Monday Round up 5/02: thief and barbarian teaser

Happy Monday! I've got some stuff to show off! I'm working on a new comic and here's a sort of teaser image that'll act as the back cover. More after the jump!

Dumgens & Draggins 6: She's Got No ArmorClass

I can understand walking around in your underwear if you're on the starter island and just getting the hang of things, but seriously, if you've already gotten to the main harbor, there's no reason not to wear armor. You're just gonna get dead in the upper to lower body area.

Also, if you have no idea what SecondLife is, it's like this(NSFW), but virtually.

I like how the main characters came out in Flash, but it really helps if I have a solid drawing first, otherwise Photoshop is much easier for Bsing coming up with art on the fly. I'm not sure how I feel about being in full color. Thoughts on color vs. Grayscale? or on Flash characters? Or on the comic in general?

Also also, other D&D pick up lines that were considered:

Hey baby, you need an armorcheck?
Hey baby, wanna go on a quest?
Hey baby, is your alignment lawful good or lawful fine?
Is this a +2 scepter in my pocket or am I just happy to see you?
Hey baby, you better roll for initiative 'cause we're about to have a confrontation!
Hey baby, are you proficient in handling two-handed weapons?

Dumgens & Draggins 5: The Clothing makes the thief

Yay! Finally got Dumgens and Draggins up! And I'l have a new one up by Thursday!

Yeah, there are a myriad of different outfits to choose from(if you have money and/or can find them in the dungeons) all with varying special abilities. Some of them are kinda useful like one that electrocutes enemies that hit you or has a +10 save on acid, but more times than most you'll go back to your standard armor because it will protect you the most and it takes too much time to switch between them.

And sadly, there's no place to try them on. If you want to see how they look, you have to buy them. Which I guess makes sense because you're buying them primarily for the enhancements, but I still wanna look cool killing things.

And if you think I'm creative enough to come up with these rediculous Awesome costumes, you are sadly mistaken:
Also, an Asassin's Creed joke:

EDIT: Totally just remembered to title this post. I'M SO SMART. I needz a secretary.

Dumgens & Draggins 4: The Hovering Kobold

One of the glitches I hate about DDO, is that every so often the enemy (especially kobolds) will jump around trying to evade you, and they'll inadvertently jump up on to a candlestick or the side of a wall or something that is clearly not jump-upable. So you'll have to jump and awkwardly swing and miss, or do what I do and run away and wait until they follow you(BECAUSE THEY NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE). And it's not just small baddies, I've seen full on orcs jump mid air and just hover there!

I think this is my best one yet with all that new fangled perspective and backgrounds and whatnot. I was going to try grayscale with Zao the thief, but I just love the way he looks in Black and White.

I keep forgetting to upload pics of the model I've been working on. Oh well. Have a great weekend!

Brand New Thief

Sorry guys, no new comic tonight, too busy on the new Dumgens and Draggins. But I do have a few new pics of my Thief protagonist! I'm trying out different styles:

Black and White

Grayscale

And color!

Which one do you think is better?

Dumgens & Draggins©

So or the past two days I've been trying to do a comic in photoshop, and for some reason I always think it's gonna be easy, until I look at my linework. Anyways, I've decided to try a new approach: 4 smaller pen comics mon-fri with one big photoshop comic at the end of the week! Until I can up my photoshop skills and churn them out faster (or practice more flash and illustrator), I think this will work out. Plus I'm half way done with it, so it seems like it's working out well so far.

Also, I might try a thing next month where I do a model from concept to nice render in a month because I definitely haven't been modeling enough.

Also also, with these new photoshop monstrosities, I'm introducing a new mini-series, Dumgens & Draggins© (thanks to Shannon for the name). I have a good handful of comics about my adventures in Dungeons and Dragons Online. I play a thief with a mohawk and a pirate beard (cartoonized above) and if you don't believe me, here's a screenshot:

And here's my character pretending to play Assassin's Creed:


Hey, maybe these will get so good I'll transition them to RocketPoweredDragon when it's done! Wouldn't that be awesome?