Alright, I'm starting work in Monday, so I may go back to the posting once a month thing (one-half the posting twice a month that went on in July and August. Yes, L., if you're checking, you missed about four entries since you were exiled to Utah.)
Instead of a big block of bitch, like my last couple entries, I give you some pics. Of me, me smoking a cigar, and me at my portfolio show with my friend Brian. Appropriately, Brian is the one who supplies me with cigars.
Gansta' style, white trash, and suited big man. That's right, ladies, I am a chameleon.
I am currently working on two different art projects. One is a top secret, hopfully will work out, fantasy-based graphic novel. The script is done and I'm trying to decide whether to paint it or not. I am an okay painter, but this project demands that cool modern fantasy look like the recent Dark Horse Cary Nord Conan series, or even the decent, but not overwhelming, current
Luke Ross Jonah Hex series.
Make no mistake, ladies and pimps, I am neither of these artists, talent-wise. I am practicing, and keeping an eye out for anyone with talent, who is also willing to work for free. Actually, if I could find someone who was willing to do several pages and put together a proposal, that would work, too. But, I'll probably end up doing it.
The other project is an old comic script I dug out of retirement. It was actually a sequel to the first comic mini-series I wrote, back in the late 80s. The original series was 15 issues long and would be a snap to draw. I just haven't gotten around to it. It's a gangster story, with plenty of violence, sex, and super-snappy dialog I am so famous for in my later theatre writing. I set it up in a letterbox/movie format, so there are only 3 panels per page, landscape style.
The sequel, the thing I dug up, takes the secondary characters (more specifically, 5 women) and puts them in a modern day Unforgiven, with a touch of David Lynch weirdness thrown in. In the original series there are all these girlfriends and such that are in the background. I realized I wasn't giving them their due, so I shifted focus to set-up this story. The main character and his conflicts literally disappeared for two issues, then concluded, then, they got their own series.
This one is 13 issues long and very character/dialog driven. With a couple of shoot-outs. But it's set much more in the "real world", so consequences and fall-out and all that. I used it as practice to do my first screenplay, so there is three versions of a screenplay of it.
I digress. This series has held up better and can stand on its own. And would be fun to draw. It, too, is set-up faux movie style, three panels per page, so it could be a quick draw. I picture it sort of vector art style, but better, and clean, but as far away from manga as possible. I have been playing around with styles, one of which is posted here, in all its glory.
In my perfect world, I would get a digital camera and take stills of each panel, then illo over it. Not just run photshop filters over it, use it kinda like a color comp. But that would require actors and a long, patient weekend. But, I would feel much more confident illoing it (assuming I couldn't find a clean, non-manga inspired comic artist other than me.)
My new job is on a PC, so I've spent the week doing a fake project in In-Design, to relearn the PC shortcut keys. I did the first year of school on a PC, then swtiched to this here I-Mac, so now it's back. Though my PC only has 512k ram, so it barely runs CS 2. Minimum requirements mean just that, folks.
I think that's about it. Yeah, I'm still annoyed about things. I have an internal dialog about how passenger profiling is a good thing (please notice the very specific term "passenger", not "racial" or "religious", though I think those things are worth engaging in an intelligent discussion over.) Do you know how many terrorists have been caught at check-in lines? Zero, that's right! They've either been caught on the plane, shoe bomber style, blown the plane up, or been caught way before boarding, in their own house. So you know what this screening of innocent citizens does? That's right, zero! If the government/gatekeepers would have actually used the policies already in place on Sept 10th, Sept 11th wouldn't have happened. So why do we have a bunch of new policies? Yep, fear.
Whoops, there I went again.
Have a great August and if anything exciting happens, you'll be the first blog to know. Yes, it's my only one, whattya want to do about it?
Instead of a big block of bitch, like my last couple entries, I give you some pics. Of me, me smoking a cigar, and me at my portfolio show with my friend Brian. Appropriately, Brian is the one who supplies me with cigars.
Gansta' style, white trash, and suited big man. That's right, ladies, I am a chameleon.
I am currently working on two different art projects. One is a top secret, hopfully will work out, fantasy-based graphic novel. The script is done and I'm trying to decide whether to paint it or not. I am an okay painter, but this project demands that cool modern fantasy look like the recent Dark Horse Cary Nord Conan series, or even the decent, but not overwhelming, current
Luke Ross Jonah Hex series.
Make no mistake, ladies and pimps, I am neither of these artists, talent-wise. I am practicing, and keeping an eye out for anyone with talent, who is also willing to work for free. Actually, if I could find someone who was willing to do several pages and put together a proposal, that would work, too. But, I'll probably end up doing it.
The other project is an old comic script I dug out of retirement. It was actually a sequel to the first comic mini-series I wrote, back in the late 80s. The original series was 15 issues long and would be a snap to draw. I just haven't gotten around to it. It's a gangster story, with plenty of violence, sex, and super-snappy dialog I am so famous for in my later theatre writing. I set it up in a letterbox/movie format, so there are only 3 panels per page, landscape style.
The sequel, the thing I dug up, takes the secondary characters (more specifically, 5 women) and puts them in a modern day Unforgiven, with a touch of David Lynch weirdness thrown in. In the original series there are all these girlfriends and such that are in the background. I realized I wasn't giving them their due, so I shifted focus to set-up this story. The main character and his conflicts literally disappeared for two issues, then concluded, then, they got their own series.
This one is 13 issues long and very character/dialog driven. With a couple of shoot-outs. But it's set much more in the "real world", so consequences and fall-out and all that. I used it as practice to do my first screenplay, so there is three versions of a screenplay of it.
I digress. This series has held up better and can stand on its own. And would be fun to draw. It, too, is set-up faux movie style, three panels per page, so it could be a quick draw. I picture it sort of vector art style, but better, and clean, but as far away from manga as possible. I have been playing around with styles, one of which is posted here, in all its glory.
In my perfect world, I would get a digital camera and take stills of each panel, then illo over it. Not just run photshop filters over it, use it kinda like a color comp. But that would require actors and a long, patient weekend. But, I would feel much more confident illoing it (assuming I couldn't find a clean, non-manga inspired comic artist other than me.)
My new job is on a PC, so I've spent the week doing a fake project in In-Design, to relearn the PC shortcut keys. I did the first year of school on a PC, then swtiched to this here I-Mac, so now it's back. Though my PC only has 512k ram, so it barely runs CS 2. Minimum requirements mean just that, folks.
I think that's about it. Yeah, I'm still annoyed about things. I have an internal dialog about how passenger profiling is a good thing (please notice the very specific term "passenger", not "racial" or "religious", though I think those things are worth engaging in an intelligent discussion over.) Do you know how many terrorists have been caught at check-in lines? Zero, that's right! They've either been caught on the plane, shoe bomber style, blown the plane up, or been caught way before boarding, in their own house. So you know what this screening of innocent citizens does? That's right, zero! If the government/gatekeepers would have actually used the policies already in place on Sept 10th, Sept 11th wouldn't have happened. So why do we have a bunch of new policies? Yep, fear.
Whoops, there I went again.
Have a great August and if anything exciting happens, you'll be the first blog to know. Yes, it's my only one, whattya want to do about it?
unravled:
I have to confess, I was never a huge fan before, but this show has totally turned me into one. She's adorable. 