Blue Lotus 1 - A Mysterious Figure
April 10, 2009
We are happy to announce we are a part of a neat cross-over with several other webcomics. The “Blue Lotus” storyline started in Tubularman, followed through to Failed Objective, is now in our hands, will then be handed off to the Apple of Discord, then to Maskerman, and back to Tubularman for the finale. Whew!!
I do want to warn that some of these comics are NOT all-ages. Some contain profanity and subject matters not quite appropriate for children. Nothing to make your hair gray, but I do want to caution parents to check out the sites before letting younger kids read them. That said, I encourage teens and adults to go read the strips in the cross-over, since there’s some great stuff there! For families and our younger viewers, we are making this storyline self-contained enough that your children can read the Bitmap World portion and still be able to follow things.
Believe it or not, this comic was hand-drawn on paper. Honestly. See… So, why did I go and make it look like an MS Paint comic? (Though admittedly there are a few effects in this strip you couldn’t do in Paint.) Well, pixelating has kinda become my signature. I *can* draw. Just One More was an example of my earlier work. This guest comic I did shows more recent efforts. Still, people recognize us for our pixels, so I have been trying to stay true to those roots, such as this recent guest strip. That, plus the fact this storylinec will eventually tenacle into the Pixel’s Bitmap World continuity. So, to keep readers from being confused by an art switch, I chose to go the pixel route. All of that said, I had a lot of fun with this. It was a TON of work. Probably 8 hours all-together. Part of that was me being rust working with drawn images, scanning, inking, clean-up, layout, and more. Still, I love how it turned out, and we’re looking forward to doing more on this storyline!
As an aside, here’s a helpful site you may want to check out: NickCiske.com 