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Sneaking around

Brock Beauchamp
April 18, 2012

Page layouts have been a real challenge for me lately. I mean, really a challenge. Most of the time, I rough out one or two thumbnail concepts, take the best from each, and start outlining the page. Within half an hour, I’m boxing out the page on a bristol board and a few minutes after that, I’m drawing the page. It hasn’t been happening like that for me lately. At any given point in the comic, I focus on one part of my creation process and push hard to improve it. Right now, it’s my layouts. I feel that my... View Article

Karter’s first kill

Brock Beauchamp
April 17, 2012

Well, you probably knew it was coming. Karter finally shoots somebody. Two police officers were impolite and got in the way of his mission. It’s unlikely that the kill count stops at two, though… Which brings up violence in Variables. You’ll notice that you don’t see the police actually get shot. I won’t use this “turn the camera away” trick every time but I’m not crazy about drawing super-violent scenes. I’m not totally against it when it’s necessary but I’ve always been of the opinion that the imagination is far more vivid than anything a creator can draw, film, or... View Article

Another alley!

Brock Beauchamp
April 16, 2012

Let me tell you, Karter loves his alleyways. How much of this comic has he spent in alleys? 1/2? It’s his preferred method of getting around (well, that and rooftops). In this preview, he’s sneaking into another alley, this time with his MP5 ready for action. Tomorrow when the full page is released, you’ll see why… Over the next few weeks, I’ll be updating often, sometimes twice a week. I have to finish this issue (24 pages) before the end of April, so I can format the issue and print it for SpringCon in May. It takes at least three... View Article

Hey, a new update!

Brock Beauchamp
April 12, 2012

It’s been awhile but I’m happy to say that for the foreseeable future, I’ll be back on track with Variables and updating more than ever. The next page should be ready by Tuesday, just like normal. This page was really hard to draw. My continued efforts to improve my background work are bearing fruit and the multiple perspective angles in the first panel were a challenge to draw correctly, as was getting the correct size on all the objects on the page. It’s really easy to draw the humans out of size perspective versus the cars and street or vice... View Article

It’s been awhile…

Brock Beauchamp
April 11, 2012

Whew. It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to update Variables but over the next three weeks, expect to see updates coming fast and furious as I wrap up this issue before my fist convention in late May. My plan is to have the entire 24 page issue completed by the end of the month. I’ve been playing around with a new printer I bought, trying to put together some new prints (you may have seen some of them posted over at my Rocketpig Studio site), and just got back from a great New Orleans trip. I’ve always wanted to... View Article

Comic strip, revised

Brock Beauchamp
March 22, 2012

Instead of the typical page preview today, I’m going to talk about something a little different… One or two of you may remember that quite some time back (probably about a year ago, now), I started work on a comic strip featuring a bunch of talking animals. Why? Well, it’s partially because I love comic strips and, like most artists my age, I absolutely worship at the altar of Bill Watterson. The other reason is that I loathe talking animals. I hate furry comics. I think they’re one of the dumbest ideas pervading every corner of webcomicdom with their unfunny,... View Article