Without further ado…a new Issue of The Enchanted Dagger is here…#7 0f 9. Imagine all those Kalthar pages building up to this spectacular moment! I’m pretty happy with how our new cover turned out. Trumpian Kalthar, aluding to a much earlier rendering of Trump/Kalthar from issue 2, feels even more appropriate in the current moment than when I first drew it in…omg I think it was January 2022! It was a bad slump, what can i say. In any case, can’t wait to see how this one looks on the tablet.
Kalthar’s giant head was the last thing i worked on so all the color shading and highlights were made in photoshop. His body’s color highlights were done on the old system in Illustrator 10, mostly. There are a couple touch ups that I’ve been trying to figure…I wanted to have some random patches of straw on the ground for Kalthar’s sheep friend. I also only needed a day to tackle the finishing touches which bodes well for the rest of the comic. Page three still needs about the same amount of work….page 13 will need a couple days i bet. Page 17 and 28 I still have to do from scratch… but I think i can worry about that this summer. it all means i’ll be able to spend more time on the PHM 20 pager this spring, I hope…really happy with the work so far on it. oh, and i also wanted to work on the Kalthar Cover sometime this month…..there just aren’t enough hours, honestly. And I’m still procrastinating on the business part….