So the last comic update was in August… Well, this page was difficult to draw because of the light in the water and the general shenanigans. But that’s not a real excuse. Last autumn, I had a really challenging job[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This scene is inspired by the famous Blue Grotto in Capri, but there is one in Croatia, too. This drawing by Swiss geologist Leo Wehrli, after the German geophysicist August Heinrich Sieberg, shows how sunlight is reflected into the cave[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My ambition this year is to get chapter 6 printed (re-read it here) and the first two chapters reprinted (you can start reading from the very beginning here). And of course to get on with a brand-new chapter. It’s been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s a lot of peach trees. To be able to ink all of them in one sitting, I listened to a lecture about deaths in panzers by the German Panzer Museum. (1 h 48 min) It didn’t take that long,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After drawing roly-poly Akita puppies for decades, switching to Borzoi long bois ain’t easy. Luckily these are still puppies. These “Russian wolfhounds” were fashionable pets in the early 20th century, along with other large sighthounds like the greyhound and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Continuing the last panel of yesterday’s installment, we see now the lawn in front of the Dux’s palace and the Dux himself approaching. This panel will cover the bottom 1/4th of page 4 and the bottom half of page 5[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While working on this page, I was watching Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death from 1964. Great dialogues! Of course, I first found out about the movie thanks to a friend who introduced me to the Norwegian gothic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back to the drawing board! I was suddenly inspired to draw by three things: The Siren and the Star by Colby Cedar Smith, a breathlessly passionate YA novel about a girl discovering the music of Barbara Strozzi, a 17th century[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Honestly, in my original manuscript Falco was as meek as a lamb, but once I started to sketch the page, he decided to try out this stunt. We’ll see if his attempt to impress the Dux will succeed (once I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…