Following up my post yesterday…

I have been thinking about creating a new DA group for Sygnus-type projects, especially to showcase artwork created by friends and fans… so I finally did last night!

I’ve been sending out invitations to those I know have DA accounts and have submitted Sygnus fan art in the past. If I missed you somehow, just go ahead and join the group and I’ll put you where you belong as a contributor. Contributors are free to add works to the group without prior approval.

Members and watchers are quite welcome to join! And don’t be surprised if I add your art to our galleries out of the blue as well!

While I’ve had an account at Deviant Art for six years, I have never posted actual Wayrift comic pages up in my gallery. I suppose I just never really considered it! Lately, I’ve seen more and more webcomic artists posting their pages there and finally decided with the start of Chapter 40, I would bring Wayrift updates to my DA account as well. It IS art, afterall.

I also decided (quite quickly) that I would NOT be going back and posting old Wayrift pages. There are just too many (1,000+) to archive on there. Not only would it take way too much time, but would also inflate my account and probably make all my friends unsubscribe from me! *laughs*

So here’s the link to the Wayrift folder gallery on DA!

I’m considering making a Sygnus group on DA… not sure how many of you guys would be interested in joining if I did..? I already have lots of Sygnus fan art from over the years to add to it!

This week will bring an end to Wayrift’s 39th chapter — can you believe we’re going on Chapter 40 next week? Pretty amazing stuff!

As you might can tell from all the recent artwork on DA, I’ve been testing and learning and trying things out with the Tablet PC that Syn gifted me for Christmas last year. I’m slowly getting a better feel for it and inking in Flash… which has led me to reflecting on the current state of Wayrift strips.

When I first got the Tablet PC, I changed the page size for Wayrift, just as an experiment for this chapter. I wanted to see if I could make pages a little less cluttered and make updates quicker for me to handle with a bit less art. But looking back on this chapter, while I enjoyed much of it, I think the pages are a little too sparse in content.

So, starting in Chapter 40, I will be experimenting with longer, more scrolling pages, rather than boxed shape. The challenge to this is far more content in each page — a lot more drawing and painting for us. But also making sure the pages don’t fall into the too cluttered trap as I felt some of the pages in the past have.

So onwards with more experimentation! After inking the pages yesterday, I have to say that I was more pleased with how they turned out than the pages in Chapter 30… or maybe it’s just because I’m going back to drawing people rather than Dragons! *laughs*

You guys will have to let me know what you think when we get there next week!

Still on a roll… more artwork for the Dreigiau project! SaRa and Kudako make such a cute couple!

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I’ve been somewhat on an art roll lately (I’ll take it when I get it), and have been experimenting and learning about using the tablet PC with Flash. Part of this is because I’m still getting the hang of roughing and inking directly to the screen digitally… and I’m trying to find a way to make my lineart more detailed and natural for future Wayrift pages. I’m still getting used to the change in size of Wayrift pages and am on the fence as to what direction I want to take it.

Anyhow! You came to see art. So here it is: Suzume, SaRa and Lucci planting a sapling on the Islands in Nefol. This isn’t a group of characters I draw often, and SaRa always gives me a big hassle. So I think it turned out alright.

This is part of a larger Dreigiau art project. But I won’t say anything about that just yet. ^_~

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