Leandra 9

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Late Strip

This week's last strip will be late. Instead of posting on Wednesday (here in the U.S.) it will be sometime on Thursday, 9-30-10.

I had a burst water pipe AND some extra prep work for a class I am teaching.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Leandra 8

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Leandra 7

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Leandra 6

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Leandra 5

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Leandra 4

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Be back Saturday.

No strip today

My sister is in the hospital so there will be no strip today.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Leandra 3

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Schedule for Autumn 2010 = Saturday-Wednesday

Starting this weekend the update schedule for Strange Cargo will be Saturday-Wednesday for Autumn 2010 to accommodate my teaching schedule.

The strip will be back later today (9-20-2010). See you then.

Leandra 2

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Leandra 1

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Chapter 2

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This one's a little lat because had a class to teach. For the next three months Thursday and Friday nights' updates may be late. I may have to go to a Saturday - Wednesday schedule, but we'll see.

Welcome Aboard 21

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Here is the first Strange Cargo strip that I actually drew. I drew it about two months ago but felt that the story needed to be fleshed out before this scene actually took place. The image above is the redo for the actual strip. It was redrawn directly over the original (see below). This was then redrawn, inked and lettered in Manga Studio, and colored in Photoshop. Originally the strip was going to be inked in Toon Boom Studio but the line didn't really turn out the way I thought it should.

The image below is the original penciled image, re-inked in Manga studio, as well as using the MS4 template that I created after I purchased the program (and over a month into the strip!).

The original version.

As you can see Miguel changed the least and Moira the most.

FYI I have also started leaving the images at the original size, but lowered the dpi to 96. This seems to be a standard amongst the webcomics that I follow.

Welcome Aboard 20

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Welcome Aboard 19

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Welcome Aboard 18

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This is the first strip completely totally in the computer with no traditionally penciled page. Again most everything was drawn in Manga Studio 4 and finished off in Photoshop CS3

Be back on Monday. Have a good one.

Welcome Aboard 17

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Welcome Aboard 16

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This one's a little late because I had a meeting today. Sorry.

Welcome Aboard 15

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Welcome Aboard 14

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Welcome Aboard 13

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This is the first strip to be done using Manga Studio 4. After scanning the sketch everything but last minute shading and prep for the internet was done within MS4. Photoshop was used to finish it off.

Welcome Aboard 12

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The strip will be back Monday. Have a good one.

Welcome Aboard 11

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Welcome Aboard 10

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Welcome Aboard 9

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In panels three and four you may notice soemthing new. I started adding 3d backgrounds. I wanted to do it earlier, especially with the docking bay scenes, but I wanted to get the strip up as soon as possible.

The shots were modeled and rendered in 3ds Max.

Hope you like it.