Imy the Comic

Ok people! I have a posting schedule! Very exciting! Comics will now be posted every Wednesday and Sunday. I hope I’m not being too optimistic. It may be because I’ve had so many days off, and I’ve been just home sick so I’ve had a lot of time on my hands. I may just be tricking myself into thinking I can keep up with it twice a week. But I’m going to give it a shot! So this is put into effect immediately. Which means the next strip will be up this Wednesday! And that’s only a little over an hour away in my part of the world…

Even though I’ve only done 5 strips now, you’ll notice changes in how the characters are drawn from one strip to the next. The reason for this is that when I sat down to do the first strip, I went straight to the strip without any planning out of how the characters would really look. I’m too impatient for that 🙂 Because of that, each time a draw a new strip I try something different. I think I’m most happiest with my latest strip, Surviving Family Christmas, because I tried some new things.

First off, I am apparently an idiot, because even after using a wacom tablet and Adobe Illustrator for many years, I only just today figured out that you can use pressure in illustrator (up until now I thought it was only possible in photoshop). I decided to try that out with this strip and I was very pleased by the “pen-like” lines that flowed out. I feel like they give a better dimension to the drawings, and I think I will continue to draw the strip like this.

Don’t be surprised by more changes in the characters as time goes on. It’s going to take a while to “perfect” them.