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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

San Diego Comic Con!

Brock Beauchamp
March 21, 2011

I haven’t done much work on the comic this past week (thanks be to my small buffer for the short hiatus) and it’s been a nice change of pace after over three months of non-stop work. My batteries are recharged and I’m ready to spend the next seven days working on building that buffer back up because on Friday, I found out that SelfCentEnt is going to San Diego Comic Con! To have the first issue all printed and ready, I need to be about three pages ahead of schedule by the end of the first issue. That gives me... View Article

Friday preview page 6

Brock Beauchamp
March 18, 2011

I’m glad I spent a few weeks building a small buffer because I really needed it this week. Last weekend, I couldn’t draw anything that mattered and this week, I’ve had things to do and/or I needed to do a spring cleaning on the place in preparation to getting my motorcycle up and running, the garage cleaned for the incoming floodwaters, and tonight, I need to have the snow tires removed from my car so I don’t burn off that precious soft rubber in this 50 degree weather. You have to love Minnesota sometimes… On the more fun side of... View Article

New page & Intuos4

Brock Beauchamp
March 7, 2011

On Friday, I finally spent a few bucks and upgraded my drawing tablet, an older Wacom Graphire Bluetooth. It worked well for what I needed at the time but now that I’m comicking full-time, something larger and more sophisticated was in order. Enter a large Intuos4 tablet. It’s about double the square footage of my old tablet and offers four times the sensitivity. I’ve never been comfortable with drawing digitally and now I see why it bothered me. The larger real estate and increased sensitivity gives my hand more room to work, which results in less jerkiness in line quality.... View Article

Preview: New scene

Brock Beauchamp
March 4, 2011

After a short three page intro to the Blake Monroe story, now it’s time to switch gears. Here is the first page of the second main arc of Variables: 1992. It takes place in Atlanta and involves two detectives who are looking into mysterious break-ins that are plaguing the area. I thought these scenes would bore me but it turns out that I’m enjoying drawing them more than the first three pages (I’m currently working on coloring page five right now), even though very little action is going to occur for a few pages (damn you, exposition!). For the past... View Article