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Hey guys.
I put a new vote incentive up. So hope you like it.
Also…today marks the first day of NEW EYES!
Now…I know what you’re thinking. “So what?”
Well…I’ve been wanting to have the characters eyes adjust to light. So the pupils go big when inside…and small when outside.
So I made some new eyes. And I gave Alex more brownish/green eyes. And Nastajia more “greeny-green” eyes.
I haven’t gotten around to all characters. But I will eventually. I’m trying to improve every day.
I also wanted to thank Alan from Phoenix!
I received yet ANOTHER AMazon Wishlist item!
The complete Peanuts 1959-1962!
How cool!
I have to say. I like this SOOO much better than a “Donate” button.
I appreciate that you all want to support me.
This just feels less….”needy”. And more of a nice way to exchange gifts.
Alan…I’ll be getting you some sketch cards out very soon. A “thank you” for a “thank you”.
🙂
And for those of you who still want to BUY sketch cards…
Go here.
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/?p=1335
And finally…
I’ve been just PONDERING the possibility of doing a Ustream.
For those that don’t know what that is…it’s essentially a live stream of me working on a page.
Does this interest any of you?
I wouldn’t be doing this for me. Please understand that.
This would be if YOU guys want to see this.
I don’t know how interesting this would be. So please choose your responses VERY CAREFULLY…ha ha.
Anyways. Thanks all. And hope you enjoy today’s page.
Scott
I think a Ustream would be great. It’s been very popular for other artists like Gabe on Penny Arcade and especially Thunt on Goblins Comics.
What’s especially neat about it for the fans is that we can see some of the decisions and skills that go into making a page.
One word of warning, Scott. You’d better be able to carry on a conversation while you work with out being too distracted. Thunt has a social stream text to speech program going for his and the dialog goes back and forth for hours!
Ustream sounds like an awesome idea!
Details are great and the new armor finish is … outstanding!
So a live behind the scenes for Dreamland? Sounds like a fun project. I’d limit it to once a week or month or something though to make sure it doesn’t impact your productivity.
Oh and the new eyes are great!
Wow really? I used to love watching Lartist do his Ustream, but sadly the moderators thought I was arguing. I would like to think I have improved, and would enjoy a Ustream of Dreamland!!
The new eyes look great, Scott, any chance of getting panel 2 as a wallpaper?
Nastajia’s as gorgeous as ever, as well as the rest of it ofcourse 😀 I totally agree with Rory, I can’t stop staring at panel 2. And a ustream would be great 🙂 I love watching artists work.
hmmm, looks like nastajia likes to hang out with the kids, eh? if that doesn’t get a guy to think… 😉
and I agree with the others. watching a page come to life would be awesome.
a question though: would it only be accessible while it actually happens (as the word LIVE stream implies) or would it be accessible later, too? I’d be sad, if there was a stream and I wouldn’t be able to watch due to the time difference.
A live stream of a page coming to life would be pretty cool to see. I’m loving Alex’s shiny armor. Still loving Nastajia’s Native look. She should keep that look or at least leave her hair down. I’m curious about these messages… are they just going to be randomness until maybe some how it gets Dan into Dreamland? I like the previous vote incentive better. I have Alex sinking in the ocean as my desktop background. 🙂
I think the new eyes are lovely!
Orion’s pretty slick, there, too. I’m definitely getting a subtext around the lines of ‘I’ll just leave you kids to yourselves a bit.’ ;D And Dan’s all ‘See how responsible and trustworthy I am Nastajia? Huh? Huh?’
Excused? I think Alex just forgot that Orion even exists! And who can blame him? 😀
Thanks all.
I’ll definitely look into the Ustream.
And so glad you like the new eyes.
🙂
I’d like to see you work =D
And I like the new eyes =D
Hehe, the last panel is funny. Orion being all absorbed with Dan’s reply, Alex + Nastajia all absorbed with each other. “If I may be excused”?!?! We already forgot you exist! Someone pointed out he might be leaving them alone on purpose, not just because he’s absorbed with Dan’s reply. Either way, just the way he just turned 180 degrees from the last panel + starts walking away w/out anyone caring is just funny =D
USTREAM!!!!!!!
I really enjoy playing the game ‘whats behind me’ with Alex’s armor. Also, yay greener-eyed elf lady! Like Sugarloaf sang.
“Green-eyed lady, passion’s lady
Dressed in love, she lives for life to be
Green-eyed lady feels life I never see
Setting suns and lonely lovers free”
I accidentally posted this in con section too because I am a stooge. Feel free to point it out again if you wish 😛
I think that Ustream sounds like an awesome idea! It’d be intersting to see how you work on the webcomic!
I’d love to see a Ustream! That would be incredibly awesome!
New Eyes are awesome and Ustream sounds awesome! Heck, the whole page is awesome! Can’t wait for tomorrow and following Nastajia and Alex to some more alone time, which hopefully goes a heck of a lot better then June did.
I can’t say I would have figured it out if you hadn’t specifically mentioned it Scott. But I thought that they looked different. More expressive and in Staj’s case prettier. 🙂 Looks great.
Did I miss something in panel 1? What is Nastajia doing that the kids find so amusing?
Upstream sounds great, (for those who have fast internet…)
The new eyes are a fantastic idea!
Haha, Alex looks like a complete geek in panel 3.
Nastajia looks like she’s loosened up some…and if there’s a new figurine based on this new costume I’m so buying one at the next ComiCon. Well that and if there’s a Nicodemus figure to scale…
Hmmm…Dreamland ActionClix?
*sneaks a peek at the letter in the bag*
“Dear Orion, here are your new contact lenses, so that you’ll have upgraded eyes as well.”
@Palmetto: I wondered the same, but I figure either someone told a joke or Nastajia’s getting up from a stumble.
what a fantastic scene. Love the eye play between staj and alex
I hate to just echo others, but I totally want an expanded version of Panel 2 here for a desktop. =D
Still wondering about these ‘secret messages’ but I guess “all will be revealed in time” and such… 😉
I think the Ustream idea is really cool! I’d be interested, anyway.
ustream would be awesome!
It looks like their eyes are still deep enough for them to get lost in. That’s what counts anyway, isn’t it? But they do look nice.
Woo-hoo, Number three! Can we keep it up? Vote early and vote often!!!
By the way, nice incentive!
I think all Alex hears from Orion is “blah blah, blah blah, I’m gonna go find Tom Green and use him as a training dummy”(though if I were in Alex’s shoes and I saw Stajia, I’d basically pay no attention to anything else either, because she’s definitely as beautiful as Sailor Jupiter)
Wow… Nastajia look so lovely…
This comic is so amazing! The new eyes and the shading and the shiny armor and everything!
Hmm… testing… when I try the submit button for the comment section for the next comic, it leads me to a PayPal page. I guess some code might have gotten mixed up.
out of curiosity, what was the joke Nastajia made that got the kids laughing? 😀
Actually, the new eyes here make Nastajia’s look somehow…ALIVE…it’s really neat that such a small change could have such a big effect.
Also; Alex’s eyes look very “alive” as well. =)
my cat’s name is orion…but we call him stinky O_o
Okay, this has nothing to do with anything, but…
I was reading through the old archives, just for fun, but the moment I got to this page my clock hit 6:00pm my time. (Pacific, I think it’s G… MT time? ) and I got to see the shift between the daytime site design and nightime site design! It was very cool and trippy. XD
awesome sword looks awesomer now that it’s SHINY(er)!!
they proved that a good polish on the blade improves cutting power by cutting friction (pun!)
on weapon masters
I bow down humbly in the presence of such grtaeenss.
I think she was playing a game with them.
Aww, look at the look that passed between them! Kiss-kiss!