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Angles, ew. Pro tip: drawing everything at 90 degrees to everything else is much easier than attempting to create dramatic impact. Remember kids, The Rider is a professionally trained swordsman, attempting to copy his technique at home may result in a sprained wrist.

Background image: Trafalgar Square at evening, photograph by Andreas Tille, adapted and used with grateful thanks under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Man, it feels like I've been dicking around with these panels forever. Time to let it go. Yes, the horse has changed colour again, possibly for the last time. No promises.

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Okay, this is my favourite panel so far. Two separate pens were used in the making of this image, and I like to think that extra effort paid off. Goodbye, Unnamed Male Cop, we hardly knew ye.

Background image: Trafalgar Square at evening, photograph by Andreas Tille, adapted and used with grateful thanks under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Yikes!  How's Unnamed Male Cop going to get out of this one? Hah, only joking - he's totally not.

So I hand inked Rider, and that isn't doing it for me either - back to the drawing board. I say drawing board. There's not an actual board. I'm working on a hardback copy of Frank Miller's 300 because it's big enough to fit a piece of A4 paper on. I trust the blood spatter makes up for any minor inaccuracies in my portrayal of hew-mon anatomy. It's going to have to.

Background images: Trafalgar Square at evening, photograph by Andreas Tille, adapted and used with grateful thanks under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

ADDITIONAL: Greetings and salutations to anyone who's made it here from The Webcomic List, thanks for checking me out. Dark Rider is always at home to Mr Shameless Plug so if you'd like to drop a link to your own website please feel free to leave it in the comments.

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Back in black. I tried to box clever in panel 3 and make use of the outline effect I had trouble with on the cover pic, though I don't think it's really paid off. I might end up inking The Rider by hand. Haven't quite got a fix on that guy yet, but hey, the Metropolitan mounties look okay. Was I too lazy to draw the helmet badge twice? Yes sir, yes I was.

The two silhouette panels were originally going to be a bit more involved - I'd envisaged the figures as being white on a black skyline over the usual evening sky, possibly with car lights passing by. As it turned out, turning the black silhouettes white made them look horribly pixelated, so I left it alone and just changed up the colour a bit. To be honest there's a probably a limit to the number of times I can realistically rotate Trafalgar Square before it gets ridiculous.

Next: Dark Rider goes NC-18 for Violent Content!

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Don't say I didn't warn you - I cannot make up my mind about the colour of that damn horse, and The Rider is not thrilled about losing his black armour. Yes, Rider, you can have it back next time, but you're not painting your bedroom. Other that that I'm pretty happy with this one. Let's just agree to ignore the fact they're floating two feet off the ground, shall we?

Bonus Excitement: Dark Rider, now featuring proper navigation links!

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Welcome back, hypothetical reader! Improvements have been made! Small improvements, I'll grant you. I haven't suddenly learnt to draw faces, obviously, but improvements nonetheless!  On the cover picture you might have noticed sketchy white outlines around the ink lines, an irritating problem now solved by playing around with the threshold value of bucket fill. You may also note that I've added shadow and lighting effects in panel two - almost like a real artist!

I'm not wild about text fonts in speech balloons.  Probably won't do that again.

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Hello, hypothetical reader, and welcome to the cover page of Dark Rider. As I write this the cover is the only page, and let's not kid ourselves, it's not great. It's not terrible - the horse is basically horse-shaped - but it's not great. I'm going to let you in on a little secret here, HR.  I'm not much of an artist, and I know literally bugger all about making a webcomic. Over the next few months you can expect to see wild fluctuations in the appearance of the mysterious man with a sword and his angry steed, but it should settle down once I get the hang of things. Hopefully this won't detract too much from your enjoyment of the story. The Dark Rider's been knocking around in my head for a long while now, and I'd like to do him justice.

Background image: Trafalgar Square at evening, photograph by Andreas Tille, adapted and used with grateful thanks under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Coming soon: Panic On The Streets Of London!