Saturday, May 29, 2010

Slipping Through: News

Just an update on my newest comic, "Slipping Through". After some consideration I have decided to redo a great deal of what I have so far. I fussed over a page in photo shop, trying to get it to look decent, until I realized the page could not be salvaged. Looking at what I've posted so far I see a lot of things I want to correct.

I regret none of my work up until this point! It has been quite educational. Now I will be redoing most of the early pages. I've decided to stick to a standard layout arrangement of three horizontal panels per page rather than my previous, unstructured approach.

And I'm off!

Friday, May 28, 2010

Lord of the Masque


The villain for "Slipping Through" is this fine gentleman. Lord of the Masque. There is meaning to that name, which will become clear in time. He is still under development, but I do know that he is arrogant and probably is tearing holes in the fabric of time and space. The jerk.

I posted this elsewhere and submitted it to be featured in an art group on this site. It was declined so I asked why, hoping for some helpful advice. They answered thusly,

"it was declined because of quality. The work is good, how you caught the movement and their facial expressions are great and but a little more work could be done with coloring. The colors are too flat and a little dull in my opinion.
if you thin out the lines a little bit and put more effort in coloring the piece would look different, the shading was okay but again, a little more detailed coloring would make it a better piece.
wish you luck next time"

A very nice reply which would be helpful except . . . most of the problems they list were deliberate choices on my part. I am deliberately cultivating a thick-lined style because it is a cartoon, the same with the semi-flat coloring. As for the colors being dull, that was intentional because I wanted the character to be understated aside from his bright red mask. In essence, for my work to be approved of I would have to adopt a completely different style.

Just my little complaint of the day.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Pretzel and the Princess: Part 3




Another installment in our thrilling and action packed adventure! Ahem. By the way, there are cellphones in this world. Actually, I'm pretty sure at least one of the castle's towers is a cellphone tower.

Coming up next: Vague parenting and sibling rivalry!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

A Brief Interlude




A sampling of my ceramic work over the last year. I can't think why I haven't posted images before, but here we are. Ceramics is one of my favorite artistic mediums and I'm thinking about making that my focus in graduate school. We shall see.

These are all porcelain, thrown on the wheel and fired in an electric kiln. Later I'll post some of my raku pieces with a brief explanation of what "raku" is. Awesome, is what it is. I might do ceramics in graduate school just so I can raku all semester long which goes hand in hand with setting things on fire all semester long.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

New Project: Slipping Through


This is my new project, a comic called "Slipping Through". The main characters are Maggie the Magician and Ting the shape-shifter. Together they fight crime! Uh, Monsters. They fight monsters. They come from broken homes, too. Keep checking for updates!