So some of you may have noticed that sometime over the course of the last three months, my drawing style and lineart have changed? This is because I recently switched from drawing, colouring and shading my comics entirely in Flash, and instead switched across to using Photoshop. It's improved the speed at which I can make comics, but it can take longer to shade, depending on the complexity. I have been practising my ass off in a bid to try and get around this, hence why some comics I unshaded, and some are.

It's currently not a problem, but I have fallen in love with Photoshop. I got the latest CS6 editions when I got my brand new large wacom board last year, and was tentative to use it at first to use it as I have never really done much with it other than background art in the past. If you get can your hands on a legal copy of photoshop with an expensive wacom board, I'd highly recommend it. Feels good to have some professional software to help me with my comics.

I have actually put my copy to good use when I learned how to animate with it, now, don't get me wrong. I love flash for animating, and will be using it for such in the VERY near future, but I can speed animate basic drawings in photoshop, export and import into flash, and my time to make a good quality animation has been cut down. I'm considering putting together a proper animation as I have attempted in the past, soon... but that all depends on workloads. For now I have a lot to work on as I'm currently a colorist for some of our other comic projects, and background and effects artist on our super secret project, and don't forget I am always actively working on House of Heroes, DEMONBOY and Tales of Atlantis.

It's a busy life.

Anywho, I just wanted to let out an update and generally touch base with everyone as we get back into a work schedule again.
-Lourwind.



==============================LAST JOURNAL: HOUSE OF HEROES!  - 15 of January 2013.

What was that? House of Heroes? And a brand new House of Heroes folder? I'mma here to let you know that due to delays with my book release, I am making good on my promise and releasing House of Heroes: Living With Demons, EARLY! That's right, I'll be releasing a comic every Wednesday and Saturday. I will also be chucking in brand new bonus issues with this every Monday.

This is the release of the storyline version of the comic, the book will be released but for now, I am tired of waiting for incompetent companies to make good on their promises so I figured hell, I'll just go back to the good old days of uploading rather then hoarding all my comics in an organised folder. They were made to entertain, not gather dust, so I hope you will all enjoy them.
-Lourwind.




==============================LAST JOURNAL: WE ARE BACK, GUISE!

Lets skip right to the chase, 2012 sucked!

Not a single doomsday cataclysm, and believe me, we tried- I mean waited... for the world to end, but nothing happened, so instead we finished the year off like every other year with Christmas and Holidays. I was supposed to upload several comics I had completed before our assigned holidays in the group began, but instead I ended up leaving slightly early with my future father-in-law to head down to Jacobs Well for a weeks worth of fishing and generally doing guy stuff. However, being Summer, storm season caught up with us pretty quick, and the area between Jacobs Well and Stradbroke Island here in Queensland, was extremely rough... and fishing was down right impossible thanks in part to Holiday Jet-skiers speeding up and down the local fishing channels.

While we ended up catching nothing, it was a fun week. When we got back, I took a second week off from drawing, and waited until I was literally bursting at the seems to hook up my wacom board and unleash some creativity. I began crafting a ton of brand new comics and I'm currently colouring them for upload, plus touching up the old ones from last year that I promised to finish. I'll upload the completed comics, plus a really cool "Wut-If" poster featuring Demonboy and Janice, that I worked on over the weekend.

As you can tell from Duke's current uploads, we're back and we have a metric ton of materials to begin uploading and if I can talk the others into it, maybe we can start revealing our super secret project with teaser posters and maybe screencaps. However, that depends on what Phi and Dukey have to say on the matter. None the less, enjoy the new materials and we look forward to an epic new year of working our asses off harder than last year.

On a side note, how was everybody elses holidays? What did everybody get up to?

-Lourwind.