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Tag: design

Zome ZANY fellaz!!

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Cal

just some doodles i do to keep in shape and whatever. got some silly expressions and some outfit designs. what makes the world go round 🙂

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The tragedies of colorblindness, part 2

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Cal

the wife helps with color schemes a lot lmao. color helps but it’s not really my thing. doesn’t really excite me and i don’t think in color. kinda sucks cause I think it would help differentiating the characters but B&W
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Words about words

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Cal

As mentioned previously, I spent a couple weeks before ch3 doodling the characters and trying to streamline them more before I had to draw them in motion. In hindsight I wish I did that more for ch2, but hopefully I
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Posted in BLOGTagged arbo, armor, art, concept, design, militia, old, outfit, rene, silne, soldier
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God queen design process

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Cal

Oraq, the ancient god-empress of the Allanos. An important symbol for the nation, so I wanted to get the look down. some concepts of her design. i wanted it to be elegant and authoritative without being too ornate. her mask would have
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Tattoos IN THE WILD

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Cal

throwing around a few more tattoo ideas. based off a bit of maori stuff. more or less. i imagine if these people were real they would tattoo themselves all over the place and try to show them off (like we
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Posted in BLOGTagged color, concept, daughter, design, family, father, maori, tattoo
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Page 31 process

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Cal

(click for full-size) quick gif of my current process. right now I use photoshop CS2 cause it was free legally. I make a loose sketch “guide” layer first and get the panel layout how I like it before I add
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Rene text

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Cal

This comic is going to show a lot of different languages and accents. I never was too big a fan of the star trek-like tendency of making characters who are from very different regions speak the same language, especially in
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Posted in BLOGTagged alphabet, ancient, concept, design, dialect, font, google noto, gujarati, historical, india, language, media, noto, rene, sandskrit, text
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Malwan, facial recognition, and tattoos

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Cal

Hey all. just wanted to share a couple of things.      This is the character Malwan that was introduced a few pages ago. He is a city guard, and I imagine is in his late 30s or so. He just
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Posted in BLOGTagged alien, arka, bluefield, concept, design, face, guard, iguana, malwan, recognition, tattoo, tattoos
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