5-Panel Page Week

This week was 5-Panel Week at Fred the Mustard Packet Land!

Each of the three pages at Webtoons were 5 panels and they were all arranged with a different layout. I weirdly enjoy challenging myself like this. And, the post from today is my personal favorite.

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-48/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=81

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-49/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=82

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-50/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=83

Click the above links to revel in these fantastic five panel wonders!

I love how Webtoons.com is supportive of creators. It encourages creators to use Patreon and it also encourages fans to support those creators on Patreon.

Patreon is a site that allows people to become patrons of the arts in an easy way.

You can be my Patron for a buck a month! Super cool.

https://www.patreon.com/tommycannon

The above link takes you to my Patreon profile.

Too much cool stuff, thanks for everything you glorious readers. I love you all.

All the best,

Tommy

Splash Page Week!

Fred the Mustard Packet just had Splash Page Week at Webtoons!

Yes, I gave myself the challenge to make each page a Splash Page this week and it was the week where Fred is going through some existential stuff. So, this week brought three of our weirdest and wildest pages to date!

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-45/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=78

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-46/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=79

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-47/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=80

Check them out at the above links.

Subscribe to Fred the Mustard Packet on Webtoons.com and get updated every time a new Fred page is posted. Also, next week will be Five-Panel Page Week. I'm excited to stretch my brain for that.

Condimentedly Yours,

Tommy

Weird Wacky Stuff

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-44/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=77

This is easily within the top 5 weirdest pages I've ever made!

Brandon the Cloud

More and more, Brandon the Cloud is becoming an important character. He's made of water and wants everyone to go with the flow. There's a benefit to that way of thinking... especially for clouds.

Check out the pages for this week.

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-36/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=69

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-37/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=70

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-38/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=71

We went to California this week, but Fred didn't stop!

Check out the pages from this week. I'm really looking into diving into psychedelic storytelling. I'm exploring some 1960s style art in these pages. Wednesday had an especially weird page.

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-30/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=63

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-31/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=64

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/spins-a-sign-page-32/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=65

Click the above links to see the pages from this week.

I especially enjoy how Brandon the Cloud is becoming a more important character, he's going to keep adding value to the story, stay tuned in!

Thanks for the support,

Tommy

I keep changing the process, and that's a good thing.

Fred the Mustard Packet Spins a Sign is going on strong on Webtoons.

So, I've changed the process of creating Fred comics again. I love this back and forth of experimentation, especially on this story. In the sign spinning story, I wanted to tell a very psychedelic story, like something that would come out in the 1960s, possibly in a weird issue of ZAP.

This story was outlined with the idea in mind that I would not make it into a commodity, that it would be full of experiments. I don't want to have anyone thinking that I'm ditching quality though. With each page and process, I am bringing the best that I can to it. I love Webtoons and I want each page I put up there to be a celebration.

So, the new process in Fred is to create, lettering, panels, and other technical parts of a comic page in vector. Print the panels with letters twice, thus using two sheets of copy paper. I pencil the page on one of the papers. Then I put it on the light board, place the second sheet on top of the penciled sheet and ink while tracing the best parts of the pencils. No erasing necessary, and I'm getting cleaner scans in for coloring! YEEHAW!!!

I love having multiple ways to attack the work of comic book art. I do plan on doing more purely digital pages as things will get more hippy, trippy.

Thank you for your support.

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/list?title_no=64685

Click the above link to read, support, like, subscribe, and share Fred's comics.

Thanks again,

Tommy

New Inking Style on the Fred Comics, ToMoCoBo, and TG Geeks!

So, I know that I have made some vector work before. And, I did do a vector/ raster hybrid in the Fred gag cartoon where he's doing stand up. So, I guess it isn't knew. Anyhoo, I've taken to penciling the Fred pages with actual pencil and paper, scanning it into the computer, inking & lettering in vector, and coloring in raster. The ultimate goal of doing this is to bring Fred the line work that I love and doing that with digital tools since it is indeed a webcomic. I see room for improvement in both the way it looks and the speed with which I execute the process. On Wednesday's page, I took more advantage of the vector tools, it won't be what I'm hoping to achieve, but it's a step in the direction that I want to go. Click the below link to see some of the vector inked pages.

http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fred-the-mustard-packet/fred-the-mustard-packet-spins-a-sign-page-14/viewer?title_no=64685&episode_no=47

Also, special thanks to TG Geeks for contributing to and for promoting Tommy's Motion Comics Bonanza. By the way, Fred will be in that event. It's Sunday July 9th at 6:30pm at The Torch Theatre in Phoenix, AZ with $5 for admission. That's right, an event for Phoenix, AZ IN JULY! So, there you go, you hard core Phoenicians, we have a summer event for you and the family. We're not waiting for October for this. By the way, you should check out the TG Geeks site. It's full of great blog posts and podcasts. Click the below link

http://tggeeks.com/blog/

Also, take a look at the GoFundMe page for Tommy's Motion Comics Bonanza!

https://www.gofundme.com/tommys-motion-comics-bonanza

Click the above link to help fund AZ artists and get rewards such as one of my original fonts and a super sweet digital wallpaper of Fred and Friends. That's also just $5!

Finally, out on my Patreon page, I've been rereleasing all of my old Mr. Sock comics.

Thanks to our Patreon supporters: Emuna Endeavor, Dain Q, Gore, Shane Carey, Mike Dynes, and Brandon Dwyer!

Click below to see the Patreon page.

https://www.patreon.com/tommycannon

Thank you for the clicks, reads, shares, promotions, and financial support!

All the best,

Tommy