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Hello! I will be at **Capitole du Libre in Toulouse** (France, the city near to where I live) for a conference about Pepper & Carrot (in French), with a autograph session and a public meeting about 'open-source publishing' on Saturday afternoon.
- **Where / When :** Toulouse ( France ) , ENSEEIHT, Saturday 19 November
- **Conference :** "Pepper & Carrot, a free webcomic", Saturday 19 November from 2 to 2:30 pm, Room A001
- **Autograph :** Pepper & Carrot, Saturday, November 19 from 14:30 to 16:30, in the Hall. Bring your comic-books!
- **Meeting about open-source publishing:** Saturday, November 19 from 16:30 to 18:30, Sandra Guigonis (Framabook), Yvan Kevrann (author, Framabook), Magali Garnero (bookseller, member of April), Neil Jomunsi (author, founder of Editions Walrus) and ... me, Room A001.
I'll also be around on the evening. I'll be happy to meet you; readers, contributors and supporters! See you soon? :-)
More info: [https://2016.capitoledulibre.org/](https://2016.capitoledulibre.org/)
**artwork: **
A personnal impro around Capitol du Libre and mascotts ( Konqi[KDE], by [Tyson Tan](http://tysontan.deviantart.com "Tyson Tan" ) , Suzanne[Blender] by SLiD3, Tux[Linux] by Larry Ewing, and a custom GNU )
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I'm taking a little break during the production of the future episode 19 to inform you about many news around Pepper&Carrot. In fact, the project grow, grow, GROW! :-) Here is the highlight of this September 2016:
## The French buzz
Early September, the published version of [Pepper&Carrot by Glénat](article578/derivation-publishing-by-glenat "Pepper&Carrot by Glénat" ) was released in French libraries and e-shop. This event made a buzz in France. Comic-press and many blogs on the french Internet wrote tons of content about it in a hot debate. In a nutshell, one side was welcoming something new (the printing of a free/libre comic) while the other side was angry about it. Long story short: I -for sure- spent too much energy and time into this but I felt no other choices. For an overview of this buzz with all links and references I advice [this article](http://www.phylacterium.fr/?p=2672 "this article" ) (in french) by the librarian curator MrPetch on his blog who tried to be "objective as possible". An auto-translated English version can be generated [here](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phylacterium.fr%2F%3Fp%3D2672&edit-text=&act=url "here" ). Many thanks to all the one who gave me help and support in this adventure!
_Photo of Pepper&Carrot french comic in a comicshop in Montrouge (south of Paris) [by @littlejo83](https://twitter.com/littlejo83/status/775380948594593792 "by @littlejo83" ) _
## Future episode 19: opening the creative process
A lot of work has been done on the next Pepper&Carrot episode 19 to open more a part of the core creative process. A success! I received rich propositions to fix the story, better dialogs and punctuations by a little group of trusted contributors on our [IRC channel](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23pepper%26carrot "IRC channel" ). Right now the episode is in "_string freeze_" for the speechbubbles so the translator-team will be able to start working on the git repository very soon. About the artwork, I'm inking right now page 4. I'll release the episode when it will be ready, estimated around mid October.
_screenshot of episode 19 during the inking of the first panel (work-in-progress)_
## The open-movie Pepper&Carrot is funded !
Nikolai Mamashev finished with success [his Indiegogo campaign](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pepper-and-carrot-motion-comic#/ "his Indigogo campaign" ) for his 'Motion Comic' project. His goal? To transform the episode 6 "The Potion Contest" into an animated 'motion comic'! A **big congratulation** to him and to all the supporter of the project for funding his derivative and creative project. At the moment, you can follow the update of his project in the '[update page](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pepper-and-carrot-motion-comic#/updates "update page" )' of his Indiegogo page, but I also saw update falling on the [Morevna blog](https://morevnaproject.org/blog/ "Morevna blog" ).
[youtube]C5ivMC4e6Oo[/youtube]
_a video sample made by Nikolai to promote the campaign_
## The super translator of the month
In September I received many translations by Thomas Nordstrøm to translate all the episodes in Norsk, the Norwegian language. Translating all Pepper&Carrot was probably easy two years ago when the number of episode was easy to count on the fingers of a single hand, but nowaday, with more than 100 pages of comic plus the full website, it's a big big work. And Thomas managed everything between the 3 September and today, the 28! His secret? A 6 year old daughter eagerly waiting for new episodes translated :-) A big big thanks Thomas for all his contribution!
_A sample of the [episode 13](no/article338/episode-13-the-pyjama-party "episode 13" ), in Norsk._
## 10000 daily visitors
I do not use a script or a code to track visitors (no Google Analytic on peppercarrot.com) but I like to check the graph proposed by the built-in tool coming with my hosting offer at OVH. It's good enough to get a general idea of the traffic. In September, the audience crossed the 10K visitor per days, and during the french debate, I had spike at 100K ! The audience of Pepper&Carrot for sure is growing a lot.
_peppercarrot.com graph of daily unique visitors in end September_
## A new era of communication
Do you want to chat with us? I mean, with other Pepper&Carrot translators, contributors or fan? We have now many more option!
Our main channel, [the IRC channel #pepper&carrot on Freenode](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23pepper%26carrot "the IRC channel #pepper&carrot on Freenode" ) exist since years now, but recently it received many improvements. Thanks to the work of Valvin, our IRC channel now is in sync with another channel: he made a bridge to the Framateam channel "[Komona](https://framateam.org/peppercarrot/channels/irc "Komona" )". The new features are the possibility to log and read discussion later, the possibility to install and read the channel on a smartphone (Framateam use [Mattermost](https://www.mattermost.org/ "Mattermost" )) and the channel display videos, avatars and pictures. Another contributor, Gleki also added during summer a bridge to Telegram; so, if you like this client, know you can find a [Pepper&Carrot channel on Telegram](https://telegram.me/joinchat/BLVsYz_DIz-S-TJZB9XW7A "Pepper&Carrot channel on Telegram" ) that also sync with the IRC main channel.
Also, for french a special channel "[Pepper's House](https://framateam.org/peppercarrot/channels/town-square "Pepper's House" )" was also added by Valvin.
That's all for this month :-)
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[youtube]Jq2-7eL6qYU[/youtube]
_1 min quick demo on my old Galaxy Note, sorry for quality, video shot with my webcam_
A young compagny, [Interactive Box](mailto:contactInteractiveBox@gmail.com), used Pepper&Carrot [sources](https://www.peppercarrot.com/static6/sources "sources" ) and files to create a comic reader on Android mobile, smartphone and tablet.
**To install the application, go to[ the Android app store ( Google Play ) here.](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.interactivebox.peppercarrot "in the Android app store \( Google Play \)." )**
The application is smooth and focus on panels for an optimal reading comfort on small screens. Look at the description on the Google play store for a complete list of the features, and prices.
A free version contains the 12 first chapters, then Interactive Box setup a paying system inside the app for accessing to new chapters. Interactive Box will pay me half of the benefits done by the sell of the application.
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[Nikolai Mamashev](https://plus.google.com/108139727676123285572 "Nikolai Mamashev" ) is running an [Indiegogo campaign](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pepper-and-carrot-motion-comic#/ "Indigogo campaign" ). His goal? to find 4000$ to get producion time to transform the [episode 6](article471/episode-6-the-potion-contest "episode 6" ) of Pepper&Carrot , 'The potion contest' into an animated video, a motion comic!
First, a little disclaimer: I'm not participating in this project (exept obviously for this blog post) and I'll not benefit from the money of this indiegogo campaign: It's all for Nikolai's production and I'm totally fine with it. I love his project, and let me tell you why, as the author of Pepper&Carrot, I think his project needs to be funded:
## Respect of the art style
Nikolai Mamashev is a known artist in the world of free/libre software, you probably met him already around the [Morevna project](https://morevnaproject.org/category/artists/nikolai-mamashev/ "Morevna project" ) or in a [previous contribution](article545/animation-project-by-nikolai-mamashev "previous contribution" ) to Pepper&Carrot. Nikolai is a skilled professional artist with a unique style but for this project, I'm honored he decided **to give life to my own art style** and put his own art style into background. That's an ultimate fan-art piece and I'm blushing only at thinking about this present. His method: cuting all the artwork from the source and redrawing the missing frames, animating, deforming the original artwork. An enormous amount of work done with Krita, MyPaint, Inkscape and Blender. Here are gif animations you can find on Nikolai Indiegogo campaign:
_bones, wind, complex cut. Impressive! And this shot is a simple one of the comic..._
_blender video sequence editor, with effect, audio, transitions_
_Krita transform tool in action, checking if every part of the artwork are ready_
## Amazing production price offer
Nikolai ask 4000$ to the community to produce this short. **4000$ for more than 40 shots. Do the math**, with audio, sources, and free CC-BY-SA license, it's a very good deal (almost insane) for this type of production. We will never see a good offer around like this twice, be sure about it. Here is an overview of the [episode 6](article471/episode-6-the-potion-contest "episode 6" ) : Shichimi! Coriander! Saffron! actions a lot of magic effect! ... and monster! Well, I'm exited to have a motion-comic animated version about it.
## High quality sample
Nikolai also provides two finished quality shot as a sample to promote the campaign, watch it, it's short but magical to see Pepper taking life. Two shots gives around 20sec of video. With the 40 shots of episode 6, I'm pretty sure the final will be an animation between 3 or 4 minutes!
[youtube]C5ivMC4e6Oo[/youtube]
## License
To finish, Nikolai propose all the sources files, and his work as CC-BY-SA.
An open-license! So, more free culture around, and yes, I'll be able to reuse sample of his work for, exemple, a Pepper&Carrot trailer or when I'll need to pitch the project in a video.
**So ready to fund an awesome project? Thank you if you can help Nikolai!**
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**We need noise about it :-)**
A comment? Something you would prefer and stops you? Encouragement?
Leave a message on the comment bellow, and I'm sure Nikolai will be around to interact with you.
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[info] **Translation available:** [
\- Japanese](http://sp-cute.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/01/27/221358 "Japanese" ), by Guruguru.[/info]
Hey Krita users of GNU/Linux operating systems! Tired to upgrade or jump distro only to use a newer version? Tired to hunt for a maintained repository? Tired to [build from source](article193/guide-building-krita-on-linux-for-cats "build from source" ) only for using Krita? Ladies and gent, get introduced to... _(♫ ♩ roll drum ♫ ♩)_... the Krita Appimage!
## Get Krita appimage
[Appimages](http://appimage.org/ "Appimages" ) is a technology designed for GNU/Linux. An Appimage is an application that can run anywhere, without requiring complex dependencies and run as the developers designed them: you get the right libraries bundled and everything inside for the best user experience. You can download Appimage of Krita on [krita.org](https://krita.org "krita.org" ). Stable versions are under the 'Download' category, unstable development version (for testing) can be found on the blog (scroll down the front page).
You can save your Appimages files **where you want** on your disk. They are single 'big' files. _
(eg. I save mine on /home/deevad/Sources/ and each Appimages of Krita take less than 80MB )_
## Security
Are you sure this file is trusted and come from the developers of Krita on [krita.org](https://krita.org "krita.org" )? Fine! Security is **your responsibility**: a file downloaded on Internet can't run like that on **your computer** without your approval and that's good.
How to communicate to the computer you approve this file? We just need to change the Appimage file to the **execute mode**. For this, two way:
1\. right click on the file, and in 'permission' tab add permission to 'execute'.
2\. ... or with a terminal, 'chmod +x' the file:
chmod +x krita-3.0.1-Alpha-4c91a18-x86_64.appimage
## Time to run
That's all! Double-click on the file, and you run this version of Krita. **Easy!**
You like this version? Wants to use it daily? If your desktop environment and file manager is not too primitive, I'm sure you'll find feature how to add a shortcut to it to your main menu and set the Krita 'kra' files to 'Open With' with this Appimage. (eg. On XCFCE menu or on Cinnamon menu, a right click, Edit application... For the kra , a right click 'Open With' then select the application path, set it by default or in your list.)
## Last features, best stability
\- Do you want a stable version for production? No problem!
\- Do you want to play with the last 'alpha' feature to discuss? No problem!
You can collect as many Appimage of Krita side by side as you want and keep your favorite version away from an unwanted update or a regression due to a change in a library.
You want to jump to another GNU/Linux distro? Backup your Appimages; they will behave the same on your future system!
**And you? Do you love Appimage?
I do!
**
Illustration: [Krita sources all layered here](http://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static6/sources&page=other "Krita sources here" )
(note: re-usage of Kiki the cyber squirel mascot of Krita, cc-by [Tyson Tan](http://tysontan.deviantart.com/gallery/ "Tysan Tan" ) ).
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[youtube]A7olKdIEtNQ[/youtube]
_Full video 1h46min, or watch it directly [on Youtube](https://youtu.be/A7olKdIEtNQ "on Youtube" ) ._
## Resources
\- A zip pack with everything linked in this video is [available here](https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/videos/2016-08_comic-page-from-a-to-z/comic-page-a-to-z-resources-pack.zip "available here" )
\- [Deevad Brushkit version 8.1](article319/krita-brushkit-v8 "Deevad Brushkit version 8.1" ) bundle for Krita
\- [Comic page template](https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/videos/2016-08_comic-page-from-a-to-z/comic-page-template.zip "Comic page template" ) Krita file (updated 2022, for Krita 5).
\- [Perspective star grid](https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/videos/2016-08_comic-page-from-a-to-z/perspective-star-grid.png "Perspective star grid" ) PNG image file.
\- [Speechbubble library and template](https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/videos/2016-08_comic-page-from-a-to-z/speechbubbles-library-template.svg "Speechbubble library and template" ) SVG Inkscape file.
\- [Lavi Font](https://github.com/Deevad/peppercarrot_fonts/raw/master/Latin/Lavi.ttf "Lavi Font" ) TTF Font file
**Jump to chapter: **
0:00:06 **Introduction**
0:01:00 **Chapter 1: Interface of Krita**
0:01:53 **Chapter 2: Preproduction**
0:13:51 **Chapter 3: Drawing**
0:34:37 **Chapter 4: Inking**
1:00:03 **Chapter 5: Adding text with Inkscape**
1:17:06 **Chapter 6: Color sketch**
1:27:34 **Chapter 7: Colored Lineart**
1:32:59 **Chapter 8: Detailing**
1:36:51 **Chapter 9: Post-production**
1:44:32 **Epilogue**
## Why a free tutorial of this length?
I'm sponsored by a community of patron [on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy "on Patreon" ) to produce new [Pepper&Carrot](http://www.peppercarrot.com/ "Pepper&Carrot" ) episode. A lot of them gives between 1$, 3$ to 5$ per webcomic published (I publish maximum one episode every 2 monthes, something between eight or six episodes per years). Between episodes I often jump into the creation of free bonus for the community. It can be a Youtube tutorials, articles, brushkit, making-of, etc... My patron encourage me to publish the result online for everyone, because we don't like the concept of paywall (subscription with payment to get access to a content).
For sure, selling this as a DvD or using gumroad or another way to make you pay with a trailer and more could have been a lot more efficient to receive money. But that's not my philosophy. So, if you consider my system more fair, encourage it! [Become my patron today on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy "Become my patron today on Patreon" ). All money received will be carefully invested to grow my art and my involvement into the production of more free content and bonus.
Note: Full license info and details at the end of the video
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Hey, I'm updating this blog-post few hours after the [live-streaming](https://www.twitch.tv/artwithkrita/v/71118060 "live-streaming" ) ended: thank you so much for watching the live video and for your advice, comments in the chat-room. You were **more than 200** to watch it!
**You missed it?**
The video expired on Twitch after 14 days; but it was also archived on Youtube [here](https://youtu.be/eb6zOCltr1o "here" ) ; unfortunately this archive doesn't show the interaction of the chat, so I'm often speaking alone on this video.
**Here is what happened on it:**
I had a time budget of 2h. So I decided to propose a creature design. I started by asking in the chat-room for ideas of combination of animals for a design in the next episode of Pepper&Carrot: because I need an agressive creature in future episode 17. The audience came up with really original ideas: (A) a Ferret+Python , (B) a Badger+Spider, (C) Bear+Mantis, (D) an Elephant+Panda+Pufferfish. I took the first 40min with a bit of presentation plus a little time on developing quickly this ideas.
At the end: the concept (D) won the votes, but with a bit of (B) and (C). So I added a tail of badger, and the fur of the bear to the Elephant+Panda+Pufferfish.
After this step, I started to render the sketch, with a low time budget of 1h20. I made a minimal drawing pass with a pencil preset to solidify my volumes on the top of the sketch, then I started to paint the concept. Before the color, we decided to go with [Red Panda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda "Red Panda" ) colors. I tried to follow all the advices on the chat-room, but it was too fast to read them all. ( sorry Sixpairsoffeet ! I saw your questions and suggestions only at the end of the stream, same for many other).
After the end of the streaming, I took time to read all the comments in the chat-room and so I could fix all the little issues: I removed the Dune-worm-trunk to something a bit less weird, I added more spikes, I added teeth, added stripes on the trunk, shading on the horn and little bones on the floor. And... here is the 'Phanda' !
_source file and hi-res on [peppercarrot.com'sources/misc'](http://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static6/sources&page=other "peppercarrot.com 'sources/misc'" ) category_
Thanks again for watching it!
