 like looking at this from like your camera screen it's like one of those like haunted house of explorations on youtube hey everybody welcome back to this vlog i first of all went on a little exploration of some caves for some inspiration for one of the horror comics um here's some clips that i took of that because i thought it was pretty interesting goodbye children goodbye queen's range galley hey with us watch out don't you turn the wires yourself it's a bit wet so yeah i wonder what all these cables are maybe it's just like a secret government operation they're like it's down a million steps we'll just put all the wires down here yeah like looking at this from like your camera screen it's like one of those like haunted house explorations on youtube forever to focus good morning everybody this week chris got a new desk and it's massive and quite jealous he's gonna use his cintiq now because he's got a lot of space compared to the old desk which is like small rubbish full of stuff that we need to transfer to this desk somehow um yeah so that's what's happening in the life of chris if anyone's interested i'm interested so i'm telling you guys pesto is interested she's like where mava i romance so still it's kind of making my desk look a little bit tiny um probably got way too much stuff on here i need to tidy this desk this morning and i'm going to go get a coffee and then i'm going to start like looking into doing kickstarter imagery and i'll take you guys through that process because i think it would be interesting for you gg is enjoying this bit of cardboard that came with the desk and now we can't throw it out it was like his bed but now he propped it up and he's gonna scratch it it got big ears it's massive was it gg chris has made groove marks in this tub i don't know show them to scratch it why are you celotating it what's the celotate for no chris because that's going to take the paint off that's going to take the paint off everybody it is sunday and i thought i would just take you through a bit of the vlog process for creation of this comic by the time that you guys see this vlog i'm hoping that it will be live on my Shopify which i'm working on now and you can pre-order the comic um i'm doing a pre-order because i wanted to do a kickstarter originally but then it wouldn't like accept my details for some reason it was very strange because i've even done like um a kickstarter before it was like why can't i get verified um it was a whole plava so in the end i decided just to do a pre-order and it should be in the links down below if you want to get one and i would really appreciate just taking a look even if you the white one you know so uh thanks and this is the vlog for the final creation of the comic of through gritted teeth the two short comics and i'm just going to show you some stuff that i'm working on today and i'm hoping by the time that i edit this vlog it'll all be complete and that will be fabulous whatever okay so sorry about the quality but at the moment i am doing the photoshop edits for each page and trying to figure out like a good structure and like where the um the page numbers are going to go basically so i've got this um template from the printers and it's just like helping me with the bleed which is around here and then the safe zone which is around here so i've got all the final versions here and uh i did these for the Kickstarter but i think i'm going to put them in the front page of the books um books um of the comics and yeah i think that would be quite cute to have pesto to have that on the uh like the opening page and then maybe like some pattern behind them yeah so and now i'm going to be working on the covers so i did this for Kickstarter but i think i like it so much i don't want to make it the cover of the slow disappearance and obviously it will be a slightly different format because it's not going to be wide like that so it's going to be like and without the trees i think yeah i still need to figure out where the title would go um maybe in here like a small title i'm not sure or like i don't know or like because these two comics are going to be sister comics maybe they'll belong in one cover i'm not sure um yeah so i've got all the finals here together and i've printed them all out so printed them scanned them all so we're ready to go i'm just gonna get to work on doing this i'll quickly show you guys a creation of the cut the next cover i think and i'm probably showing you that right now so yeah this project has been super um tough um there's been a lot of things that i wish i could do differently like for instance the Kickstarter was a real um blocker for me because i felt like excited to do the Kickstarter i guess and get stuff done like if you have a deadline in mind then you seem to push yourself a little bit more but because that deadline kind of faded away because the Kickstarter wasn't working out i felt like a bit lost in the wind if that makes sense so now the fact that i'm back on track is good and the fact that once you watch this vlog it should be up and fingers crossed that it is um and ready for sale oh my god yeah the reason that i'm doing a pre-order is because i can't really afford printing right now it's just as well to gain interest to see who would buy the comic is quite hard so i don't want to like over-order loads of comics and then not sell them kind of thing so if we do a pre-order then i can see how many i need to sort of order and like the interest um that people have in it and then yeah maybe order a few more to have in the back stock so i can sell them still and i'm also doing a reprint of emilia's burning because a lot of people have mentioned that they want one um which is really cool because i feel like emilia's burning is like something that's always just kept doing really well which shocked me because i thought like oh like when i did the Kickstarter i was like so proud of it and then after the Kickstarter when i sold them on etsy they did keep selling which is really awesome so like since i've made that comic i think probably i've had a couple of copies sold each month um when i've had them in stock so yeah that's awesome and um thank you guys to anybody who supported me in any way um i know not everybody can buy a copy of the comic and stuff but it's really nice that you're dropping by and checking out what i'm doing here so thanks a lot i don't say that often enough and uh yeah i genuinely mean it so with this cover i wasn't really sure what to do so um i thought like it would be nice to have the character but hidden slightly so it reflects a little bit what the invisible comic was doing and um i like the idea of her sort of melting into a night sky i thought it would be interesting to do and i yeah i like the way that it turned out so that's it um so i'm gonna show you now uh the two comics side by side two comics the two possible covers side by side one quite green one quite blue i think they're quite pretty and i think they'll work well together and then in photoshop i will do the title here and in photoshop i will hopefully do the title here or like here or something like there maybe um yeah to decide and uh so i'm just gonna finish this up work on the pages and then also so there's a whole thing going on behind the scenes for that uh shop update and i hope that it will work out pester what's wrong what's wrong she keeps me out and it's quite windy outside so yeah so shush shush once they figure that out um you will see that they're live hopefully okay i'm gonna get on now wednesday evening and i'm just working on the final pages for the slow and all at once disappearance of alivia new brie it is finished and i'm not going to go too far into it but um i've cleaned up all the pages and the colors and it's looking good i'm just going to go over first i'm just going to go over the cover and um i want to change your writing so i'm going to do that by hand um this was just to mock up where the text would go so i'm going to try and like make it look better than that and uh christ has kindly lent me his cintiq just to do that for now and that's what i'm going to do today i'm also hoping to finish the pages for uh wishing on a star as well so they'll both be done shortly and i'm getting excited so now that that's done i am starting on wishing on a star and basically i decided to make all the panels have this white box around it instead of because i hand drew um the black lines to indicate where the panels are and i don't really like the way that that was looking on the slow disappearance so i decided to do it like this so they're going to be consistent throughout the two comics so i think this will look pretty nice i think i like it a lot more it's a lot cleaner and yeah so hopefully it will look good i'm just messing with layers and um putting levels down to make sure that it's consistent and also bright and i'm getting rid of i have this trick because when the levels aren't there it can look a bit uh rubbish because there's sometimes there's some like leftover dust or markings or something from the paper so what i do is i make a masking layer and i mask out all the back paper so all i have is the artwork and then i use levels to make sure they're popping and that's basically all i'm doing and uh yeah that's it so i'm just trying to watch out for any marks that might be left on the paper because in the past there has been something that's got me so yeah just working on that now and here are some of the pages coming together it's looking good and i'm pretty happy with it so far so i printed out a little mock-up of the covers so far and this is kind of what they'll look like at the right size obviously this one is done with all the typography and stuff um i might change like the shadows a little bit i hand painted the shadows in because i thought it looked a bit generic with the drop shadow on the text so i'm just trying to like figure out what would look cool and then i'm going to work on this one a bit it's cut it's um come out a bit too bright but i think that's my printer setting so it'll be darker than this and then it's going to have the title there um wishing on a star and uh yeah i hope that these look cute together and then i'm going to hopefully make the band the sleeve to go in it as well that will wrap these two together i'm not sure if i want to do that or not but it would make sense if you buy them together as the duology that they come wrapped together so that would be fun so i'm thinking about that also i am now working on the layouts for this cover um i don't know if i said it before but i downloaded the the layout documents from the printers so it shows me like where i need to have the safe areas for the printing and everything um i have i drew these little icons for both of the women so each one of them each little portrait is going to show in the first page of the comic and yeah i'm just sorting out the layout doing the same thing as i did before with the the white around instead of the black line and i think it looks really fresh and nice so just working on it and then i'll make it into a printable pdf working file so then i can send them off to the printers when i do the pre-orders so yeah getting really excited now okay so these are the mock-ups for the final designs um i showed you guys this but i wanted to do like a back cover so obviously these look different colors but this is just the way that my printer decided to print it but that's going to be the back of um wishing on a star and it's going to be a bit lighter than this i think i'm going to mess with the the levels in Photoshop before i print it and this is going to be the back or the slow disappearance so i think it's looking pretty cool um i'm getting excited because i think i keep saying i think i'm gonna put it up on etsy so the reason that i decided etsy is because i was going to put them up for sale on store envy but then it was like not working out or like i couldn't figure out certain things of how to make the buttons work so in the future i think i will be doing a store in the uh shop but for now i think etsy is the way to go because it's what i'm familiar with i've got a lot of followers on there um i've sold stuff on there before like emilia's burning so i'm gonna sell them on there and obviously they're going to be pre-orders so i will link that down below so bear that in mind that it is a pre-order um i'm really excited and i'm hoping that people buy it basically uh because it's been well like definitely about a year of work but more more probably like since christmas i started taking it a bit more seriously or just working on it so it's been like four months of solid work so i'm really excited to get it up there and see the final product when i print it and see how it turns out so yeah that's that's basically it you guys can check out down below the mock-ups and stuff on etsy and i hope that you are interested in it if not no pressure nothing obviously don't worry if you can't buy it um that's fine but yeah it's it's down below and i'm super excited so i hope that you guys like it too and i can't wait to share it with you anyway i'm gonna end this vlog kind of vlog or series of clips there and i hope that you enjoyed this little look into my process and i hope that you enjoy looking at the comics okay i'm gonna stop now uh see you guys bye