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Lately I've been working a lot on the comic, it's going slowly but I'm sure I'll get quicker as time goes on. Anyways, I generally work on sketches and fun stuff in coffee shops around here to switch up my surroundings.

normal work place, I've commandeered the southern half of the dining room table.

and the coffee shop:


Drawing goofy pictures in public also allows me to meet new people which i'm told is a good thing. This is at the Corner Cafe, and because of the Mr. Rusty Robot I drew, I got to meet Nike, a server there. Hooray for drawing.


In an exciting note, today I started actually inking the first page of the comic. For those of you who don't know, generally an artist uses pencils to first layout a page, then he or another artist will go over it with ink. Then you can paint it if you want, which I will do some day down the line. Anyways this is a big step for me!

see these are the boxes where the drawlings go!

and the FIRST PANEL! Yayz!

And a self portrait, i'm trying to do a couple of these a week, so if you're on facebook, you'll probably see more of 'em.

Medieval Robot?

That's right it's a robot. He'll be in the comic a little later on, not initally, but he's so fun to draw, as most robots are.

I had my first non-zoo gecko siting today. It rocked.

Herb

This is Herb. He's a nearsighted dragon. I'll probably be switching around the colors on him, so nobody get too attached. He's not really cold, he just wanted to look cool like Frank did in his heroic stance below. Frank doesn't think too much of Herb's imitation and says find your own cool accessory that flaps in the wind.

Maybe 1 more character shot tomorrow, but that will probably be it as far as those go.

I'll be Frank with you. Shirley you can't be serious.

Hey, this is a little character sheet for one of the main guys in the comic. Hopefully the other one will be up tomorrow. I like how these are coming out. A lot of room for improvement, but a good start.

I'll do a few more of these for the main characters, but past that I'll probably just put up shots of the thumbnails or development sketches for the actual comic. But not too much, don't want to give away the story:)

Forest Antagonista

Here's a sketch I did today. I really liked how my bad dude turned out, so I decided to see what he might look like colored. I like him. He likes to live in dirty, dank environments so algae and moss grow in his fur.

Also, as far as my life in Durban goes, I woke up at 2 last night and couldn't go back to bed for a few hours thank you very much jetlag. Christy, Jess and I went to the gym today. I was very nice but all the weights were in kilos, so i just went around til a found something heavy to lift. Anyways it was fun. pretty good day. til next time. goodbye.

Arrival and some sketches

Hey everyone, just got into Durban last night. Christy and Jess picked me up from the airport, which was very nice of them. The trip to Durban was quite a different one. If you've ever tried getting actual sleep on an airplane over a 15 and half hour flight then you understand. Even with the sleeping pill it was a challenge. But I made due. We had our own personal tv's, so I watched the Rocker and even got to see the plane land and take off from a camera mounted on the tail of the plane. I also got to do a bit of drawing.


Prototype for the imps that are going to be the mail delivery service in the comic. Imperial Malevolent Parcel Service. IMPS kind of a play off of UPS if you couldn't figure that out already. My favorite tag line is "Neither snow, nor sleet, nor hell can stop an IMP deliveryman." I also like "Service with an evil smile."


Frank and Herb arguing about Frank's navigational skills.


amulet, angry Herb with glasses and some thug.


These next 3 are just me developing the forest dwelling baddy's from the first story run that Silas and I just finished. I like the last one's head, gonna work on some variations of that I think.






oh and here's a truck i did in 3d. not related to this trip at all:)