Tag: Oyster War

Oyster War Now Free Online at Tumblr

“Free online” is pretty much redundant, isn’t it? Anyway, I’ve set up a quick tumblr blog at http://oysterwar.tumblr.com and have uploaded the first two chapters of Oyster War there. Does that make Oyster War a webcomic now? Probably not. I’ll be violating the webcomics first rule–“update regularly”–right off the bat: I just posted twenty-something pages …

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Sketchbook 1/7

I’m at a point thumb-nailing a new chapter of Oyster War where I need some bad guys, so a few days ago I started drumming up some in my sketchbook.  I think there are maybe two or three “keepers” here–which is a better ratio than I usually achieve when I do one of these nine-panel …

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Process: Oyster War pg. 20 Start to Finish

Well, here’s the finished colored version of pg. 20 of Oyster War that I’ve been posting intermittently at various stages of completion.  If I had to do it over again, I’d probably have picked a different page from this chapter to highlight since this page wound up using mostly literal color, not the more expressive/narrative …

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Oyster War Page Progress: Inks

As mentioned a few posts back, I’ve picked a page from the current chapter of Oyster War to post progress on as it moves to completion.  I’ve now got that particular page inked, so here it is: As with most everything I draw, this page looked a lot more impressive in my brain, but I …

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Time Lapse

Well, here’s a first–and only marginally successful–attempt to use my webcam for something other than Skyping with relatives.  I clipped the thing to my above-drafting table track lights and tried to do a time lapse video of my inking a page from Oyster War.  The camera’s too far away by a factor of about two …

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