And not to mention we have a new member!!! Welcome Jim.

If you are new to SD7, we are a collective of super awesome sci-fi webcomics. If you or your friends are looking for a good comic to read, we’ve got seven!

We are proud to announce that James Anderson and his super awesome webcomic Ellie on Planet X has joined us here at Spacedock 7! Please take a moment to check out his awesome work and wish him a warm hello.

We are happy to have you Jim!

Ellie on Planet X
jimcandraw.com

The full list of nominees can be read HERE.

The winners will be announced in an online illustrated ceremony on  January 31st.

I was just doodling away when I made this little sketch of Mary (from my webcomic My Sister, the Freak) hanging out with Red (from Eddie Pittman’s Red’s Planet). I have a feeling these two would be great friends.

Hi all. I thought I’d share some of the process that went into this week’s Cleopatra in Space. I don’t have the time for a detailed tutorial, but hopefully this visual step-by step is still kinda interesting. You can go HERE for a more in-depth process (well, before I starting coloring this thing). Also, you might enjoy this process vid I made of this page (flash required).

Super scribbly thumbnails: Just enough info to let me know where to lay things out. I don’t even know exactly what’s going on in that 4th panel.

Pencils: I draw in blueline so I can blow the pencils out in Photoshop when I scan my pages.

Inks: Not much to explain here. I inked the previous page.

Scan and Cleanup: I’ve blown out the pencils, cleaned up and re-sized my linework a bit, colored in some solid blacks and created my borders. The biggest change here is that forth panel, where I rotated the drawing about -45 degrees.

Flats: Tedious process. I color my word balloons a different color to differentiate them from the BG, which is the base color I use when selecting my colors.

Background: Backgrounds start getting painted in.

Character Shading: I like keeping the shading on the characters a bit more flat to keep them from blending in to the BG and hopefully make the story easier to follow. Main thing to stay aware of is where my light sources are. Although even that I might cheat a bit on.

Line Color and Extras: Here I’ve colored some of the linework  (like the sound effects and laser blasts) and added some speed lines to emphasize the action.

Letters and Finishing Touches: And last, I letter the page (the font is my own handwriting I created years ago) and add some fishing touches (like that laser blast in P3).

Grant Gould:

Katie Cook:

Joel Carroll:

Dani Jones:

Eddie Pittman:

Unfortunately Otis Frampton was unable to draw a pin-up since he was driving cross-country at the time. But don’t worry, I’ll get him next time!

You can purchase  a copy of Cleopatra in Spaaace! in the Cow Shell Graphics Store.

This is a time-lapse of me coloring one of the pages of My Sister, the Freak. The page featured in the video can be seen here.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-7vQT2IoQ

For more behind-the-scenes stuff, you can catch me on my Ustream show every Tues-Fri @ 10 AM ET, where I am often working on comic stuff.

Hope to see you there!
- Dani

Katie will be in  in ARTISTS’ ALLEY, table GG-02. DETAILS HERE.

Mike will be in SMALL PRESS, table N-05. DETAILS HERE.

Here are some maps!

Cleopatra in Space’s first printed collection will debut at the show, featuring pin-ups from five of the  SD7 crew. Katie will have a brand new mini-comic featuring her cat and some naughty language.

Congrats Katie! (and me too I guess, but that feels weird since I’m the one writing this post)