Brock Beauchamp

Investigatin’

Brock Beauchamp
April 25, 2011

It’s another Monday morning, which means if I haven’t been slacking over the past week, a new page of Variables gets posted. Here’s page nine and we’re back to Isabel and Candice while they investigate the next break-in and deal with another snotty white Atlanta suburbanite. One of the things I liked least about the first several pages of Variables was the lack of interesting facial expressions. I never wanted this book to become too cartoony but many of the expressions on previous pages just fell flat. They were boring. In this page, I tried to loosen that up a... View Article

Another bathroom!

Brock Beauchamp
April 22, 2011

It seemed that just a few pages ago, we were looking at someone’s bathroom. After a brief interlude with Blake and his father, I couldn’t resist so we’re back at a NEW bathroom scene! At great as that sounds, it only lasts one page so don’t get too excited. This is the first page I’ve done from start to finish since I took the small hiatus and that break seems to have helped. The pencils are better, the backgrounds are better, and the characters are MUCH better. I’m pretty happy with it and I’m excited to see it colored and... View Article

New computer stuff

Brock Beauchamp
April 20, 2011

First off, thanks to my girlfriend Rachel for filling in with last week’s blog entry! She’s an avid sci-fi & fantasy reader and will probably chime in from time to time with a book review or another sort of blog-type thingy on top of helping me write and edit Variables behind the scenes. A few months ago, I decided if I was going to go full-steam ahead with this comic, I was going to need a new home workspace for the digital side of things. I vacillated between waiting for a new iMac, buying a Mini as a stop-gap, or... View Article

Hospital page two

Brock Beauchamp
April 18, 2011

Here’s the next page of Variables! In this page, you begin to see Blake’s frustration with what happened in the woods and that he realizes something very strange has been happening to him. His father is just relieved to see him and naturally, wants to get the hell back home and out of the hospital. Next up, we’re jumping back to Candice and Isabel so this is the last we’ll see of Blake for a few weeks. With that said, I’m approaching the halfway point with the first issue. It seems like this has been going on forever but it’s... View Article

Preview, page 7

Brock Beauchamp
March 25, 2011

It’s Friday (again) and time for the weekly upcoming page preview. I’ve been getting a bit behind this week and given that my work schedule is going to be insane next week, I need to cram as much of my free time into the comic as possible to maintain the one page a week schedule. After that, I need to focus on the home stretch and convention season so I can be prepared for the late summer and autumn convention circuit. I just picked up a Playstation 3, which I’m hoping won’t eat into my free time too much over... View Article

Adverts on Webcomics

Brock Beauchamp
March 23, 2011

I recently saw someone bring up a point about low traffic webcomics and advertising: if you only earn pennies a day from ads, why dilute your content and cause reader distraction by implementing ads when you gain very little from them? Advertising is a sticky subject in the comicking community. Some swear by them, others against. Some despise ad blockers and ask their readers not to use them while others think that is tantamount to whining and that readers should be able to browse the web however they please. There doesn’t seem to be much of a consensus on anything... View Article