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Here is the timelapse video of a speedpainting I posted recently. I recorded this one to study it personnaly: I'm not really happy with the process (eg. the tweak of the proportion and the eyes at the end that shows my base drawing wasn't good enough). So that's why it wasn't supposed to be online at first but I was really encouraged by your comments. At the end, I'm happy to show it and do a bit activity on the Youtube channel. It will be soon on the [Peertube instance](https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/ "Peertube instance" ) managed by the team Touhoppai.
Funny detail: the video editing was done using only command line and ffmpeg, because I wanted to see if I can automate this type of video. For more credits and info, look at the last screen at the end of the video.
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An illustration about Chicory while discovering the Chaosah Black Hole. She is a young witch who founded Chaosah magic decades before the main story of Pepper&Carrot.
> _"She was a curious witch, and loved to tinker with magic. One night she was playing around and happened upon the "Chaosah Black Hole" spell (which is a signature spell for all Chaosah witches). She named her magic "Chaosah" because she felt she was channeling the chaos of Hereva in order to perform her magical incantations. Her discoveries caught the attention of other like-minded witches and she taught them what she had learned. Eventually more students arrived and Chicory found herself spending every waking moment teaching students."_
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> _...sample from_ [The Pepper&Carrot Wiki](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static8/wiki&page=Magic-System "Magic System on The Pepper&Carrot Wiki" ) wrote by Craig Maloney
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I'm still testing new Krita brushes (click on the artwork for full 3K width resolution). I'm also testing a new workflow for rendering better artwork. By better I mean my taste of the moment shifted to more traditionnal oil painting texture and a focus on light, shading, almost raytracing from imagination. I find a real pleasure at that. I rendered [this old sketch](https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/0ther/misc/low-res/2019-06_chicory-wiki_by-David-Revoy.jpg "this sketch" ) of Chicory as a test to play with that. This sketch with no background, a single strong point light appeared to be what I needed.
Once I'll feel more confident with this techniques; I'll use them to finish the cover of the book project (still in work in progress because I wasn't happy with the brush work and flat texture) and also to design a story for episode 31 that take advantage of this type of rendering maybe.
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_Screenshot with details and Krita (click to enlarge)_
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After the release of the [eShop](article734/revealing-the-e-shop "eShop" ) (thank you for all the purchases!). I started this week another huge item on my TO-DO list for Pepper&Carrot: self-publishing it as a comic book. I do it **because I find it exciting to make a big high quality comic book using only FLOSS from scratch! **I'm not expecting much from the sales.** **I just want my own Pepper&Carrot book, 100% FLOSS to crown the last five years of production. Focusing on that target even drives me away from the Inktober challenge I usually very like. But it's a project with a lot of difficulties and I want to make it perfect. So I took the necessary time to do research and experiments before going into production. And that's where I am at start of October 2019. **Here is the results of one week of intense research and tests**:
## The book
Deciding the format was hard: I bought samples done by my printer, reviewed all book at home. After a lot of thought on it, my project will be a large 8,5"x11" (21,59x27,94cm) and thick book with a hard-cover. It will include 193 pages of comics -from episode 1 to episode 29- printed in full resolution on a high-quality almost mate paper inside and glossy for the cover. ( I have a sample of this quality on my desk, this is really what I want). A gallery of additional artworks will be added on full page to the comic, full credits and the list of patrons to shape **a 200 pages large book**. My target dream price: in between 30$ and 40$ (without shipping). I'll see if I can do that, if I can't I'll explain why in a future update. So far, it looks like I can make it from my estimation.
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_A double page in Scribus_
## A dedicated cover
I want the book to have its own cover, so I plan to paint a specific illustration for it. It will take me days but I don't want to reuse the illustrations already in usage for the Glénat book project, the TokyoPop publishing, the Breton version, etc... **I'll start this artwork next week **and I'll show the progress on social medias.
## 100% made with FLOSS
> "[...] there's an entire industry out there that spent the last ~25 years making sure it's a pain in the rear to do anything useful with PDFs without their expensive tools. Now you want to undermine their collective efforts? Think of the children! :)"
_~ Satō Katsura (from [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316760/what-are-gnu-linux-tools-for-checking-pdf-documents-before-publishing "here" ))._
This quote summarizes perfectly the situation. As usual, **I'll use only Free/Libre and open-Source software**: Krita, Inkscape, Scribus on my Kubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. Yet, my printer provides a tutorial for Scribus, the \*.icc and templates. (A FLOSS-friendly printer? Only when I'll receive perfect prints I'll be able to tell).
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_Testing various CMYK convertion methods (comparing a CMYK red from Krita and CmykTools)_
## Multilingual, collaborative on Git
English only? What about Spanish? Russian? or more? That's one of the most ambitious part of my project: I started to design a multilingual system for the maximum automation around a GIT repo with scripting. I plan to use the data already translated in order **to publish a lot of languages**; but I'll also need help to translate specific texts. This will come after, **I'll start with the English version**.
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_An early brainstorming/mind-map of the translation system for the book publishing repository._
## Printer specifications
My printer works only with the CGATS21\_CRPC1.icc CMYK color profile and the PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 file format. I can't expect in this process a man in the middle reviewing my file on a machine with proprietary software like the one of Adobe: everything goes directly to the print machine: it must be compliant and perfect. **If anything fails, I'll have to pay** for the mistake and the time of the operator. Also, PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 mean no transparency for designing the page.
[](data/images/blog/2019/2019-09-30_scribus.gif)
_Without transparency, I'll have to overlay page with translation and without to clean credits.
(Example gif animation of the process)_
## The test and bugs:
During the process of exporting dozens of test PDFs with various settings and trying everything the web wrote on the topic with trial and error, I made discoveries. I report them here if you are curious enough to read them. But also for them to get referenced later by search engine; I'm also posting my workarounds: they might help.
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_Rendering comparison, click to enlarge_
Comparison details of picture on top (from left to right):
- Scribus (Softproofed with CGATS21\_CRPC6.icc but output with CGATS21\_CRPC1.icc)
- Krita displaying the extracted image from PDF.
- Okular displaying the PDF output (not color managed).
- Nomacs displaying the original sRGB.
## The fog of CGATS\_CPR1.icc
Haaaa, color management on Linux... All a poetry! The color space of the profile looks really small at a first glance, but according to the sample I bought; it is very capable of wonderful printed comics colors. Unfortunately, the Soft Proofing of this CMYK profile renders an horrible bleached rendering, feeling like being lost in the fog of a haunted wood. This rendering is consistent in Gimp, Krita and Scribus and it took me hours of test to exclude I was doing a mistake with my color workflow.
But once rendered the issue disappear, and colors looks as good as a CMYK image can be (so after a real convert, not a soft-proof preview). This is also consistent in Krita and Scribus (not in Gimp because well.. still no CMYK as far as I know).
So, **no possible direct WYSIWYG workflow with Soft Proofing** (What You See Is What You Get) but a WYSHITFOG workflow (What You See Happens In The Fog Of Gamma). Just kidding. I found a workaround: Switch to another CMYK profile during prod ; after hours of research I found that the CGATS\_CPR6.icc while being softproofed looks similar CGATS\_CPR1.icc rendered (not 1:1, but visually Ok). Note for later: don't forget to switch back for export.
#### Bug Report URL (Krita):
- [CMYK] CGATS21\_CRPC1.icc has a different rendering between softproofed and converted : _
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_Soft Proofed preview VS real convertion with CGATS21\_CRPC1.icc._
## The 72ppi TIFF of Scribus
When I started to get a somehow functional color managed workflow, It was obvious I'll have to bring modifications to the comic pages and adress issues I could spot with the CMYK profile (too dark pages, out of gamut effect that translate badly to CMYK,etc). That's something no other publisher did with Pepper&Carrot (certainly to 'respect the art') and they often just went at printing the RGB as it is with more or less success (and sometime, disasters for certain crowdfunding). Well, I'll want to adapt the art and I can.
So, I ran a series of test to evaluate how I could save my modifications directly in CMYK and get them in Scribus. I decided to pre-convert pages to CMYK in Krita and export them as Tiff then import them on Scribus: this was fixing the "preview in the fog" workflow but I discovered Scribus was skipping the resolution ppi of Tiff and import them as 72ppi by default. I then tried to update my version. I tested also the last version in development. All of them had this issue, this is too hard to work like that for 200 pages, **too many manual tweaks and I wasn't feeling confident for the TIFF format in general**. So better to drop this option.
#### Bug Report URL (Scribus) :
* [0015837: Import of Tiff files: missing resolution/dpi/ppi](https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15837). Note: It turns out Krita is guilty to not write the unit "inch or centimeters" while writing the Tiff.
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_Comparing the same page with various convertion method in Scribus: original on right._
## Remastering the artworks on pages for print
On newer tests, it has appeared the best cross-format for CMYK pictures between Krita and Scribus was 'CMYK JPGs'. That's really curious; this format was a taboo for my teachers when I learned Pre-Press with QuarkXPress and Indesign around 2000 (in my youth). But it works and with a compression as near as possible to lossless for this format (100% quality) it is even a good solution for a transition flat format. Things I learned. But I don't feel good about using this format: thumbnails on the file browser looks terrible and it still feels like a hack in a way.
Anyway, I discovered during the process that -with the right settings- the export to PDF of **Scribus was doing the conversion to CMYK on the fly** whatever input was entered on Scribus; including sRGB format. Splendid technology. I then tested the quality of the exported PDF CMYK of Scribus in competition with Krita and Cmyktools. I obtained very similar results with Scribus and Krita. Cmyktools had other very interesting optimization, but the software being not maintained since 2011, the GUI was spanning accross my two monitors and the resulting CMYK was color inverted after extraction from the PDF. I had to exclude it. The quality of auto-converted CMYK via Scribus had similar (if not exact) quality of the one converted by Krita. I guess it is **the same [LittleCMS](http://www.littlecms.com/ "LittleCMS" ) magic under the hood** for both of them.
I then decided **to go with only the 8Bit RGB workspace for my modification**: unify my artworks for web and for print in a single format and remaster the sRGB with Soft Proofing activated for CGATS\_CPR1.icc (in fact, **'workarounded' with CGATS\_CPR6.icc to avoid the fog**). Tweaking slightly the RGB will mean modifying Pepper&Carrot online pages too or how the episodes were designed at release. Remastering them for the book project is the right effort to do at the source to avoid CMYK mistake for the future converting while keeping always the sources artwork in a single place.
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_Left: Original, Right: the type of RGB corrections that might happens, (work in progress, not happy with the contrast yet)._
## Validation of the PDF for print
On testing the output PDF of Scribus, the harder is to know when I produce a valid PDF export. How to inspect it? I have not found a perfect solution... I still blindly have to trust something on the output of Scribus. Knowing the buggy nature of FLOSS and how the project degenerate quickly this is not making me confident. But I found a couple of options, mostly via command line interface, on a GNU/Linux system:
### Imagemagick:
Imagemagick can list a lot of information about the PDF with the command here under, including the CMYK nature of the PDF. Unfortunately, no color space. Does it mean ImageMagick doesn't do it? Or Scribus skip including it? I'll never know.
$ identify -verbose output.pdf
Imagemagick can also convert a page of the PDF to a PSD. This command under will return a wrong resolution PSD (a thumbnail) and Krita can open it. CMYK values are well set on the PSD, but the color profile is lost: Krita fallback to Chemical Proof profile: showing something quite similar to Poppler.
$ convert output.pdf output.psd
### **Poppler:**
Poppler via Poppler-utils can list all the image inside a PDF and report if they are CMYK. Same, no color profile, so it can be CMYK-pizza or CMYK-chocolate, this is not Poppler-utils business. I would really like to know if they are all profiled with CGATS\_CPR1.icc or if the PDF as a global file is tagged with CGATS\_CPR1.icc...
$ pdfimages -list output.pdf
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_A useful output!_
It is also possible to extract the content of the PDF to a folder using the Poppler-utils this way:
$ mkdir extracted
$ pdfimages -all output.pdf extracted/img
The Tiff, PPM or JPG obtained this way are CMYK files but unfortunately have no profile so Krita will display them with the default generic free/libre CMYK color profile: ChemicalProof. You'll need to convert them manually to CGATS\_CPR1.icc with Imagemagick (apply simply the profile; no convert/scaling):
$ cd extracted
$ convert img-000.tif -profile /path/to/your/CGATS_CPR1.icc img-profiled.tif
Then you can open in Krita and control the quality of the Scribus rendered files with the color picker to see how it manages the black, how out of gamut colors are scaled, etc.... **That's my best solution so far!**
### Okular:
Okular, the Plasma desktop PDF reader can read the PDF thanks to Poppler under the hood. But same error here: the CMYK colors are not profiled and fallback to a default profile like Chemical Proof. It is still a blast to have the possibility to read a version of a CMYK PDF on a PDF reader, even if the colors are not faithful: the picture are still readable.
### Krita:
Krita can open a page of the PDF; but will do a bit the same than a Poppler conversion: the picture has same generic CMYK rendering and the result is even not CMYK anymore but all converted in the default RGB used by Krita (sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc)...
## Conclusion and more links:
I know a lot of you will skip reading this long log and that's fine. I wrote this long results of my research for a future person who will get same trouble as I do and will search Internet to see if other tempted this quest. That's a bottle in a ocean, and a way to log my efforts on the way.
Here are my sources and best Internet links I could find on the topic. I triaged them from reading hundreds of pages.
#### COLOR MANAGEMENT:
* Krita documentation: Soft Proofing:
* Krita documentation: all sub-chapters of "Colors" category, **a must read**:
* Elle Stone website: Nine Degrees Below, **a goldmine** for every articles:
* FLOSS Manual : Scribus. One of the **easiest guide into Scribus**:
* Scribus Wiki: Color Management setup, especially good to read after reading Krita documentation on the same topic:
* Fedora Project wiki: How to set CMYK color on a design for printing. A practical guide, a bit outdated but still nice because practical:
* Preparing Your Book For Print with Scribus goldmine documentation from my printer:
#### PDF:
* The PDF/X-1a file format, to know more about the compliance:
* Unix.stackexchange.com : What are GNU/Linux tools for checking PDF documents before publishing? To know more about the tools available:
* Adobe Support Community - Transparency Compliance with PDF/x-1a ; to understand why no transparency in this format:
* Thatch Tran: Improving PDF export in Scribus, to understand a bit more the situation:
#### DOWNLOADS:
* INTERNATIONAL COLOR CONSORTIUM, CGATS21-2-CRPC1:
* INTERNATIONAL COLOR CONSORTIUM, CGATS21-2-CRPC6:
* The repository of CMYKTools by BlackFiveImaging: [https://github.com/blackfiveimaging/cmyktool](https://github.com/blackfiveimaging/cmyktool)
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After [years](article536/research-ideas-for-a-peppercarrot-e-shop "years" ) of research and work, I'm happy to finally reveal the Pepper&Carrot eShop! You'll find on it postcards, art prints, tote bags, tablet/laptop/mobiles cases and skins, mugs, notebooks, dresses, T-shirts, blankets, tapestries, shower curtains, clocks... and socks!
**It's all here: [www.davidrevoy.redbubble.com](https://www.redbubble.com/people/davidrevoy/portfolio?asc=u "www.davidrevoy.redbubble.com" )**
(or under 'eShop' on top menu here or on Pepper&Carrot website.)
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_Demo of products: not real photos but mockup provided by Redbubble_
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_I bought products to test quality: Good!_
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_Shipping was fast (even for France) and well packaged._
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_Testing the shop was important for me before the release. Left mug: a service I rejected (bad print), Right mug: Redbubble, good resolution and better colors._
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_You can customize colors on T-Shirt and create your unique style on Redbubble._
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_I created original design for the launch, including Contributopia themed artworks. (with authorisation)_
## Making of
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Sketchbook for the ideas, Krita for the art and Inkscape for the text. It wasn't easy to do because of this bugs [here](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412064 "here" ), [here](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412070 "here" ) and [there](https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/425 "there" )...
## About
The platform, Redbubble, is translated in English, French, German and Spanish and accept Euros, Pounds and various Dollars (Canada, Australia, USA). Making this eShop took me a good part of September. I'm not forgeting about the Pepper&Carrot self-published comic project in English: it is the next step and it will be plugged to the same eShop page but will use a different service (Redbubble doesn't print books). I'll keep adding new design to Redbubble on the way now.
I want to renew here a special thanks to Pouhiou and the P&C community for the precious feedback all along this quest I started in 2015! An artwork is missing? A suggestion for adding one? What do you think about it? Please share it in the comment here or on social medias (or via email). I'll be around.
**link: [www.davidrevoy.redbubble.com](https://www.redbubble.com/people/davidrevoy/portfolio?asc=u "www.davidrevoy.redbubble.com" )**
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Here is three portraits: Pepper, Shichimi and Coriander. I painted them while writing future episode 31. The preproduction is still in progress and I'm also working on an official e-shop and a self-publishing project. This mini portraits were a good way to review all the steps of my workflow and detect how various line-art style affect my design, the colored result and finally the whole mood of this mini scenes.
If you are curious of the steps, all layers are inside the Krita files sources and named. You can download them along high resolution on [Pepper&Carrot sources folder, in "artworks"](https://www.peppercarrot.com/static6/sources&page=artworks "Pepper&Carrot sources, under " ) (Krita 4.2.6 or better adviced).
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Here is a collection of recent sketches pasted together, all of that done on my Wacom Cintiq13HD and Krita.
_[ edit: click on the picture for 4166x2625px resolution ]_
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_A panel from page 2, episode 26 of Pepper&Carrot.
I thought it was a good illustration for optical fiber.
\- CC-By , click to enlarge -_
As you might remember, I moved a year ago into a new house at country side... but I also inherited with it a very slow DSL internet connection. You know; the type of connexion where only a single device can watch a 720p video at home (with interuptions and blocky video artifact of course) and where uploading a couple of photos could take up to 30 minutes!... But after a year and a lot of work, this period is over for me because I have now optical fiber!
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_Screenshot from the website Speedtest_
Why a blog post for this? For a reminder, the slow connection transition had a lot of impact: it made me [cancel my livestream ](article639/the-end-of-weekly-live-stream "I canceled them" )and any video-chat for conferences because I couldn't even do a 640x480 stream with my connection. My video tutorial channel suffered a lot from it too: the production slowed this year and it is not really a surprise when videos took me over five hours to upload while freezing the full network at home. Pepper&Carrot release (around 2GB of files) and the upload of the renderfarm for the over fourty translations existing were also difficult to schedule. All in all, I don't want to pull all the blame for my low productivity this year into this ex-slow DSL -that would be dishonnest- but it had for sure a big impact on reducing my possibilities, energies and motivations. So it feels very good to think of this limitations as something of the past, and I wanted to share that news with you.
Also, in other news, new Episode 30 "Need a hug" will be posted next week. ;-)
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_Special thanks to the technician who helped me this morning passing the cable at home: good job again! Also thanks to a friend who helped me cleaning pipes underground last week-end._
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_me while unboxing my "sample for author"_
I received this morning the third French Pepper&Carrot book printed by the publisher [Glénat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gl%C3%A9nat_Editions "Glénat" ) Editions (one of the largest comic book publisher in France). I'm so happy to have it in my hands after all this time! "The butterfly effect" ("L'effet papillon") is the title of this book that bundle episode 22 to 29 and more than 60 pages of my webcomic [Pepper&Carrot](https://www.peppercarrot.com/ "Pepper&Carrot" ). It will be released in France somewhere around next week on 28 August. It took me a lot of time to draw all this pages to feed this book with the help of Krita and Inkscape on my GNU/Linux Kubuntu operating system. Sorry again for the big wait and thank you for your patience. The derivation of Glénat Editions started in 2016 for the book one and the first two books were a success thanks to the audience. I've heard the book were reprinted many times. The series received even a collector bundle with book 1 and 2 for Christmas 2018 (photo under). Even nowadays, I keep seeing the books in the shelves of supermarkets, bookstores, schools and libraries. That's a really cool partnership built with Glénat around the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and a beautiful story.
Well, that was not always the case, especially at the public release of the book one in 2016: my new paradigm for comic wasn't received positively at all by the comic industry (Ref: "L'affaire Pepper&Carrot" -blog post in French- by [Phylacterium](https://www.phylacterium.fr/?p=2672 "Phylacterium" ) blog). It was a big fuzz in the specialized press and medias about comics. Nowadays, things seems to have gone back under the radar with time; the second book made no issue at release and I hope this third new book will follow the same path and not get issue with the syndicate of French comic authors. If the [syndicate of French comic authors](https://www.snacbd.fr "syndicate of French comic authors" ) wants to fight something, I invite them to go to read the conditions and terms of use of the big comic platform like Webtoons or Tapas and digg a bit about their consequences on the industry. I would prefer them to spend energy on copyright and license issue instead of shooting small independent webcomic author as me who tries new project made of patronage, ethic and the creation of a common... But I understand it is easier to show dominance over a single artist than in front of giants of the industry?
On my side, I'm still on my way to propose my alternative model and oppose to the usual industry buisness model based on copyright, proprietary fictional universes, teasing & paywall market... But my quest takes more time than I thought, Pepper&Carrot is already five years old! I certainly came with this proposal and ideas too early and the crowds were not ready and not enought concerned deeply by investing efforts into common resources, independent systems, small collaborative structures, trust and license freedom. But I'm confident, alternatives needs to exists and Pepper&Carrot exists thanks to the support of the audience! I'll continue this quest and produce more episodes and fill a book four, five or more as long as I can.
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_The three books and the bundle on left_
As a usual, I'm writing a disclaimer here about any Pepper&Carrot external commercial derivations: I remind you I'm not earning any percentage of the sales of this book. I'm earning my money only via the patronage of Pepper&Carrot new episodes and Glénat is still the number one patron of the project since 2016. They also commission me extra illustrations as the one for the cover (illustrations released under CC-By license). So Glénat is weighting big in the ecosystem of Pepper&Carrot (they help this way at founding 1/4 of the budget of each episodes). That's why I have no issue promoting them as partner and encouraging audience to buy this derivation: I'm transparent about it.
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_The yellow of this scene renders really well printed._
Also, a big thank you to all contributors and proofreader who helped at improving this collections of episodes. The license attribution is respected into the details and can be found on the first pages of this printed version. A special thanks to the French translators: Nicolas Artance, Calimeroteknik, Midgard, Valvin who helped me to translate the episode from English to French (because I wrote many of this episodes directly in English to ease the collaborative [storyboard beta reading system](https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=all&label_name\[\]=future%20episode "storyboard beta reading system" ) process). Also, the full list of credits and patrons of Pepper&Carrot is printed at the end of the book.
All in all, I'm really happy about this third book. I saw the price was a tiny bit more than 10€. If you want to purchase the third book, please consider buying it in your local bookstore that can be still better than in a big online market place. I recommend [A Livr'Ouvert](https://www.alivrouvert.fr/ "A Livr'Ouvert" ) on Paris, [Les petits Ruisseaux](https://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pros/51939926 "Les petits Ruisseaux" ) on Toulouse.
Have a good read (or re-read) if you buy it next week ! ;-)
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_close-up: print quality is good, even on dark panels_
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_Illustration: Example of double page of the book (in development, not final) by Xacur. I downloaded it from the Kickstarter campaign and pasted on top the mockup of the PDF cover and a Kickstarter logo. All of that to get a quick "single-picture-presentation" of the project.
(CC-By Xacur, with illustration of D.Revoy; note: logo of Kickstarter is certainly 'all right protected...')_
While I was in holidays, I received notifications about a new Kickstarter project using the open illustrations and sources material of my webcomic [Pepper&Carrot](https://www.peppercarrot.com/ "Pepper&Carrot" ) in a campaign named: [Witchcraft: Magic of Hereva, a 5e Supplement](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xacur/witchcraft-magic-of-hereva-a-5e-supplement "Witchcraft: Magic of Hereva, a 5e Supplement" ). Usual disclaimer: I'm not involved into this Kickstarter (only the illustration and world of my webcomic are reused as open material) and I'm not earning any cents about it.
The author of the Kickstarter and recipient of the benefits, Xacur, is not (as far as I know) someone known among the 50 ocasonial contributors of Pepper&Carrot. The project poped a bit out of the blue suddently this summer. Anyway, I did a review of the page this morning and it is a nice one and has at a first glance the appearance of a work of passion, with a lot of care about the licenses and a respect for the source material of the world of Pepper&Carrot. I can really feel the dedication of Xacur to make a good result for this PDF supplement for the 5th Edition of the most popular Role Playing Game in the world. So, if you want to play a witch in Hereva on a RPG, supporting the author and get the PDF of this project sounds like the best option right now. Also, I'm really happy to read this: _"New art and new rules created for this supplement will be released under CC by 4.0 and Open-Gaming License respectively"_. Something that could probably make this work something I could backport to the official Wiki of Pepper&Carrot? I don't know yet, I have to study that but it sounds like it could be possible and if it is that could be something good for the tiny ecosystem of Pepper&Carrot. (If you know more about it, please let me know in the comments).
All in all, I wish good luck to Xacur into this project and I send them here an invitation to not hesitate to enter into contact with the Pepper&Carrot community. I'm really interested to know if this future work crowdfunded can be backported into the official project (and I'm sure audience of the webcomic too). If any help is needed to get more details about the universe, the timeline, the background of characters: Cmaloney (maintainer of the Wiki), Nartance (Writer of many detailed texts on the world of Hereva) or me are often around our bridged discussions channels (URLs of this channels [on top here](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static4/contribute "on top here" )) and we can help to brainstorm ideas around the universe. Waiting for that, I'll follow this derivation for sure.
Here is the full adress to access to the campaign:
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Hey! I'm back after a small week at the Krita Sprint 2019 ([Deventer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deventer "Deventer" ), Netherlands). You probably saw already photos about our large group this year (eg. Mastodon link [here](https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/102574574282840023 "here" )) and I guess you'll probably read in the coming days a detailed reports about the Sprint on the [blog of krita.org](https://krita.org/en/?post_type=post&s= "blog of krita.org" ) itself. So! I'll skip writing a detail report about our discussions and I'll focus my blog post around my sketchbook and more precisely about the sketches done since I started to travel on Tuesday.
I drew various random ideas, various tests and various quality; some were done during meetings, some other on the side of my plate at restaurants, some other in plane, train or even while walking into a guided tour of a museum. You can click any picture to get a better resolution. Again a big thanks to all participants I met on the Krita sprint of this year, I had a very good time.
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_top: Pepper finding a 'prince frog' and Cumin affraid about it. bottom: ideas of fantasy animals.(from imagination)_
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_Top: another fantasy animal, a Saffran, Middle: a sleeping female fox, Bottom: Pepper fighting a Jelly-Monster.(from imagination)_
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_observations at the the Netherlands Open Air Museum, during the guided tour (real life ref)_
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_more notes during guided tour (real life ref)_
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_Animals during guided tour (real life ref, observation)_
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_On the afternoon, a watercolor of a windmill on blue paper with white gouache_
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_Another view of previous painting_
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_An attempt at a shaded scene (from imagination) including a Pepper with another haircut, a school uniform and her bag._
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_A study of pose from imagination, constrain of force and acting, plus few notes on a discussion about Krita._
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_A collections of four random portraits to get "outside of comfort zone"; changing proportion, style. (from imagination) _
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_Young boy with pig; unfinished (from imagination) _
