Animated Ad.

In the last couple of days I’ve been running my first animated ad. I’ve been experimenting with gifs, and very basic animation lately and thought I’d have a go at making one. I love trailers for horror movies, and as a web-comic creator, this is probably the closes I’m going to get to that.

Over on my Deviantart page I posted my Alina meets bloody backsplash gif, and even managed to the fix the final two frames to make sure they were pure black.

Yana’s Crimson Smile.

Blood drench women seems to be a theme these last couple of weeks. First my Alina caught in the crossfire gif from last week, and now this recent pin-up. I’ve always shied away from doing giant close up face shots. They’re tricky and hard to pull off. But I was feeling brave these last couple of weeks, and so thought I’d give it a go. It was both fun and nerve racking to flick ink at a piece of artwork this big. I only had one go at doing it, too. No room for mistakes. I think all-in-all it came out looking ok. I like the creepy smile.  

My plan is to do the odd pin-up now-and-then between sequential pages for my web-comic. I think the pin-ups in the back of Brides Of Babayka look pretty snazzy, and if there is a book 2, I’d like to do a similar thing (if not bigger and better.)

And if that hasn’t fulfilled your Yana fix for the weekend, it’s a pretty Yana heavy page over on Babayka-Lives this week.

Also Available At…

Thanks to a good friend of mine, you can now currently pick up a copy of Brides Of Babayka at Del La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill in their art shop. It’s right next to the knuckleduster mugs and dashboard Jesus. Something for readers in the south-east of the UK to look out for.

Speaking of Del La Warr, I need to get down there at some point soon to check out their Otto Dix show.  

Over on Babayka-Lives this weekend, I think it’s safe to say the picnic’s over for our Brides and Bachelors as the rain starts to pour down. The big question now is, in returning home early, are Alina and Zoya gonna be caught red handed? Keep reading to find out.

Gif Of Terror.

Been meaning to get into making Gifs for a while now. Then found out a certain art program on my laptop has a very basic animation feature on it, so I thought I’d make a gif from the infamous Alina accidentally gets entered into a crimson wet T-shirt competition scene from Brides Of Babayka. You can see the results above.

Not sure why the blacks turned to a washed out grey at the end, but I can live with it, considering it’s my first gif. Over all, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Hopefully down the line, I’ll find some free time to do some more, so watch this space.

Also check out the tumblr Webcomics Animated, if gifs of Webcomics is your thing. It’s a very cool site.

And if you think you can make a better Babayka-Lives gif, by all means have a go. Just be sure to send me a link so I can check it out.

In The Works.

I thought this photo made a good sneak peek shot of a future pin-up I’m currently working on, as the artwork itself is slightly masked by a sheet of layout paper. Why would I need to masks off so much of the art with layout paper you ask? You’ll see… Give it a couple of weeks, and you’ll find out.

I guess it would be fair to say the storyline of Brides Of Babayka is well underway now, so tune into Babayka-Lives tomorrow to see the next instalment. Which bachelor will be next to go splat? (no spoilers from the people who have read the graphic-novel, please.)

And keep that feedback coming in as always. I’m currently thinking of doing a sketch just for those people kind enough to donate and support the web-comic. A high-res scan of a sketch just for the donators that wouldn’t be available anywhere else online. What the theme, or the characters in this sketch would be, I’m not sure yet, so I’m open to suggestions. Who or what would readers like to see drawn in this free sketch? Also how much would be the minimum donation amount to get this sketch? What’s a fair price?  

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