The Art of Blokfort

Earlier this month I have finally completed Silk and Dagger, an 8 page comic! It’s a frame-by-frame comic featuring one (technically two) of my characters, Nasuka and “Boy”. There’s not much to say about it, but I’m very happy to have completed it. I learned a lot while doing it, and experimented with small things such as line-art thickness. Basically, when an “object” is “closer to the camera” then I make the line-art thicker, or something is further away, then I’ll make it thinner. I was also able to experiment with more POV or FOV type shots, such as exaggerating what something looking like when it’s lying down, or something. Hard to explain a thing from a picture into words. I’ll be posting each page on Patreon one day at a time, then next week it’ll be posted publicly.

I’ve made more of an effort to get the Comics page working, It’s still not quite how I want it, but it will have to be good enough. How would have thought it would have been so difficult to put two images next to each other, with designated links attached to them? Comics that have a more tradition comic-page style will have a more web-comic general style of viewing, whereas frame-by-frame comics will have a gallery viewing experience. This is because I don’t really know how to get both formats to look decent at the same time.

I’m going to be handling commissions differently for a bit. Instead of saying “I’m Open or Closed” I’ll simply just accept whatever commission someone wants at the time. Anytime I Open Commissions again, it’s a wave of commissions, and I feel a tad rushed to get them all done for the next wave. Instead I will simply say that “I’ll get them done eventually.” and it’s up to the commissioner to see what my art schedule is like. I’ve updated my Commissions page and Trello page to reflect this info a bit. These days I can somewhat predict and manage things in 1-2 months, but anything in the 3 month range or further is not something I can generally do. But again, I will guarantee that if I have accepted a commission, I will get it done. One may ask for multiple commissions if one would like, but it’s up to me to plan and see what gets done. If someone has requested a commission, I now have a handy form they can fill out. It’s still a work in progress though, as I’ve had to go back and change / update multiple parts with it as time went on, but I’m glad I have it.

Final topic for this month is about content. I don’t like doing things in a specific time frame. “Daily Sketches” get hard for me to do after a while. It usually turns into: “Ugh, I have to do a thing today, but I’m not really feeling it.” and then I feel like I don’t do a good job on it. So, like with commissions, I’ll just do random sketches whenever I feel like. Further more, I’d like to do comic stuff again. Eyes on the prize, First love, whatever other things, etc. I want to say I’ll have a page done every week, but I don’t want to make that the standard that I will follow perfectly. It’s just a general guideline. I’m currently working on a smaller 2 page comic with Abrus (one of my characters, of the Dusk Fans) in it, as a warm up of sorts.