenly it hit me to put Jamie and Hazel from Girls with Slingshots as the “stars” of one of the posters.
I almost immediately came up with the title: “Zombie sluts from Planet Z!” since that was sort of in the same spirit as those old 70’s drive-in movies. And, if Jamie and Hazel were my own characters, I probably would have stayed with “sluts” but since they aren’t, I decided to change the title to “Tramps” instead. Tramps is a bit more tamer than “sluts” but still conveys the same message.
The other problem I had was their pose. How do I draw them? I tried a couple of different sketches until I got ANOTHER brilliant idea… since I was paying homage to scream queen movies, I figured I’d also pay homage to Danielle herself by copying the same pose Jamie and Hazel are in on the cover of Danielle’s first book.
Here’s a larger version so you can see the details (the coloring was much more simplified than I normally do since I knew the final image would be drastically reduced in size):
Some Podcast News
Later on tonight (Friday night), I will be a featured guest on the TGT Webcomics Podcast. I’m really looking forward to this as I have been a long time Podcast listener of TGT and we have been trying to get together for quite a long time. So click the link and join us on Talkshoe at 9:00pm tonight!
Then, on the FOLLOWING Friday (November 6th), I will be a featured guest on The Villain’s Corner Podcast at 10:00pm. Here’s the Talkshoe link for that show as well:
So I hope you join us so you can listen to all the crazy things that concern the wolrd of Capes & Babes!
Have a good one ya’ll!
-Chris
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Before I begin tonight’s blog, I wanted to mention that on Friday night 9:00pm EST, I will be a guest on the TGT Webcomics Podcast. You can find the link hon Talkshoe or by clicking here. Needless to say, I’m REALLY looking forward to the show!
And don’t forget to check out the podcast I am doing with Rob Chandler and Matt Stout called “Lightbox – Illuminating Webcomics”. We record THAT show every Thursday night at 9:00pm EST on Talkshoe as well.
So for today’s strip, I decided to try some experimenting with UStream. Below is a recording of today’s strip detailing my rough script and thumbnails, my pencils, the lettering and, finally, the inking of the strip. The video runs roughly a little over 50 minutes or so and there isn’t any sound (so you’ll need to listen to your iPod while watching it).
I recorded the video using an old iCam that I had. Trying to use my iMac’s built in camera was just NOT going to work. I’m not sure how to record audio though while using the iCam. Is it “legal” to record music from your iTunes playlist while you’re recording a UStream video? And finally, for those that use UStream but don’t use a Waacom tablet, how do YOU record YOUR videos?
I had to really mess around with trying to balance the iCam on an old plastic cup so you could be able to see me draw at a decent angle – but if there’s ways to improve this, please let me know.
Here’s the video:
Or, if that doesn’t work, here is the direct link to UStream:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2437780
-Chris
