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Back in June I did a couple of pages from the At Abrahams night - remember?
These pages and and the photographs from the night are now on the At Abrahams website, along with the witty "logos" I show myself peering at in frame 2.
Click here to see the PDF.
These pages and and the photographs from the night are now on the At Abrahams website, along with the witty "logos" I show myself peering at in frame 2.
Click here to see the PDF.
Terra Catta
I was helping dig this trench, see, and it was horrible for various reasons, one of which was the clay of which the ground was made. I soon became distracted by a powerful urge to forge a feline totem from this primal substance, and Lo! it was done.
Click the image to see this beautiful objet d'art from other angles in my Flickr set.
Click the image to see this beautiful objet d'art from other angles in my Flickr set.
Hummous and Jim
This is how much work I can do on a page before I hit a wall and can't be arsed finishing it. As you can see, it's frustratingly close to being done, requiring only some more details, clean up and colour adjustment and so forth.
I think I need to find a way of adding colour that's less labour-intensive, so that the effort I put in is proportional to the quality of the finished product.
Freebie
I spent about 5 hours doing the second half of the colour on this last night, and all the fiddly little clean-up bits and so forth... At about 01:00 I thought "that's finished" and went to save it - laptop turned itself off!
So I redid it today and it took half as long but needless to say it was better the first time. Save frequently!
According to Plan
I'm never particularly happy with the inked pages - they always seem to have so much more promise when I've finished them in non-photo blue. And then I usually worry about the lack of contrast or shading and weigh in with a lot of ill-advised cross hatching which further mars the page. Am trying to resist this urge, or at least scan the page at an earlier stage.
I might try to colour this later, on the computer or by hand. Time permitting.
At Abrahams 1
A sensible person warned me that that the At Abrahams crew might be pissed off if I posted these pages on my blog before they had them on their own site. I can see that, but I just decided to go ahead. Who looks at my blog anyway, a handful of my friends and acquaintances?
I need to get these up because - believe it or not - I have more pages coming.
Here's the At Abrahams website again, check it out.
Self Promotion
I was asked to illustrate this event back in March and I had an opportunity to produce a bit of promo material for their giveaway bags. Needless to say, I failed to get my arse into gear in time and, although I completed 4 pages of a micro comic I didn't have time to run off copies. Hey ho. Here it is, reformatted for teh interwebs. The pages I drew for the night will follow in the next couple of days...
Intermission
Hello friends! I'll be failing to meet my inordinately optimistic tri-weekly posting "schedule" for a bit due to the the necessities of work and flathunting. Jim has already been gloating over his prediction that I would fail, cunt that he is, but seriously, it's just a temporary glitch.
Maybe I'll go back to my crappy moleskine pages for a while, eh? just to get something done. Anyhoo, those last two pages weren't so bad were they (comparatively speaking)... I used some bristol board I found in my guitar case. And a bit of colour, too, howzabout that?!
Honestly, I will start again in a couple of weeks, so check back. And in the meantime, feel free to submit whimsical story ideas in the comments section. Not that I'll be holding my breath.
Maybe I'll go back to my crappy moleskine pages for a while, eh? just to get something done. Anyhoo, those last two pages weren't so bad were they (comparatively speaking)... I used some bristol board I found in my guitar case. And a bit of colour, too, howzabout that?!
Honestly, I will start again in a couple of weeks, so check back. And in the meantime, feel free to submit whimsical story ideas in the comments section. Not that I'll be holding my breath.
Badly Drawn Boys
Apologies to anyone offended by how badly drawn they are in these pages. Something went wrong with the art. I think it's because it was drawn out of GUILT rather than LOVE.
New Leaves
I've seen so much stuff online that people have done in their precious Moleskine notepads, and even though I'm a reprehensible stationary fetishist I was pretty skeptical. A sketchbook's a sketchbook, yeah? Why spend £12 or whatever on something I'm just going to ruin with my amateurish drunken scrawlings anyway?
But having got one I must say that there is something strangely alluring about it - a subtle qualitative difference which demands one's attention. So I'm starting the new year with the intention of doing a small comic diary page each day. The Moleskine pages are small and smooth enough for me to use my Hunt 102 nib for all the inking, and I'm loving it. Might experiment a bit more with using the natural paper colour for some tonal variety. Blah blah blah.
But having got one I must say that there is something strangely alluring about it - a subtle qualitative difference which demands one's attention. So I'm starting the new year with the intention of doing a small comic diary page each day. The Moleskine pages are small and smooth enough for me to use my Hunt 102 nib for all the inking, and I'm loving it. Might experiment a bit more with using the natural paper colour for some tonal variety. Blah blah blah.
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