UmbralApe

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Page has been kinda dead for a while, university thesis and Greece's bullshit mandatory military service are to blame.(Still have like 10 months of army service...).

Anyway, new comic "RUIN" should release very very soon!

Next comic should be 20 pages long, fantasy.

Hope you like "RUIN",it's a bizzare experiment but I had some fun drawing it!

 Schedule for Total Disarray.

Later today I will release the last chapter of Total Disarray,thanks to anyone who read and enjoyed the work.That being said I still have abit more work to put into it before i leave it be.

I'm currently in the painful process of rewritting the entire dialogue of the first 16 chapters partially because i used a non comic friendly font and now having switched to Anime Ace i feel like I need to make it homogenous but also because some early dialogue is garbage or kind of outdated having finalised the plot.

If any new reader comes across a chapter where the dialogue is not in Anime Ace it is safe to assume it will be changed in the near future.

Additionally there will be a final round of redraws at the same time. Some pages or panels strike me as particularly bad so I'll redraw them. I expect the whole process to have been completed before the end of 2023.

After Total Disarray.

I don't really know how this profile will shape up.In the immidiate future I might post sketches and W.I.P for my next comic(As of yet untitled) and perhaps some sketches with Lily and the Total Disarray cast(probably mostly Lily since I quite enjoy drawing her.)

Again thanks to all who read the comic or some of its pages :> Cya!

To the exactly 0 people whom it may concern.

-I'm not dead-

University is taking up alot of time so i cannot be as consistent with the comic as I would like,

That being said:

•Chapter 7 should be out late next week

•Chapter 8 is almost fully pencilled and is due for inking.

•Chapter 9 script and storyboard is ready.

I was hoping I could reach Ch10 by Christmas but that seems more and more unlikely.Ch9 before end of 2022 is doable and the current goal.

Chapter 1 still needs some moderate revisions and redraws which I will eventually do!

Looking at the 7 chapters and now having a reasonable sample of pages to track my progress in making Comics I'm fairly happy with the improvement from Ch1 to Ch7,That being said there are some problems,I'll address the ones I spotted and will attempt to fix cometh Ch8

• My number one biggest gripe looking back through the comic is how many times I havent added a ground for the characters to stand.Now,you can obviously infer they are standing on ground but it hurts the panel visually,its lazy AAAND I think it doesnt give the feeling of depth,this I believe I already addressed in Ch8,I'm aware of it and will avoid it in the future.

•Another thing I want to work on is the lineart,I'm not unhappy with it but I do want it to look more organic.

•I also want to experiment more with shifting the artstyle to fit the scene and really push it.The comic is meant to be a wacky and not serious by nature so the artstyle having weird shifts may enhance that feeling.

•This one is specific to the upcoming Ch7 which,while I'm fairly pleased with,I overused sideview panel(often devoid of background)which ,while i think is a cool visual for the purpose it is used,was used too many times none the less.

•Finally while I think the comic is not that wordy and is generally a fast and digestible read I did notice some pages (Mostly towards the end of Chapter 4)had a SHITLOAD of dialogue and felt cluttered.I'll try to avoid that in the future AND generally try to make the dialogue better and improve comedic timing in the comic(Tho the dialogue is weird by design to fit the disjointed,kinda improvised,random style of writing the comic uses.)