Gunwild: I love the hair in panel 4.
Psu: It's one of my favorites too. I drew very differently in those days, you can see it in the way Cassiopeia has more defined muscles and stuff. But the demands of the comic updating frequently, and the way I wanted to draw c...
2016-11-22 23:08:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Gunwild: This is a bit of a wordy comic, I know, but I want to make sure everybody sees it, because Psu sure did a cool-looking alien design!
http://www.cassiopeiaquinn.co...
2016-11-20 01:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Psu: Guh, it's like 4am. What page are we commenting on?
Gunwild: This one!
Gunwild: As I recall, I originally wrote this as her straddling the gun in a more ecchi way.
Psu: Heh, I think there's still an original sketc...
2016-11-18 09:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Extra WiP this week!
Uh-oh. Well, that explains something.
Worth noting: this is the first time we're gonna see Gleb take off his formal cape and collar! Scandalous.
2016-11-17 00:04:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Whaaaat the heck is that thing in panel three?! Well, it looks like by panel 5, it has ol' Prince Gleb pretty spooked...
2016-11-15 12:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Gunwild: This seemed appropriate after this month's pinup went up. Recognize HER, old chum?
Psu: I totally and completely forgot about that drawing until you showed it to me again just now. I didn't even remember that Theira was ever NOT an alien.
Yoink! Clulu and Krad are two characters who clearly have it out for Prince Gleb. What with his altruistic yet sneaky ways, it's no surprise he can make enemies... but he always plays it cool, in any situation. Right? Well, we'll see...
This was actually drawn years ago! It's always been canon that Cassiopeia's wristbands and ankle bands are the only physical clothes she wears. They emit the rest of her outfit using holofields. It hasn't really come up, but we want to go into it more - and explain that yes, as we shown in the Ha...
2016-11-10 06:49:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Psu: This is really a perfect example of the kind of paneling I don't do anymore. And it's not because I don't like it, but because the needs of each story have changed a lot. If you were going to do a story where a girl is flying through Zero G and latching onto a giant space ship, you've go...
2016-11-10 04:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons for the month of October, here you go! Your pinup's ready, and you're bound to agree, Psu's done great!
And don't forget to tell us what...
2016-11-09 08:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The upcoming page features Prince Gleb and two all-new Vanaa... who are, unfortunately, not the friendly, adorable kind.
Gunwild: That's a lot of characters to introduce in one panel!
Psu: I remember pretty fondly about how you described in detail a whole lot of this crew. And this was knowing that, at the time of writing this, these characters were just going to be one shot figures.
Gunwild 2016-11-04 01:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a bonus behind-the-scenes art update, before Halloween is out: the costume we didn't go with for Ashley. This is what was written in the script - the little devil-horned girl dressed as an angel. I thought it was a cute idea, but then the idea for dressing her as Princess Leia with her hor...
2016-10-29 19:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a pretty complicated page, but it's not every day we get to include something outright SPOOOOOKY! Hopefully Psu will enjoy drawing that, even though it's bound to be a lot of work.
Gunwild: I'd probably have paced these pages differently if I'd known they were gonna be in a webcomic released a page at a time. Or I'd have tried, anyway, but that was a whole separate skill to learn as we went.
Psu: here are a lot of things we do differently now. For one I can't e...
2016-10-26 03:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
You rad $7 and up donors get this secret concept art today, which is actually work done to design the costumes for the costumes in the (8/22/16) Halloween page! Nizka was gonna be President of Earth, so her flag has Earth's astrological symbol on it, but we wound up changing that for the final de...
2016-10-21 08:19:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Must be the season of the wiiitch~!
The plan is to do a Halloween story this week and next week. It's the first time we're not breaking in on an ongoing plotline, so we're not just doing a little strip.
Gunwild: We were just talking about how we need to re-establish that Cassiopeia is actually really, really intuitively good at astrodynamics. So she can do things like shoot a moving drone fighter with a harpoon.
Psu: Looking at this page, it's pretty cool how different the style is....
2016-10-18 03:21:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Comic Updated!
Do you think people will notice how different Kettlehead looks on this page, or will they be distracted by something else?
By the way, new Patrons, please s...
Gunwild: This is from before her outfit was finalized.
Psu: Oh I like that outfit, AND the blue hair. I think you nixed the blue hair.
Gunwild: I'm boring like that. I imagine I supported this outfit, though, but you wanted to go a li...
2016-10-15 03:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Kettlehead and Talps both look a little different than usual, but it's for good reasons! Look forward to this week's update!
Gunwild: The quote in the alt-text lets you know I thought the use of magnetic harpoons in Snow Crash was awesome. The fifth panel also has the sound effect "FPOON" because of that one Key & Peele skit with the continental breakfast.
Gunwild: Clearly my influences are varied but ...
2016-10-13 01:45:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in case anyone missed it over the weekend, here's a link to the latest page.
Oooo, what's she looking at? You can't see, because it's the sketch phase... how mysterious!
And don't forget to tell us what character should be featured next month! You decided thi...
2016-10-04 08:57:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Gunwild: "Psu, draw me a big space battle with lots of stuff going on."
Psu: Jimminy Christmas what were we thinking...
Psu: Okay, some actual notes on this thing. At the time of drawing this, there really wasn't much in the way of design bibles to work from for t...
2016-10-03 07:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
By the way, new Patrons, please scroll back through our donor content to check out what you've...
2016-10-02 09:20:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The lines are given weight when they become final, and so the figures gain definition.
Here's the redline phase, where sketches become more concrete shapes, "corrected" from the sketchy, loose ones. This about determines where the final lines will go on the page.
So, this is the sketch phase. The script is turned into some loose art so we can know what the page will look like. This also involves the critical step of the layout being established.
There are a lot of things to consider in addition to including the stuff the script calls for drawings of -...
