Apologies for the late updates recently…

This page took a little more time than first anticipated. Can you guess why? >.< I really love trying out new ideas with different pages, and this is a layout concept that had been floating around in my brain for a while now. Taking one giant image and placing all the panels on top of it, rather than my traditional white, negative space. Setting aside the huge amount of extra work this requires, I think it's a cool idea. Personally I think it would work better if the other panels had simpler backgrounds or nothing at all like the top four panels shown here. Also some of the shading got a little loose towards the end of this page since I was so tired, but I hope it's still decent enough.

Well, next page.

A day late I know, but the shading still needed some extra work yesterday so I delayed the page a day.

And Chapter 4 is off! and what a start!!

Seriously though, this page took much longer than several of my other pages. Lots of pen work. Lots of shading.

The element that actually took the longest is actually the architecture. I really like studying architecture, but I was never amazing at designing it. In MitM I don’t tend to use references in an attempt to stay more original, but it also means I have to get a little more creative and design everything I draw. When it comes to building and architecture I found out pretty quick that my creative skills are fairly lacking there.

“I wanna draw a house!” “Cool.” ” What should it have?” “……windows?”

Anyways I decided to put some extra practice time in to try to land some more profound architecture models. Hope it paid off ^^

The End…

What a great story.

But seriously, Chapter 3 was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it. Chapter 4 is just around the bend now! I’ve been trying to decide if i want to take a break to think about the next chapter before diving right in, but I think I already have a good enough of an idea of where I want to go with it.

So that said, hopefully you’ll see the beginning of Chapter 4 next Thursday!

Fun fact: This was the final page I posted to MitM’s spot on ComicFury. Overall, ComicFury was a decent site, and definitely a decent place to go to begin a webcomic, but I wanted to make an official website that wasn’t just anoter subdomain under some other site.

Well we wrap it up with the bandits and come back to Dayton now. Up until now Ryke has fit that cold, silent role pretty well…

The third and final page for the extra Christmas pages!

GAHH!! NOOOOOO! The scanner cut off so much around all the edges of the page D:< I've been back to using my old scanner for this week and I knew it was bad about doing this, but I didn't realize it was this bad. When I select the largest scanning format (which happens to be the enormous size of "letter," 8.5x11) it is actually scanning at 8x10.5! >

When I get back to my apartment in about two weeks I’ll make sure to rescan all these pages. But those of you with really keen eyes might have noticed that my other scanner scans everything slightly crooked, so there is no winning either way! DX

Well, that’s my scanner rant for the day. Anything about the page itself? ……there’s a fourth wall break?

The “plot” thickens!! XD

Personally I feel that my comic has lacked any plot or general direction up to this point. Now it feels like I have a future goal for the comic to actually start pursuing -_-;

Anyways I was also amused over how the top panel looks so…familiar……

I have returned!!

Finals week sucked, but i made it through and now I’m on Christmas break. So to help make up for the absence of comic pages recently I have a small Christmas week surprise.

This extra update on “occasional update Tuesdays,” and one tomorrow on Wednesday; as well as the usual Thursday update!!

This page was really fun and really challenging in places (a whole lot of new stuff I’ve never drawn before). Also I apologize for Levi’s super, ultra, poofy hair in the last panel. I really don’t know how it happened…

P.S. I’m posting this actually on Monday because I won’t be able to post it tomorrow till really late ^^;

Well, here’s the next page. Sorry about not getting one done last week, the laziness of Thanksgiving break kicked in pretty hard

So side note, but as this comic has progressed I’ve obviously begun to see my strengths and weaknesses. Personally I feel that my artistic “style” didn’t really develop till somewhere during chapter 2, so I would say that my art skills are what have improved the greatest since I started (but I still have a long way to go!). However, my writing skills are what I still have practically no faith in…

I don’t know, I guess we’ll have to just sit around and wait for me to actually draw and write more pages to truly figure out how bad my writing is O_o