I just put this here to let you know that I did not forgot these comics. I was, and currently am preparating to revamp and continue them. So hopefully in the near future I will return with shiny and fancy new comic pages 🙂
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Merry Christmass to you dear readers!
This was a tough year, but at last here we are again. I hope that all of you can stay at home with your family and have a pleasant evening with lots of food and happiness.
Many thanks to those, who are still reading my comics and I hope that you will continue this journey with me in the next year.
I have a plan.
Not that big, but just some minor and usual things that I will execute for the comic in this brave new year.
Both of the comics are closing to the end of their current chapter and I hope I can finish them before this summer. I will be very happy and can’t wait to see it happen 🙂
Meanwhile I will force myself to rapidly progress with the revamp of The Secret. The unfortunate thing is that I have to completely redraw and redesign the first ~20 pages to uplift the quality and fix some story elements here and there. The fortunate thing is that I don’t have to completely redesign the panels for the rest of the pages. I doubt that I can make all of them finished this year. However, maybe that mentioned ~20 page can be published somewhere in the middle of this year. That would be a major improvement for that comic, and I hope it will look more decent and pleasing to the eye even when you start reading it from the beginning.
I still don’t have the desire to revamp The Legend. Maybe in the future, when I will have the money and the time, I could hire someone to help me with it. (That would be so cool by the way)
Planning to create some non-comic paintings as well. I will try to make not just mushroomy pictures 🙂
So, moving forward and not letting the drawing pen down.
I wish a good year for everyone.
And here we are again. Merry Christmas to you, dear readers, who are still here, reading these comics and my silly writings.
We have been through a long, good year I say. At least it was better than the previous one. Let’s collect all the things, that happened in the comic’s life.
I’ve created 22 pages for the Legend, and 21 for the Secret, 43 in total. Nice.
I’ve made some extra artwork as well. You can check them out in the extra page, just click on the menu button up there. I am really proud of the “Spirit of the forest” series and my mushroomy pictures inspired by Morrowind turned out also great (At least I think people like them according to DeviantArt).
In april I’ve made myself a daily face sketch drawing challenge, which was really useful for me, since I could have some practice on character face drawings. You can check them out as well in the mentioned extra page.
There was a major style, shading and drawing improvement again in the comics, I am happy with the results. It seems that I have a bad habit of trying to make my art better. Unfortunately the comics have a little hard time to catch up. That is why I’ve began to make some revamp for The Secret, and I hope I can finish it somewhere in time. For the Legend, this mission is impossible, so I’ve decided to skip it 🙂
I think people are slowly strating to find this comic, and I am very happy about it. I remember the first 4-5 years, when only I was the one, who read it. Ahh, good old days. That is why I am so extremely happy even just for one new reader. Every reader needs to be appreciated.
There are some people reading the comics on the mirrored sites as well, in Webtoons and in Tapas. I wish I could merge all of the readers together, but everybody has their own taste ro read comics, and I understand that.
I’ve also created my Discord channel, where…well, not much people are there right now, and I am mostly speaking with myself the characters of mine. But I hope some people will find it too, and there we can have some jolly conversation about many things.
Well thats all.
Again, Merry Christmas to you, and have a Happy new year!
See you in 2020.
Hello there,
It is a big day today!
Why? Because ten years ago, on the 14th of april the first page of The Legend was born, and my comic drawing adventure began. (Expect a long monologue)
It was a long long journey, which is still ongoing. Many things happened during these years regarding the comics and my art. I think this is a perfect time to share these things with you, together with some behind the scenes stuff too.
Let’s begin with the beginning, about how did the idea of making comics came out from my head. As you could read in the “New readers” page, I was playing a lot of DnD like game sessions with my friends back then in highschool. With the end of the school era, everyone was going to different areas and places, college, work and stuff, thus these sessions ended. But I was missing those stories and adventures, so I’ve decided to create a comic about them and about the characters we were playing.
At first I was drawing my doodles and sketches physically on paper. After many hours of trying, I managed to find my style, although I was a really-really amateur artist with really bad drawing. But I think it’s fine. You have to begin somehow somewhere.
During the DnD sessions we’ve had many characters, who unfortunately died… because we were playing in a cruel world of our DM. It was like playing Dark Souls. I’ve decided to choose Morten, Brem Ghdin, and Nandiel for the comic, because those were the closest ones to us, the original real-life players.
Fun fact: Morten was my character, and the first Morten character I’ve played was an old and strong bastard grandpa, but then changed him a little bit (Yeah during our playing sessions, he was also dying alot and had to recreate the character many times).
The very first drawing I’ve created for The Legend was the following picture:
Using Photoshop and a lot of patience required from me to enhance the raw pictures into a cleaner one, what can be put into a comic page. As you can see, these images are actually photos of the original paper. Since I didn’t have a scanner back then, I was using my old and trusty SonyEricsson K750i phone to take those pictures. I don’t use that phone anymore, but kept it for the memories and because it deserved it after many years of use.
After a while I managed to get a scanner for my papers (You can see a change in the beginning of the Chapter 2), and I was quite happy with the results, the whole thing was getting better and better. Approximately a year passed and since I was using the Photoshop for converting my pencil art into digital, I’ve decided to make everything digitally (Chapter 2 Page 12).
First I was using my mouse to draw my pictures. It wasn’t easy, but was fun to do it, you can get used to this weird technique.
Fun fact: The original language of the comic was Hungarian, and the title was “A legenda” (Wich means The Legend).
Much more time passed, and then got enough savings to buy a Wacom Bamboo tablet (Chapter 2 Page 76), which almost changed everything. My drawings became prettier and I started to draw consistently. I even began some revamping back then, but then decided to not continue that. I wanted to keep my old pages as they are, because this way it shows how did the comic really began (and because it would take another 10 years to revamp everything, and I don’t have the luxury of spending all my time doing only that).
The ending of the 3rd chapter was almost a real end for The Legend as well. It was a beginning of a long hiatus which lasted for about 1-2 years. During that time I was trying out new things and amongst them I’ve created “The Secret” (in secret). And as we are speaking about “The Secret”…It wasn’t “The Secret” in the beginning, it was called “Flowers of Revenge”, but the original story was a little bit…well…crappy. So I decided to change it, and focus on Ghilrond.
You can read the original storyline here. It was continuing after Ghilrond fired the arrow with the message to Luvendiron. (I felt a little bit embarrassed sharing this with you, but I do it anyway)
In the end I was really missing the old fellas, and somehow wanted to have both of these comics and my arts under a common title, and never ever abandon them again. Thus the Tales From Somewhere was born.
Fun fact: I was creating a little side comic named “Tökkelütöttek” back then, what was a parody of roleplaying idiots in a fantasy world. That story was started again with the short comics named Pumpkins, they are here in the Other Stuff section.
After the hiatus, I’ve began to have more and more time to draw (because ended my college studies, no more homeworks, etc.), and finally could improve my skill a lot. I am really proud of it, and if you had read all of my pages from The Legend, I am sure, or at least I hope, that you could also see the improvement. And of course, this progress of improvement is not ended yet, still got a lot to learn and a lot to do. Many things are ahead.
Fun fact: There is an easter egg character in The Legend, who is almost always there in the crowd. His name is Jim.
My next plan is to move forward with The Legend and complete the story of The Secret. It would still take years to achieve this, because I am still a one man army, but I am satisfied with this situation. I am only missing a time machine or some kind of a device, what could stop the time for many hours to be able to do all the things I planned. I hope I can show you everything before my time runs out.
Many thanks to the wonderful people, who are still here and reading the comics since a long time, or since the beginning. Thank you very much for reading this little writing, and for checking my comics if you do so. Have a nice and lucky day.
Regards,
Pinter
