Re"mark"able

Freak here, just popping in with another interlude whilst the Word Smith is still on hiatus (hopefully it will resume in February of the new year!)  As with the previous interlude, this one was also inked using marker (hence the horrible, horrible pun in the post title.)  You should go look at it!  And by you, I mean the person reading this sorry excuse for a blog right now!  Don't ask why, just go!  Exclamation mark!  (Anyway, the interlude can be found here.)

And after you've gone and looked at the interlude, here is the original pencil version:

The character in the interlude does not appear anywhere in episode 6.  For the excessively curious (or terminally bored), I suggest checking out episode one to see the previous (and only) appearance of the character (she appears in four panels, plus the title page.)

I've also, as may be apparent, done some tweaking of the original character design for this character:

Anyway, that is all from the Freak.  I don't expect to be posting again until next year which, of course, is not that far away, or thus it would seem.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Mark Up

The Word Smith interlude from my previous post is now finished.  I did things a bit differently and "coloured" it using marker rather than doing the usual Photoshop thing (though I only have grey markers so it's actually greyscale rather than coloured but whatever, that's details.)  The Word Smith itself is still on hiatus.

Anyway, that is all.  Please resume your regular internet browsing.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Up For Air

Things (by which I mean school) have been a bit busy of late with various deadlines coming and going.  Having just recently done my second (of three required) PhD seminar talks I have a bit of a respite before diving back into the next deadline (a paper submission for a conferece) which is about a month and a half away so not immediate but still all too close.

The draft of the script for the rest of episode six of The Word Smith now exists, though it may be a while yet before work resumes on it in earnest - likely after the aforementioned paper is out of the way.  Hopefully, though, there'll be an interlude or two up in the interim.  One such interlude is currently in the works, pencil version below:

And with that, dear Freaks, I bid the until next narf.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Blargglesplorgglenarf

It seems like the Word Smith's sparse and/or erratic update schedule will be continuing for the foreseeable future  (note:  I do not claim to be able to foresee the future.)  This is due to a paper submission deadline coming up in a little over a couple of months so I may need to sacrifice some comic time for actual work work time.  Shock!  I know.

The past few days have also been a tad work-heavy as I was crunching for a presentation this morning - just a lab-specific thing, nothing particularly special, but treating it as a personal deadline, nonetheless.  Went reasonably well:  well enough that I will consider my goals to have been met.  However, the crunching left me feeling a bit, well blarg, so I spent this afternoon working on a sprite animation that has nothing whatsoever to do with work.  And here it is:

(Because the internet doesn't have enough animated gifs.)

Freak Out,
-TFitC

To the Poit

New page.  Go read.  The end.

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Ok, so there's actually a bit more...   it may be a few weeks before the next page as I've still got to finalize some of the script details for this episode (bad Freak, finish script before starting drawing) and I may take a bit of time to build up a couple pages of buffer so that the rest of the episode will hopefully be posted in a more regular manner than it has been so far.  I'll probably try to do some interludes in the meantime; I really should do more sketchbook drawing anyway.

Freak Out
-TFitC

P.S.

Post title is not a typo.  Just thought I'd mention that.  Narf.

Still Not Dead

So.  I have a comic, or so I'd have you believe.  I've been lazy about updating it lately but have managed to put a new page up today.  (Yay?)  Go read it, because it is there - or do you actually need a good reason?

It seems one of my previous posts about saying pages would be "done when they're done" (or something to that effect) isn't so far off the mark.  I'm going to try to get back to my regular once a week update schedule (because I want to actually get this thing finished in a not entirely unreasonable timeframe) but, ultimately, pages will be "done when they're done."

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In non-comic related things, the stats for this blog-like thing claim to have received over 10 000 views in the not too distant past, though most of those are probably just random people clicking on things by accident, bots or perhaps evil (or at least misguided) AIs.  And even then, 10 000 isn't really all that much in the grand scheme of the internet.  Still, it's a thing.  What sort of thing I'm not sure, but a thing nonetheless.

The most viewed blog entry seems to be my somewhat tongue-in-cheek plot summary of Final Fantasy Tactics (1058 views) with similar summaries for Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross following with about 250-ish views each.  Of course, I haven't posted any game plot summaries in a while.  Partly because that was part of my Final Fantasy series replay project (which is more or less complete) and partly because the whole comic/art thing took over.

Of course, there are more Final Fantasy games out now or on the way that I could add to the replay project (mainly the FF 13 games) if I wanted to, which I might, if time permits.  Also, vigilant viewers might have noticed that I skipped FF XI in my replay project.  This was because, being an MMO, it's somewhat of a different beast than the offline Final Fantasies.  Still, I've been think that, for the sake of completion, I might attempt an FF XI summary.  Though if I do, as it is a different beast, I was thinking of taking a different approach with it and doing more of a "lets play" style of thing.

(For those not familiar with the "lets play" concept, it's basically someone plays through a game on a forum/blog/whatever providing commentary and sometimes taking questions/feedback from the audience.)

As I no longer play FF XI (and don't plan to restart) any potential lets play would be drawing on my saved screenshots/memories/other resources rather than being a truly interactive lets play, but them's the breaks.

So, if you're still with me after all this blathering, if any of my one or two (semi-)regular(?) readers would be interested in a lets play, I might just go do that.  I might do it anyway because talking to myself on the internet is basically the standard operating procedure for this blog anyway.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Posting a Post Post Post

Oh, right, it seems I've got a comic, or something to that effect.  The newest page is now available, for those that are inclined to read it.  I really have no excuse for being late on this one, especially since I had already skipped a week.  I think that adopting a schedule of "it'll be done when it's done" might be the most prudent, but I'll try to post things in a timely manner, honest!

That is all.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Mumble, Mumble, Splarg

Alrighty... page 2 of episode 6 of The Word Smith is now online (I'd have posted this last evening but Blogger was being ornery.)  This is obviously later than I'd inteded to post it, regardless.  Partly, this was due to laziness, partly it's because this week's looking to be busier than normal so I don't expect to be posting a page this week so I chose not to push myself overmuch for page 2.

And that is all for today.  I don't feel like posting a sketchbook entry or saying anything else, particularly, so I won't.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

It's a Thing

Ok, so, I ended up being busy last evening hence I didn't get the page up when expected.  While I'm going to aim to have these things ready to go for Thursdays, I should probably just say that they'll be done when they're done and leave it at that.  Anywho, the first page of episode 6 of The Word Smith is now live.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Lateness

Due to me being a bit more procrastinate-y over the long weekend than I'd intended, this week's page of The Word Smith will be a bit late.  It should be up either something this evening or tomorrow.  I'll make another post when it happens.

In the mean time, here's the pencil version of the episode six title page that was posted last week:

There are two things to note about the pencil version of the title page.  First:  it was based on the third of the concept sketches that I posted at the end of the episode 5 unfaq.  Second:  I changed the pose of the central character at some point after scanning the pencil version (I might even have done that change on the traced version, I don't recall.)

Anyway, that's all the excitement I have to dish out for now, otherwise it would probably just be too exciting.  Or not.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

EXCITEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!