Author: jamison_is_awesome

August’s Monsters: Day 2 & 3

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Wicked behind on this. Lost two when my breakers went. This is teh issue with working entirely digital, must save more often. Had a neat idea about making the thumbs the number of the day. In case I didn’t mention it, It’s like this:

One Little Moster per day

30 Days

3 Color Pallete

Digital Only

So I am starting with a random color palette and working directly in photoshop, no initial sketching. Normally I draw just about anything I do physically first, sometimes five or six times. I think I may put time restrictions on them as well, and just post what ever I have at the end of the day, in order to meet the one a day schedule.

complete rebuild

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none of the comic plugins work with my current theme that i’ve spent time making relatively nice so I will be migrating to another theme and resetting up shop. This will require me to back up everything I have, take it all down, redesign the site, and get it running again. The cool thing about starting from scratch is everything is cool and new! the bad thing about starting from scratch is that, well, you’re starting from scratch.

meh

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got a bunch of new stuff but i never get around to getting it up here. it frustrating, i have two computers but neither are really awesome, they’re on two different floors for various reasons, scanner is in the studio, which is 95 degrees all the time right now. no desk down stairs so i work with a ton of shit in my lap and on the floor. after painting or drawing for a couple of hours in the heat, i dont want to sneaker net up and down stairs or write anything.

 

This is mostly just bitching, but i think i just figured out a workable set up. or the beginnings of one.

Mazzy, the Swamp Girl

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Heres a thing I’ve been mucking about with for a week or two now. Sketchbook sketch scanned in cleaned up & colored. I made a little painting to figure out the color stuff. Photoshopped up the background. I think I might rig everything up for animation. Seems like it could hold up a short cartoon or two. Not done, might just be an exploration. I really wish I could do this shit for eight hours a day.

Quetzl

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Winged SerpentFinished this last night, well worked on it until close to completion. Discovered I made a real bonehead mistake in the initial drawing.  Debating on adding blood spatter behind the body and a coffee wash to the back ground.

Also worked on character studies and thumbs fro “The Hunter”. I have sixteen pages planned out, gonna draw them and then start serializing that as my buffer. going to put together small run minis every sixteen pages. Taking it step by step, reading a ton of shit along the way. I have good idea of how its gonna look and a strong idea of where the story ends up. I hate it when the story just seems to meander and then die ( lost, battlestar, enki bilal). Didnt you know what you were doing before hand? “It sounds cool” doesnt cut it sonny. That being said I have one of those meandering stories that goes no where that I’m using to dump a bunch of ideas, too; I just dont think Im gonna show it to any one.

 

Day 30 FINI!

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Well I took me longer than thirty days and I havent really scratched the surface with what I wanted to do with my site, but I am definitely thirty drawings richer than I was. Lessons were learned about working fast and deadlines. I put together a system for getting things done and keeping them organized. All in all it was good experience. Today I am going to paint and draw tattoos until my hands fall off. I am going to (as an experiment) try to put these together into a gallery on a separate page with links back to the pics and posts.

 

Next on the agenda is a couple fo large paintings ( which should be done by months end) a series of drawings involving tentacles, randomized header art ( hopefully with animation!) and the mythical webcomic. I’m gonna scan some old and odd art work as well.