Comments on: Comic #111: Series Premiere

By: Alexsandria

Alexsandria — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:51:17 +0000

I think it’s funny that she thinks that they’re twits when SHE called them.

By: Origamist101

Origamist101 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:43:12 +0000

Yah. *waves enthusiasm flag around*

By: Jon Ponikvar

Jon Ponikvar — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:57:59 +0000

Sorry about the delay, guys. On the positive side of things, I haven’t been able to update P&C because I’ve been working crazy hard on The Chronicles of Ademar. You’ll see new pages soon though, as I AM making specific time this week to do the next few pages in this story arc. I want to have a little backlog of pages to dip into in case I don’t have the time to work on P&C during the week (as the case has been for the past few times).
So yes, new page next week, and if I can really get all the work done that I want to… possibly the relaunch of the Ademar website, too! We’ll see what happens.

By: Origamist101

Origamist101 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:27:09 +0000

Peter looks older with the shading. It takes a bit out of his personality.

Go ADD!

By: Sharif

Sharif — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:55:06 +0000

Yeah, when I used to use comic tone for my comic I kept a word document telling me exactly how I laid out the tone for grass and other things since I kept forgetting between one comic to the next. However 10 types of grays seems a lot easier to remember than all the types of tones and the scaling and angles. Also on the web the grays seem to look a lot better.

By: Jon Ponikvar

Jon Ponikvar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:49:24 +0000

Thanks again for the feedback, everyone! I’m glad you all seem to like where the story is going.

With the shading, I agree that I need to push up the levels of gray, but at the same time I want there to be some consistency between the pages. My old palette consisted of four gray levels (including the near-black that I used from time to time), so to enhance the look I made a new palette with ten separate levels of gray. I’m in the process of making myself a reference sheet to show which levels are used for which characters (at least until I get it all committed to memory, which shouldn’t take too long). I’ll also start including highlights to brighten things up a bit.

We’ll see how the next page looks using the new palette.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:19:23 +0000

YES!!! Another update! I like the shading, but with shading also comes highlights. I think it’ll brighten it up a lot if there were some slight highlights with it, as well as the shadows. They’re like peanutbutter and jelly; hard to separate (the couch also felt a little dark). I would also like to see where this story is going. =)

PS. I LOVE Peter’s new.. look/color/shading/whatever. =)

By: Sharif

Sharif — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:28:51 +0000

I don’t know. The old way wasn’t perfect either. Sometimes the colors or lack of them would cause things to blend into the background. I.E. http://www.peterandcompany.com/strips/2008-05-19.jpg Iggy’s shirt on the first panel. Maybe the old style with more grays?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:37:17 +0000

Hey, glad to see a new arc starting! ^^ I hope you don’t feel bad at all about the sepia experiment; it was bold and daring to try something new and I agree with Nocara–experiments have proven quite useful throughout history!

~Rachel

p.s. Seth is TOTAl AWESOMENESS! I especially love the panel where he has the “shock sparks” as he reacts to the t.v. Whoohoooo Seth! I wish he was my guardian angel. TT.TT

By: nocara

nocara — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:51:34 +0000

“The experients are the mother of the science”