1. When does the comic update?
Every Tuesday, unless something drastic happens and I can't put up a page.
2. What's with it changing from black and white to color to brown and stuff? I don't get it.
There are three 'settings' for the comic. Full color is current time, reality, awake, etc. for the character that leads that story arc. Sepia or 'brown tone' is for memories, past occurrences, flashbacks, the like. Here's the kind of tricky one: dreams and stuff like that is black and white, but there are spots with color either for emphasis or because that's what would've stood out to the character having the dream. Sometimes there will be muted color, sort of like a really desaturated picture, that's halfway between color and black-and-white. That's when another character is having a dream about someone or something that's actually real; kind of like they're watching events somewhere else through a remote camera.
3. What age group is Silent Dreams targeted towards?
I try to make it available to all audiences, but occasionally there will be some mild profanity and violence. I'll put a tag in the news post if it contains anything above 'PG-13 rated' material, but that most likely won't happen throughout the entire comic.
4. How do you draw Silent Dreams? I mean, what with and how long does it take you?
I draw it in Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuos3 6"x8" tablet on my dual-monitor desktop at home, which currently runs Windows XP. No internets on that rig; sorry, hackers. The process starts with my sketchbook, a 9"x12" Strathmore sketchbook, where I draw out all the pages in pencil. I hope to have this step eliminated by the time I run out of sketchbook pages, which will be comic page 100. After that, I take a picture of the page (I don't have a scanner) and line-art it in Photoshop with a 5 pixel brush, and then color and cell-shade it. The end image is 2304 pixels by 3072 pixels at 300 ppi, which I resize to 768 by 1024 at 72 ppi for internet viewing. I don't know exactly how long it takes to draw each page; normally it takes two to three hours to lay out the page on paper, and one to two hours to Photoshop it so it looks nice. Complicated pages take much longer, normally around eight to ten hours if it's really bad, like the one on 18 August 2009.