Coffee Time sketch

So. I'm sure you can see how Panel 3 starts with a nice rear but she's pointing in the exactly wrong direction. XD Tutor said that I didn't do the figure correctly, didn't build her arm like I should have. He plans on teaching me as soon as I can get the basic armature down. You'll see what comes of that fairly soon because I can't wait to step forward on that part. ^^

But let's turn our eyes upward to look at panel 2 instead! Valeon and Jesse decided to pose quite nicely for me. Tutor thinks that I got their idea down very well and that it's not exactly as stiff as Find the Way turned out. (It's thrilling to see it built better than in the original one!) Can't wait to get them finished and painted!

Before I can paint it though, I have at least 5 more characters to begin to build. Oh gosh, wish me luck. Wasn't I insane to decide that I wanted four characters in the first two panels? @@ It's not so much hard as it is just so dang busywork at the moment. XD
I'll be sure to put the update when I get it. Thanks for being so patient! ^^

Stock sites and "Coffee Time"

Have I ever complained enough about not finding good references? Because I am complaining now. XD I have all of DeviantArt's stock, Shutterstock, Freeimages, Rgbstock, and several other places to look, but I am so blasted picky when trying to select the right references.

...yeah, that's my story for not having anything last week with my current piece, and I'm sticking to it. XD I'm sorry about that.

Anyway, here is my current sketch of the gestures!

I'm so happy with how much better the scene on panel 1 and especially the actions on 2 seem. That's definitely new, coming from my stuff! Here's hoping the rest of it comes out!

Coffee Time's gestures!

Gestures are finished!

Tip #1: Do not attempt to go through DeviantArt's search without knowing all the information needed for what you search for. This is a very well known thing to those of us who have been on that site for ages, but it seems that Eclipse beta hasn't begun to get straightened out on the search? At least before, it wasn't so hard to avoid bringing up a nude image starting from a low angle by searching for "slapping a table"! 

I hope that they can get things straightened out soon...we're all able to use more search terms than before, so I hope that the good folks will start adding them. (There'll always be users on that site whining that it's deviantart so they don't have to...but the majority are rule-abiding!)

Tip #2: Did you know that for thumbnail images on a comic thing, you don't have to use such strong attempts at perspective? I played a little too literally here and let it have too much focus, but I can't say that I'm upset with playing with the gestures. In a few days, I might go over the gestures at the far table again since Find the Way did better showing Valeon's action than this one did, but these are complete!

I had fun with the whole thing while getting to this point! ...so whining like I did earlier about 'not doing this again' is moot. I'm probably going to make more short comics like this if I get any more ideas for them.

Coffee Time, sketch 2.0

...Yes I have "demoted" this version a little to 2.0. BUT I'm still very happy with how it's worked out so far. When this one is actually finished, it's going to be a proud moment to put it on the Art page!
It's been very fun to play with this to this point so it can't do anything but get better on the final version!

All that said, I hope no one is going to be disappointed that I'm probably not going to do another comic for a little while? XD Still prefer my full images over this, however much fun it's been to learn some tricks and all for this one. I'll definitely be applying some of the shortcuts for this to some of my full images, though!

Before I leave today, I must say Thank You to a certain "bad influence" friend of mine for even making this idea begin to sound fun, what and all the short and hilarious comics he spits out at anything funny that crosses his mind. Just had to say!

Coffee Time as a comic!

I wish I still had some of them to show you (had a computer that held most of them die) but I used to mess with Sonic comics all the time. Why do I bring this up now? This will probably not be something that continues in a regular basis but it's finally come around that I came up with a small comic with a handful of my own characters. Look at this. XD

Right this moment I'm very happy with how most of this has turned out. And I'm more than aware that thumbnails are meant to be my eyes only...sorry if these are difficult to read right now, but I'll get them lined and cleaned up as soon as possible for everyone!
   Oh gosh, I hope I don't get slow on things now. I want to get this finished now that it's started! Just knock on wood with me!

Projects are going decent

Pretty happy with what I have right now--just not happy enough to share much more than the poses for the moment. It shouldn't be too long before I'm ready to replace this one with the characters' lines, at least!

I may still need to tinker with this but it's pretty nice that the two dolls are facing each other instead of what I tried to do with the first version. And the sketch ought to fix what errors the poses themselves have. If I remember, grayscaling wasn't that hard. So that and color shouldn't be too difficult, once I finally get some lines that I agree with.

But all of this is going to work whether it cooperates or not!