Pixelart Webcomic: Updates Regularly.

[Neoriceisgood]

New page seems like a good place to start with my first comic:




Because of some of the comments & me wanting to start this project up soon [and I guess this would make it "now"] I've given an attempt at making it in a big of a "page" like layout.

comments are still appreciated, and if this layout is liked I'll probably continue in it for a while.

[For those wondering, I plan to have the horizontal lenght set in stone, but the vertical lenght pretty much expandable in any way, size or shape; so it's not necessarily 3 panels or panels of the same height.]

[Lissou]

Is the old guy supposed to be incredibly rude, or is it just how it ended up?

If he's not supposed to be rude, I'd replace "silly cow of a woman" by something more idiomatic and less offensive. Might be just me, of course.

Otherwise, it looks good to me. I like how you have the same character speaking twice in the last image, I didn't realise it was possible.

[Neoriceisgood]

Is the old guy supposed to be incredibly rude, or is it just how it ended up?

If he's not supposed to be rude, I'd replace "silly cow of a woman" by something more idiomatic and less offensive. Might be just me, of course.

Otherwise, it looks good to me. I like how you have the same character speaking twice in the last image, I didn't realise it was possible.

She guessed wrong, it's not being rude when it's accurate.

[Lissou]

She guessed wrong, it's not being rude when it's accurate.

Really? When someone makes a wrong guess in real life, you call them "sillow cow of a woman" (for females I guess. The male equivalent would probably be "stupid assh*le of a guy")?

Even if we don't take the "cow" part into account, I still find the "of a woman" very weird. I guess it could be the way that character speaks, though.

EDIT: while we're at it, he looks quite older than she is and calls her "dear" earlier. Wouldn't he use "girl" rather than "woman"?

My point is that I'd find "You silly girl, bandits aren't green" more natural. I realise it's your comic, though, and your characters speaking. You know them better than I do :P

[Weiser_Cain]

I like 'yarbols for brains'.

[Neoriceisgood]

He was supposed to be incredibly rude, I thought the combination of the rather harsh and insulting reply & him doing a facepalm at the same time would make this fairly clear.


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In other news, I decided to do another one, because I like how his format works.

Right now the only real time consuming part for new comics is the lack of portraits for a lot of the characters that appear early on, but it appears I can manage so far.

[edit: reuploaded with two minor grammar/spelling mistakes fixed]

[DoomITP]

I like the comic so far sir.

[Neoriceisgood]

Man, I just realised I've got two pages done and haven't even given the comic a title yet.

I gotta work on a nice title that fits it.

[DoomITP]

Where did you learn to do pixel art so well? What program do you use for that?

[Lissou]

Sorry, man, sometimes it's hard to tell on the Internet. You know how that can be.

Anyways, I like it. hope you find a good name.

[Neoriceisgood]

Where did you learn to do pixel art so well? What program do you use for that?

The actual sprites and portraits in Ms Paint, but I put the comic together in photoshop as it'd be annoying without layers.

Sorry, man, sometimes it's hard to tell on the Internet. You know how that can be.

Anyways, I like it. hope you find a good name.

I hope so as well, gotta make it catchy.

[insecure]

That's simply amazing. Consider this thread subscribed to.

Keep up the good work!

[Neoriceisgood]

Gotta keep it going, so I made another one.

Here's page 3.

[and no, the old guy isn't holy, he's just senile. ]

[Szilard]

This is indeed good, and you now have another reader.

[Wreckingrocc]

Really liking the looks of this so far, but I'm kind of confused as to how she'll soon become a hero if she got captured by petty 'good' bandits.

Great job so far. It looks like, once you get rolling, it won't be very time-consuming, either (compared to most comics).

I'm very amazed by the current update schedule. Three in less than ten hours!

As for grammar, it all looks good, except for two mistakes in comic #3.

In the first panel, "Untie" should be capitalized, and there's a space between 'once' and the exclamation mark.

If you want to go super-grammar, in the last panel, I think a semicolon would be more appropriate than a comma after 'We're the good guys'.

Other than that, it looks good. The humor is quick and light-hearted, yet it still retains that fresh, three-dimensional feel.

The art looks fantastic, too.

[Neoriceisgood]

Really liking the looks of this so far, but I'm kind of confused as to how she'll soon become a hero if she got captured by petty 'good' bandits.

[this image is not canon]
I guess you confused the two?

Great job so far. It looks like, once you get rolling, it won't be very time-consuming, either (compared to most comics).

Yeah, the only real time consuming parts would be if a single comic required me to draw several backgrounds or something, but I doubt it'd happen -very- often.

[to be honoust, these first few are this easy due to them taking place in one single location]

I'm very amazed by the current update schedule. Three in less than ten hours!

As said I tried to make this comic's design to be very "optimal"

It had to have both quality and an extreme efficiency when it comes to how much time one comic takes.

As for grammar, it all looks good, except for two mistakes in comic #3.

In the first panel, "Untie" should be capitalized, and there's a space between 'once' and the exclamation mark.

If you want to go super-grammar, in the last panel, I think a semicolon would be more appropriate than a comma after 'We're the good guys'.

Thanks, I may fix those mistakes as they're mostly just sloppy errors rather than real mistakes, though none are really comic killing yet.

Other than that, it looks good. The humor is quick and light-hearted, yet it still retains that fresh, three-dimensional feel.

I learned from any comic I enjoy reading that starting with a good line of humour-based comics is the perfect way to get people to enjoy a comic without them being forced to "drag" through the story, I chose the specific storyline [out of all 3] mostly because it started with the best situation for humour.

I'll admit that I was kind of scared about the humor aspect though, I've never been really good at "punchlines", gags and don't want pop culture references & 4th wall breaking at all. [pop culture may have the exception if it's a reference that can be put in that'd still be plausible albeit obviously recognisable, like the bandits taking the robin hood slogan]

But from the reaction I've had from the people I've showed it appears they're at least funny enough not to get mocked and burned, so I hope I can keep that part up.

The art looks fantastic, too.

Thanks, I hope the quality can compensate for the fact that it's still very strongly based on cut & paste principles, but I try to add at least one new piece of pixelart or a new pose in each comic.

I think even something simple like a new expression or getting a new character portrait can be seen as a form of artistic compensation for the cut & paste aspect, but that's just how I see it.

[Wreckingrocc]

[this image is not canon]
I guess you confused the two?

I laughed.

[Elrond]

This is nice just brilliant an enthusiastic thumbs up to you good sir

[Neoriceisgood]

Part 4.

[Hoplite]

I like it and the amount of copy/paste doesn't bother me at all. Wouldn't you like a bit of lay-out on the pages though? I mean something like "Page number 4" and "Created by Somebody" "Copyright 2008"?

[Neoriceisgood]

I like it and the amount of copy/paste doesn't bother me at all. Wouldn't you like a bit of lay-out on the pages though? I mean something like "Page number 4" and "Created by Somebody" "Copyright 2008"?

Yeah, I guess that'd be nice.

I'll probably make something like that today, it's better to have it done sooner than later, or else it'd require me to modify far too many comics.

[DoomITP]

hey dude...Where did you go to learn pixel art stuff?

[Neoriceisgood]

hey dude...Where did you go to learn pixel art stuff?

Mostly studied how they did it in games with really good pixelart & actively searched for communities and people who were adept at it.

I've been doing pixelart for over 8 years now, so it'd be a disgrace if I wasn't at least a little bit good at it by now.

[DoomITP]

little bit good...? That stuffs better than in most games i've seen

[Neoriceisgood]

Took me five comics to get to the first out of 3 heroes, Burk.

[Wreckingrocc]

Based on the intro, he looked like he was gonna be some kind of overly happy guy still a child at heart.

Now he's looking more like a Deus Ex Machina for the entire world.

I just hope he still has awesome lines, such as the birthday line in the desert :D

[Neoriceisgood]

Based on the intro, he looked like he was gonna be some kind of overly happy guy still a child at heart.

Now he's looking more like a Deus Ex Machina for the entire world.

I just hope he still has awesome lines, such as the birthday line in the desert :D

Don't worry, your idea is fairly accurate, active dialogue will reveal his true nature soon enough.


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[Prime32]

I likey.

That old guy is starting to remind me of Grandpa Moto from Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series.

[Wreckingrocc]

Nice. This is freakin' sweet.

The old guy has the nice 'senile, grouchy old guy' feel without being too overblown.

[AmberVael]

That last comic made me laugh harder than I have for a while. The old guy is just so completely amusing in that "I'm an old man not quite caught up with reality and I can do what I want, damn it, now get off my lawn!" way.