Tony Cliff's Blog, page 5
July 1, 2022
Chapter Two of PRACTICAL DEFENCE is going up for patrons!
Chapter Two of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY starts today for patrons!
Open the gate for less than the price of a floppy comic, enjoy the book early (I post ‘em as I colour 'em), then stick around as part of its lovely little community, if you like! Whether pages are going up or not, there’...
March 21, 2022
Cheap Suspense and Perhaps How Not To Do It
This is a post about writing or storytelling. Specifically, I was frustrated about a common storytelling method that we see a lot in books and on TV, and I wanted to define some potential ways to avoid that frustration, so that in writing a story, I didn't accidentally do the thing that made ...
March 14, 2022
How to Colour Line Art
This basic how-to describes my process for adding colour to what would otherwise be black-and-white scanned line art. First, you’ll find instructions for Photoshop, then Clip Studio Paint. A reader asked how I do this, and it’s a pretty common thing to want to do, but the method is not always...
March 11, 2022
Winter 2022 Project Update
Work on PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY (or Delilah Dirk Four) continues to rumble along! I am currently three-quarters of the way through inks for Chapter Two, which is more than twice as long as Chapter One, and includes pages like this one…
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