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Bayar

2007-12-15, 04:16 PM

Past, present and future
Updates once a week...dont know exctly what day...

This is a story of how the solar system was born, the evolution of life, prehistory and history of man, and the vision of the future.

Part 1 - How it all began

The molecular cloud - 15.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar2.png

The pre-solar nebula - 16.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar3bmp.png

The protoplanetary disk - 17.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar4.png

The solar system - 18.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar5.png

The Inner planets - 20.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/planets2.png

Bayar

2007-12-16, 06:54 AM

Page one fresh out of the oven !
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar2.png

Tried my best to do a realistic molecular cloud, but could not get the mist effect in photoshop, so I made it in Inkscape...

So, what do you guys think?

Lyinginbedmon

2007-12-16, 07:03 AM

There's two "of"s in the second paragraph, but it's looking good so far :smallsmile:

Ichneumon

2007-12-16, 07:07 AM

I like the idea. I like the first comic, I only hope you'll be doing a good evolution page.:smallbiggrin:

Bayar

2007-12-16, 07:14 AM

Ah, forgot to check the spelling...good thing I used Inkscape, it would have been a nightmare to edit it in Paint :smalleek:

Was almost ready with the second one, when Inkscape crashes...and the autosave failed...all I cansay, it looks great with the black background, even I was surprised when saw it...so prepare for the Protostar phase.

Bayar

2007-12-16, 12:53 PM

I managed to finish page 2, although not as good as the first time I did it, think it looks cool.
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar3bmp.png

Tomorrow, I'll make the protoplanetary system :smallbiggrin:

Szilard

2007-12-16, 03:56 PM

Awesome, why didn't I think of this.

Bayar

2007-12-17, 05:53 AM

@/\ Well, if someone was already doing this, I wouldnt have started in the first place :smallbiggrin:

Also, finished page 3.
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar4.png
Next time, will try to do a double panel, with forming planets and the remaining (currently existing) planets.

Ichneumon

2007-12-17, 04:43 PM

Like it. :smallbiggrin:

Bayar

2007-12-18, 12:23 PM

I know I wanted to do a double for tomorrow, but I will have a tight schedule, so in case I dont have time to present all the planets, I will post this today:
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar5.png
The biggest pain to draw was Saturn, it's rings more exactly...had to make 2 forms so it would be in front and back at the same time...

So, next issue: the eight planets and the three dwarf planets of the solar system, hopefully with their respective satelites. - hope this will get your interest...

Also, please leave at least 1 comment, so I will know someone actually gives a damn...will promise not to write so much in the next pages :smallbiggrin:, and to try and make some little jokes too :smallsmile:

Szilard

2007-12-18, 07:50 PM

Really cool, again.

Bayar

2007-12-19, 04:43 PM

I have a...dilema...
Look at Mercury and Venus:
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/mercuryvenus.png
Do you think that they look good drawn? personally, think Venus wont look like the original, the Earth I will probably screw up, since it has a lot of clouds and **** all around...but want to hear your opinions...if it looks crappy, I will just fast forward to the evolution of life, while writing the names, short description of the planets in another post...

Mr_Saturn

2007-12-19, 04:48 PM

Refer to my sigitar for drawing saturn. :smallwink:

Yay! i sneaked into bayar's comic! Thanks for the cameo. :smallcool:

Bayar

2007-12-19, 04:50 PM

Refer to my sigitar for drawing saturn. :smallwink:

Yay! i sneaked into bayar's comic! Thanks for the cameo. :smallcool:

Actually, I wanted to draw you when I came to Saturn, and you to say: "cant a planet have some privacy?" . Also, wanted to use your avatar as a guideline to draw saturn, since it was a real pain to draw it in small version...

Lyinginbedmon

2007-12-19, 04:51 PM

They look fine to me, some in-frame text naming them should cover any issues that may or may not appear

Ichneumon

2007-12-19, 05:10 PM

This is great.

Bayar

2007-12-19, 05:13 PM

They look fine to me, some in-frame text naming them should cover any issues that may or may not appear

this was merely to see if I am on the right tracks...will do the rest of the inner planets and asteroid belt tomorrow....outer planets in weekend...since I have a three day religious holiday ahead of me :smallbiggrin: .
Also, will try to make a little christmas special...a little teaer of what I am planning for...the future...

ElanROCKS

2007-12-20, 01:53 AM

Oh wow, this is really awesome. I will be following this like OOTS. Its awesome...awesome awesome awesome. Consider this, you have a big fan out there.

P.S. Good art. I suck monkey butt at Inkscape :) Kudos.

ElanROCKS

2007-12-20, 01:54 AM

Bayar

2007-12-20, 07:07 AM

Well...I have finished the inner planets. Will do a separate one for the asteroid belt, a separate one for the gas giant+ice giant planets and another one for the outer planets+stuff that are less known...

So, here are Mecury, Venus, Earth and Mars:
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/planets2.png
Man, I said I will quit explaining stuff, but think it will be better now than later, when the solar exploration missions start...

Also, thanksfor the comments it made my day :smallbiggrin:

Nameless

2007-12-21, 09:31 AM

Learning is fun when there's pretty pictures :smallbiggrin:

ABB

2007-12-21, 02:55 PM

Past, present and future
Will try to update Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but could be more often...

This is a story of how the solar system was born, the evolution of life, prehistory and history of man, and the vision of the future.

Part 1 - How it all began

The molecular cloud - 15.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar2.png

The pre-solar nebula - 16.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar3bmp.png

The protoplanetary disk - 17.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar4.png
The solar system - 18.12.2007
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/solar5.png

A couple things:

Awesome art!! Did you do it all in inkscape and if so how'd you do i?! I'd like to know for my space comic!

Secondly I think the plural of supermova is supernovae, at least according to lary niven in ringworld.

Bayar

2007-12-21, 04:33 PM

A couple things:

Awesome art!! Did you do it all in inkscape and if so how'd you do i?! I'd like to know for my space comic!

Secondly I think the plural of supermova is supernovae, at least according to lary niven in ringworld.

1. I usually draw the shape I want to do, in this case a circle, overlap it onto the real one and blur the circle so I can add details.

2. dunno, I got the text from Wikipedia... the ae from supernovae is prnounced e...so it would be like saying supernove...know this from Aeon Flux (Aeon is pronounced Eon)

and finally, will see in this weekend if I can make an asteroid belt picture, and a Christmas special comic (yes, we have that also).

And as a side note, I personally think that it can be done even better, but if you say that it looks awesome...cant argue with you :smallbiggrin:

ABB

2007-12-21, 04:52 PM

1. I usually draw the shape I want to do, in this case a circle, overlap it onto the real one and blur the circle so I can add details.

2. dunno, I got the text from Wikipedia... the ae from supernovae is prnounced e...so it would be like saying supernove...know this from Aeon Flux (Aeon is pronounced Eon)

and finally, will see in this weekend if I can make an asteroid belt picture, and a Christmas special comic (yes, we have that also).

And as a side note, I personally think that it can be done even better, but if you say that it looks awesome...cant argue with you :smallbiggrin:

How do you do the lighting effects? That's the awesome part. As for a suggestion, can you put a small, blurry halo effect around planets with atmospheres to represent them?

BTW, here's a website to check out: http://www.supernovae.net/isn.htm

Lastly, I sure hope no one does a stupid joke about drawing uranus....

Bayar

2007-12-21, 05:13 PM

well, i use the fill and stroke tab, and just select another fill style...I was shocked too when I found out it looks so awesome :smallbiggrin:

Will look at the site, seems interesting.

And about the uranus joke....I wanted to do it :smallbiggrin:

Bayar

2007-12-25, 10:13 AM

Kinda late, but my Christmas special is ready!
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/test.png
Wow, my first female character drawn...still feel like a pervert for the chest drawing stuff...and the hair looks kinda weird, but overall think that it ilustrates what I want to do and where I am headed...

So, Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year !

Antamar

2007-12-26, 10:28 PM

Ichneumon

2007-12-29, 03:23 AM

I like it. Merry Christmas to you too.

kpenguin

2008-01-02, 07:23 PM

Are we ever seeing more?

Bayar

2008-01-02, 07:29 PM

it was new years and stuff...thx for comments...

Also, my exams are closing, and as much as I hate to admit it, I havent studied a single thing...so will shift into high gear, and the comic...well it will be here when it will be ready...

On another side note, the ****ing asteroid belt is hard to draw, since you dont have much reference pictures...still dunno if they are really grey...

Lyinginbedmon

2008-01-02, 07:36 PM

I can't help but wonder why there are few pictures of the asteroid belt... :smalltongue:

Bayar

2008-01-02, 07:38 PM

I can't help but wonder why there are few pictures of the asteroid belt... :smalltongue:

Probably because NASA is too busy studying more important things...like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus...:smallbiggrin:

ABB

2008-01-09, 01:14 AM

I'd agree that NASA or someone should be looking at the asteroids more, as in looking for one that might hit earth someday!

But there was a Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance mission years back that got excelleht pictures of the NEA named "Eros" and with a little searching you could find some good pics of it, it'll give you some asteroid ideas.

Bayar

2008-01-09, 01:33 AM

yeah, but i dunno if it is a black and white picture or it actually looks gray...

Lyinginbedmon

2008-01-09, 03:13 AM

Why does it seem ironic to me that an asteroid suspected by NASA of colliding with Earth was named "Eros"? :smallconfused:

Ichneumon

2008-01-09, 09:47 AM

Why does it seem ironic to me that an asteroid suspected by NASA of colliding with Earth was named "Eros"? :smallconfused:

I don't see the irony.

Lyinginbedmon

2008-01-09, 09:59 AM

I think it was the part about the possibility of humanity being killed genocidally by a meteorite named after the Greek god of lust, love, and intercourse

Bayar

2008-01-09, 11:46 AM

maybe Eros is a fan of Gaia, and wants to kill it...so he will have it in his concience for ever....or something like that.

Lyinginbedmon

2008-01-09, 11:50 AM

maybe Eros is a fan of Gaia, and wants to kill it...so he will have it in his concience for ever....or something like that.

Or the gamers and 1337ers are right, we really are about to get r4p3d :smalleek:

Max_Sinister

2008-01-17, 07:25 AM

Nice comic. Will there be more?

Bayar

2008-01-17, 07:30 AM

I swear upon my grave, I will do one this weekend...actually, I swear, not on my grave (since I dont own one...and not planning on buying one in the near future). But the thing is, the last 2 weeks were mostly: copy 10-12 report notebooks, write about 140 different chemistry exercises, all of them crappy, and do 20 tehnical drawings of all kinds of crap. So, if my hands will ever heal, I will promise to keep going, and do a D&D comic too ! (yeah, wanted to start one in Anime style from last year, but it is soo hard to draw good...so that it does not look like **** on the fan, that I decided to do it OOTS style...the script itself is kinda all ready, I know the first 3 chapters and the ending...))

Edit: schedule is not 1 per week...on a random day I guess...I am too chaotic to respect a deadline unfortunately...

Vampiric

2008-01-18, 11:51 AM

2. dunno, I got the text from Wikipedia... the ae from supernovae is prnounced e...so it would be like saying supernove...know this from Aeon Flux (Aeon is pronounced Eon)

Surely it's just pronounced supernov-(ay). Saying all the letters... I'd say (Ay)-on flux for Aeon Flux. Ah well, good comic anyways. :smallsmile: I shall keep reading it.

Eita

2008-01-19, 07:25 PM

Or the gamers and 1337ers are right, we really are about to get r4p3d :smalleek:

Hey, we called the other one that may hit us Apophis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis).

@Vampiric: You are correct sir.

Bayar

2008-01-20, 08:03 AM

I think it will take a lot more time than anticipated...making individual asteroids look INDIVIDUAL is not a task for the weak hearted. So, dunno when it will be ready, but to keep something from my promise...I present a preview of what's to come:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/asteroid-belt.png

Lyinginbedmon

2008-01-20, 08:29 AM

#whistle# Looking good :smallsmile:

Nameless

2008-01-20, 09:10 AM

That looks pretty cool, but add shading god damnit! :smalltongue:

Bayar

2008-01-20, 10:36 AM

That looks pretty cool, but add shading god damnit! :smalltongue:

I said that I am working on it...those are only the shapes...I will add shading and other crap on them later...

Szilard

2008-01-20, 11:19 AM

For some reason, I think the astroids should be brown.

Bayar

2008-01-20, 01:03 PM

For some reason, I think the astroids should be brown.

you saw the picture...right ? the one with Jupiter...

Nameless

2008-01-20, 01:28 PM

I said that I am working on it...those are only the shapes...I will add shading and other crap on them later...

That's no excuse! WORK SLAVE! WORK GOD DAMN IT! :smallmad: :smalltongue:

Bayar

2008-01-25, 06:23 AM

Well...it is a ****load harder than I thought...GOD ! why the hell did I even tried to do it ?

Yeah...think this will update when it will update...until then...some other stuff that I was working on:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff15/bayar_m2003/meira.png

I dont know if working on the female figure makes me a pervert...but I sure feel like one when I do...
Oh, and in case I will find doing this current comic too difficult, I could always finish the solar system and just move on...to something more with action, than just art and walls of text...

EDIT: And trying to come up with colors for clothes is a nightmare on it's own :smallannoyed: