Waterlogged

HERE’S THE FINAL PART OF THE POST OMG I BET YOU GUYS ARE SO THRILLED BY ALL OF THIS ALL ONE OF YOU

Picture 1:

Here is the first concept for the Chapter 1 cover.  The idea behind this one was to show Amos and Manny working on the ship, because that’s what they do.  Like, duh.

Picture 2:

This was the concept for the Chapter 1 cover that we ended up going with.  Nothing much else to say about it.

Picture 3:

One more concept done for the Chapter 1 cover.  This is how the conversation went:

Me:Yo, okay, so I drew up this one last idea for the Chapter 1 cover real quick.  Check it out, I just put it in the Dropbox.

Brandon: Okay, I’ll let you know when I have it.

Me:…

Brandon:It’s great, we’re gonna use this one.

Picture 4 - 10:

I may have mentioned before about how Waterlogged used to be about two pirates who wanted to open a gardening shop.  Well, we did do about 6 pages of storyboard before we decided to scrap the whole gardening idea (we found it to be unnecessary to the plot and we were having difficulty actually working that aspect into the story).  This is before we both got OpenCanvas and we used, instead, IScribble.net to do our storyboards.  The system we use now is way, way better.

Thanks for reading this (if you did) and thanks for keeping up with Waterlogged (if you have been).  We look forward to bringing you Chapter 2 next week.

WE’RE CONTINUING THE LAST POST TO HELL WITH INTRODUCTIONS

Picture 1:

This drawing is a quick pencil doodle that was scanned in.  It would eventually become the first page of the comic.

Picture 2:

More scanned pencil doodles.  After Amos and Manny were finally designed (for the most part), Brandon and Ian spent some time drawing the characters and getting used to how they look, move, etc.

Picture 3:

Since they would both be drawing the comic, Brandon and Ian tried drawing the characters side by side to see how close to each other their drawings of the characters would look, and if either had any good ideas for the characters they hadn’t considered.  The final result was “Not too bad”.  Also, it’s weird typing in the third person.  Hi guys, this is Ian typing this post up.  How’s it going?

Picture 4:

These are the final concepts for Captain.  Minor changes here and there, but after doing these, Brandon and myself were pretty psyched about the look of the character.

Picture 5:

Picture of Amos the artists use as reference to make sure they don’t mess anything up.  This picture became obsolete after we started breaking the really by the cover page.

Picture 6:

Same as above, but for Manny.

Picture 7:

The color maps for Amos and Manny.  Any time Brandon or myself wants to start coloring the comic, we basically drop this picture into Photoshop and start using the inkdropper.

Picture 8:

Same as above, but for Captain.  I dunno why we keep forgetting to draw the giant penis that’s part of the Captain’s hat, we should really remember to do that from now on…

Picture 9:

Miscellaneous pirate concept art done while waiting to start up the comic.

I HAVE ONE MORE PICTURE BEFORE I HIT THE LIMIT BUT I’MA PUT IT IN PART 3, THE FINAL PART OF THIS POST!

Hey there folks!  Since it’s our week off to get our lives sorted out before we begin work on Chapter 2, what with school ending for the summer and all, here is something to keep the fans who pay attention to this Tumblr nice and satiated til next week.

Here’s the concept art of Waterlogged!  At least, concept art we felt you would actually care to see or that wouldn’t spoil anything.

Picture 1:

So, first is the very first picture of Manny ever done.  It was drawn by Brandon.  Fun fact is that this was well before we planned on doing a webcomic, though.  Originally, the plan was for what would become Waterlogged to be a simple forum comic done to amuse those who visited the Clock Crew forums.  The original concept was for it to be about two pirates who wanted to open up a gardening shop called “Land Lovers”.  They never went through with the forum comic, and instead they did separate joke-a-week webcomics (which will not be linked here because they were terrible).  After they quit those, they decided to work together on a serialized online comic, and the idea of the pirate gardening shop was brought back from the dead.

Picture 2:

This picture is further trying to hash out the character that would become Manny.  As you can see, the original drawings were pretty close to what would be the final concept for Manny, because both Ian and Brandon were pretty fond of the general look of the character.

Picture 3:

These are early concepts of what Amos would look like.  Fun fact:  Amos is named after the character “Amos Moses” from the song of the same name by Jerry Reed (http://youtu.be/KLDtNsIKOhs).  If you get them started, you will never stop Brandon and Ian from shouting “HERE COMES AAAAAAAMMOOOOOOSSSS”

Picture 4:

More Amos concepts.

Picture 5:

More Manny concepts, this time with him being closer to his current form.

Picture 6:

More Amos drawings, this time him being pretty much how we wanted him to be aside from minor changes here and there.

Picture 7:

These are early Captain designs before we had any idea of how we wanted Captain to act or what kinda of character he should be.  We just knew that, if Amos and Manny (then unnamed) were going to be on a pirate ship, there should definitely be a recognizable pirate captain at the helm.

Picture 8:

More early Captain.

Picture 9:

First drawing of Captain as a nice person.  The design would change, but the Captain’s personality would be somewhat based on what he shows off in this drawing.  What’s interesting is that you can see how we had Manny pretty much figured out by this point, but Amos’ design was still unfinished.

Picture 10:

More Cap’n.

WHOOPS THERE’S THE PICTURE LIMIT THIS POST WILL BE CONTINUED

THIS ONE IS A DOOZY OF AN UPDATE (because we forgot to update in a while).

So, the first picture is the storyboard for page 24 of the comic, followed by how it looks if the lineart weren’t there, followed by the pencils for the page.

Then we have the storyboard for the final page of the comic, as well as the (minimal) pencils I did for that page.  ‘Cause I’m a slacker and it was finals week when I did that page (still is finals week, actually, for Ian).

The next update will be a sketchdump, shortly following this one, but until then enjoy Ian redoing a page 8 to be unfunny.

Page 24 is here:

http://waterloggedcomic.com/comic.php?id=24

Page 25 is here:

http://waterloggedcomic.com/comic.php?id=25

This week’s page of Waterlogged was actually completely different until a couple weeks before Ian had to draw it.  They changed it because the original page was dumb and stupid and also dumb. The new page is much better.

In the modern storyboard, though, Ian drew what the Adam West Batman television series would be like if onomatopoeias were never invented.

This comic apparently came to us pretty easy, and we didn’t waste any time doodling fun pictures during its creation.  Being efficient is a double edged sword!

Read the comic here:

http://waterloggedcomic.com/index.php?post=22

HERE IS THE LATEST PAGE

In this sketchdump we have a number of questionable drawings.

We have:

Dump 1:Caricatures of us with hats on.  Brandon drew himself twice.  The second drawing is much more realistic.  Then there’s a dude with a funny nose, and then at the bottom right is a Rugratz reference for those who get our ESOTERIC HUMOR

Dump 2:Some doodles while we get a feel for the page.

Dump 3: I have no idea.

http://waterloggedcomic.com/comic.php?id=21

Tumbln’ along, this weeks got a bunch of content, and best of all a pig wearing boots. Hot damn.

Check out today’s comic here:

http://waterloggedcomic.com/index.php?post=20

Here’s another page of Waterlogged!  This storyboard isn’t so exciting, I followed it pretty much exactly as it was, and there’s no random doodles to show off.

OH WELL EVERY WEEK CAN’T BE A WINNER, but YOU ARE WHEN YOU READ WATERLOGGED!

http://waterloggedcomic.com/comic.php?id=19