More From Africa IV

End of school year, June 2010: pretty much a wall of text from some e-mail

More From Africa III

Shortly thereafter, April is, well, discussing is too calm a word, this with Rhonda:(yeah, maybe Rhonda has watched a bit too much Buffy.) The other examples they're discussing aren't necessarily having to do with forgetting orientation stuff so much as "other ways to act badly". For that last bit - Rhonda and Seth were established as having been there the previous year.

I have got to pencil words in more often before using a pen - I forgot "despite orientation" right after "last year" in Rhonda's first word balloon, and then had trouble getting it in without hitting April's head.

The colour fills are again a bit of a pain. This is what I started with:

More From Africa II

Well, since I *have* it, might as well post it...
(That's colour fills for Adanna in panel 1, and pencils in the other panels.)

More From Africa I

Elizabeth has to finish doing her final classes and her marking before she can visit Mtigwaki, but never fear, she will - and the Susan / Paul / Jesse situation will be seen again. But first, let's go see how April is handling working on the orphan home building site.

Hawk Creek Interlude III

Interestingly, nobody who commented connected Liz' "Susan said WHAT?" with Paul's "someone else" yelling at him about doing his job.

Anyhow, the continuation...

Getting Started

I rather like the "blog post" framing for overviews of April's travels, but I may switch to drawing in the words instead of making text windows in the image processing - it adds an extra few steps.

Out of the City

Just Off the Plane

For the first bit, April is only up to observing - this is her very first significant jetlag experience. I think she hit the guestfarm's internet to stay awake until a reasonable hour to crash.

Onward

So I did some skin tones on the drawing, and decided to try some with colour fills. Didn't work out as well as I'd hoped - Adanna and Mavipi are paler than I'd originally thought, because the fills didn't blend so well with the outlines - that texture in Adanna's hair? not there on the drawing, comes from the photo, but I decided to keep it. (I only have pretty basic select/ fill options using GIMP, allowing it to fill too far into "similar colours" can cause it to over-select adjacent areas.)

I may just hint at skin tones in the drawings again.

If you're curious, here's how the drawing came out before I tried the colour fills:

Continuing Along (late May 2010)

Mildly Meta Monday

In which I acknowledge that I can't just dig up any old thread "just because" :)

Back from Goodwill...

Once again, the background gradients didn't look this bad before the upload - it really did look better on my viewer as well as in the graphics program where I adjust the contrast. Also, I was planning to do April as a silhouette in panel 2, but it didn't look good with the hand.

So Does Caffeine Make Anything better?

Off to Goodwill...

Hmm. The light gradients didn't look so bad before uploading it.

Dovetailing

Maybe I should have titled this "Baby Steps"

Springtime for Foobville XI

Springtime for Foobville

So I have a lot of little 'skipping through spring' bits I'll be rolling through...
Yes, it's not easy to draw a hand around a phone, or a phone to scale. My excuse is that I don't do this for a living ... :-)

25 Dec 2009: Merry Christmas from the Sketchpad

I've got some looser stuff covering vignettes of the 25th...
Yeah, I know, that is the world's worst drawing of a walker.

Anyhow, Foob's Paradise goes on hiatus for my Christmas break, where I head back north of the 49th into the frozen tundra :-) It'll pick up again in the new year.

24 Dec 2009: Meanwhile

[narration] While Jim and Wilf played cards, Iris was keeping Elly company [/narration]
I'm more comfortable drawing cats than dogs...

Oct 15

Real people get to do things...