Yo!

As a rule of thumb, when you’re planning your panel layouts, try to limit the number of panels on each page to five or maybe six at most.

As you can see in this page, I’ve used a whole of eight panels – if you count the small ones, which I usually do! Using this many panels tend to make the page feel crammed and hard to read, which of course is not what you want. I used to do this A LOT when I first started working on this comic, but after reading up on the subject, I try to avoid it as much as possible.
But, if you have a good reason to do it, then go ahead! My reason for putting this many panels in this page, for example, is because I felt I wanted to let the characters say what they had to say BEFORE the big surprise that takes place in the next page.
In other words, in order to give the next page more impact, I sacrificed a bit of readability in this… We’ll see if it works out as planned (^ v ^ ;) Even though I’ve already made 30 pages, I’m still learning, hihi!

Stay tuned and enjoy the comic!
/T

Hi guys!

I’m feeling a little down today :/ The reason for that is because today I got some bad news at work. To make a long story short; I won’t have a job to go to next week. It’s not because I got fired, but the thing is that I was only there as an intern and today I was told that the internship will end at the end of this week!… Yeah, it was super-short notice, but it was because of an “human error”, so I can’t really be mad at anyone.
I guess I could see it from the bright side – now I’ll have more time to work on the comic! But, on the other hand, if I can’t pay for food and rent.. well, you get the idea (>_< )
Ah well, I’m not the only one to be unemployed and broke these days – far from it!

To all of you who are also unemployed: Everything will be alright, sometimes you just have to give things time and N-E-V-E-R give up (<– this is the most important part to remember)! Better times are coming, friends. Just hang in there!

Now, enjoy the comic!

/T

Hi guys! Here I am with another sparkling new page of ‘Pierre the Baking Cat’. Can you feel the suspense building up yet? hehe >:)

I made some small changes to the site just now:

- Added small ‘Project Wonderful’ ad-spaces at the top of the site.
- Made the ‘Donate’ and ‘Buy Stuff’ buttons smaller and moved them down a bit.
- I’ll see if I can make a so-called “Favicon” for the site tonight. I don’t know why I haven’t done this earlier, but I think it’s about time now! It doesn’t do much, but it’s a nice touch, right? :p

Yeah, that’s about it :) Is there anything that YOU still misses on this website? Perhaps there’s something that you wish could be changed or added to make the site look better or whatever, drop me a line if you have any suggestions okay? (^w ^*)

Oh, and page 28 is also coming real soon, be sure to check it out! (^ v ~)

See ya soon!
/T

Hi all, here’s page 26 for ya!
I’ll also upload page 27 and 28 in a few days hopefully. The inking on those pages is finished, I just need to get them proofread and add some screentones and stuff – the usual :)
I’ve tried to put more time & energy into making the comic this past week and I think it’s paying off. I’m already sketching up page 30. We’ll see for how long I’ll be able to keep this up :/ I’ll do my best!

Until next time, enjoy!
/T

Wazzup everyone!?

I don’t really have that much to add, except that I’ve uploaded some updated Claude art in the Characters section (it’s at the very bottom of the page so you’ll have to scroll down) :p
Eventually I’ll make new art for all the characters, but I don’t know when it’ll be done, so you’ll just have to be patient!

What else? Hmm… Well, yesterday I finished one of the hardest Nintendo games I’ve ever played; Ghosts n’ Goblins for Famicom!
You can almost hear the game producers laughing at you when you’re playing it – that’s how HARD it is! Of course I had to use continues to be able to beat it two times, but I can at least come to level 5 without dying. When I first got the game, couldn’t get past level 2 so… yeah, “practice makes perfect” I guess :)

I’ve also discovered that if you’re getting tired of listening to music while drawing, you can always open up some random video blog on YouTube and listen to that instead. It’s actually kind of refreshing! I like to listen to this guy. He’s doing video game walkthroughs with commentaries and he’s quite fun to listen to. Highly recommended!

“How do someone get tired of listening to music?”, you might ask. Well, if you’re like me and often listen to the same songs over and over again, you know what I mean! ;p As long as there’s something in the background, I’m happy.

That’s it for now, see ya!
/tomii

Yep, here it is. Page 20, just like I promised :)

You see that cool picture of that house? The one with the sun rays? Yeah … I made that in 3D. A neat little program named SketchUp helped me out there. It’s free you know …
So, can you call it “cheating”, when you use programs to help you do stuff you can really do by hand? … Hell No.

I chose to use 3D to:
1. Save time.
2. Get the perspective right and
3. Be able to choose a camera-angle that would fit the purpose, without having to redraw again and again until I finally get it right.

You think THAT’S bad? How about if I told you I used 3D for the lower left panel as well? Uh Huh!? Yeah!

The bottom line is, if it will help you make a better product, or you just want to save time or whatever, use whatever means necessary and do it! … Just don’t be stupid and tell everyone about it afterwards (like I just did) … Hah! Naaah, I’m just kidding :p

Anywho, it’s getting late and I’M going to bed now, sooo I’ll see you! お休み！(That’s Japanese and it says ‘Oyasumi’).

Hi everyone!

This will not be a long post, I just want to wish everyone a happy Midsummers Day! And even though the weather is not quite what it should be, may you all enjoy some good food and drink and, of course, enjoy the company of your loved ones!

If you don’t celebrate ‘Midsummers Day’ in your country, I’ll provide a simple google search for the term ‘Midsummers Day’s Foods’, enjoy! :p
http://tinyurl.com/midsummersdayfoods

Also, enjoy page 14!
Cya!