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Last year, I was informed of [a blog-post on edusol.education.fr](https://primabord.eduscol.education.fr/qu-est-ce-qu-une-bande-dessinee-en-ligne "a blog-post on édusol.education.fr about Pepper&Carrot" ) about Pepper&Carrot. It's a portal created by the [Minister of National Education](http://www.education.gouv.fr/ "Minister of National Education" ) in France. In this article, the author talks about "what is a webcomic" and offers Pepper&Carrot as base material for teachers and students. A usage I approve: it's a perfect example of 'derivation' allowed with the [Creative Commons Attribution](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Creative Commons Attribution" ) license I'm using for all the artworks of Pepper&Carrot! I'm even honored by this feedback and derivation.
Since that time, I've received 4 emails from teachers who used Pepper&Carrot in their classrooms. They used the comic for various purposes: the most frequent use was to give an episode with empty speech-bubbles and ask the students to invent their own dialogs. A teacher also proposed exercises of drawing fan-arts, and another one used the translation system to show the differences between many existing languages.
I'm really happy about this. I want to thank them for this work and their feedback. I hope this will continue. As an end note, I've pasted below the prolific collection of Jules, a student in the CM2 grade (probably 10 or 11 years old) who discovered Pepper&Carrot thanks to his English teacher. He was really creative around Carrot and made many fan-arts, derivations and cross-overs. His parents and his teacher allowed me to repost his artwork here. Thank you! Jules has a very good talent for entertainment for sure!
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_The young unicorn donkey of episode 20 had success, I drew him twice_
The signing session in Paris will remain an unforgettable memory: I received many visitors and I drew non-stop from 4pm to 2am! Thanks to the many of you who came to this event and thanks also to everyone who waited a long time to get a drawing and share a little time to talk together. Also, thanks to Bookynette, the owner of the bookstore "A Livr'Ouvert" for her warm welcome and for keeping her shop open until late at night!
Here are some sample artworks captured by Bookynette during the session and reposted on [her account on Mastodon](https://framapiaf.org/@bookynette "her account on Mastodon" ):
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_Maybe my favorite drawing made this day: Pepper, Carrot on the back of a Dragon Cow._
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_A customized request: Carrot with a Raccoon suit._
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_Carrot with big wood panels and names on it_
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_Carrot with his aviator glasses on a flying broom stick, as seen in episode 6._
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_Carrot learning magic._
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_Carrot's strategy to get more attention._
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_I was very happy to get a request to draw Thym, the oldest Chaosah witch._
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_No dogs on Pepper&Carrot? How do I draw them? _
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_A happy Pepper and Carrot found a bug._
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_The most original request: all witches of the Magic contest drawn as spices;
Pepper, Spirulina, Coriander, Shichimi, and Camomille. _
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_One of my favorite characters during the signing session: Shichimi. _
_I remember I ended at 2:00am with a Shichimi in a happy zen pose._
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_Someone wanted Coriander and that made me happy: it's rare that I get a request to draw her._
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_Carrot in the books._
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_Pepper, dreaming of holidays_
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_The young unicorn donkey, super happy :-)_
_That's all the samples I have on the probably 35 quick sketches I drew that day._
_If you have more, feel free to send me a quick photo of them on the comments or via social-network; _
_I always have a lot of fun looking at them._
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_Photo: a photo montage of the University and the classroom of students who received 16h of digital-painting lessons. I'm in the center._
This week, I traveled to Paris to teach courses of digital-painting with the open-source software [Krita](https://krita.org/en/ "Krita" ) at the University Cergy-Pontoise. The course was organised by [Nicolas Priniotakis](https://twitter.com/nikos_prinio "Nicolas Priniotakis's profile on Twitter" ). Since years, Nicolas already taught his courses at university with open-sources software, mainly courses of 3D with [Blender](https://www.blender.org/ "Blender" ). But it was the first time Krita was introduced into his department. So, Krita has a good future in education ? Oh yes, I believe so!
All in all the experience was very positive; I met two very attentive classroom of students who never ran Krita before. After a couple of hours, every one was able to paint, draw and focus on the work itself more than on the tool. Of course, Krita 3.2.1 ran like a charm on the classroom powered with workstation running the libre GNU/Linux operating system [Manjaro](https://manjaro.org/ "Manjaro" ) with the KDE plasma5 desktop (we even could install via [AUR](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository "AUR" ) the [kcm-wacomtablet-frameworks-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kcm-wacomtablet-frameworks-git/ "kcm-wacomtablet-frameworks-git" ) package to configure the tablet with an interface). In the other class, equipped only with Apple Mac Osx hardware and system, Krita was a little bit more fragile and exposed to display bugs; but nothing too dramatic and everyone could get the work done.
Here is a commented gallery about this very good week:
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_Result of one demo in class and an exercise: The digital renovation of a fresco of Saint-Sernin. An exercise designed for my classroom specialized in scientific communication (archaeology, robotics, biology, astronomy, physics, etc.). So they can fix 2D textures when they'll recreate 3D digital renovation of ancient buildings._
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_Quick prototype session; character design with the symmetry tool for the second classroom where students have a stronger focus on digital-art, creation and medias/entertainement._
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_Development of a posed character: initial rough with silhouette and draw over ._
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_Speed-painting done in classroom . We also made a similar exercise for landscape design, perspective, grey-scale values and composition._
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_The lead teacher and Blender artist Nicolas Priniotakis who invited me to teach for his classroom._
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_Thanks again to all the students and teachers for the warm welcome! I'll keep teaching Krita between episodes of Pepper&Carrot for sure :-) _
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Next week I will temporarily leave my sweet countryside to go up to the big city, the capital... Paris!
**Tuesday, September 12 2017**, I'll be doing a signing session at the bookstore "[A Livr'Ouvert](https://www.alivrouvert.fr "A Livr'Ouvert" )" (171b bd Voltaire, 75011, see the interactive map below) **between 16h30 and 19h30**. I'll sign all of your Pepper&Carrot books! I am doing this to meet the readers, have a good time, and also to drive attention to a quality bookstore (I earn nothing by selling more books, I'm only receiving support from my patrons).
More info [on the official website of A Livr'Ouvert](https://www.alivrouvert.fr/rencontres/2017/20170912-drevoy/ "on official website of A Livr'Ouvert" ).
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Summer 2017 is almost over, and I'm starting the autumn with this making-of episode 23. The production of episode 23 took me longer than usual because I wanted to open every steps to the Pepper&Carrot contributors and because also of my own perfectionism and focus on quality. The style for this episode is really clean, detailed and two month full-time from roughly mid June to mid August 2017 were necessary to complete the seven pages of "Take a Chance" (three weeks were necessary to get a final story adapted to our Git repository for the translation effort, then three intensive weeks were necessary to produce the penciling, inking and painting of the seven pages.) I want to thanks Calimeroteknik, Nartance, Valvin, Cmaloney and many other around our [IRC channel](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23pepper%26carrot) for the feedback during the storyboard development. Also, thanks to all translators for the amazing work (the episode is already translated in 18 languages as I'm writing this making-of), and of course, many thanks to all the patrons of Pepper&Carrot for funding all the time I'm spending on this project!
I built this article around the visual I collected while painting episode 23. My goal here: less text, more pictures. I hope you'll like scrolling this gallery! Feel free to comment at the end if you have a questions, and if you want to read the final episode, [follow this link](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article421/episode-23-take-a-chance "follow this link" ).
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_My operating system: (dual screen screenshot, Ubuntu Mate 17.04 + Cinnamon desktop)
My main tools for episode 23: Krita 3.1.4(appimage) and Inkscape 0.92.2(built from sources)_
[](data/images/blog/2017/07/09/ep23_making-of_by-david-revoy_19.jpg)_Storyboarding with Krita 3.1.4 : all pages embed on a single document_[](data/images/blog/2017/07/09/ep23_making-of_by-david-revoy_13.jpg)
_Version "alpha" of the storyboard: six pages only but the story had issue to understand the ending. _[](data/images/blog/2017/07/09/ep23_making-of_by-david-revoy_14.jpg)
_Final version of the storyboard: seven pages to better develop the ending with the help of Calimeroteknik, Nartance, Valvin, Cmaloney._
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_Cuting storyboard to single pages, artwork in blue, upscale to final resolution, and retracing panels in dark_
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_I'm using a Wacom Cintiq 13HD to redraw the artwork. The storyboard is still visible, but in background and low opacity_
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_A page penciled, with perspective grid visible._
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_Inking: I repeat the process and redraw all a third time with a thin pen over the pencil._
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_I don't ink the background landscape. They'll be fully painted over._
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_Overview of three steps over the same panel : Storyboard (left) Penciling (center) Inking (right)_
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_Overview of three steps with indication of brush preset used for each step
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_Inking in progress: I'm inking at 67,7% zoom of the viewport, with my perspective grid and the penciling in blue._
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_GMIC-Qt "Black&White > colorize [smart-coloring] " in action with custom settings. The filter auto-fills random colors under my inking._
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_Result of Gmic "smart-colorize" over the bottom of page one_
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_Background paintings started with transparent characters and big airbrush under blury/redish lines _
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_Fully painted backgrounds with flat and non shaded characters._
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_Final shading on characters ( with perspective grid visible )_
[](data/images/blog/2017/07/09/ep23_making-of_by-david-revoy_20.jpg)_Overview of three steps over the same panel : Storyboard (top) Inking (middle) Final rendering (bottom)_
[](data/images/blog/2017/07/09/ep23_making-of_by-david-revoy_15.jpg)_Overview of four steps over the same panel_
If you want to have a look at the final version; [follow ](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article421/episode-23-take-a-chance "follow this link" )[this link](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article421/episode-23-take-a-chance "this link" ) and for Krita sources files follow [this one](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static6/sources&page=ep23_Take-a-Chance "this one" ).
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Here is a quick sketch session to celebrate the [International Cat Day](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cat_Day "International Cat Day" )!
Happy day to every cats around you !
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[Anne Louvard](http://www.omc-maisons-alfort.asso.fr/fichelieu.php?lieu=cccharentonneau "Anne Louvart" ), lead of the Cultural Center Charentonneau in Maisons-Alfort, France took the sources of Pepper&Carrot artworks, printed them and presented them in an exhibition during an event about comics. (It's something you can do without asking my permission, thanks to the permissive Creative Commons Attribution license, and I encourage it!) The event is over now, it took place in May 2017. Many thanks for her work on the exhibition. I wasn't attending this event, but I discovered the exhibition on the photo she sent me (below). I especially liked the composition of large frames with multiple prints inside it: she printed [original artworks](https://www.peppercarrot.com/static6/sources&page=original "original artworks" ) side by side with [finished pages](https://www.peppercarrot.com/static6/sources&page=episodes "finished pages" ); a very good idea to show how final illustrations are designed.
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_Episode two fully printed on the left_
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_Overview of the exhibition (during the opening speech, I guess)_
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_Crop of the previous photo_
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[_"Liberapay lantern", CC-By D.Revoy_](https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/0ther/artworks/hi-res/2017-07-13_liberapay-lantern_by-David-Revoy.jpg)
[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/ "Liberapay" ) is a recurrent donations platform founded in 2015 by Changaco and Zatalyz under a non-profit organization. The mission of Liberapay is to propose a service where you can patron projects or individuals who contribute to the commons and make things that benefits everyone. Liberapay does not take a cut of payments, the service is funded by the donations to its [own account](https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/ "own account" ). In a nutshell and with too many shortcuts and simplifications: it's "an open-source Patreon". The project is young, fresh, full of good energy and built around a good ethic: I can see this platform become the ideal place to manage a single wallet and fund many Free/Libre and Open-source projects with micro-donations. It just needs more profile pages of open-source projects in my opinion. That's why It was evident to me to create a profile and propose it to you as an additional alternative to patron Pepper&Carrot.
Donate to Pepper&Carrot on Liberapay here:
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_Illustration: CC-By Loyalist Game, reusing artwork by David Revoy_
The _Loyalist Games_ team produced their first official board game: a Pepper&Carrot game named "The Potion Contest". They launched a[ Kickstarter campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1898956467/pepper-and-carrot-board-game "project on Kickstarter" ) yesterday.
Johnathan Pritchard, the leader of the project, worked with game designer Guillermo H. Nuñez, graphic designer Julieta García, and artist Antti Hakosaari to build this game (reusing the free/libre sources and universe of Pepper&Carrot). In the game, you'll discover new witches, new artworks, and items especially designed for the board game.
I wasn't involved in the production process, and I am not collecting any revenues from the Kickstarter campaign (my source of income is the patronage of my readers). But I'm really happy with the work of Loyalist Games! The Kickstarter page includes a very good disclaimer and all media (page, videos, etc) are perfectly compliant with the CC-By license attribution. Also, icing on the cake: the team is releasing the full board game, artworks and rules under the [Creative Commons Attributions](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Creative Commons Attributions" ).
So, if you are interested in getting a box of the game "Pepper&Carrot: The Potion Contest" or supporting the work of Loyalist Games, go and check out their Kickstarter page; Loyalist Games also made plushes of Carrot as bonus for the campaign, video reviews, a profile on BoardGameGeek... and more!
You can discover all the offers and pledge levels on Kickstarter:
**[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1898956467/pepper-and-carrot-board-game](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1898956467/pepper-and-carrot-board-game "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1898956467/pepper-and-carrot-board-game" )**
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_A compilation I made with the pixel art of DiamondDMGirl, upscaling them._
DiamondDMGirl posted this week on opengameart.org an asset of pixel-art. You'll find full walk-cycle for Pepper, Carrot, Saffron, Coriander and Shichimi. You'll also find a portrait for each characters. The pack is licensed as CC-By 4.0 license so you are free and encouraged to reuse this pack (or extend it). The necessary credit: "pixel-art: by DiamondDMGirl, based on Pepper&Carrot by D.Revoy.". Many thanks DiamondDMGirl for the pack, and for the very precise description on opengameart.org.
I'm embedding here under the artworks non-upscaled to archive a copy, but in case of a newer version or to be sure to get the source at the source, check directly the thread maintained by DiamondDMGirl here:
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_Artwork: "The curious incident with potions"
CC-By X-paws team, based on Pepper&Carrot by D.Revoy_
The [video-game team X-paws](https://www.facebook.com/peppercarrotgame/ "video-game team X-paws" ) is currently working on a demo for a Pepper&Carrot video game. The demo will invite the player through a few levels with platforms, broom racing, brewing unique potions and throwing potion at opponents. The team is planning to develop a system to let the player brew over 100 million potion recipes for almost limitless possibilities.
**Genre: **platformer/puzzle.
**Target platforms:** Android, iOS, Steam.
**License:** Proprietary and commercial project ( but with sometime CC-By material , the case of the beautiful illustration above )
Currently, the game is still in early development stage and new team members are welcome to grow the X-paws team: artists, Unity/C# dev, etc... It's a no-budget demo project with plan to share incomes after the game starts doing profit. The core of X-paws was funded by core contributors and translators of Pepper&Carrot, so I'm trusting this team and their project to keep the mood of the universe and I'm sure they work on it with passion. I'll keep updating this blog-post to follow important milestone of the Hereva Adventure project.
Follow the project and discover more visual done by the team here:
**FB community page:**
**VK community page: **
**Contact X-paws by email: **[ask@x-paws.com](mailto:ask@x-paws.com "x-paws email adress" )
