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  • David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.org
    Aug 21, 2026, 12:17 PM

    Monthly report for July is out!

    davidrevoy.com/article1167/mon

    I'm sharing making-of and behind-the-scenes stories, unpublished visuals, and news about all my background projects. I also share (as usual, without paywall) high-resolution images, timelapses, brushes, layered files, tutorials, hardware reviews and more on my websites.

    Thank you for all the comments and your amazing support! Let me know if there's an aspect of my work you'd like to see in my next month's report.

    A photo of my hand on my screen drawing tablet while painting the webcomic episode 63 "Fire" first panel. A cup of coffee on the left.
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  • Carlos Solíscsolisr@hub.azkware.net
    Aug 21, 2026, 1:31 PM
    His translation [by Dominik Novosel to Croatian] also has a special art direction: the speechbubbles are colored depending the characters.


    Nice. I wonder how complicated would it be to backport it to the rest of languages.

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  • GunChleocgunchleoc@mastodon.scot
    Aug 21, 2026, 4:38 PM

    @csolisr All the speech bubbles would need to be edited manually, because there's no metadata in the svg files to know which character is talking. The only element that has a fixed id is the episode title so that it can be used in thumbnail generation.

    Translators can edit the speech bubbles to make their size fit the translated texts, so there is no master file for them.

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  • David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.org
    Aug 21, 2026, 9:33 PM

    @gunchleoc @csolisr The idea sounds good and looks good on regular dialog, but I already saw place where my white speechbubbles are blending intentionally with the background and it gave Dominik a challenge.
    Eg. The funny solution for the shared laugh with Shichimi on peppercarrot.com/hr/webcomic/e (just before the boss)
    Or the how my speechbubble overflowing the panel in white are usually invisible, but very visible with the yellow in peppercarrot.com/hr/webcomic/e

    So, not sure I want to backport it :)

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  • Alix Guillardaloxe@mast.eu.org
    Aug 21, 2026, 2:17 PM

    @davidrevoy My thought on seeing the photo was to ask you about how this XD pen works on Gnunux but reading on the post made me think this is not there yet… :-( Still, I'm impressed you wrote a drivers from scratch.

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  • David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.org
    Aug 21, 2026, 4:33 PM

    @aloxe Thank you! Oh, it depends the model; this one on the main photo is my main tablet, the Artist 19 Pro gen2, and this one is well supported if you gather this conditions: KDE Plasma more recent than 6.7, Wayland, a Linux kernel that support BPF, and the udev-hid-bpf project installed.
    Haha, still overly complex for newcomers; things degraded a lot over the last decade, that's why there is not a lot of artist on Linux , it's a pain 😅

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  • Alix Guillardaloxe@mast.eu.org
    Aug 22, 2026, 9:19 AM

    @davidrevoy Well for now I'm just scouting for my daughter but this path looks a bit complex indeed. I'll be better off with a framework laptop and its stylus.

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  • David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.org
    Aug 23, 2026, 8:14 AM

    @aloxe Just so you know, styluses bundled with laptops are rarely well designed for art, but more often just good enough pointer devices for business men needing a way to sign documents (problems with latency, precision, level of pressure, texture of the display overlay)

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  • Alix Guillardaloxe@mast.eu.org
    Aug 23, 2026, 4:36 PM

    @davidrevoy bien noté merci. Bon ça restera mieux que l'écran de téléphone cassé ou ma souris sur un module de scatch… 🫣

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  • Reginald Bullbully69@squeet.me
    Aug 21, 2026, 6:08 PM
    It's so nice to read and understand what you're doing and why you do this in this way.
    Love your word so much..
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