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Dropping down to updates every 2 weeks

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Petra’s Call is going to be dropping down to updates every 2 weeks.

Writing, drawing, coloring and ‘flashing up’ each episode takes me 15-20 hours, and even with waking up every morning at 5AM (weekends too!) I can barely get them done. Factor in travel for work and it’s a slippery slope. A 1 week schedule also doesn’t leave a lot of time for the experimentation side of Petra’s Call and NRD.

Hopefully this change will improve the quality of the art, better features (the long awaited and much requested ‘jump to episode’ feature) and more experimentations in the whole experience, but it means that Petra’s Adventures will only be broadcast every other week.

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Episode 7 Commentary: Backgrounds on the Quick and Dirty

I’ve been getting a lot of nice feedback on the backgrounds in Petra’s Call, so I wanted to do a tutorial on how I do them in Photoshop.

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A BIG part of my processes for Petra’s Call is speed. Every step needs to be fast. I have about 14 hours a week to write, draw, color and “Flash-up” each episode, which is roughly equal to 2-3 comic pages.

This is the process for doing the mountains, but the same principals apply for the trees, mid-ground and foreground and can also be applied to interiors.
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