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    Melissa McGaughey
    • Nov 4, 2018
    • 3 min

    Art-Making: Keeping It Fresh

    This week was vacation week, both in the regular sense and in the sense that I really needed a break from working on the comic. We spent a couple days out of pocket and out of the office with friends and family indulging in fun and relaxation. Several naps, a game of laser tag, some wizard themed mini golf, a shower that was like a water park, and at least three meals that blew my calorie budget out of the water later, and I was ready to come home and work on some art. (Loo
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    Melissa McGaughey
    • Sep 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Episode II: Comic Making Adventures

    Welcome to week two of my comic-making adventures! Thanks for sticking with me for another week! This week, I took a page from James Gurney's book. This one to be exact. My anatomy book is great, but only got me so far. People are different shapes and sizes and the body types included in anatomy books are certainly limited. Plus, I found that the positions I needed my characters to be in would be difficult to recreate accurately, unless I had a good reference image. I usual
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    Melissa McGaughey
    • Sep 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    Why not try a web comic?

    "Why not try a web comic?" That's what my wife asked me very recently during yet another conversation about next steps for my work and where to go with it and how to do it, and blah, blah, blah. Really, she is a very patient woman. What? I balked. I couldn't possibly. "Do you even know how complex that is?" I asked her in disbelief. "I can't do that." You see, seven to eight years ago, I bought a "how-to" book with the intention of starting something similar, got intimidated
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