Still trying to figure out how “chapters” (i.e., storylines) work in the webcomic CMS.  I am going to need a lot of practice inking on the wacom (among everything else) – I lost a lot (I think) going from the scanned in piece to inking it on the computer.  The color is a whole ‘nother thing — probably will have to do no color or a single color, otherwise I’ll have to learn how to do colors properly too and who knows how long that would take.  Below is the drawing pretty much as scanned in (the title is the FireFight font)

The blue ones are called Ostriders by the Faird.

After plotting today, I spent time sketching the little guys today (they are one of several “native species” to Planet Z) and trying to fill in some more details on how they work visually.  I plan on sketching all of the characters in Chapter one of my plot MANY MANY times before moving on to sketching out thumbnails for it.

What can I say?  One thing writing and reading a LOT of comics over the last eight years has done is up my humility quotient.  I know I am going to need to work hard to get better at this.