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Mr. Savant Tries to Smile a Bit, and Searches For a Missing Lunch Ingredient

Submitted by Vishal on Fri, 2010/04/16 - 4:03am

Mr Savant Tries to Smile a Bit - Gimp colored

More catching up! I drew this on paper last September, on an A4 sheet using a light blue marker for the sketch, and then various black pens to lay down inks. The good thing about this method is that you can then scan the piece in grayscale mode and any amount of rough sketch lines magically disappear! (You can see this in the sketch version below)

Colored in the Gimp, of course, using a woefully-neglected graphics tablet. Actually there was a fourth figure in this, but it was so horribly drawn (a last minute add to fill up the page) that I decided to erase her from the colored version. This is what the original page looked like:

Mr Savant Tries to Smile a Bit - Sketch

Another image I'd done early in the year also features our lovable interdimensional tourist, and involved food, of a sort. I just realised I hadn't posted it here on the site:

Savant Chicken Monster

I should really be drawing a whole lot more.

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Slackwritertron!: The Cure for the Common Block

Submitted by Vishal on Wed, 2007/11/14 - 2:47pm

Slackwritertron! The Cure for the Common Block - Logo and Slogan
Well, I'd love to say that I spent the last week recovering from Comic Konga! lounging aboard my superyacht, but alas, such things were not to be. In fact, I only finished off the last of the work projects -- weeks late, mind you -- today. There's a certain empty space reached at the end of a project; I'm stil into it when it goes out the door, and then I'm left with a burning desire to do, well, something but I'm never sure what.

And then, I remembered: Slackwritertron!

Comic Konga! #001: Mister Savant Takes Xaria to the Furniture Store

Submitted by Vishal on Mon, 2007/10/29 - 4:12am

Um, actually I can't think of an explanation that isn't...lewd.

Comic Konga has begun!

I figured I'd start out simple with a one-panel. My first idea was to have the same idea done over three or four panels but I think the joke doesn't really need anything more than one.

This was done in pencil, coloured in inkscape and put together in the GIMP. Word balloons in Inkscape. It's a bit of a fractured process, I know, but I prefer the quick flexibility of laying down colour shapes in a vector program but need the layer manipulations of a bitmap one like GIMP to keep it looking natural.

(Yes, I know it's 4 am. Still technically Monday, though)

Norton and Fenroy's Most Excellent Used Book Dealership

Submitted by Vishal on Tue, 2007/09/18 - 6:01pm

Savant Booksellers SketchThe further illustrated (and mundane) adventures of Mister Savant! Still after books, this time he seems to be negotiating the price on a tome. Typical, the man is so obsessed with cheap and obscure paperbacks when he should be trying to get his hosts to part with their hats!

This drawing started off in my 15x18cm notebook with a vague idea in my head late one night, and so I ended up tackling it a little differently. I didn't thumbnail or roughly draw in the entire scene, instead finishing the pencils on one character entirely and then moving onto the next.

Mister Savant's Stupid Quest for the Book whose Name he simply, well... Forgot!

Submitted by Vishal on Fri, 2007/07/20 - 2:10am

Mister Savant's Stupid Quest for the Book whose Name he simply, well... Forgot!

This pic is both in Sketch Machine and Illustration because it started off as a pencil sketch in my little notebook, and by the time it was done I figured I might as well colour it up in the GIMP.

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