It’s been a long crazy ride. I had no idea where this story would take me when I started to rework it from the ground up. So here we are, chapter 2. Thanks for sticking around.
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1 - Falling Higher
62 comics.
I like the lose feeling of this page a lot.
Pot, kettle, black?
I like this logic, too bad punching someone first isn’t really the way to get it across. Emo.
Five has communication issues.
I like the shadowy Devin in the last panel.
I dunno, I really like that last panel a lot. I think I’m really starting to get the feel of the comic down with the coloring. Five is also violent.
I should have added a looming shadow in panel one..
They know exactly what Devin comes here for.
He can be a real jerk when he wants to. Catching that same sickly green from the first visit here.
I started to really put time into painting here, but that’s been slowing me down with the comic.
This whole scene was ill fated, I ended having a Painter crash for nearly every page in it. Devin leaves notes all over his house for himself, but I don’t think he ever notices them afterward..
I also leave notes around that I fail to remember. I need note notes.
Nothing says good morning like being out of drugs eh. This was another page that I had to redo due to a crash.
I don’t like that sudden jump in time, I think too much like a movie sometimes, and forget the limits of paper.
Head poke. Not much else to say.
I do love the interactions between Devin and Five, a lot.
It’s like arguing with yourself..
I totally failed at whatever silly fisheye I was going for in that panel at the top right. Crazy people tend to deny it.
Font mistake, I used the Zero text for Devin there.
I always feel like I’m cheating people out with one panel full pages.
Because you are, past self!
That some awesome voice of reason, go majestic power animal!
Devin really does have some aggression in him, it just takes a lot to push that outward.
I dislike that top panel greatly. I do like the backgrounds being worked in more, however.
If you stopped by my table at AWA 2006 , this page was out for viewing. Not much else to say, full pages are sort of cheating, so I always feel bad about using them.
This is the page where it all clicked, refining the art, without killing my pencils. Ah, poor Devin, no one ever believes you do they?
Too bad Devin is all oddly sized in that top panel.
I spent a lot of time on this page, but ick, looking back the top panel is so crooked from the scan.
I love and hate so much about this page, I just can’t decided what to think.
Another panel I love, the top one.
He really was looking for it.
I love the top panel. I wanted distortion and mention of tin foil hats since page one.
Five has evolved a bit as a character, into someone that’s into conspiracy theories and other ‘out there’ ideas, so the top comment fits in nicely with where things have headed.
Sometimes it’s worth listening to you crazy friends, there’s some sparks of wisdom in there SOMETIMES. I have no idea why I drew that blank panel..
So Zero joins the cast. No one but Devin can see him, and NO they don’t have internal dialogue, Devin is very much talking out loud to something only he can see. A wonderful combination.
This was the first, single paneled pages I did in the comic, and sadly, I was hoping it was the last, but it wasn’t..
That’s right, your majestic spiritual adviser thinks you’re retarded, or a drug addict or something. I love the three panel progression.
The last panel is a total cop out, but the pencil from the first makes up for it. The idea of a less than majestic spirit guide really sparked this idea, that and the idea of Devin’s inner voice of reason being much more sensible than than himself.
My Spirit Guide is DEAD.
BRINK was the origin of my online handle ‘Skulldog’, here’s why.
So motivated. Hear that, that’s the sound of someone going crazy..
Yes, she does have a unicorn on her jacket.
Devin and his lack of social graces..don’t talk to people who kill your pets. Bloody nose, owch..
I drew backgrounds, and this will keep up for the rest of the comic. Do they mail drugs to people? I’m not sure, I’ve never been part of medical experiments.
It’s safe to say, I do keep that promise, backgrounds continue.
I love the last panel. I want the whole comic to have that feel.
I still do.
Five is a bit overly optimistic in her views..
WTF? Yellow panel? I seriously have no idea why I did that.
That last tiny panel was my first stab at cleaning up backgrounds more. Five is quite the chain smoker, and no one gets in her way of doing it either.
For all the bad art and crappy fonting, the one thing I am thankful for it, is that I don’t ever have to rewrite this comic. The characters are perfect to what I had in mind, and I don’t have to change anything from the earlier pages.
Originally in the story, Five and Devin strike it off as friends in the first ten pages. I wanted to scrap that, and have a bit more tension between them. This was another thing I always wanted to write in. Check the doctor’s notes.
Oh shit, crazy person! I wanted to play with some crazy colors, red and white seemed fitting. I redrew the swing panel about seven times, and finally stopped there. Still doesn’t give the feeling of the blow I wanted, but I couldn’t get it any closer. That’s a box cutter Five has, I don’t think I need to say it, most people caught it.
Again, three panels is a bad default, but it halfway worked here.
Tell more of the truth, everyone already thinks you’re crazy.
Three panels per page is a bit lame.
20 page mark. Usually at 20 pages I quit on a story, once over 20 pages I have no problem keeping it up. I hand drew that sound effect.
Heh, I cheapen out and didn’t color the last two panels. This is the point where I start to really paint the comic, and less just color over lines. And for the record, while you may think “No one goes into a house after seeing it was broken into!” I did, after my home was broken into. So there. Only in my case my dog wasn’t dead.
I still like the blues.
Devin wants to be an assertive guy, but he can never act on those thoughts. Doctor Stalle is not the man we see Devin talking to at the start, there was some confusion over that.
I admit I can’t draw kids. Though I love the page. Devin really hates kids..
Part of me is wanting to cut this page, it’s not really needed. I just wanted to draw Kirin. Originally the dream had purpose in the comic, but with the re-write it no longer does. My freakiest dreams always about being in some underground labyrinth or sewer system. I can never see what’s beyond the open doorways, but I go in anyway.
Why did I keep it? Maybe I can still work some meaning in later.
Maybe lying doesn’t work well either for you Devin. The whole idea of waking up somewhere I didn’t fall sleep, is pretty creepy. Ah bathrooms. Every time I draw one, I have to giggle and remember a class I had in college. Draw a room in your house, easy. So we all come in Monday to share, and the professor asks all the sequential art (comics) majors to raise their hands. All of us had drawn bathrooms. Is there logic to this? I dunno, but it’s always funny to know that comic artists like bathrooms.
Looking back, the toilet is either to big, or Devin is too small.
Got some odd friends there Devin..ah, sorry this part of the story is a bit confusing time wise.
I’d be confused too. The doctor looks better than earlier pages, thankfully.
I use to like this page..I’m making a face right now looking back at the color job.
And thus enters a new character. Mysteries abound. Again with Devin’s bluntness.
The original font I was using had an issue with the lower case F, as in it was really a slightly different upper case F. I didn’t find out till about this page, due to the lack of F’s in the script so far.