[ This is Chapter Four in an ongoing, improvised prose story about three adventurers trying to find their way after the head of their party has died, as well as trying to get paid from a town full of miserable racists. 2022-02-17 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In the images above: many arguing heads, some scenery, and some pencil-inked inked pages. I started using a Winsor & Newton Series 7 sable brush (with Dr Martins ink). It's been sitting in my toolkit for years, and I was too scared to break it...
2022-02-10 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
[ There are captions along with the images if you click through. ]
I'm happy with how those big, detailed wallpaper pages turned out. Thanks to a recent reminder from Chris Schweizer, I was careful not to put the outline on the line, but out...
2022-02-04 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post[This is Chapter Three in an ongoing, improvised prose story. Chapter One; Chapter Two. ]...
2022-02-02 21:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Above: it's tea time once more, and it's time to reminisce about England.
Below: since I haven't had to draw a sailing ship in a while, I figured it was time to add back something equally infuriating to draw, so now there's a horse. Horses l...
2022-01-26 20:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
A reader (hello Jason!) was asking in the comments about the inking and how it gets coloured. I'm going to describe it in detail, because not only is this technique useful for specifically this application, transparency lock can be a hugely versat...
2022-01-20 21:46:17 +0000 UTC View Post~ The continuing, improvised story of three adventurers and their beloved car, under the working title (and Patreon tag) "El Camino." ~
( Chapter One > )
Above, three images: the first, a challenging page, but that bridge and those fortress-style walls will be important later.
Then, two of my new favourite pages, for reasons I cannot perfectly articulate. So I will not try. It is nighttime. D...
2022-01-12 21:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the very first post of a new venture—an improvised, interactive story that I'll be writing with input from you, Dear Readers. I'm not entirely sure where it will go, because I'll have only half a grip on the wheel. It is exciting.
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2022-01-05 18:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Inking begins!
Happy New Year, all! Greetings to the new readers who have signed up over the past few months—thank you for your support of what I now consider the world's most slowly-updated, most tightly-focused Little Fr...
2022-01-05 18:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Literally: housekeeping. I need to clean up this mess.
Highlights (to me):
HUZZAH!
Above: Page 6, the last pencilled page.
Below: The Stack.
Look at those good good green lines, that's what I like to see.
Today: talk about drawing hands; highlights from recent pencilled pages; George Saunders makes me feel like a million bucks; a happy progress update; and, though I am not inclined to believe in things like "off-days," sometimes you gotta call a sp...
2021-12-16 19:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis week: I still have George Saunders on the brain, revisiting the Scene-Sequel approach, a TV recommendation, and it turns out I was right??? about how basic it is to light a character in a scene???
But first! FIRST! Some drawings in prog...
2021-12-10 22:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, something old and something new.
My “something new” is Ge...
2021-12-01 23:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe other night I posted this image over on Twitter, saying, “Filed under ‘cruel things I am doing to myself on a Friday night.’”
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[ ^ Above: an elaborate cemetery complex carved into the hillside. ]
Roughs continue! I've included a few notable panels. As always, mild spoilers. You know what you're doing, I trust you.
2021-11-16 22:04:03 +0000 UTC
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I'm now neck-deep in the process of laying out my pages for Chapter Two. (Specifically: I take a big sheet of drawing paper, trace my page-size border template onto it, then, referencing that page's thumbnail, I start roughing out the drawings.) 2021-11-11 19:16:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a cautionary tale, and is a personal story about my mother’s death. It is not gruesome, but you might not want to read something like that, for a whole variety of very good reasons.
I am not asking for condolences. On th...
2021-11-04 18:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is exciting. I was reminded of a long-running, irritating problem that I often forget, and am now, finally, solving it.
The other day, friend and brilliant artist Rebecca Dart posted this tweet:
2021-10-26 18:36:04 +0000 UTC
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Thumbnails for Chapter Two are finished! I still have to review everything, but in my mind, right now, it feels good and solid and like it does what it needs to do. And my worst fears were in fact unjustified—the whole chapter only came out to 8...
2021-10-19 19:26:43 +0000 UTC View PostI had a scare yesterday. I wrote about 14 pages of "writing." Yesterday, I finished thumbnails representing the three of those 14 pages, and, if I follow through on those thumbnails, they will be thirty-ish finished comic book pages.
Thinkin...
2021-10-13 19:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostI'm in the middle of writing Chapter Two. Here's how things have gone so far and how I'm planning to proceed.
2021-10-05 18:34:09 +0000 UTC
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The final pages of Chapter One! It is a small update, I will admit, but these are also a few of my favourite pages.
He he he. During the writing process, when I stumbled across that final line, I knew, "yes, yes, this is exactly how I want t...
2021-10-01 18:46:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn the past, when I was posting DD to the web, I put out new instalments on Saturday morning, thinking it would be a nice part of peoples' weekends.
Thinking about DD4, I figured I would ask: assuming you read webcomics, is there a day you w...
2021-10-01 16:52:19 +0000 UTC View Post
If you'd like to see what the page presentation looks like on delilahdirk.com, I've posted the first few pages… including the Patron Acknowledgements. If there are CSS issues or something else, I guess I would be grateful if you let me know, tho...
2021-09-27 21:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, what to anticipate from Chapter Two. Then, a promise. Finally, a little bit of blue-sky dreaming.
… in which the truest type of familial affection is demonstrated.
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Good news everybody!
Finally, FINALLY! I get to start work on Chapter Two. I am excited (there are so many fun/dumb things I want to...
2021-09-24 16:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
…in which Alexandra's mother demonstrates a disappointing view on human behaviour.
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Okay, arts grants are sent off! After proofreading my applications one million times, I'm sure there are only a dozen embarrassing gaffes in...
2021-09-17 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We're at a big milestone: after many months, Chapter One is done. The first chapter of DD4, wherein I thought I'd try a few new things, is all...
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