Even in Arcadia – The Gift of Emperor KangXi, Page 11

“Wait” you might be saying to yourself at this moment, “why isn’t this page in colour?”

Well, dear reader, Even in Arcadia will be going black and white from now on. If you have taken to reading the comments, my twitter or the blog section of this website, you will know that colouring every page takes far too long to be able to regularly update this comic. So, for now it will be in black and white. Will this mean more updates? Probably. As to how many, I’m not sure yet. I want to try out this process for a few weeks before I decide.

But, don’t despair. The first issue of Even in Arcadia will be put into print shortly, and it will be entirely in colour. In about 6-8 months from now, when the second issue comes out, it will also be in colour. So the online version will remain black and white, and free to read.

I hope this doesn’t put you off too much, it was a difficult decision to come to, but in the end it was make a change or stop making the comic unfortunately. I’m always overly ambitious to start out with, but don’t worry, I’m learning. Thanks for being patient with me, I really appreciate it.

Even in Arcadia: The Gift of Emperor KangXi, Page 9
New page! So the colouring for this comic takes a million years… well, like 6-8 hours in reality. Nonetheless, that a lot of time in between other projects, work, etc. So I’ve decided to tone down some of the detail for the web version. I’m working on the print and ebook version of book one right now, which will be the first 37 pages of the comic. In the future, the print and ebook version will have the detailed colouring, but the free webcomic won’t. That was I can do them in batches and get a little remuneration for my time :)

If you are a subscriber, you will also get the fancy comic pages as well. Just because you are so awesome for supporting me. Hopefully with the toned down colouring I can increase the number of pages I do per week, but we’ll have to see. I want to do a few pages first to judge the time it takes.

Thanks for reading and supporting the comic!

Even in Arcadia – The Gift of Emperor KangXi, Page 8

I love this page so much. I hope you don’t mind that I took a bit of extra time to make the second panel background that much sweeter. I realised that the painting is much more solid if I do a good sketch beforehand rather than just try to paint it straight. It helps a lot with composition.

If you didn’t notice, Even in Arcadia was blacked out yesterday to protest SOPA/PIPA. If you haven’t called your representatives yet, you should. It’s never too late to advocated for an open internet.