colour comic art: a birds-eye view of a greek-style fortified courtyard, peopled with small figures, at least one of which is a glob of sanctimonious paternalism, personified.
Practical Defence Against Piracy
⚔️ CHAPTER SIX ⚔️
continues with six hot, fresh pages, as a few key story themes run headlong into each other! Read 'em right here…
📚 www.patreon.com/posts/153274...
#DD4 #PDAP
comic-book colour image of a girl in a filthy dress riding a horse down a dirt road, dust swirling behind her
Practical Defence Against Piracy
⚔️ CHAPTER SIX ⚔️
…begins right now!
Come find out whether Alexandra's desperate ride delivers her to safety!
🏇 www.patreon.com/posts/152715...
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"Hey TC, where's that comic book you've been working on?"
ALL THE ANSWERS AWAIT YOU
within this whopping great update to the Production Diary, stuffed with links to all of the great posts from the last year.
👉 www.tonycliff.ca/blog/product...
#DD4 #PDAP
black & white image, an incapacitated pirate lying beneath a ray of light in a dark room. VERY moody.
A new PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY Production Diary is up!
For four months, I've been worried that one particular panel might not work in colour. I've just finished "colour keys" for Chapter Six, and now I know…
www.patreon.com/posts/148884...
#PDAP #DD4
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesPartyWithAFRODEUTSCHE
DD 4:
🎵 The Net
#6music #DD4
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesPartyWithAFRODEUTSCHE
DD 4:
🎵 The Net
#6music #DD4
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesPartyWithAFRODEUTSCHE
DD 4:
🎵 The Net
#6music #DD4
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
b&w line art, an olde-timey teen girl holding a chain laced through an olde-timey key
New PRACTICAL DEFENCE / #DD4 Production Diary, attempting a tenuous connection between:
- Sauce, Spice, and Fuzz,
- "adding important detail" versus "noodling,"
- and a topic that is near and dear to my heart: "sense of place."
Ungated!
www.patreon.com/posts/sauce-...
#PDAP
AS PROMISED!
⚔️ www.patreon.com/posts/139806...
Includes two tricks I've been using lately to work around My Horrible Brain and the things it doesn't want me to do, i.e., "get started," and, "be productive."
#PDAP #DD4
just a photo taken at my library, with a bunch of rough pages of comics work spread out over a table
On today's new #DD4 / #PDAP Production Diary,
- Chapter Seven thumbnails are done!
- revisiting Chapter Six thumbs: any good?
- writing as solving a puzzle,
- and the luxurious heft of the tables at my local library.
⚔️ www.patreon.com/posts/139277...
Photo of many sheets of paper with pencil notes scribbled all over them, post-it notes here and there. This is where the magic happens.
In today's #DD4 / #PDAP Production Diary:
The new school year means all sail's set for Chapter Six of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY; I take stock of where this accidentally-massive comic-book project stands right now.
Show your work, you say? Why, happily:
⚔️ www.patreon.com/posts/back-a...
comic book art: spooky pirates in spooky green mist! Bonus leopard with spooky green glowing eyes.
The *final instalment* of Chapter Five of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY will go up this weekend for Secret Readers.
A great big eight-page dreadnought of drama rolling into your harbour.
⚔️ 🏴☠️ www.patreon.com/collection/1...
#PDAP #DD4
comic book art: two panels, both with a sad girl leading a horse to the road
This week in PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY, the moment you've all been waiting for, the punchline to the joke, "what does an owl say when it answers the door?"
🦉 www.patreon.com/posts/134365...
… also, in service to narrative craft, I yammer more about the Clair Obscur ending.
#PDAP #DD4
A comic-style illustration. In the fg, a man's hands hold a little sword, or maybe even a "dirk." In the background, a girl looks puzzled.
New pages for PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY are up right now, in which we discover something important about the "little sword" that Alexandra discovered back in Chapter Two!
⚔️ www.patreon.com/posts/133253...
#PDAP #DD4
comic book panels - there are messages inside snail shells. Crows are dropping the shells.
This week's instalment of the PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY Production Diary (or, Delilah Dirk Four) includes, among other things, *mysterious corvid activity.*
Come for spooky birds, stay for the ongoing battle against tyranny.
www.patreon.com/posts/131911...
#DD4 #PDAP
panel from a comic, bright red-tinted image of one dude punching another.
The latest DD4 Production Diary is up, with five new pages so punchy your nose will bleed.
www.patreon.com/posts/131911...
#PDAP #DD4
comic art: the looming face of a blonde white dude telling you that "the person you trusted to PROTECT you… doesn't care about you AT ALL."
The latest DD4 Production Diary just went up, with four new pages fresh out of the comics oven.
Also: I share some bonafide screw-ups on my part, with chats about inexplicable mistakes, accepting setbacks, and feeling frustrated.
🔥 www.patreon.com/posts/131400... 🔥
#PDAP #DD4
Comic panels. A woman distractedly plays with her wedding ring.
This week's DD4 Production Diary is up, resolving the last instalment's cruel cliffhanger and recommending @tozo.today's reassuring NOT/BUT comics.
☠️ www.patreon.com/posts/131034... ☠️
#PDAP #DD4
Panels from a comic; a girl looking up at a barn owl
"Hey TC, how's the comic coming along?"
Well, I thought I put up a Production Diary post *this* week, but it turns out I was thinking of *last* week's post.
In this instalment: peeing downstream, dad jokes, owl facts, and much more!
🦉 www.patreon.com/posts/130317...
#PDAP #DD4
full colour comic book image from PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY, a view of a countryside farm at nighttime
New PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY Production Diary is up, with six brand new finished pages, glowing hot, straight out of the comics kiln!
As promised, there's a New Uncle, plus a look at fixing a big dumb compositional mistake!
👉 www.patreon.com/posts/129469...
🏴☠️ #PDAP ⚔️ #DD4
comic book illustrations: an old man holding a lantern and a gun. he's got such a nice salt and pepper moustache!
hold onto your butts because a
🔥 NEW UNCLE 🔥
drops in the next update to
PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY.
👨🦳 👉 www.patreon.com/c/tonycliff
#PDAP #DD4 #webcomicday
comic-book image: In the distance, a horse rides over a stone bridge. It's nighttime!
Chapter Five started last week!
The newest chapter always goes up for Secret Readers as I finish the pages — join today, get those hot fresh pages straight out of the oven, help make this comic possible, and keep reading past the end of Chapter Four!
👉 www.patreon.com/posts/128781...
#PDAP #DD4
A "cover image" for PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY, very waves and cannons and a young girl slashing through a pirate flag
A page from PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY, wherein alexandra is mad that her mother has discarded her practice swords
A page from PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY, wherein alexandra discovers a small, ornate sword
This #webcomicday, you can read
PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY,
but it is
NOT FOR YOU.
It is for the young person in your life who sees the "grown-ups" running things and thinks, "what are you idiots doing?"
THEY can read it right now, and feel less adrift.
👉 tonycliff.ca/dd4
#PDAP #DD4
A cropped image from a comic page; a bird and the moon
A cropped image from a comic page; a girl and her father ride a horse at night
A cropped image from a comic page; a girl with her arms full of cut flowers. Her mother is… not pleased.
A cropped image from a comic page; the horse girl and her dad consider a fork in the road
Chapter Five of
PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY ⚔️ 🏴☠️
starts right now!
The town of Archipoli has been besieged by pirates, their only hope that Alexandra and her father can get help, and fast!
Ride along with us! 👉 🏇https://www.patreon.com/posts/128237122
#PDAP #DD4
"Hey Tony, how's that comic book coming along?"
Slow but steady, my friends.
☠️ Here's the "hub" which points in all the right directions: www.tonycliff.ca/delilahdirk/...
🗞️ Some recent hits: www.tonycliff.ca/blog/product...
📕 Read the book: www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/
#PDAP #DD4
Part of a "flatted" comic book image, mostly trees. I'm telling you, this stuff is a real pain to flat, even with helper tools.
Art by Austin Briggs
Hot and fresh on the #DD4 / #PDAP Production Diary!
As flatting continues, topics include:
- why oh why did I draw the trees this way,
- how to draw faster (no solutions offered, it's a trick question)
- and composition as defence against AI arts (ft. Austin Briggs)
www.patreon.com/posts/125147...
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