Hiatus =(

October is a crazy month. And our schedules are filled.
Candice has lots of work...parent teacher conferences, 3 Star evaluations, two parties to plan, Child Assessments etc.
Laura has Romeo and Juliet (waay too many practices and dress rehearsals!) Mid terms, Guitar lessons etc.
On top of this we have some amazing friends that are visiting with us from LA. We can't do ANYthing while they are here. We wouldn't want to do anything while they were here. Except hang out with them! (You would understand if you knew them.) They are people that feed your soul with good conversation and understanding and encouragement.
Allll of this to say... (With a great amount of sadness) that The Nestarican must go on hiatus. We have to take a break. It's just necessary, folks.
We're planning on updating, of course! But I won't be making it every tuesday. We have lots of other projects at this time and wish there were 28 hours in a day just to draw pages and pages...but not on this side of heaven. As it is, this post is probably incredibly incohisive because Candice should be asleep instead of rambling about lost minutes. -_-

Here's to wishing for better time management, more hours to a day, and less irritating things that get in the way of drawing,
Those Lango Girls

Oooo Aaaaa

Well! Page 8 is up on the site, and with it comes some introductions! That's right, you finally get to see some of the cast! The rest will be following quite soon, I'm sure. They're like Cuiaba mosquitoes, for every 1 that you see, there are 4 more biting you. Well anyhoo, we're hoping to get our site on Tomgeeks, a webcomic community for girls, but due to some internet problems (thanks to Ike) it doesn't look like it will be happening very soon. Check it out anyways (link), there's quite a few coolio comics there! Hope you enjoy, and thanks so much for reading, folks!

~Laura

Changing things...(hopefully for the better)

We have changed how we do things. (what else is new!?) But really...our page making process is drastically different than from what we started with.
So I decided to post a blog entry detailing how I make the pages! There really is no reason for this, except the fact that I'm bored and it could entertain me and possibly some other people. So this is what happens...
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1. I read the page of the script that we are working on. Currently we are only on page two of the handwritten script version of the comic. Here is a sample. (hee hee. Laura's handwriting...)

2. I then go "Huh?" and say "Laura I don't know what you want this to look like, I'm so lost. Why did you say that? I don't get it. Can you help? This is so not cohesive..." Or something like that. So she draws me a sample of what she's thinking the finished panel might look like. So here's that:

3. Of course, I then go "Well!" and twist her ideas (with permission of course) and expanding ideas, change the original script a little, until we get a rough sketch of what the line art for the complete page might look like. The anaotomy and flow might be a little off, and lines are definitely not straight. This is because we are dealing with IDEAS. That, and we're lazy.

4. Then I convert the rough version to the big paper! I draw in a large floor pad so I can have more paper to detail and design. Even at this final stage I change how the page is set up and how it flows, but for the most part...it stays the same. After the pencil sketch is inked over and erased...I cut up the image! Cut cut, snip it up! (GASP!) But no worries, I do this so it can fit on
my scanner.

5. Then I take it into a program and splice all four individual images so it looks like it's whole again. (The wonders of computers...) This is the final line art. Now it just remains to be colored!

Autumn Comics...

September is here!
It is the first seasonal change since the beginning of The Nestarican! *blows party horn*
Both me and Laura are really busy this fall...she has Romeo and Juliet, guitar, homework...the whole social life thing.
I mostly have work at the Childrens Center. Three Stars is coming and I am completely revamping my classroom before they show up and evaluate my kiddies. Plus I have two new kiddos coming in this month...which is always alot of work.
Goals this month: Improving panel quality, raising the page output per week...
and possibly setting up a newsletter for our readers?? I don't even know if we have readers. Besides Fipi...I know Fipster reads em! *another toot at the party horn*
ANYway...this month is going to be busy and GOOD. Good busy.
-Candice

*aherm*

Just a reminder to you lovely readers, we updated yesterday!

http://www.thenestarican.synthasite.com/

-Laura

DUDE!
Goodbye drunduck and comicgenesis.
I just can't stand the comic hosts. I'm sorry. :(
So I have decided to cut out more work for myself and do my own thing. (Hey, it's worth it.)

But this post, this project, the following link, the dA site, everything must come with a huge
"WORKING IN PROGRESS" warning sign.
It really isn't up to par in any way. But I'm tying to pick up the pace and make our little project look better. Here it is:
http://thenestarican.synthasite.com/

A great friend of mine, Kerry, suggested a book to me to help us along in our comic. Because he's cool and his art rocks, I decided to take his advice and spend a whopping price of 2o bucks to order the book online.
If any of you are comic artists, or any type of artist really, you should read "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud. It is an awesome book and I'm pretty psyched Kerry mentioned it to me. And even you if you aren't into comics, you should still read it. It is good for any storyteller to read and it has good insights into art and what makes it and it's creators tic.
ANYway. The new comic is up! Don't read that ole drunkduck stuff. Yuck.
http://thenestarican.synthasite.com/

-Candice

SHE'S UP AND KICKIN'

It's up!!
We have a comic online. Right now the format is AWFUL and I'm really hoping to get a different site to host our little endeavor. But if you want to read pages and all that, she's up!
THE LINK TO THE AWESOME COMIC!

http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Nestarican/
-Candice

Hey there! The comic is finally up! Hopefully, Candice and I will become HTML literate sometime soon. But for right now, we've got the introduction and the chapter 1 cover up there. Thanks for reading! =)
-Laura