No new comic page today (LATE)

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(Edit: this was supposed to go up jan 18. but some things took longer, there was a snow storm and a zombie apocalypse! really!) yeah, so I need to make a set -in-stone character sheet for my main character as I’m noticing he’s drawn pretty off model in every thing so far. ( I am still drawing a character sheet, but here is the new page. Need to keep that forward momentum. I would like to take this time to mention that I am not wearing pants.) Probably due to there not really being a model. The vikings are pretty developed but its not a comic about Jeff and Bob, the ambiguously gay vikings; it’s a barbarian revenge (yes thats a genre) comic about a mildly psychopathic rabbit. In its stead I’m publishing the first LLFD page. It moves! horray! This is gonna get its own page. I have two more of these in scripting and story boarding currently. One a month seems to be reasonable for this amount of work. ( this is a generous assumption. this was the first one and my first real attempt into animation. As a result I am now taking two animating classes and have a couple of hundred bucks worth of books. The first thing you learn is how much you dont know.)

As I look at it (DB) some elements are really starting to gel and others need…simplification for lack of better word. Less detail but more information.

Here are some of my new DB Banners. I’m also working on custom navigation.

And a tattoo I’m doing for my friend Paul

and some little monsters

seriously I could this shit all day. you know if I could get paid for it. sigh. ——-> Goes to work.

heya its the shizz:

I amy have added this before, if so read it again

Cool indie comics shizz

dope ass metal comics stuff

DB page 5

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meh wordpress, you make me crazy, I have this “publicize” plugin which does not do that. or more specifically it will publicize my posts but not my comics and as much as like to have an audience when I rant about nonsense I would much rather people see my comics. So new Deth Bunny page here. I was working on anew page last night and it feels like it might be a good a idea to do some character sheets. I do a lot of guessing and guessing sucks cus maybe its right and maybe its not so right. I drew a bunch of new headers for the strip this weekend because the one I have is a stacked logo in a landscape box. its awkward.

Finished one of two final animations last night for my 1st LLFD comic. The last one is spinning cycle, that should be fun. you know like surgery. then i am going to rip the whole page apart and reconstruct it piece by piece and color it. Which will take less time than it sounds. I also started an animation class this week and I think that it will push everything forward quite a bit. Huzzah for forward motion.

Shiz I’m into this week:

bird boy really well drawn webcomic

white tower not so well drawn webcomic, but it works cus everything is on model and the story is compelling.

ugh, not much this week, I’ve been buried in work and havent been reading/watching/listening to anything new.

DB Page Four (five?)

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Hiya,
Missed my update yesterday which is dumb since I was home all day. Stupid snow.
Working on a new header for the DB stuff. It’s better than nuthin but still needs work.

I’m gonna upload the new page today so I dont have to deal next week.

Animation is real hard work! It is meticulous and time consuming. Plus I dont fully understand the mechanics which makes it even harder. I have two more animated elements in my first LLFD strip and I think that might push my release of that towards the end of the month. I am storyboarding the second one currently. I actually should start trying to write new ones as I have fallen out of the habit. I have a backlog of ones I havent published though. But I should get back in the habit of trying to write one everyday, whether it sucks or not. It is a far better habit than playing Marvel Avengers Alliance until I’m late for work everyday.

Shiz I am into this week:

Allred and Fraction’s FF Is wonderful and fun

Arrow is full of awesome torsos

Upstream Color is better than Primer. I hope someday some one backs a truck full of money onto Shane Carruth’s front lawn. Dude needs to make all of the movies. Yes, its that good.

Umbral is pretty dope. Loved Wasteland but I guess that is ending soonish? Umbral feels like an old children’s fantasy movie, back when children’s fantasy movies where weird and dark and violent and not sanitized.

Ty Seagal makes me happy in a fuzzed out distorted kinda way.

SHADOW OF THE WET NOODLE.

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EYEM ON THA VACATIONS.

Actually I just got a couple of extra days off. I don’t get vacations, I’m poor and didn’t finish college. But It means that I got the new Deth Bunny Page up! In actuality I took it and split it into three strips. It seems like it might read a little better that way. I will also have the full page up ( and for sale). Today I will finish up I think its page six? and start work on inking a couple more. My lettering is slowly improving. I have about another month of stuff already done and I’ll be making more pages. I think I can average about a page a week. thats my current goal.

I’m contemplating mimicking the format of this. It seems like a pretty smart way to handle webcomic stuff with out getting tied down to a limiting format. I believe the ratios they use also allow them to translate to print with relative ease. And you know ITS A COMIC BOOK A BOUT A HOT STEAM PUNK PIRATE CAPTAIN.

Since I have a small back log of the Deth Bunny pages, I am going to finish the animated Lessons Learned From Dreams page. I also started on the second LLFD page, also animated, which I expect will take a lot longer as it will be more ambitiously animated. I am going to be taking an animation class this winter which I hope will help speed up the process. My Primary inspiration for this is the quite brilliant MOTH comic and the equally impressive Thunderpaw.

I have to go back to work tomorrow and its weighing heavily on me. I spend almost the entire time working wishing I was drawing. This shizz by Brandon Graham gives me hope. Most shizz by Brandon Graham gives me hope. It’s like how I feel about David Bowie Only with comics.

Here is the full DB page:

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New Comic

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So I have a couple of full pages done and I’m gonna post them one a week, cus I’m real slow at getting the done even though I have 10 penciled.
Anyway, here is the first Deth Bunny strip. its pretty basic. It was more a psychological experiment in finishing something used to build momentum. I also figured out how to put a title header on the pages designating which comic its from and how to link them so you can scroll through the different titles with out them getting all mixed up. woo hoo content delivery.

You will notice the first few pages are all different sizes and orientations. But I figure you are a tolerant bunch and will except them, no matter what size they are.

I have a few pages for the hunter too, and once I have a suitable backlog I will start posting those as well.

All the pages will ultimately be for sale and for each title I will also be making a small run of floppies after i produce blocks of story arc. They will be cool and you will want to buy them.

So read it, subscribe to it ( do i have that set up?) tell your friends, blah blah blah.

Lessons Learned from Other Peoples Dreams

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I’m working on a full page with animations, I hope to be finished this weekend sometime. I have a bunch of sketches to post as well.

I wrote like a page and a half this morning. It needs serious editing but it felt good, I haven’t been able to capture anything for a couple of weeks.

Just found this person the internets, Emily Carrol, a cool site of this woman’s comics and portfolio. It is of particular interest to me because she does a illustrated dream journal pages. They are fully painted and rather beautiful. She also made this video game Gone Home which looks wonderful and to be a very interesting and interactive approach to story telling.

I am in the middle of a class at RISD, I have a couple of cool projects I’m working on for that but I figure I am going to do a full process post for each of them when I am finished.

huzzah.

lobster guy

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just some random shit

Iggy!

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Skate Board Painting

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So, my girlfriend let me know that the Hive Gallery still needed some people to put skateboards in their annual skateboard painting exhibition thingy. As I am trying to put myself out there a little more aggressively this year, I went for it. This is the process I used to make the painting.

STEP ONE: Freakout.

I start everything like this. Dissatisfaction helps drive my creative process. It’s not as unhealthy as it seems. Really! Dont you judge me. It helps push me. Off a cliff. Into anxiety land.

(pic of me freakign out)

STEP TWO: Inspiration and reference.

Calm down and get to work. Usually this starts with an idea and some research. I’ve been drawing lots of wolf skulls for a comic I’m working on and liked the idea of the words “bad wolf” in Welsh “Blaidd Drwg” from doctor who.

Santa-Cruz-Rob-Roskopp-Skateboard-Decks

I like the old roskopp boards.

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I also liked the old tony hawk boards with the skull .

wolf skull reference

I decide I’m going to do a drawing with line and trap shading in b& w and carve the words in to the board with a dremel and inlay with gold .

STEP THREE: sketch and plan

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Did a bunch of sketching. have a big block of newsprint for this.

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Did a couple of studys of wolf skulls.

STEP FOUR: refine

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I made some sketches full size and then traced them out to refine them. I used this as the basis for the painting itself.

At this point I started to question the feasibility of lettering.

Step Five: paint

Sign paint and shitty brushes. really like the wood grain. I dont have any pics form this. I sketched it out in pencil on the board, blocked it out in white and out lined everything in black.

I ditched the lettering: I could barely make a dent in the wood with the dremel. I could see it taking a really long time and then not coming out well. I still like the idea so we’ll save it for a rainy day and another project.

stop freaking out (not really the freaking out continues to this day)

ultimately It was not the worst piece there and not the best piece.

Shugah-Shugah

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These are sugar skulls I drew for a friend of mine to get tattooed on her thighs. After getting the line work done, she has also threatened to get “fuck you jamison” tattooed directly below them. Heh, I think I’ll draw that up too. 😉

Time Management

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…not my greatest skill. It’s made worse by the amount of different projects I have going all at the same time, some of, in which, I don’t have a high level of expertise. Writing and drawing the comic, figuring out how to make the site do what I want, how I want it to look, how to organize the artwork i have and trying to do new work at the same time. And this isn’t even my full time job.

I think I have enough sussed out that I don’t have to muck around with my site for a while and can get down to posting stuff. I am going to do an art dump once a month, also adding things to the appropriate portfolio page as I go. I have five pages of the hunter mostly ready, and a Title page layed out. After I get at least one issue of buffer I’ll start posting that once/twice a week? I would like to get my head around easel/comic easel enough to have additional materials for the comic like character sketches and process materials.

I will also be participating in the Hive Skatedeck art show ( in February) and making painting for a friends tattoo shop.

In the mean time here’s some sketch book stuff.

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I have neglected this a lot. Towards the end of the summer I sussed out a lot of the technical stuff that i didn’t understand, so it looks nice. I have a a ton of new stuff to post. a few comic pages too, haven’t entirely figured that out yet. planning to start school again and go straight through until I’m done. Have a package deal planned for a family venture. Hopefully big stuff.