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.

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!

Multitask

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 2

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.