Hey, I just wanted to do a quick little update about the comic and how it's going and stuff for those people who watch me for comic stuff. A really casual like video about the process because I knew some people like that and also I was looking at my old Emily's burning vlogs and I realised that I really liked them as well, if that makes sense. I was looking back and I was like, oh yeah, that's how I did that and found it a little bit inspiring. So last time I spoke, this was kind of where the character design was heading. Then I did this Pinterest page which was not really involved with the comic but it kind of loosened me up and made me think more about the looseness of the style of the comic that I wanted to do. So here and more like character designs. I know that I wanted her to be Asian and I don't know why but I just had it in my head that she has this look just drawing different characters that I found on Pinterest and stuff. I really liked the style of this one and I definitely always have been using pencil in the past black pencil like I told you guys before hang on. In my old comics where I used pencil, I used pencil before and then alcohol markers and I do really like the look of that but I was thinking what I want to do is kind of excel a bit this time and use pen. I know that's crazy to say considering I've been very like hung up on this pencil but I think I've just been leaning more towards inks this time. This is just like an experimental page. I did this with inks and basically the story is about because I'm going to do two short stories again the same way I did with the other comics to where I had two short stories and this one is going to be based on a girl who gets something from an antique store that maybe she shouldn't have. So I wanted the end pages to be similar to Emily's burning, these are the end papers you know when you have the front and just before the story and the end. So I'm going to do this pattern here for this comic but I'm thinking what I want to do I like it like this but I don't know either to continue it just to have a whole A4 paper or leave it like this. I also did it with a Tombow pen which is where all my pens are gone now because I've been spread out over my desk because I've just been drawing. Tombow brush pen that I did this one with I just drew it straight no pencil lines anything and then I used alcohol markers on top which seemed to be fine it did smudge slightly in some spots but we were good we were good so I'm kind of trusting the alcohol pens ink pen not just much too much. So then I was looking at her character design again and if I'm not going to use pencil what am I going to use I still really like the design with her face here with the pencil and I'm not sure whether that's because of drew it with pencil with the ink pen. I was trying out different brush pens so this one's coslightly new and this one's like an old pen tail brush pen so you can get these like really nice dry brush strokes if that makes sense that I really like working with I think it has something to it. So I was experimenting with what the backgrounds looked like with this kind of style of pen and I did this background and it's super slanted but I would it would be like that on the page and I was thinking like oh how would I put her into this background even as just practice. I was thinking about tracing paper again because in the past I've experimented with using tracing paper on images and things and I was just having fun having a little play. Again thinking about her design and like how to display her I don't know I think I'm just going off an tangent but I'm circling back around so it's going to be a fine and then I was just drawing out her character a little bit more so I feel like this is kind of where I'm leaning towards her character design being and I am enjoying using this brush pen and the Alcomarcus. So using this old brush pen and just drawing characters a little creepy image cos this is a horror book after all and I revamped the script a lot too which sounds silly because it's only like it's going to be 20 pages of comic and I've just gone in and written like little edits where I've just re-read it cos I haven't re-read it for a while and then I've just thought I should reread this and see if I actually like how it is and I've just added a few things that would make more sense to the story and yeah I'm definitely enjoying it better. I think I'm really excited about the ending now because there's just something little I've added to it that makes it whole whereas before I was like it's okay it's a nice it's a good story but what is the point of it kind of thing and now I feel like the added that missing piece and it's just it's just made me excited to work on it again. So what I did was a while ago I did the thumbnails for this when the script I just like got the thumbnails out for some reason like really fast without like thinking about it too much and I don't know why because now I'm like that doesn't really work but I've got some basis of what I can use so I blew up all the what I scanned these in and then I blew them all up to fit how it would look on a page for an A5 comic so roughly you know what it would look like as this size. So yeah I'm just going through and figuring out the thumbnails I think what I'll literally do is go through these and like draw on top of it just to get the rough outline of it and then I can see the story as a whole and I can evaluate and think about where I want to go from there but this is it so far this will become this hopefully and it's going really well and I'm really enjoying it. It's hard work because I'm working full time so I'm just doing it after work and like on weekends and stuff and you know that time not everybody always feels super productive so it's slow going sometimes I just feel like doing nothing other times I have to do like YouTube or little things like that you know it's slow go but we're getting there and slowly the flesh and out the characters. The only thing is I finished the script for the other short story which is called string about the theme park not theme park the haunted water park I guess we could call it and I'm really like that script as well like really happy with it now I've just got to think about the character designs and the background and settings for that one as well I think I've totally been focused on this first one and I don't know why I definitely can't work simultaneously so I need to work I need to do this one finish it then work on the next one which is what I did with wishing on a star and slow disappearance um yeah totally going great um really thinking about what to do next so that's it from me this is a really short just like 10 minute update and I hope that you liked it let me know in the comments what your thoughts are so far and everything still thinking of a name for this character and yeah that's it so thank you for watching and I hope to see you next time bye