Hey guys, I’ve updated my convention appearances this year, I may be coming to a town near YOU! Besides getting to hang out with me, a cool dude, it’s also a way to get your hands on some of my Dresden Codak books and even get some sketches.
It starts with a rough outline. For Dark Science I have a basic script and story outline, and I decided how much of that script can/should fit onto a standard page. From there I start working out what I needed to draw.
Concept Sketching
With this page I started with sketching Nephilopolis....
Ever wonder why it takes me so long to update my comic? A while back I posted a step-by-step breakdown of what goes into making a single Dresden Codak page. Hope you like it!
So guys, the Dresden Codak Kickstarter has been doing way, way better than I ever anticipated. We reached the original goal in less than an hour, and a couple days ago it became the 4th most funded comic Kickstarter ever. It’s bonkers, people, utterly bonkers!
If you know how Kickstarter works, there are often stretch goals, but all the amazing Dresden Codak fans burned through the ones I planned in two days, so I’ve had to come up with new ones! If you go to the site, you can see them all, but the big prize is this: if we hit $800k, I can update Dresden Codak biweekly for one year.
How does that work? Essentially, it will allow me to hire an assistant to handle all the non-drawing/writing parts of Dresden Codak (which is about 50% of my workload), and free me up to make more comics. Anyone who’s ever run their own business knows the innumerable small duties that can take away from the creative process, and seeing now that I have way more fans and supporters than I’d ever imagined, I want to up my game and deliver more of what people want.
Obviously I’ll do whatever I can to increase my content frequency regardless of the money, but the $800k benchmark is where I can officially make that promise and follow through.
Thanks so much, guys, and we’ve still got 21 days to go!
What the heck’s going on with Kim? Share your theories in the comments.
This is the very first Dresden Codak comic I’ve done without
Photoshop. I’m moving over to Clip Studio Paint and I really like how it
turned out!
Stay tuned, dear readers, for a major relaunch of the Dresden Codak Patreon.
It’s going to have more fun stuff and insider treats for all of you who
are nice enough to let me keep the lights on and not starve. On that
subject, you can also support me through ko-fi, if that’s more your jam, or check out Dresden Codak merch over in my store!
I’ve added a “next comic” date to the site that will tell you when the next page of Dresden Codak will be up! I usually keep an internal deadline, but since it takes a long time for each page to come out, I’ve decided it would be best to let you guys know how long the wait will be.
As always, thanks for reading and supporting the site!
Reblog this if you’d like me (Aaron Diaz of Dresden Codak), to make a UK appearance! I’ve been getting a lot of requests to do this lately, so let’s see what you’ve got.
I started off this tumblog a year ago with a costume, so I figure the best thing for this approximaversary is another costume. I dressed up again for Dragon*Con, this time as autodidactic robot girl Kimiko Ross from Aaron Diaz’s Dresden Codak.
Kim has had the same hair as me for about three years now (excluding when I grew mine out for Locks of Love), and my cosplay decisions are at least 50% based on hair styles. The other 50% here mainly involved the opportunity to make a robot arm. Also, I like that Kim’s clothes are really more of an outfit than a costume. Ignoring the input jack in the back, I could conceivable walk down the street wearing this and not draw too many strange looks. In fact, most people who recognized the costume didn’t get it until they saw the symbol on the back. Makes sense, since the Rising Sun is the most iconic symbol in Dresden Codak.
Things this costume was mistaken for include: Some kind of stormtrooper (until they saw the shoes), a skeleton arm (Cecilia?), Tron (most commonly), and something from Bleach.
Last year, I was quite apprehensive about the whole “dressing up as a cartoon character” thing. I felt very aware of the absurdity of it, and self-conscious because of that. Maybe because I was dressed as a cherry-red time pixie alien with coat hanger wings instead of a mad scientist with a robot arm who I’d based a GURPS character on. But since then, I’ve discovered just how fun making costumes is. I like cobbling outfits together out of thrift store finds. I like making neat things out of simple materials (fabric and clay and foam and paint and MOD PODGE, oh gosh yes, Mod Podge). I like remembering to keep the play in cosplay. I’ve become a lot more comfortable with the aspects of nerd culture I embrace. Because of that, I spent the entire weekend being excited about everything around me: the hard work and creativity of everyone dressed up, of the creators whose works brought 40,000 people, and of my own little outfit bringing an extra bit of joy to the people who knew it, and even to those who didn’t.
It has not been a good year for my brain. I’m hoping I can better sort out mental health things and bring you all more Dark Science than ever before, because there’s nothing on this planet that I want more than that.
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