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Cloud Town Tuesday Nov 2023 p25
[00:00:00] Alyssa.
Mission: Comics employee, tattoo artist. That's me. The youngest of the crew. Prodigy comic artists, cartoonists, tattoo artists. WARIOR, Kirt, this book got his cover on it. He's formally trained I at blah. , he's the most pleasant of us. He's got skulletts!. Yeah. , yes.
Welcome to Cloudtown Tuesday, the day where I share a page from my graphic novel, Cloudtown, and um, tell you about the process of making it. It's like a, um, editor's commentary on a DVD, so here it is, let's go, let's do it.
Yeah, the rush just ended, Let's look at this page. Okay. Okay. I like how she's, , powering up her confrontation to the bully. You know, I just realized this pretty recently, that this, teddy bear lion...
Yeah. was featured in page two. Yeah. Heavily. It doesn't appear till right here. And you're like, why is this lion in her [00:01:00] head? Like she has a teddy bear at home that she cuddles when she's feeling insecure. Oh, so this is like the reason why the bear is here. Yeah. So originally this, the book opens with a scene of her huddled in her basement during a hurricane attack.
And so you just think it's a normal hurricane. Cause I used to hide in, When there are big storms in my town, you have to like, hide away from windows. And so she's , cuddling the, the thing. But, yeah, it's later in the story too. It's a cool little , , Easter egg. , you know what, , my editor thought it was the, there's like a creature like it in Bleach apparently?
Which I hadn't read at the time. There's like a, a possessed teddy lion something. That's cute. Yeah, I don't know. Alright, hang on, let's watch the timelapse. Yeah, there's really good energy in this page.
Originally it was just, , Pen in her mind saying, you can take them.
I like that you put them a little more in the middle, [00:02:00] So that they're at the focal point. And this is also a pretty traditional, in traditional storytelling beats, You usually have, on a hero's journey, they try to do the right thing early on, they try to change in the way they should, and it just goes awfully.
And it reinforces them being the way they were. Um, and so , that's something I didn't think about at this point in time, but in retrospect, that is like... That's what you did? Yeah, that's what, that's what happened, yeah. That's cool.
I play with the dolphins on her shirt, reference to... Yeah, yeah, cause she was in love when I first designed that, , hoodie. She fell in love with the dolphin boy. Remember we talked about that other character? Oh, yeah. That got edited out. No. In this world, do they know about the dolphin brain people?
Yeah they do. The people that pilot the Stormcatchers are like, , celebrities. They're well known. And two of them are dolphin brained. In the first version of this, not too much.
But [00:03:00] in the world of Cloud Town, crazy stuff happens so much that it's not so crazy for crazy things to happen, you know? , weird random creatures come out of a rip in the universe. , stuff can be shocking, but , nothing's outside of the realm of , reasonable expectation.
Mm mm. All the major beats are in the script, but the details all got changed, basically, like how things play out. And sometimes it's just like, Oh, the expression this person made and this page makes me feel like they didn't actually, in retrospect, they didn't actually feel confident about this decision.
So that would change how they react later. Right, because you're building a continuity with your characters as you expand on them more. So you kind of have to like, go less on the script, but how the story is going while you draw it. Yeah, well you know, I think about this, like screenwriters write the screenplay, but then it does change.
Like, when you didn't get the shot, or it looked better, or like, oh this character is actually the star, or whatever. That's why you're supposed to have a [00:04:00] screenwriter on set. Yeah. You know, you'll have to change the dialogue with the actor. But,, direct influence of,, watching YouTube, I had never heard of Kirby Crackle.
And this is like a, a crude approximation, but her, , power up stuff, , definitely was, , learning about what Kirby Crackle is from Cartoonist Kayfabe being on in the background while I was drawing. They're so good. Yeah, I enjoy it. But, , , again, , we're gonna do, , the, , Meanwhile, back at the farm.
Oh yeah, it. I like that , wavy texture in the back. Looks like a... got the... pattern. Yeah, so what I do is I take a texture pencil or marker, or texture brush and then I manipulate it with the liquify. Oh, yeah, you bend it. Yeah, and I do that a lot and I find it really enjoyable. I find it, I like the effects on that.
Yeah, it looks cool. Um... So yeah, that's this page.
Hey, thanks for watching. These videos are brought to you by the stuff I make, and [00:05:00] Patreon supporters get all that stuff. So, I've been putting up more free ebooks, my first 200 and some odd page "A Film About Billy" alternates between comics and prose "Bears in Space" over 100 pages of "Free Money" so many of the stories that you might have read about in my Failing to quit are all up free for any paid supporter to read.
I sold out of the 1 early adopter slots, so that's great, thank you all for signing up, , I added 25, 2 a month, slots, so if you have friends that you think would like this and want them to get in before it goes up to 3 a month, uh, do tell them about it.
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Yeah. Sorry, we're just hovering. We're not even working here. We're just bothering her. Have a great day.