I never really did commission, (except for Fred) so it was quite a surprise when someone contacted me saying that they want to BUY my work, not to publish or anything, ,just to put it on the wall, whoa boy. even myself don’t have my own work on the wall, beside small printed out co_Okie flyer, LoL

and not only that, they want it BIG, to be exact, the size of two Mcdonald tables we were at. I never done anything bigger than A4 to be honest, I was hesitated but they even encourage me, plus the money is always good, so I said yes and even told them it would only take a week.

I got cocky, it took almost a month :P

The size was really big, I don’t have any table big enough to work on, at first I tried to work on the floor, but I’m getting old. my back was breaking. My dad suggest I should tape it on the wall instead. It was a bit better but not much, definitely not my idea of work condition.

Working on something this big is really not easy for me, only one good thing about it I can come up with probably that your stroke doesn’t really have to be precised. That alone isn’t worth all other troubles. Smudge is my number one mortal enemy, Because my hand sweated SO much that I actually smeared the ink after it was totally dried O_O

other trouble is copic, copic isn’t meant to be used in WIDE area, it was almost impossible to keep it even, even with wide tip.

looked like done, but not yet. I almost let it go like this because I know I couldn’t really keep copic paint even in wide area, and I don’t want to fuck it up, but our dear Fehed insisted I shouldn’t leave it like this. he suggested that I just put some shadow under Clarence and on tree. Then I remembered that I have three aircan for copic airbrush left, I decided to use copic airbrush for the sky, probably better than trying to paint it with copic normally.

came out not bad at all, looked definitely finished!

all that for 100$, can you believe it?

(x-posted with my LJ)

40 pages. All of them.

I finished it two days ago, putting together both PDF version for printing and web version is way more exhausting than drawing the comic itself T_T I wish I could use photoshop batch thingy, but I have bad memories about it, it locked up my pc and I can’t do anything except format. yeah, no batch conversion for me.

I really want more people to read this one, but I’m not sure how to go around promoting it *sigh*

It took me 3 months to find out how to really make WP works for this site the way I REALLY REALLY wanted. The problem with the walkaround I used in order to have separate main page and blog page is the ugly URL, because the blog page is actually the category archive page, the URL became sixkillerbunnies.com/cat/blog, /cat being taxonomy for category archive page (WP don’t let you do without, pfft) and /blog being the main category name. I thought I could live with it, but obviously I can’t.

what I really wanted was for that page URL to be sixkillerbunnies.com/blog. I also know that (almost) nothing simple htaccess couldn’t do. Problem was that I never really get around learning it properly, I just guess how it works and then tinker with it (kids, don’t do this at home).

so what I did, to make sixkillerbunnies.com/cat/blog (aka ugly URL) becomes sixkillerbunnies.com/blog (aka pretty URL) , is that, first, I changed taxonomy for category archive page to ‘blog’ then I changed main category name from ‘blog’ to ‘category’ (yes, category named category :D). This way, URL for other category archives also become something pretty like ‘/blog/category/news’ etc. The last step (actually the only step :D) is to edit .htaccess so sixkillerbunnies.com/blog point to the right category archives.

There’s one problem, page navigation for blog page now doesn’t work, but, well, I’m happy with this now, Fred gonna have to fix that later :D

*out*