STS-58: Of Stars and Swords Process - Color Comparison

We recently went through the wonderful experience of Caroline's HDD dying. For obvious reasons, this slowed down our usual one page a week update schedule for Of Stars and Swords. The page (Page 14 of Issue 5) we put up that week wasn't entirely finished, and we figured you might like a side-by-side look at the unfinished page next to the now-finished page.

On the left is the unfinished one. Specifically, what's missing is shading on the figures. The backgrounds are actually done, but the figures are still just the flat colors. You can see how Caroline chose to shade them on the right.

In a lot of ways, the left page LOOKS done. We could probably put out comic pages that look like that and they'd be perfectly fine, overall. But when you see it next to the final page, you can really see what Caroline does when she's coloring, and that it is absolutely worth it!

Enjoy, and as always, click the image to get a better look!

STS-18: The End, Complete

So for easier reading, here is all of our mini-comic, The End, compiled in one post and in order. In the next couple of days, I'll be posting some thoughts on the creation process, what we could have done better, what I think we did well, etc. Many people say it's not good to talk negatively about one's own work in public, but I want to do some honest, public critique of our early work to show how we go about working and to maybe help others not run into the same issues we have.


I hope you enjoy the comic, and it definitely does read better in one stretch rather than a page at a time!