Studio Dooomcat - Bear Nuts from 01/16/2009

[Sanaril]

Hi Flight peoples! I wanted to post some comics, old and new, that I've done... starting with new. 'Bear Nuts' is a comic I do for fun in my spare time because it's completely the opposite of my work for hire stuff (that way even my spare time doodling can be productive
I'd like to turn it into a web comic at some point but I'm not very adept at the 'web' part! For now I'll probably post some of the pages on my deviant account ( www.sanaril.deviantart.com ) but does anyone know of or can recommend good web comic hosting sites, especially considering the not the norm page layout?

[tpiro]

I'm not seeing the first page.

[Sanaril]

I'm not sure why, but re-uploaded

[Seth Wolfshorndl]

You seem like a very natural cartoonist. Great expressions and character design.

Your format is perfect for the web. Fits browsers well. As for hosts, there are those like comicgenesis.com and drunkduck.com, but a lot of people are using Wordpress with Comicpress on their own sites. That's what I'll be switching to soon.

Good luck!

-Seth

[Okie Dokie]

They are like care bears on crack. Love them.
I started using drunkduck too, but only for exposure. the site's design just sucks.

[JakeKalsbeek]

So cute yet so inappropriate. Nice combination.

I prefer to keep all my work on one site that I control. That doesn't mean I don't post it to other sites too, but if someone is interested in my art I want them to have one place where they can see everything and not have to jump around from site to site. I'm not a professional cartoonist but I want it easy as possible for prospective clients/employers to see all the art stuff I do.

[Sanaril]

Thanks for the info guys, we checked out comicpress and it looks promising, confusing, but promising And now some OLD work for fun; I like to go back and revisit stuff and see what I do so much better now and notice stuff that I still do wrong. This was an xmas present for a friend from work (I teach jiu-jitsu hence the asian theme) so it's full of inside jokes and etc. and I did it really quickly so some of the panel flow is majorly disjointed, but I had a great time with this story and I want to re-do it in a more finished way some day

[Sanaril]

More random comics
This is the character I swiped my username from here on the boards with a random interlude kind of comic I did for an OC battle.

[Og]

Wow, Sanaril. Pretty versatile. Lots of different stuff here... I almost wish they were in different threads so you can get feedback on all fairly.

I like the Care Bears on Crack and the Japanese one most of all - those two seem to have the most confident art - but they all have their charm.

And WordPress and ComicPress is a good way to go...

[ChadTHX1138]

All good stuff here....i love it!

[andrewwales]

That last color illustration was beautiful and I liked the comic that followed. It looks like the kind of manga my daughter loves.

[Sanaril]

Thanks Og! I thought I'd keep everything in one thread so I don't clutter up the forum

Thank you Chad! Much appreciated!

Andrewwales: That's a great compliment indeed! I was a manga fan when I was younger (now I'm a comics in general fan) so that's wonderful to me as I grew up wanting to draw just like the stuff I loved to read

[andrewwales]

What we experience great joy with as young children really marks us. I cut my teeth on Mad magazine. I grew up wanting to be one of the "Usual Gang of Idiots" who drew for Mad.

[NicholasKole]

I like the latest addition...it's great fun I do agree with Og, that the last one just doesn't seem as confident as the other two. I think that's the perfect way to characterize it. There are some moments where it just *works*
Actually, it's not a huge deal, but on the latest comic the creature design seems to be where you loose confidence. The werewolf just isn't a convincing as San or her little morphing-fox-thingie is.
But the panels where the little guy wakes up in the saddle...and especially the panel with "san! it's not real"...those seem much more confidently done. I want to read more and see where it goes from here!

[Sanaril]

Something quick and dirty for fun
Our Melee images featuring little guys like these tend to sell well at cons so I'm thinking of possibly doing a small anthology about them in this kind of format.