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Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 14:02 -0700
by dhfujii
Hi Everyone,

Saga 1

I've been receiving lots of e-mails lately about Usagi Saga 1, so I thought it would be most efficient to answer via an announcement. Currently, we do not have any Saga 1 Hardcover AP's available. If that changes and we find some Saga 1's that are available, we will make an announcement to everyone at the same time. I can't sell them in good conscience based off of e-mail inquiries, as I've received so many and if I turn one person down, but sell to another, it isn't fair.

I'm sorry about this, I wish there was another print run scheduled for the Saga one hardcover. After I organize the infrastructure with the Usagi merchandising, I'm going to take a look to see if DH would be willing to reprint. It's a longshot but we'll see.

Coloring Book:

This is getting close! We already have a collection of pics ready to be printed. In addition, I MAY consider printing these perfect bound, which would be incredibly nice! I found a nice Deadpool coloring book with that format and thought it was cool. Depends on how expensive it will be, however. But keep your fingers crossed because it'll be really nice!

Usagi Dojo Forum:

I have gained login credentials for the backend, so that should be coming together as soon as I can find a moment to do it, or I find someone who can, now. Shouldn't be hard. I'm also interviewing someone for a PA position, which should move projects along much quicker. I hate waiting, but there's only a limited amount of things one person can do, sadly.

Sorry if I'm latent with replying back, I've been quite flooded recently. I have more than 10 projects just for Usagi, in my brain right now. But, they will be awesome when done!

Thanks for understanding, and please look forward to a surge in Usagi activity in the next couple of months!

Daniel

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 15:22 -0700
by Maka
Great communication, Daniel. Thanks for the updates. Peace, maka

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 16:09 -0700
by Mr-Redgie
Very much looking forward to the colouring book! That is going to be great fun! Whoever came up with that idea deserves a medal!

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 18:26 -0700
by jabba359
Thanks for all your hard work behind the scenes, Daniel! I know you have a bunch of cool things coming up, so I guess I better start saving my money so I can afford all of them! 8)

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 18:48 -0700
by maichan
Thanks for the update Daniel. Sounds like some exciting stuff coming soon!

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:21 -0700
by Chopalong Slashity
Thanks for the info, Daniel! (And apologies if I helped swamp your email inbox!)

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:33 -0700
by jabba359
The upcoming Usagi coloring book got me thinking about digital coloring. I've watched a few YouTube videos that my friend does while making art, so I've seen him color a few pieces digitally. I took a few tricks I learned from watching him, watched a tutorial on how to separate line art for coloring and one on creating flats, and then applied these things to my limited Photoshop knowledge to see if I could color a picture digitally. Of course, if I'm going to color, I might as well do something Usagi related. :D So I took a scan of a commission I picked up last year and played around with it. I probably spent close to 5 hours on it and, as my first real digital coloring attempt, I ended up pretty happy with it. It's not great, but I thought I'd share for fun.

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I can't wait to get the Usagi coloring book!

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:06 -0700
by Eltanin
Very cool! And very well done.
Do you have a link for these tutorial videos? I'd like to learn more about digital coloring.

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:19 -0700
by Lobster Johnson
jabba359 wrote:The upcoming Usagi coloring book got me thinking about digital coloring. I've watched a few YouTube videos that my friend does while making art, so I've seen him color a few pieces digitally. I took a few tricks I learned from watching him, watched a tutorial on how to separate line art for coloring and one on creating flats, and then applied these things to my limited Photoshop knowledge to see if I could color a picture digitally. Of course, if I'm going to color, I might as well do something Usagi related. :D So I took a scan of a commission I picked up last year and played around with it. I probably spent close to 5 hours on it and, as my first real digital coloring attempt, I ended up pretty happy with it. It's not great, but I thought I'd share for fun.

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I can't wait to get the Usagi coloring book!
That looks great! I don't know anything about digital coloring, but it does look interesting.

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:38 -0700
by maichan
jabba359 wrote:The upcoming Usagi coloring book got me thinking about digital coloring. I've watched a few YouTube videos that my friend does while making art, so I've seen him color a few pieces digitally. I took a few tricks I learned from watching him, watched a tutorial on how to separate line art for coloring and one on creating flats, and then applied these things to my limited Photoshop knowledge to see if I could color a picture digitally. Of course, if I'm going to color, I might as well do something Usagi related. :D So I took a scan of a commission I picked up last year and played around with it. I probably spent close to 5 hours on it and, as my first real digital coloring attempt, I ended up pretty happy with it. It's not great, but I thought I'd share for fun.

I can't wait to get the Usagi coloring book!
That's cool Jabba! :D

Not to go too far off-topic, but I don't think this has come up in discussion yet in the Dojo, did you know there is a digital COLORING BOOK: USAGI YOJIMBO #117 on the Dark Horse Usagai Yojimbo Zone - http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Games ... ojimbo-117

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:03 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
maichan wrote: Not to go too far off-topic, but I don't think this has come up in discussion yet in the Dojo, did you know there is a digital COLORING BOOK: USAGI YOJIMBO #117 on the Dark Horse Usagai Yojimbo Zone - http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Games ... ojimbo-117
http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/forum3/view ... t=coloring

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:21 -0700
by maichan
Steve Hubbell wrote:
maichan wrote: Not to go too far off-topic, but I don't think this has come up in discussion yet in the Dojo, did you know there is a digital COLORING BOOK: USAGI YOJIMBO #117 on the Dark Horse Usagai Yojimbo Zone - http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Games ... ojimbo-117
http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/forum3/view ... t=coloring
Haha... THANKS! Leave it to Steve to find it. :lol:

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 14:39 -0700
by jabba359
Eltanin wrote:Very cool! And very well done.
Do you have a link for these tutorial videos? I'd like to learn more about digital coloring.
These first two videos are ones that I found randomly on Youtube:
Separating line art from the background - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0STJnKYwyQ
Basic flatting "how to" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Qg6Svszy0

The things I learned from my friend Rob (aka StetchCraft) are more about how to use layers, layer masks, and shading and highlighting tricks. I didn't learn it from any one particular video of his, but just from observing and asking questions from his live streams, though he does have "how to" videos as well - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC37A3_ ... h6x3W8hbLQ

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 0:47 -0700
by Spam Musubi #7
Great job Jabba. I really like the color choices for Usagi's armor. It reminds me of Sauber's Team colors from last year.

Re: Usagi Saga 1 and Coloring Book and Forum update

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 1:52 -0700
by jabba359
Spam Musubi #7 wrote:Great job Jabba. I really like the color choices for Usagi's armor. It reminds me of Sauber's Team colors from last year.
Thanks. I have to admit, I used the color scheme from the Senso hardcover.
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