Adorable Desolation News

You've already heard the punchline.

2011-09-01T18:35:00.002-04:00

New strip is up. I'm going with B&W for a while I think.

Exposition hatred

2011-07-17T16:27:00.000-04:00

I had a page all ready to go and then I realized something PLOT RELATED had to happen before I could use that joke- ARG!! So I set to work on the next page and I'm not sure why it's giving me such a hard time. I've drawn and redrawn it about six times and it massively sucks. I'm going to have to suck up the suck and just post it. By all the gods of creation, I despise exposition. But this is a story and a story needs exposition and other assorted tropey stuff.

You get what you pay for.

2011-06-05T20:05:00.000-04:00

I did it again!. I'm trying a new font. Let me know what you think of it.

I love a wedding

2011-05-23T19:51:00.000-04:00

It's the Mevan wedding. The bride was lovely, the groom was handsome, and the guests were happy, just about the perfect combination of all things. This sketch doesn't do the couple justice. I did try though. <3

How to commit bribery

2011-05-08T01:22:00.000-04:00

In case you're wondering why Jill, Leasel and The Archivist are talking oddly, please remember he hears what they would have said to him, about 3 seconds or so before they say it. He also likes cookies.

enter the archivist

2011-05-02T01:55:00.000-04:00

Ah yes- so now we finally meet Our cheerful archivist. It's just like Jill says, it's really hard to have a conversation with him.

typo fixed!

2011-04-08T15:49:00.000-04:00

Wow, I can't spell worth beans. I'm also not sure why the reply comment is not showing automatically. It should.

To the cellar

2011-04-06T23:55:00.000-04:00

A visit to the archive! It's like a day at the beach.

Scared

2011-03-21T16:50:00.000-04:00

The next page is up!

Cold hearted

2011-03-14T22:38:00.002-04:00

I like how this one came out

Woohoo!

2011-03-12T19:11:00.001-05:00

I'm doing pretty good for someone that doesn't know what she's doing! I just fixed my ComicGenesis Wiki page after it was messed up. Woohoo!
CG wiki

I suppose now I'm a deviant (over at deviantart)

2011-03-10T19:03:00.000-05:00

Wowzers, I finally got myself a deviantart account! Been meaning to get one of those for awhile. http://maglorius.deviantart.com/ Not much there yet. But soon, oh yes, soon.

In the circle

2011-03-07T23:54:00.000-05:00

Wow, can anyone say "anger management issues"?

Just a little twitchy ain't he?

2011-02-11T19:59:00.000-05:00

It took me along time, but here it is.

And it's you. Again.

2010-11-21T17:51:00.000-05:00

Next strip is up. I changed her hair again. And I'll change it again, if I want.

It's also a handy shelf!

2010-10-21T00:42:00.000-04:00

I'm just giddy about this page. I love way the bunny looks to Leasel for clues. I gave it a little smile in the sixth panel.

Curtains might help

2010-10-13T23:49:00.002-04:00

Oh, wow. Look at me, getting all fancy with the shading and highlights Don't get used to it. I'll keep working on it. Maybe one one day I'll do a color/shade job that I'm happy with.
I am pleased with the bunny purr. I decided a bunny purr should be pink, at least the bunny purr in Shopclerk's head.
Don't worry about how she got in the dreamscape, just remember she had to be invited. And she was definitely invited.

The proposal and A confirmation

2010-09-15T17:41:00.000-04:00

The Proposal and A Confirmation started out as one page, but there was a natural breaking point.
I should point out that in a world where magic works, words have meaning. And under the right circumstances a promise is as good as a pinkie-swear.

Sympathy

2010-08-31T23:19:00.001-04:00

I've been working on my shading. I'm still not happy, but it didn't come out too bad.

Stages of romance

2010-08-13T08:00:00.000-04:00

Continuing a theme, and it's not even Valentine's day.

Romance 101

2010-08-03T23:46:00.000-04:00

Romance 101. Sometimes Shopclerk has moments of insight. It never lasts long.

A moment with Izzy and Sterling

2010-07-28T20:29:00.000-04:00

Like it says, a moment with Izzy and Sterling.

The reveal

2010-07-15T01:41:00.001-04:00

Whew, that took a while, but stuff is fixed. I'm trying some shading too, but I'm not pleased with it. I'll continue to play around. Of course the reveal is: her name! I now have to update the cast page and junk. There is always a price.

Fixin' stuff

2010-06-21T01:18:00.000-04:00

I'm making some changes to the May 19th strip. I'm fixing it.

Commenting for May 19th page

2010-05-24T10:59:00.000-04:00

I'm not sure what's wrong, but I'm away from my own computer and can't fix it. Everything will be fixed, shiny and spiffy next week when I get home. Meanwhile if anyone wants to comment, the blog's a fine spot, a fine spot indeed.

Yay!

2010-05-21T18:42:00.000-04:00

ComicGenesis is working again, it loaded- Yay!

comicgenesis not working- arg!

2010-05-21T18:26:00.000-04:00

Triggering an update at "siteadmin" shows (over) 8000 updates waiting in line and the number is not changing. This means that I'm still waiting for "The Unknown Duffle" comic to load. It's just as well, I decided I don't like the title "The Unknown Duffle" I'm changing the title to "The Duffle of the Mysteries" (if ComicGenesis ever puts the comic up.

the unknown duffle

2010-05-19T23:21:00.002-04:00

Oh the temptation!

Just some girl talk

2010-05-13T00:36:00.000-04:00

So that's where the name came from, Yes, Adorable Desolation actually means something- it's not just word salad.

Adorable Desolation goes World wide!

2010-05-04T22:49:00.001-04:00

Adorable Desolation is officially a world wide comic. Visitors from every continent (except for Antarctica) have come to read my little drawn story about a befuddled shopclerk who has nightmares.
Can you even get internet in Antarctica? Come on Antarctica, I'm waiting.

Nothing like stuff

2010-05-02T20:58:00.001-04:00

Posted. Jill is so colorful.
The commenting still isn't working.

commenting

2010-04-17T11:09:00.000-04:00

I have reinstalled Intense Debate to Adorable Desolation. Let the commenting begin....
No really, comments away.... Aw come on.

page 60, Back to the shop

2010-03-22T21:25:00.000-04:00

Back to the shop, Page 60 is finally up. Talk about being happy to see someone.

just try to explain

2010-03-07T01:01:00.000-05:00

Page 60 is almost done, here's something I had fun drawing.

a small webcomic

2010-03-04T23:15:00.001-05:00

I have updated more than 15,000 (yes, fifteen-thousand) other people who started a comic on the internet. *takes bow*

Repost

2010-02-22T04:51:00.001-05:00

Okay, I didn't feel I went far enough with the shading on this page so I tweaked it. And now I'm re-posting it.

Valentine Empath

2010-02-15T21:36:00.002-05:00

This is the dilemma of the empath. If you feel someone's emotions, how can you ever be sure what you feel, is really what you are feeling?

fiddlesticks

2010-02-15T17:01:00.002-05:00

stuff's not loading again- blarg.

Finally up

2010-02-02T16:52:00.001-05:00

At last a successful upload. The page is up and it's readable. I did wind up changing the date from January 26 to January 30.

try, try again

2010-01-31T16:27:00.000-05:00

I've tried deleting and reloading, but nothing works. I'm looking in to the problem.
The Comic Genesis forum shows me that I'm not the only one with this problem. But the suggested answer did not work. Time to try a few more tricks. Keep checking back.

1st of the new year

2010-01-26T21:42:00.002-05:00

I don't know why the colored stripes are blobbing up my comic. I'll try reloading again soon. I think it's Comic Genesis' (esess?) fault
Even more about Sterling. He doesn't sleep.
I'm gearing up to post a little extra side story. It doesn't have name yet. It features a psychomancer. A psychomancer is a person who can speak with the dead. Necromancer is also a known term, but recently necromancy has come to refer to someone who can zombify the dead. For my purposes psychomancer sounds better

Holiday break

2010-01-04T22:27:00.000-05:00

I'd like to point out that Sterling has no belief in god. After all, he knows who made him and he know how he was made. So from Sterling: Holiday Greetings! The axial tilt is the reason for the season! And to all a fine solstice.

What a kidder.

2009-12-21T23:22:00.000-05:00

Page 56, What a kidder.
Sterling is still sort of working on the humor thing. By the way, in case you forgot, Sterling's father is Booth Faraday. I guess that means Booth must be quite the kidder.

The shocking truth

2009-12-14T20:09:00.001-05:00

At last, the shocking truth about sterling.

That thing you do

2009-12-05T01:11:00.003-05:00

Sterling! A force of nature. I've temporarily given up having Sterling speak in a different font. All the fonts I liked were too hard to read. I'm thinking of putting a gray band inside his word balloons to illustrate the voice.
Also the wording is so awkward. That's what I get for rewriting sections of already written script at 1:00 am.
It's not wretched mind you, just a few words here and there need changing. (I know what I'm doing tonight.) Read this now- then come back later to see the new improved version and compare.... I dare you.
Corrections made. Woo

it's up!

2009-11-22T23:29:00.003-05:00

I've been playing with the style again. I draw and nothing looks right.Then I wind up using the old style.
I used a different font for Sterling, to try and show he has a deep gravelly voice. I hope it worked. I'm not too happy with it. I'll keep looking for a font that is right.
Ignore the change in perspective in panel two. She doesn't suddenly change sizes, that's just me, messing up.

Halloween pencil sketch

2009-10-31T22:16:00.002-04:00

I decided to scribble up a holiday Adorable Desolation in colored pencil. The Halloween strip I had planned would not work because it featured characters I have yet to introduce.
A friend also pointed out it also featured a blatant spoiler! That's thinking ahead.
I have removed this comic from the comic archive and I will be moving it to the extras section!

Do me a favor

2009-10-16T00:42:00.001-04:00

Do me a favor. Oh, the excitement is hard to contain. Sterling is about to make his entrance.
I've been tweaking and playing with my drawings and I'm just never happy. I'll have to keep drawing.
By the way, yes that is wedding ring on Izzy's finger. The reason you may not have seen or noticed it before is because, this is the first time his left hand is clearly visible. I've been paying attention to that little detail. Don't get used to it.

An actual incident

2009-09-17T23:00:00.001-04:00

So, now the big five-oh is passed by and is now in the past.
Introducing page 51.
Something (sort of, but not really) like this incident actually happened to me. I was watching a taped autopsy, and after the "Y" incision and just as the pathologist was cutting through the ribs to crack open the chest, I began to drool and crave ribs. I ate yummy yummy ribs that night- and enjoyed every drippy sauce covered bite.
By the way, if you were wondering about the guy in the autopsy I was watching? He was shot, not squished into a wall.

A man in a wall

2009-09-09T23:46:00.000-04:00

Fifty Fifty Fifty. Posted on my birthday.

The confusion (continues) grows

2009-08-30T21:29:00.004-04:00

49 is up and running. I like Shopclerk's expression in panel six.

A good excuse

2009-08-23T23:53:00.001-04:00

Remember he forgot the mug? Only think how she'd react to a mug featuring kittens sleeping in a basket of flowers.

[Edit] A friend from work suggested the only way to make that mug more gaggy than it already is, is if the kittens are... get this... wearing BUNNY EARS asleep in the basket, the image I have in my mind makes my teeth hurt.

Strip 48 is now up. I wonder if I should do something when the strip hits 50? That's half a hundred you know!

The lesser "oh"

2009-08-16T23:09:00.000-04:00

This page took forever. I have trouble drawing motion. I drew pages of punches. I think the punching motion I settled on came out pretty good.

Time to go

2009-07-27T22:30:00.000-04:00

I'm trying a new font, this is "mighty zeo" I kind of like it. Feel free to let me know what you think.
In case you couldn't tell Izzy is tall, real tall.

Mall Girl Redux

2009-07-09T18:23:00.000-04:00

I did a cute panel of the mall girl (aka: the pretty redhead) and then I cut it out of the strip. Why you might ask? I got scared someone might think the pretty redhead appeared to be breaking the 4th wall. She's not, she's simply looking over her shoulder at Shopclerk and thinking to herself. I guess I should make something clear; except for a few (non-canon) special cases, any scene that looks like the 4th wall is breaking or cracking or slipping in any way, is completely due to my inability to draw things and people from different angles.
In the story proper, the 4th wall always remains intact. Thank you

The big "Oh"

2009-06-25T22:18:00.000-04:00

Page 44, The big "Oh"

Confession

2009-06-14T19:25:00.000-04:00

Number 43, Confession
It seems to be taking longer and longer to color these things.
I'm going to be playing with my technique. I may also be working on my anatomy drawing. Don't be surprised if people and things in the strip starting changing styles. It may take a while to settle on a style that works for me

At the mall

2009-06-04T15:24:00.000-04:00

Page 42: At the mall
my dislike of drawing backgrounds makes this mall scene harder than it should be.
But look 42 pages!

old spells

2009-05-30T22:17:00.000-04:00

At last, an update. It's about time.

setting up the new 'puter

2009-05-29T23:39:00.000-04:00

I've been trying to get all my old stuff onto the new 'puter and for some reason the color in gimp is being evil. I color Girl's hair light brown and it shows up bright pink, I try again and it shows GREEN! I've finally fixed it, but this is whole mess is taking longer to fix than I thought it would. AND I have less time this past coupla' weeks, because I have other projects due. Short version? It's on the way.

It's official

2009-05-22T09:44:00.000-04:00

It's official, my old computer which has been stuttering crashing and freezing has bit the big one. It's pushing up daisies. It's kicked the bucket. It is a "late" computer. What a great excuse to buy a new one! Which I now have weeee! All shiny and pretty! Adorable Desolation will be up a day or two late. Despite the best efforts of my evil old computer...

A word about Izzy

2009-05-15T15:15:00.000-04:00

I've been waiting since November to introduce Izzy to the strip. My computer's been crashing and freezing ever since I started working on the Izzy strips... mmmmm.
My computer will not win! The strip shall be made, it's just taking longer than I thought.

Blogger now on Adorable Desolation!

2009-05-12T23:34:00.000-04:00

I've put an iframe on my comic linked to my blogger site, it should make my commenting on individual strips easy-peasy, Blogger also has a self contained commenting system. I like comments.

Friday's here, Izzy!

2009-05-01T14:33:00.000-04:00

Friday: The waiting is the hardest part

I'm going to try updating Fridays for a while. Izzy's here!

scanner

2009-04-21T14:46:00.000-04:00

Ha Ha Ha! finally I'm getting a scanner! No more taking a photograph of my pencil sketch and then sending it to the computer. This should make the comic easier to get ready. I hope.

no update Friday

2009-03-26T23:14:00.000-04:00

No update Friday. I've just gotten back from my father's funeral.

Analytics added

2009-03-16T14:30:00.000-04:00

Added Google analytics to the AD website know I'll see if I get any hits- woo

Discription of Adorable Desolation

2009-02-02T00:02:00.000-05:00

A befuddled amnesiac runs a magical gift shop, where he meets a strange woman who may or may not know his true identity.

my pog's been approved

2009-02-01T23:09:00.000-05:00

My ad pog's been approved! I've already seen it on the comic genesis front page!
Now I'm working on a "newsbox" ad.
THE Weasel has come up with swell tagline.

Pogs on ComicGenesis

2009-01-29T15:19:00.000-05:00

On my webcomic's host's home page, there are small buttons called "pogs" designed to entice visiters to try a comic.

I submitted this advertisement pog to comic genesis, since then I decided to start doing things in color- so I made a new pog:

As you can see, it's pretty close to old pog - but it features more hair and it's in color. I'm not sure this is the final product - but it has been submitted. we shall see.

coloring adorable desolation

2009-01-28T14:58:00.000-05:00

I've been working on that aliasing problem, coloring takes so long but it looks so much better in color. Soon, soon I'll see about shading - but first things first.

2009-01-20T14:32:00.000-05:00

My Genchan looks really dumpy when she's fitted to the right size template do-over!

I made coffee

2009-01-20T14:28:00.000-05:00

The ambiguous thank you. the color looks pretty good. I've been reading a book on coloring comics digitally and I've learned some stuff. Now I need to pick up speed

Gen Chan

2009-01-05T18:22:00.000-05:00

This is my version of GenChan, the comic genesis website mascot. I think she came out pretty good and she was great practice learning shadows. I haven't put the site logo on her yet because the zip file containing it won't open. I'll grab the logo off of something and add it soon.

Adorable Desolation in color!

2009-01-05T11:09:00.000-05:00

I've been playing with the color of my comic in gimp, and decided what the heck, the stuff I've done isn't great- but color is nice. so it's up. It'll keep getting better as I practice.

JPG Vs GIF

2008-12-30T10:49:00.000-05:00

I redid the navigation arrows a few days ago. I had saved them as a JPG file, and now I know JPGs don't allow for transparency, so I resaved as GIFs and (weee!) now I have transparent backgrounds. I live I learn. I slowly lose my fear of messing with webby stuff

Holiday fun

2008-12-30T10:43:00.000-05:00

Over the holidays I've still been playing with the coloring. Comparing the color versions and the B&W versions, the color ones look pretty spiffy. I'm still waiting for an answer about my submitted "pog" advert. It is the holidays so I expect everything to take longer.

more holiday cheer

2008-12-29T13:48:00.000-05:00

Oh, and wishing you a joyous New Year as well.

Holiday cheer

2008-12-29T13:44:00.000-05:00

Happy, merry yule y'all from Adorable Desolation

weekly update AD

2008-12-18T13:12:00.000-05:00

So far, I've been updating AD once a week. Now that I'm getting the hang of this stuff I will be updating twice a week for the whole month of January and I'll see how it goes.

it's up- it's down

2008-12-17T16:06:00.000-05:00

I've been playing with Adorable Desolation 's html and it was down all day yesterday (Dec 16th) I got cocky about knowing stuff. But I fixed it! and now it's up and working, in a few days I will play with more tweaking. Bwa-ha-haaaa !

are things better in color?

2008-12-14T17:41:00.000-05:00

whoops- meant to post this in Adorable Desolation so here it is.

I'm experimenting with adding color to the comic. I'm starting to figure out gimp. The worst is deciding on permanent hair colors for all the characters. The only hair color actually commented on in the comic is Sterling's. He's described as a "big blond" and blond covers a lot of shades, just ask Sweeney Todd, he sang a song about all the shades of blond!

Adorable Desolation

2008-12-10T09:59:00.000-05:00

Here's the link to Adorable Desolation
http://adorabledesolation.comicgenesis.com

problem with adorable desolation fixed

2008-12-04T14:39:00.000-05:00

I did it! I went to the help forum and saw the problem, then I fixed the problem!!
woo-hoo! The reason this is exciting to me is that is my first success at html coding.
Any way the comic is now visible in both fire fox and internet explorer- any other browser takes-ya chances

adorable desolation

2008-12-01T16:38:00.000-05:00

I'm not sure what's going on. The comic genesis "Adorable Desolation" site is up but I can only see it from one computer. I need to hunt down the problem. Sigh

adorable desolation to be on comicgenesis.com

2008-11-27T13:52:00.000-05:00

I should have things set up soon, now that I've heard back from comic genesis. I'm busy inking and going digital.
It's also confirmed: the address will be "adorabledesolation.comicgenesis.com"

comicgenesis hopes

2008-11-18T13:55:00.000-05:00

I'm waiting for my comicgenesis account to kick in, so I will wait and start over, over there.
When it kicks in the address will be: adorabledesolation.comicgenesis.com
weeeeee!

007say it differently

2008-11-14T11:35:00.000-05:00

006She walks in

2008-11-11T17:49:00.000-05:00

005Helpful and hopeful

2008-11-06T10:38:00.000-05:00

004 The day it changed

2008-11-03T14:42:00.000-05:00

003 - Gifts for the gifted

2008-10-30T15:27:00.000-04:00

002 - Everyday like this

2008-10-29T14:37:00.000-04:00

001- The day begins

2008-10-29T14:27:00.000-04:00

Adorable Desolation

2008-10-29T12:52:00.000-04:00

Adorable Desolation will be up and running soon