An 18-year-old Rick finds a beaten girl on his doorstep one morning. The girl is taken to the hospital and police are called. No records are found on the girl, named Alex, and the dog offers to keep her. She has mental trauma and can't remember her past, so the two, along with their friends, try to carve out a new life together. Meanwhile enduring the joy and pain it may bring.
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Currently: The third arc is beginning.
Updates: Weekly (Fridays)
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Basic Info:
Begin Date: October 12, 2008
End Date: ----
Medium: 9x12 Bristol Paper
Tools: T-square ruler, Triangles, Design 2000 plastic eraser, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Procedure:
To do this comic, I brainstorm ideas for story arcs, then I script them usually in a notebook I have on hand. Soon after I produce a thumbnail and adjust panel sizes as needed. Next I sketch a thumbnail with a regular HB and move onto the real comic. Then I scan it into Photoshop at 300 dpi where I export to SAI for inking, before returning to PS for coloring (all with a Wacom Intuos3 9x12 tablet). Then I add text and speech bubbles, save as a .png file, then upload the comic.
About The Story:
Rick, a bachelor newly estranged from his parents is living alone in an apartment. One day he finds a girl upon his doorstep. She was taken to the hospital and was analyzed. She was raped by whomever had her last. Rick and his friends stayed with the girl until she was better. The police found no records of her and and she could only remember her name, Alexis. The police were prepared to put her into "the system", but Rick intervened, and is acting as her foster parent until a permanent home, or another foster home, can be found. Now Rick and friends are trying to instill happy memories inside Alex and give her a new life.
Salvation's Background:
Salvation was and is inspired from several webcomics I've read. First and foremost Housepets! for getting me into drawing furries, secondly VG Cats to get me into getting a website, thirdly Concession, for giving me an idea on how to do my stores and plot.
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Salvation began August 8, 2008 after about two or three days of practice in anthro art as The Life of Rick and Alex. (The comics can be found in my DeviantART gallery HERE if you're interested) It was a daily thing until school began where it became Monday-Wednesday-Friday strips.
After obtaining Photoshop Elements, resubmitting pictures to DeviantART, and producing a picture of the main characters, I found Smackjeeves. I quickly joined and on October 12, 2008 at 11:45 PM the comic was started. It began with once weekly updates for two weeks before moving to the bi-weekly updates, then back to weekly.