Slipping through now has it's own website:
Slipping Through
Lots of pages you haven't seen are posted up there! Any new pages will be posted THERE. I will NOT post any more pages here. Happy reading!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Slipping Through: News
I am about to post the new first chapter of Slipping Through. This is definitive, this is the last reboot, this is the ONE.
Those of you familiar with the story are aware of only Maggie's storyline which I have always begun with. Finding only frustration and creative dead ends there, this time I'm starting with the Changelings storyline.
An uncertain king deals with the tragedy that befalls his mountain kingdom in a world with a purple sky. However, he may only exist in the dreams of an ambitious magician.
Read, hopefully enjoy, and comment!
Those of you familiar with the story are aware of only Maggie's storyline which I have always begun with. Finding only frustration and creative dead ends there, this time I'm starting with the Changelings storyline.
An uncertain king deals with the tragedy that befalls his mountain kingdom in a world with a purple sky. However, he may only exist in the dreams of an ambitious magician.
Read, hopefully enjoy, and comment!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Now and Then
As I was working on Slipping Through I pulled up an old piece for color reference. Struck by the changes time and practice has wrought, I thought I'd post the pieces for comparison.
Here we have Benedict, a magician, drawn just around a year ago.
His hat is so . . . squashed? It is supposed to be a top hat, but it looks more like . . . nothing humankind has ever seen before. And his face is funky. All the proportions all wrong and a year ago I couldn't tell, no matter how much I studied it. Also, he was supposed to have curly hair, but it was beyond my skills. His body lacks any sort of definition, he's just a blocky suit. What is his hair even doing?
Here his is as of a few minutes ago, a work in progress,
I notice I'm less afraid of darker coloring. Also, he's not so stiff and awkward. Necks are something I've been trying to give all my characters nowadays. As well, I've got a bit better about hands, not so much hit and miss as it was.
And a glimpse of his redesigned cane.
A lot has changed in a year. I know, in my heart, that a year from now I will be making a similar post pointing out the weakness of the pieces I made today. For the moment, his original hat will haunt my dreams.
Here we have Benedict, a magician, drawn just around a year ago.
His hat is so . . . squashed? It is supposed to be a top hat, but it looks more like . . . nothing humankind has ever seen before. And his face is funky. All the proportions all wrong and a year ago I couldn't tell, no matter how much I studied it. Also, he was supposed to have curly hair, but it was beyond my skills. His body lacks any sort of definition, he's just a blocky suit. What is his hair even doing?
Here his is as of a few minutes ago, a work in progress,
I notice I'm less afraid of darker coloring. Also, he's not so stiff and awkward. Necks are something I've been trying to give all my characters nowadays. As well, I've got a bit better about hands, not so much hit and miss as it was.
And a glimpse of his redesigned cane.
A lot has changed in a year. I know, in my heart, that a year from now I will be making a similar post pointing out the weakness of the pieces I made today. For the moment, his original hat will haunt my dreams.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Slipping Through 3.0
The hardest part of learning is that when you start a project, two weeks later the work you've already done is nowhere near the quality of what you're doing presently. Twice I have started Slipping Through and now I'm going for three.
The summer I am dedicating my time to the epic tale of Slipping Through, the tale of a world quite like ours. Expect, here, magic is practiced openly and one might become a Magician the same way one might become a doctor, an attorney or insurance salesman.
The story takes place after a time when the world almost ended, but was repaired in time to save it, though not without cost. The world does not remember how the sky cracked open and other worlds began to slip through into theirs. They do not remember the brave Magicians who made terrible sacrifices to save everyone. It as if none of it ever happened.
The world, however, was imperfectly repaired and there are a few people who remember what happened. Maggie, our hero, remembers. She remembers the magicians who sacrificed themselves so completely that their very existences were destroyed, making so it is as if they were never even born.
Now Maggie's worse fears are being realized: the cracks are reopening and her warnings fall on deaf ears.
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Maggie is not our only hero, there will be at least six different story lines that converge for the final quest to save the world from cracking apart once more.
This summer I will begin the final version of Slipping Through (No more restarts!) and you will meet everyone from Ting the shape-shifter to the Gray Prince, an exile from another world.
Some Changes
Since Barbara's Artistic Achievements is taking care of my traditional mediums, I'm removing all of those posts from this blog, leaving just my webcomics, Slipping Through and Pretzel and the Princess.
All the images of my acrylic, ceramic and other traditional work are all on Artistic Achievements. Link should be on the right-hand side, tell me if you can't find it.
All the images of my acrylic, ceramic and other traditional work are all on Artistic Achievements. Link should be on the right-hand side, tell me if you can't find it.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
It has been too long since I've posted
So here are a couple pictures of a character of mine. His name is Matthew and he's been floating around in my head for about six years. It's only within the last month that I've figured out exactly what he looks like and drawn a satisfactory picture of him.
Nice shades, yes?
This is what he looked like when I drew him two years ago.
Quite a change. The only constants seem to be his earrings and wings. His personality, cheerful and snarky, has never changed, though.
His origins are quite interesting: I dreamed of him one night. A winged man with dark red skin and bright red hair. He seemed interesting and I used him as a character in a story I was working on. The story no longer exists, but within it he lived in the mountains fighting monsters all day, being extremely cheerful. I changed his hair to black and gave him silver claws that froze whatever they slashed.
Nowadays he can't do that, his claws are black, and he can shift back and forth between his human and winged forms.
He probably owes his existence to the fact I adored the show Gargoyles as a child. But by the time I dreamed him up it had been five years since I had last seen the show and had pretty much forgotten it existed. In fact, Matthew eventually reminded me of the show and I ended up watching episodes of it on youtube and getting hooked on it again. Except for the third season. There was never a third season. Never, do you hear me? NEVER.
Nice shades, yes?
This is what he looked like when I drew him two years ago.
Quite a change. The only constants seem to be his earrings and wings. His personality, cheerful and snarky, has never changed, though.
His origins are quite interesting: I dreamed of him one night. A winged man with dark red skin and bright red hair. He seemed interesting and I used him as a character in a story I was working on. The story no longer exists, but within it he lived in the mountains fighting monsters all day, being extremely cheerful. I changed his hair to black and gave him silver claws that froze whatever they slashed.
Nowadays he can't do that, his claws are black, and he can shift back and forth between his human and winged forms.
He probably owes his existence to the fact I adored the show Gargoyles as a child. But by the time I dreamed him up it had been five years since I had last seen the show and had pretty much forgotten it existed. In fact, Matthew eventually reminded me of the show and I ended up watching episodes of it on youtube and getting hooked on it again. Except for the third season. There was never a third season. Never, do you hear me? NEVER.
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