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Updates about Spun Off and Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan included at the end.
Tomorrow, on Monday, June 4, Chronicles of the Witch Queen will start running a new storyline, the first completely new material in about fifteen years apart from a handful of one-pagers that were published last year. Kidnapped Princesses by Geir Strøm and Daniel Østvold is the long-in-the-making story of Countess Alcydia's business venture kidnapping princesses on an industrial scale. When she targets Princess Jernia von Fieffelfalsfaffel, Alcydia raises the ire of the entire Fieffelfalsfaffel clan, who select the clan's stupidest scion to recover their relative.
Chronicles of the Witch Queen is a group project started by Geir and Daniel in the mid-1990s, with me coming on board later. There are 9 stories already in the website's archives; Kidnapped Princesses will be the tenth and there are more coming. Because most of the art is not mine, only a few items from it have been posted here on DeviantArt. However, Chronicles of the Witch Queen crossed over with Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan several times and the character of Krakatoa is originally from one of those stories. As a result, the comic is as dear to me as if it was one of my own.
Kidnapped Princesses will run daily until July 7 and be followed up by another shorter story that will also be updated daily. Read it on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website.
While I've drawn several Chronicles of the Witch Queen storylines in the past and have had a big influence on how the other stories from Geir and Daniel were translated and lettered, I've decided not to do that now. My editing was limited to a few text suggestions and preparation of the image files for the web; so you get the comic as written by Geir and hand-lettered by Daniel. This fits an overall more brutalist approach to web publishing that I've been pursuing lately, and also allows us to get the comics out to the public quickly. Otherwise, we'd be waiting a long time for updates and they would not be daily.
Which brings me to those updates about Spun Off and Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan. My aim for the rest of the year is to update with something every day. That means that while Chronicles of the Witch Queen is updating, no other comics in my network of webcomics site will, but after that, I will be doing the same thing I did in July of last year: I'll update daily on one of the following webcomics Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, Spun Off, Abúi's Travels, The Lives of X!Gloop or White House in Orbit. Or indeed Chronicles of the Witch Queen as Daniel has promised yet more comics work in the future and there is one story by me that has not been uploaded to the website. So no one site will have regular updates, but there will be new material from me trickling in until at least the end of July and possibly much longer. This will help me bring as many comics as possible into the world, which seems to be the best way for me to be productive right now.
Tomorrow, on Monday, June 4, Chronicles of the Witch Queen will start running a new storyline, the first completely new material in about fifteen years apart from a handful of one-pagers that were published last year. Kidnapped Princesses by Geir Strøm and Daniel Østvold is the long-in-the-making story of Countess Alcydia's business venture kidnapping princesses on an industrial scale. When she targets Princess Jernia von Fieffelfalsfaffel, Alcydia raises the ire of the entire Fieffelfalsfaffel clan, who select the clan's stupidest scion to recover their relative.
Chronicles of the Witch Queen is a group project started by Geir and Daniel in the mid-1990s, with me coming on board later. There are 9 stories already in the website's archives; Kidnapped Princesses will be the tenth and there are more coming. Because most of the art is not mine, only a few items from it have been posted here on DeviantArt. However, Chronicles of the Witch Queen crossed over with Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan several times and the character of Krakatoa is originally from one of those stories. As a result, the comic is as dear to me as if it was one of my own.
Kidnapped Princesses will run daily until July 7 and be followed up by another shorter story that will also be updated daily. Read it on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website.
While I've drawn several Chronicles of the Witch Queen storylines in the past and have had a big influence on how the other stories from Geir and Daniel were translated and lettered, I've decided not to do that now. My editing was limited to a few text suggestions and preparation of the image files for the web; so you get the comic as written by Geir and hand-lettered by Daniel. This fits an overall more brutalist approach to web publishing that I've been pursuing lately, and also allows us to get the comics out to the public quickly. Otherwise, we'd be waiting a long time for updates and they would not be daily.
Which brings me to those updates about Spun Off and Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan. My aim for the rest of the year is to update with something every day. That means that while Chronicles of the Witch Queen is updating, no other comics in my network of webcomics site will, but after that, I will be doing the same thing I did in July of last year: I'll update daily on one of the following webcomics Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, Spun Off, Abúi's Travels, The Lives of X!Gloop or White House in Orbit. Or indeed Chronicles of the Witch Queen as Daniel has promised yet more comics work in the future and there is one story by me that has not been uploaded to the website. So no one site will have regular updates, but there will be new material from me trickling in until at least the end of July and possibly much longer. This will help me bring as many comics as possible into the world, which seems to be the best way for me to be productive right now.
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FAWM over, back to drawing
I've successfully completed February Album Writing Month and will now focus on drawing again. I'll be traveling to Portugal without my laptop and without any musical instruments but with my iPad and Apple Pencil. First priorities will be a new Greyfriar's Isle story and unblocking myself from what is holding me back with the ongoing Tess Durban story. I wrote two punk-ish songs during FAWM and by coincidence, my brother posted the only punk song from my The Hooded Crow days, written by me and recorded for our first demo in 1994. As with many of these songs, there was a long time when I didn't want to listen to it. But it turns out that writing new songs is not just a way to express myself, create new things and be part of a community, it's also an ongoing dialog with myself. So writing "Enshittified" last summer, and "In the face of the Eschaton" and "The Planet Spins" this February, has made me listen to my older writing with different ears. The Reinder Dijkhuis Punk Album would
Glaze, and things that AI can't do
The other day, I ran a number of old drawings through Glaze and found that my pencil art from several years ago takes it amazingly well. The header image conveniently focuses on a section of the image where you can see the Glaze artefacts, but only just. Compared to black-and-white and flat-colored images, where the artefacts are painfully obvious, these scanned traditional works with random greyscale tones and paper textures are good at hiding the tell-tale signs that the image has been processed through anti-AI technology. So I'm going to experiment a little more, with watercolors as well as more pencil artworks, and if the results are consistent, I will just go back to traditional art full-time. I know that DeviantArt has an opt-out for AI training on images posted here, and I expect them to respect that opt-out, at least for the time being. But it's easier for me to have one canonical version of every image that I post everywhere, so that's why I've only been posting Glazed
The Hooded Crow - Ravine, and FAWM
It's that time of the year again. I'm doing February Album Writing Month! You can follow my progress via https://write.fawm.org/@reinderd until the FAWM website goes into hibernation again. So far, I'm at three songs written, which means I'm on track but can't afford to slack off (yesterday, I slacked off, a bit). Meanwhile, my brother continues his regular releases of demo tracks, studio recordings and outtakes of our former band The Hooded Crow with one of my favorites and one of the tracks I'd selected as a model for the songwriting project I'd chosen for this year's FAWM: Michel Bouma's composition "Ravine" from 1994, featured on our second demo. Here it is: The Hooded Crow - Ravine It was about time we got to rock out again! Sometimes, a guy just wants a big dumb riffy rocker, and "Ravine" delivers that, but it also has enough movement in it to keep things interesting beyond that. And it's a joy to play! I should know because I still play it frequently.
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