Comic #39: Behind the Scenes (1/21/07)

hlavcohlavco
edited February 2007 in Penny Racers Comics
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This isn't the first time I've updated within minutes of Zelda Comic. Sounds pretty suspicious to me. :cool:

Anyway, this comic would've been a nightmare to make if that blessed table hadn't been there to make drawing the legs and lower bodies of the characters unnecessary. Today's lengthy word bubbles helped as well. I'm gonna try to get away from these fourth wall-breaking comics soon, but the next comic is the letter-answering one, so it'll happen after that. Speaking of which, I'm one question short. I'd prefer an email or PM so's you don't go spoiling it for the whole forum.

...Skippy's head is quite deformed in panel 11, but I don't really care.
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  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited January 2007
    Updates for Brew, ZC, and Hlavco's as of yet unnamed pokemon themed webcomic all in the same day!! Is Jan 21st the official Orange Belt Be Constructive Day? I'm hoping for a new 6:35 or podcast now.


    The characters are looking quite nice, specially sandshrew. But why does Penny Racers Studios look so ominous?
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited January 2007
    Ominous? I thought it looked fairly bright and cheerful. I mean it's got the sunny sky, the nice landscape, the cool reflect-y building next to the... some other building. And then a wall at such a weird angle that it probably actually gets shorter as it goes off the right side of the screen, for... security purposes or something.

    What's ominous about that?

    Perhaps it'll be more full of life once Penny Racers Comics gets a few comics. It's just the one, and that's hardly cause for a pluralized name.

    Well, there was that racoon/toaster thing, but I haven't put it on the site yet, so it doesn't count.
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited January 2007
    Wow! So many updates today! Awesome.
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2007
    mjc0961 wrote: »
    Wow! So many updates today! Awesome.

    I wholeheartedly agree.
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2007
    The P.E.G.s need to be second string.
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2007
    I thought they were PEG's. What's the "W" stand for?
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2007
    Slick wrote: »
    I thought they were PEG's. What's the "W" stand for?

    IT WAS A TYPO.
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2007
    Oh.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2007
    Now, for your amusement, and becaue I haven't made a new comic yet, here's another page out of my sketchbook. Well, notebook. My sketchbook is a ruled composition book, whereas this is out of the spiral I use to take notes in all my classes. You knw, forget it. Here's the picture.

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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited February 2007
    Is that a pichu or a pikachu?
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2007
    You' be surprised how many people ask me that when I draw them.

    Let's piece together this puzzle.
    -Long, thin ears
    -Multiple bends in the tail
    -No neck fur

    Who's that Pokemon?
  • godgod
    edited February 2007
    Scyther!
  • brucebruce
    edited February 2007
    Unrelated, sorry.

    The caption for your forum just reminded me of a Laurel and Hardy film. They both are getting conscripted, but Hardy is too fat for it. But while they're waiting, Laurel turns the heater underneath Hardy's chair on, so that he loses just enough weight through perspiration that he gets made to join the army :D
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited February 2007
    hlavco wrote: »
    You' be surprised how many people ask me that when I draw them.

    Let's piece together this puzzle.
    -Long, thin ears
    -Multiple bends in the tail
    -No neck fur

    Who's that Pokemon?

    Pikachu. I'd know that even if I'd never played Pokémon, because he's the cute lil' market whore.

    And damn you Henderson! Damn you to hell! *shakes fist in defiance*
  • MrCheezeMrCheeze
    edited February 2007
    On an unrelated note, the site is down.
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited February 2007
    MrCheeze wrote: »
    On an unrelated note, the site is down.

    Yeah, that usually happens to our host. It'll be back up in a little bit.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited February 2007
    Hey Hlavco, do you take requests, or are you to busy/lazy?

    Nice drawings by the way. I love the Flareon.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2007
    Agentizzle wrote:
    Hey Hlavco, do you take requests, or are you to busy/lazy?
    It mostly depends on what you want made, how much work my teachers are giving me, and whether there's a deadline.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited February 2007
    Aye. I'd like to see you draw an Espeon and/or Espeon. If you have time ^_^.
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited February 2007
    Would you like a side of Espeon with that order?
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited February 2007
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  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2007
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    MC Espeon couldn't take the heat.

    I don't think that microphone's hooked up to anything.

    The size comparison in this is pretty bad, but I didn't feel like looking up Espeon's height.

    Link to really huge version I accidentally uploaded and don't feel like deleting.


    SPOILERS

    That's probably like, the worst Espeon ever. I'll try to work on the general design for the -eons likely appearing in the next two comics.

    END SPOILERS
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited February 2007
    Don't forget the black, soulless eyes!
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited February 2007
    I must agree, that's probably the worst Espeon ever. Angry Squirtle more than makes up for it, though. He's all "I will kill you if you look at me funny."
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2007
    Don't worry. I feel that the fact that I drew it at 1am explains the badness. But apparently 1am is my best time for drawing Skippy. He came out great.
  • mariomario
    edited February 2007
    You didn't do terribly with Espeon. Here's where I'd fous on your future efforts:

    -Espeon has a fairly large head (a lot of Psychic-types do. Apparently bigger brains are directly related to psychic powers)
    -legs are thinner. Again, like many Psychic-types, since Espeon uses its mind power for most of its attacks, its physical stature is more slender than, say, a Flareon.

    Here's my take on it (based on looking at serebii.net's PokéDex for a few seconds):
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited February 2007
    The one on the right looks better. Espeon has a skinny body and big head, but the body is a bit too skinny on the left.

    ... Espeon got a lot of screen time from Pokémon Colossuem, despite my general dislike of the Eevee family.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2007
    Uploaded an updated version that's less bad. VIEW IT. UP THERE.
  • mariomario
    edited February 2007
    Where?!?
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2007
    In the place of the original.

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