Scandi-Merica #10 - Dynamism of a Boat on the Lake

 

 

Ætta, Jarpr, Brúnn, and Gulr are enjoying a nice boating picnic on their longship, but where are those speed lines coming from?

This is the first of a series of Scandi-Merica strips that will read as a whole story, and is actually the first idea I had for a story when I first created Scandi-Merica. However, as it was more involved, I put it on hold and started with shorter comics that were contained in one strip to start it off. With classic newspaper comics being an inspiration to me, I love both, but many of my favorites have always been and continue to be the ones that do tell a longer story over a series of strips (Be it something as long as a Moomin story, or as relatively short as the paper bag arc in 80's Garfield). Now for the 10th comic I felt ready to get this started, and the following strips will be posted in the following weeks. I'll link to the next one in this description when it's posted. View here

With how much I love and enjoyed working on the album cover for my song Own the Unknown with Evaleigh (view here), I decided to experiment with inking and coloring simultaneously for my comics as well. I really like how it turned out, and especially with the futurist style for the last frame. Which speaking of, the comic's title goes beyond my usual one word titles, as I wanted to reference a common titling theme of classic Itallian futurist paintings and sculptures. (One of my favorites being Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, which I made a post about).

All art, writing, penciling, inking, and coloring created by me.

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New song! Rhino on the Piano

 

 

New song! Rhino on the Piano! This is my first song in my harmonic rock style experimenting with adding some drums and layering of tracks. I've done some experimenting with industrial stuff before (which I continue to work on, and I'll release a song I have completed in that style sometime here), but this is the first time I've played around with mixing my harmonics with my drum machine. I actually started with a drum beat, and I was really liking how the cymbals sounded, and after that I thought a simple harmonic melody would sound nice and I improv'd something close to the drum rhythms. The bass track isn't edited, but the drum recording was much longer, so I took a few different sections and synced them up to the bass track.

The song idea came to me while reading some of the Moomin comics, hence the cover art being my drawing/rendition of a frame from Moominvalley Turns Jungle, as where they say the rhino is hiding in the piano it reminded me of the song Dog in the Piano by the Y2K breakbeat musician Indian Ropeman. So I wanted to try something a little electronic.

Also came out to 2:22, though rounded up by Newgrounds and Youtube.

Listen on Newgrounds or Youtube.