I Didn't Forget Your Birthday, Lila!

I'm about 10 minutes late, but I have Lila's birthday pic from JGT!!

It's a picture of Lila...sitting on a hill...contemplating life ^^

Hey, some of the simplest things are the most beautiful, no?

Besides, it's nice to see villains just chill and not cause mayhem every once in a while.

So, in saying this, Happy Happy Birthday to our conniving yet colorful Lila!

Love,

Genie and JGT

JGT Behind the Scenes: Drawing Phase ~ Rough Sketch

Ello, people!

Well, I finally started the Drawing Phase of the comic page process!

 (Not sure why it's gray...it's on white paper.)
Anyway, this actually might be my favorite part of the whole process...I guess it's because at this point I don't have a looot of pressure...I turn to the final lining and coloring for that!

Obviously, I am not done with drawing the rest of the page, but I tend to do final lining as I go. So before I continue drawing the rest of the panels, the above panels will probably already be done and ready to scan. I'm weird like that.

Well, hopefully I'll get to show you the final drawn panels soon!

Until then,

Genie ^^

JGT Behind the Page: Script and Rough Draft

Hey, guys! Genie here ^^

Well, college is starting to take over my life again, but that doesn't mean that JGT shall go too down with my amount of free time. I am currently on the verge of starting to draw Page 14!
And since I am still in the beginning of the page process, I thought it'd be cool to actually SHOW you guys what I have to do for each one! The process I currently use is influenced by a webcomic called Lackadaisy! You probably have heard of it; it's really popular, and it inspired me to try and change the style from storyboard-like to actual color/comic-like. And the very talented Tracy J. Butler showed her readers the process of drawing a comic page on Photoshop! Since I had Gimp (the free/'nih'-y version of photoshop), I thought I'd put her process to the test with my new style. And so far, I'm loving it! It's hard, but it's awesome.

And believe me, tis a looot of work, and it is for this reason that it sometimes takes so long for a page to come out.

So, here we go!

The page process starts with...the SCRIPT.

Here is a look at my desktop with the JGT eppie 9 script (and yes, that is one of Jocey's epic drawings of JGT in the background  ^^). I actually wrote this script months ago, before I started page 1 with the new style. So this script is pretty old, and usually undergoes a couple of changes when I actually draw the corresponding page to the corresponding script scene. So these words are not official.

The next step is the ROUGH DRAFT of the page!

This is a rough doodle of how I initially want the page to look. Like the script, this draft is not final...some pages have undergone spontaneous changes when I started the drawing phase.
This rough draft gives me a vague idea of the layout of the page, where the dialogue goes, how much of the script I use, etc. And if you look closely, you can probably guess who's who, haha XD

So in a nutshell, here are the first two steps of the comic page-process! Once I start the drawing phase (hopefully after I finish hw tomorrow), I'll probably show you guys a couple of roughly sketched panels...if they don't look too embarrassing haha ^o^"

Until then,

Genie ^^

Sneak Peak of CAST: These are my Ideas

Hey, everyone! Genie here ^^

As I adjust back to the college lifestyle, I like to take breaks and prepare to start and continue my stories. By continue, I refer to JGT. By start, I refer to CAST!

CAST is a story that can be considered a 'sister' to JGT, for the characters are roughly based on the characters of JGT. However, the story is very different.

This series revolves around a town called Diction, where ideas are bright and real to the touch, and people are born with not names, but words.

Revolution, Sophistication, Epiphany, Avant Garde...They are all citizens of Diction, and they are all dreamers who wish to make their ideas immortal.

But when certain circumstances get in their way of their thoughts, and their lives, what are mere words to do?

This pic is a poster/concept art-thingy for the look of CAST. Though this will NOT be a comic and will indeed be a written story, I still like to understand how the world and the characters look ^^

So, here is an experimentation for the world of CAST, featuring the character Epiphany (aka Fanny), and a few of her ideas.

Hope you enjoy! And be on the look out for more sneak peaks and pages!

Until then,

Genie

PAGE 13 is here!

Hey, everyone! Sorry for the wait... This page took a little more time, mostly because there were six layers of panels instead of five, AND I'm starting to get ready to head back to college.
But nevertheless, it is done! On to page 14! Hopefully I can get one more page in before my classes start. But don't worry, the story will continue once school starts!

And haha, Jag and Harry with the iPhones.... I can only imagine...

Jag: I want a sword app, and a battle app, and an 'Everybody shut up' app...
Harry: It has a touchscreen.... HKSJHQKEFJ it SLIDES!

XD Thanks, Jocey, for the pic!

More pages and extras to come! Thanks for reading and being awesome!

Until then,

Genie

JGT Episode 9: Big Magic (Part 3) ~ PAGE 13

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Because of phones...

ALLLLLLOOOOOOO EVERYBODY!!

TIs the Jocey-squirrel bringing you some awesome fanart! Woo hoo!! Be nice to me, tis my first try drawing human Jag and human Harry, but I like the way Jag came out, heh heh, he's cute ;)

The iPhone was recently updated which inspired this picture, Harry's eyes came out kinda funny, but i still like the way the drawing came out...also, Harry isn't that curvy, that's my bad haha...

Anyways! be on the lookout for a new page! There is one coming out soon!!! (EXCITEMENT)

Jocey-squirrel out!