Computers can take you there.

This was based on something that frognuts acted out when he got the news that Dave and Carmen’s relationship had dissolved. I don’t think he really meant what he said though, instead he was just trying to be funny, or maybe he just really likes Dave Navarro and is just happy Carmen wont get in the way anymore.

If you notice, the line art for this comic is…inconsistent. The character’s face changes, so that he looks younger in the last panel. This was because I drew a quick rough draft that I used as the final line art instead of doing another draft. Was I lazy? Maybe, but that doesn’t usually stop me. What stopped me was when I looked at it and wondered if I could cover the crappy line work with color. So I did, and then showed the comic to some people, and they laughed so it worked. But then they mentioned that going back they noticed the inconsistency, but I was expecting that so it was cool with me. As long as they laughed and didn’t notice it the first time through.

This might only be interesting to me.

Also, this is the first color comic I’ve posted here at frognuts.net. I used color pencils and markers…giving the comic a “homemade charm.” The markers are made by prismacolor and they give a nice color and blend really well. They are something powerful though, and bleed through almost any paper, marking up any surface underneath. I protected the table I was working on by coloring on a folded piece of paper. When I was done the thing looked like a crappy work of incidental art, so I will share it with you. It reminded me of a time long ago when I would color with marker all the time, and how the first time I did I made a small irreversable marker mess on my dad’s nice drafting table.

I’m going to work on computer coloring techniques to color future comics, so expect some more hand colored comics before the techniques are learned.