The Saintly Leftovers

All the goo leftover after a saint is anointed www.nicholasrubatino.com All works-thoughts-feelings-phenomena tangible or otherwise copyright Nicholas Rubatino

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We learn the story of how just before their inception, the boys escaped into the woods only to return with a dead bear and that's whycome they have a bear pelt on their armour.

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Fussed with the Hue slider a bit.

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Debating on doing the dream in colour, the usual black and white, or just pencil. In colour I think it looks a little too cozy, guess I could try to make it look more like an endoscopy.

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Hieronymus dreams of Hell as Long Stephen described it. I thought I'd do this as one page even though it is three shots, as things run together in dreams like that. I was thinking about how so many medieval depictions of Hell are about being eaten or entering a Hellmouth, so Hieronymus seems to be crawling through some digestive guts while being bitten by strange spiders.

I wonder if Long Stephen was always so long or if eons in a place like this changed him into the man his is today.

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Okay looks like it updated fine! All the redundant title pages on kindle are now replaced with a clean version of the cover. You should also be able to download it as an epub or pdf, at least I enabled that from my end I don't know how it is implemented

Amazon.com: Red and the Wolfe eBook : Rubatino, Nicholas: Kindle Store

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I've been cleaning up my folder for Red and the Wolfe and I was embarrassed to see how many times the credits card comes up. It's an artifact of each chapter being published individually on ComiXology but now feels very Kojima. I want to replace them with a clean no text cover instead, so hopefully amazon will let me just drop that in without having to republish.

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The God Labs Chapter 02 is out! Tell your kids! Tell Grandma! Tell your most beloved Item! And remind them, this may just be a silly little story about research into the persistence of the human soul and what happens beyond the veil, but they are whom really matter to you.

Amazon.com: The God Labs: Chapter 02 eBook : Rubatino, Nicholas: Kindle Store

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The next panel shows it is a box of random food from the cafeteria, didn't want anyone to get any depraved ideas without that being explicitly stated. Almost done with chapter 2, this is the fastest I've worked in my life ever.

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The gang meets Long Stephen what appeared in The God Labs Strip Club #03. I've never been in a strip club so I'm taking my best guess at what might be on the walls.

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I finished the Cool Fiona cover for Chapter 2 already but I thought I'd redo it in Krita. I have a lot more fun painting in Krita

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The Overseer parties with the Generals

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As established in The Satan Killers, Jim had an office next to Satan. Maybe The Overseer feels he should have done something when he no doubt heard all the shooting. Also I edited my watermark for MMXXVI

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At the table I was working there was a little girl sitting next to me, it severely limited what I could work on since she could see my screen. So every time I caught her looking over I started drawing bunnies

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Done a few pages now exclusively in Krita, this is how I ended up setting up the workspace. I like that you can paint a thumbnail for a brush preset in the brush tool, so I did that for all the ones I made.

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More Krita testing, I think I've made all the brushes I need and got the workspace and hotkeys how I like them. It's taken a lot of time but so far it has been totally worth it. Some of the tools, like the line tool, are approximately 999,999,999 times better than in the version of Photoshop I was using. No unwanted edge scroll, preview of the line about to be drawn, snap to multiple angles, that's just three of 999,999,999.

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More Krita brush making and testing. Amazon sent a message saying I could set up my books on kindle so they can be downloaded as PDFs or ePubs, so I did that. Think they said it will be an option some time mid January, for all current owners and future buyers.

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I'll be switching to Krita sooner than I thought. My dutiful Intuos 4 finally started occasionally disconnecting so I got a new tablet and Photoshop decided to occasionally ignore pressure sensitivity. I'm using an old version of Photoshop, but I am always tickled when I look up solutions and it is still a problem for all tablets in the current paid subscription version.

Krita however has been perfect thus far so I've been setting up the workspace and testing every brush that comes with it before making my own- remaking some of my old photoshop ones with the increased functionality that Krita offers. I also like that the .kra file format can be opened with 7zip and you can just take out the uncompressed png inside.