I was recently sworn-in as a chaplain for our local Police department. I’d been asked to join the program in 2015, but at the time I couldn’t add anything else to my plate. When the invitation came back around this year I felt compelled to accept it. Central’s church council agreed, and so I joined…
Category: Thoughts
A Day Off
Monday is my day off, but it’s usually difficult to find my sabbath rhythm in the morning. While Monday is my day off, it’s just an ordinary day of the week for my wife and kids. So they are up running around getting ready for work and school, and I’m usually up with them. Today,…
Grandmotherly Wisdom
My mother grew up in a family with six children, so when the grandchildren came along we quickly overran family gatherings. When you added myself and my two sisters to the mix, there were twelve of us 1. Holidays were interesting times. I suppose some grandparents may have collapsed under the pressure of such a…
Nothing
Leave a comment which reads “clap!” if you appreciate the irony of creating a comic to say “nothing” might be the most profound gift I have to offer, and then wrote a short reflection on that same comic 1. As ironic as this post might be, the comic is still true. I cannot tell you…
My Comic Workflow, Part II
Yesterday I showed how I take a photograph and “toon” it for use in my comics. Today we’ll finish the comic process by bring the tooned image into Strip Designer to add effects, titles, and text bubbles. This $2.99 app has been around almost as long as the App Store itself and continues to receive…
A Comic Workflow
With the demise of the dearly departed ToonPaint 1 I needed to consider a new workflow in order to post comics in 2017. After some searching, I’ve found a workflow which allows me to create a close approximation to the comics I made using the older tool. I create my line artwork using a nice…
