Category: Comics

comic work

Reworking my Comic Template

Post author By Wolthera
Post date March 16, 2025
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Over the past few years, I’ve done a few things in regards to comics. One of them is creating a comic manager for Krita, another is doing work on Peruse. But one thing that’s also changed for me is the comic template I was using.

Originally, I used an A4 based comic template, with margins of 15 mm at the top and bottom, and margins of 10 mm at the left and right, and an overal bleed of 5 mm. I had been doing so as a teen, as this is relatively normal for European comics culture. But recently, I’ve been shifting towards A6 size comics.

Tags comics, isoa6

KDE Streets of Ganjet

Streets of Ganjet: a comic from my youth

Post author By Wolthera
Post date July 6, 2021
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Cover for chapter 2

I’ve been slowly building up an OPDS feed, because I added support to KNewStuff, and I wanted to make sure I was able to make an OPDS feed myself.

Of course, the biggest problem is content. I have some fan comics lying around, and I have some Krita Resource Bundles that are all over the place… But there was a thing missing. Back when I was fifteen, I started work on a comic named Streets of Ganjet, an urban fantasy comic about the people living in the city of Ganjet. I have tried to rewrite it, but never got far enough for it to publish new chapters.

Tags paintshop pro, photoshop

Comics KDE

Poking at Peruse

A Comic page in peruse creator with frame and text area definitions. Blue is frames, red is text areas.

So, I got my thesis done, updated the Comic Project Management Tools, and had a lot of time left till I got my thesis results(I did not pass >_> sadly). One thing that was sort of bugging me was that after all the work I did on the CPMT, there just wasn’t much movement happening in Peruse, the KDE comic book reader that can read comic books with ACBF files and make use of the extra functionality.

So, it was time to do some moving myself.

Tags ACBF, comics, Peruse, QML

Artwork Comics Illustrations

Comic style tests

Test of comic styles.

This is a test of comic styles in Krita.

The middle one being a watercoloury style(probably needs better colour picking to be really useful)

The last being traditional ink-then-colour, softshading style, and the first being a variation where I painted the subject first, and then added the lines. Painting is a little more comfortable for me regarding details like hair and folds(which are nice to sculpt this way), so it’s a little more natural to me to try this manner.

All of them have their own charm really.

Tags Digital, Krita, Line art, Painted, study, Wolthera's Art

Artwork Characters Streets of Ganjet

Ideh, Marianne and Patrick facial studies

Post author By Wolthera
Post date January 1, 2012
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Next three:

Tags Digital, Painted

Characters Streets of Ganjet

Laurens and Miloor facial studies

Post author By Wolthera
Post date December 29, 2011
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Working on characters for Streets of Ganjet. If I can make decent realistic versions, I’d be able to use that as reference for the stylised versions.

Tags Digital, Painted

Characters Illustrations Streets of Ganjet

Some Streets of Ganjet test page and brush inking tests.

Post author By Wolthera
Post date May 11, 2011
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I’ve been practicing brush inking, and I have the feeling I’m getting somewhere. I got some nice winsor and newton brushes and I’m still happily experimenting with them. I also made a test page for Streets of Ganjet, to see if brush inked characters on a penned background, coloured in, would look good.

Unforetunatly the page ended up a bit skewed and I think I’ll have to become good friends with my mirror once I start doing future pages.

Tags Brush Inking, Digital, Line art, Painted, Traditional

Comics Fanart

Kingdom Hearts Fancomic: Boredom

Post author By Wolthera
Post date May 1, 2011
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Boredom

A kingdom hearts fancomic I put into a javascript based comic reader I made.
I disliked how normal comic formats are one page a load, so this one loads up all tiny pages and then you can flick through them. The comic itself is Axel/Saïx slash, hence why I also made a seperate tag to prevent it from showing up on my rss-feed.(I don’t want anyone who isn’t looking for it to see this)