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[Comic] The Five Stages of Love - UPDATES LIKE ONCE A WEEK AT BEST UGGH

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Blablabla another boring 'day' page. Next one actually contains dialogue and everyone's favourite character.

And okay laugh at 'Tommy + Guy' but it's the quickest name I could come up with for a hairdresser's (was going to do a barber's but I've never been to one in London so I couldn't make a play on an existing name :v)
Roland looks so much better. He's being dropped off at school, in case you couldn't tell.

We watched Beautiful Mind in class and you should, too. It's a very good film and it really gives you some good insight into the head of a Paranoid Schizophrenic.
 
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I'm just gonna update this man.

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Entre les Murs is a great book and an equally great film. I imagine Alain having the same voice as Marin in the film.
Lil' Picture of Dorian Gray pimpin' because I'm the biggest Wildefag in the world after Stephen Fry.

Alain's new haircut has grown on me after only one page but I leave it to you, dear readers, to tell me how bloody awful it looks.
 
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Great joke in the last panel! And the expression in the second last is hilarious. XD
 
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JolteonShock said:
Great joke in the last panel! And the expression in the second last is hilarious. XD
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Haha, thank you very much!

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I wish I could portray emotions that aren't 'braindead' or 'annoyed w/ down-cast eyes'

ps: okay I have no idea why but the song You Make Me Feel (Sylvester) reminds me of Henry. Probably because it's totally something he's waggle his arse to while out and about but still. Everyday People (Sly & The Family Stone) reminds me of the whole comic.
why

EDIT: haha, okay, so now that Alain has a new hairstyle I always draw him bald before scribbling in his hair. Bald!Alain is, of course, hilariously retarded, but I just noticed something. Bushy eyebrows, straight nose, white, gay, relatively conservative, rapidly decreasing hair... if he somehow became stylish and charismatic...
Holy hell, Alain is slowly transforming into Pim Fortuyn.
 
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Whoo, I enjoy this every time. Kind of like sex, but better.

I'm obsessed with Alain's hands for some reason. They're so...nice. o.O And angry!Alain makes me smile. :3
 
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haha this issue is awesomely funny.

wait I haven't posted in this thread before. So good work, keep it up, etc.
 
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Kai said:
wait I haven't posted in this thread before. So good work, keep it up, etc.
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Thank you! I'll be sure to keep it up (and hopefully do better?)!

Crazy Linoone said:
Rage!Alan is nicely drawn. And his haircut makes me laugh.
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W-well he's the kind of guy who cuts his hair super short every three months or so and sort of lets it grow out before repeating the process ;^;
Thank you!

PAGES PAGES PAGES

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Trying out a more noir-y style. I'm really getting into noir comics now so a visible influence is to be expected. Changed thge way I do eyes a bit too and I think it looks better. Do give me your input: if the majority dislikes this I'll certainly change back to my less shadowy/dramatic style.
I have the next three pages sketched out so there shouldn't be any long waits between updates for a bit.

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I...
I quite...
like this page! :0

I like drawing scenes between these two, they complement each other so well ;w; best frends forevar~
funfax: my mum thought Donald was gay all while she proofread the story ahurfdurf. He's not, I assure you.

I'm sorry this took SO FREAKING LONG but what with medical exams and shrink(s?) visits and worrying about exams and such I didn't have that much time for drawn faggotry.
Expect semi-sporadic updates for the next couple of weeks, EXAM TIME.
 
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i love donald's poses

so, so much
 
I don't know why, but on the last page in the second panel, I imagined Donald as a Croagunk. I don't know why.
But anyway, the panel on the last page is amazing. The black shadow effect was well achieved! <3
 
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That fucking Dorian Gray poster.
Yes, I know this looks terrible. I somehow messed up horribly in SAI. Next page'll be better.
At least you finally know what he said way back at the beginning of the chapter?

Would anyone find it fun if I did a short Q&A with the characters? I know some people are very fond of this sort of thing, so if anyone has questions to ask a specific character (or the cast), please do and I'll include it in said Q&A. Just no obvious thing like 'WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END' or I'll hit you.
 
Aaaaaah I haven't commented here in so looooong D:

I have to say, I really like the new style. I especially loke the shadowing on Alain on the first panel of page 41, especially around the eyes. I think the poses you are are getting more dynamic, too, and that, coupled with the noir-style-shading, etc., makes everything more full of movement and it's just excellent.
Alain's facial expressions in p.41 are pretty much priceless, and the panel of him looking straight up on p.42 was supercool, too.

Oooh; you should do a Q&A. I can't think of any questions off the top of my head, but you should do one and then I'll read it and love it and it'll be good.
 
Sexy new shading style is sexy -3-
Haha, I've been looking at the first few pages again and your art has improved like HOLY CRAP.

Is it too much of a bad pu- yes. Yes it is.

Ooh, Q&A pls.
 
Dramatic shading is dramatic. Donald looks pretty dang awesome in dramatic shading, and Alan is all DRAMATIC and stuff.

The Dorian Gray poster is staring at me...
 
Er.
Hi.

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Next Page:
'Oh, I couldn't help but notice that you were looking a my FUCKING AWESOME BEATLES CARTOON LUNCHBOX pretty slick huh'
John looked suspiciously like a cartoon Stephen Fry.

Okay so this page sucks, do you know why? Because I was very tired (3 AM??), I am still getting over the high of the Pet Shop Boys Concert I went to last week-end (best thing ever oh my god) and I'm still getting used to the fact that I now DON'T HAVE SCHOOL FOR TWO MONTHS HOLY GOD
I also got freaking frustrated at Henry because, well, look at him! He doesn't look like Henry! I don't know why! I think I'm just too sleepy to draw Henry!

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Feel free to mock me because I know this doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Also too tired to shade this in any fashion, I'll shade the next pages though because I won't have to be up till all hours to draw them.
Also I tried to kill all the negative space with various background objects but I fear I have failed. Totally topical noticeboard though seeing as this takes place in 2006: there's a note about Avian flu, a Steve Bell cartoon (awesome British political cartoonist) and a commemoration for the 940th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings (I actually drew a little humouristic comic strip about this battle, got me a 10/10 in History yeaaaaah).Not dead yet.

Henry's a cool dude and Alain's projecting his oral fixation on someone else.
Also, that tea thing. In the script Alain gets it from the machine behind Henry but while drawing I just thought 'hey fuck it, if Alain's been living in England for six years and he doesn't even have the decency to make a cuppa himself then there is no justice', which made me google 'kettle' and draw this super futuristic-looking one.
I'm pretty sure he shouldn't be clutching a steaming hot glass of tea like that but oh well.

haha I love the third panel. It's got some crazy 3/4 bird's eye view :v

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...I don't know why, but in the last panel of the second page of the update, Alain looks suspiciously like the dad guy from Full House.
 
Thank you! I'm trying to make my ears look better in general, since I'm not very good at them... I do my best! :v

Just searched for 'full house dad' and Alain does look like him, weirdly enough. Maybe you're on to something.

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Henry: 'YOU ARE? BUT YOU LOOK SO GAY.'
THIS WAS TOTALLY WORTH WAITING LIKE A MONTH FOR

Sorry guys, school is kicking my ass so bad. If I updated with pencil-drawn/shaded pages for a bit would you mind terribly?

Nearly at the end of this chapter, woohoo.

I also missed the first anniversary of this version of the comic. Shame.
 
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