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Evasive Action

An 'A.O. fansubs' presentation:



















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Sleepyhead

The basic idea for this comic surfaced during idle banter between my brother and I. Have fun:



































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Chingay 2008 - Star Wars & Me

I participated in (my first ever) Chingay Parade 2008 over 15 and 16 February along with friends from the Star Wars costuming community. Came across some pics (big thanks to the respective photographers) from other sites with me in it:


Above: Ol'Dan looking sinister as an Imperial Officer on the far right. (Click the pic above to view more pics of the Star Wars costumers contingent)


Above: Ol'Dan (far left) marching along with Lord Vader, Emperor Palpatine and other troopers. (Click the pic above to view a larger image)

Our contingent marched into the center of the parade ground at City Hall from the junction between Coleman Street and Saint Andrew's Road but that was minutes before the parade went 'live' at 8pm on Channel 8.

Exhausting but fun.

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(All photos copyright by their respective owners)

Lunar New Year 2008 - Day 2 special

Happy Lunar New Year one and all :)

I had an idea on Lunar New Year's eve and drew this comic but didn't have time to colour it until Day 1 festivities were over. Hope you like what you see:

















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Happy Lunar New Year 2008

Here's me wishing all my readers a Happy and Prosperous Lunar New Year. Please view my animated greeting below. Have fun :)



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FAQ 2

I've been asked occasionally how I produced my web comics, so I feel it's time I addressed it :)



1) Nearly all my comics begin life as a sketch and giving some thought about the script as well. I was tempted to go the easy route and use one of my sketches from a previous comic to do this FAQ. But I've decided to do a new one-frame comic just for this FAQ. In this case, it's a lady observing something. Read on and you'll find out eventually what Ol' Dan has in mind.



2) I normally print out square panels on A4 paper for drawing. This helps me to frame the subject and also gauge how much space I should leave for the dialogue. Based on the sketch, I then draw in pencil.



3) The pencil artwork serves as my 'master copy'. I then place tracing paper over it to trace it in ink.



4) The tracing is done.



5) The traced artwork with the master copy.



6) The traced artwork is scanned (at 300dpi resolution so that I can also print my comics out) into Adobe Photoshop (one of my 'rice bowls'). As you can see above, the scanned image contains the texture of the tracing paper as well as dot specks captured from the surface of the scanner. It's time to 'clean up' the image.



7) Clean up done! Next, colouring.



8) In Adobe Photoshop, I can have numerous layers in a single canvas. The artwork is always right on top with the other layers for different elements (skin colour, hair colour, etc) beneath it. In the artwork layer, I can specify white to become transparent by using one of the application's features, allowing other elements beneath the artwork to show. Each of the coloured circle above represents a layer.



9) Filling in colours for different elements of the subject, e.g. face colour, clothing colour, etc .



10) There, 'Nice Girl' is all dolled-up.



11) The background is coloured last. Next comes the final bit of producing a web comic, adding the dialogue and 'word balloons'. Now we shall find out what 'Nice Girl' is up to ;-)



ORH...

And here's a bonus comic for reading all the way to the end:



And for new readers who might be wondering what "Hutdugaikarsui" means, be sure to click the 'FAQ' tag below for the previous FAQ.

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