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alms for the poor

by admin on September 24, 2012 at 12:00 am
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wychwolf part 2 page 32-interlude pt8

So, our interlude comes to a close…and with any luck Adam will have a bit more of the real story ready before next week.
One of the reasons for the interlude is that when we visited Wimborne last Summer we found so many different bits and bobs , the simply wouldn’t fit into one story.
The Alms box for instance is hewn from a vast beam, and has a vast number of keys, there is an astronomical clock, and a chained library, and all manner of borrowed Egyptiana at the House.

On a different tack I’ve been working on the Dalek that has cluttered my office for the last 10 years… I’ll be posting updates on :http://killer-carrot.blogspot.co.uk as I progress.

I’m also bracing myself for 24HCD which is towards the end of October… I’ll post details about that on http://www.strangebiros.co.uk

On an arty front, I’ve been working in pen in the Sketch book, and aside from a couple of grumbles the latest iteration of Mountain Lion doesn’t seem to be too bothered… although it wasn’t sure it liked the scanner earlier today. I continue to consider purchase of a Wacom Cintiq, but wonder how long before tablet technology gets good enough for real work… the Cintiq feels quite old fashioned in some ways.

That’s all for this week.

Rob

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I am the keymaster

by admin on September 17, 2012 at 12:00 am
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wychwolf 2 interlude 2 page 8

I’m trying hard to take a bit of pride in stuff I’m doing… I was struck by something in a recent “Developing Perspective” where David Smith, the presenter talked about enjoying work. Anyway. I hope to be doing a little less of the cut and paste, and a bit more of the drawing monsters which if what I enjoy doing.
This Interlude is nearly at an end, but there’ll be another along soon as part of the #24HCD effort.

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something that disagreed with him

by admin on August 27, 2012 at 12:00 am
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wychwolf part 2 page 32-interlude pt6

Last week of holiday, nearly finished with this interlude… maybe a couple of three more pages.
October looms, and with it 24 Hour Comic Day, whilst it’s against the spirit of the challenge to plan in advance, I do really want to use the opportunity to tell another Wychwolf interlude.
Adam indicated the other day that there’s a problem in this genre of accidentally tripping over plot points from a number of already told stories… I know I’ve found numerous “Hellboy” plot components that I’ve only come across after I’ve told them. I guess in some ways it should make me think I’m on the right lines.

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speechless

by admin on August 13, 2012 at 12:00 am
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wychwolf2 interlude 2 page 4

I put this page together using pixelmator2, it’s £10.49, in the app store, and does almost everything I need. Minor niggles, like inability to see file size at different compression rates… and different mappings (CMD SHIFT Z) for redo – like PS, wheras I prefer a CMD Y…
Still, it seems reasonably ok.

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cold iron

by admin on August 6, 2012 at 12:00 am
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wychwolf part 2 page 32-interlude pt3

Last day of holidays. I’ve been working on the book I’m going to stick in the ibooks store, doing various bits of housework, at home and at my Mum’s, and studying Java hard.
Didn’t manage to get a buffer drawn for the wychwolf story, in fact I missed last week as I was driving to York.

Still, there’s time, I’m trying new tools and techniques, I did much of the outlining this week with a Uniball, and I’ve ordered a couple of the pens Ryan Estrada talked about on this weeks “Comics are Great” podcast . The Stylo Refill MLJ20

Will report back on how these work out.

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Consumption

by admin on July 23, 2012 at 12:00 am
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wychwolf part 2 page 32-interlude pt2

Whoohoo, I’m on holiday… a staying at home, and fixing up the house, sort of holiday.
So far I’e changed a loo seat, fixed the “float operated valve”, or ballcock, pressure washed the grime behind the back door, and pulled up about 200kg of weeds from the allotment.
I aim to do a morning shift of work, and an afternoon of drawing, so if I had story to draw, I might even get a little buffer built up… or not.

I’ve also started working through the “Drawing on the Right hand side of your brain” book with Dom.
Whilst the scientific underpinnings may not bear close inspection, the exercises work well, and work feel. I’m sure I have a couple of sketches from the last time I went through it.. perhaps 20 years ago?

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Interlude 2

by admin on July 16, 2012 at 12:00 am
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wychwolf part 2 page 32-interlude

The script calls for a corpulent Greed Demon, but strangely the only reference I can find for a Demon of Greed is a Medieval Manuscript etching that looks more like a rangy bird…The demon of greed and the treasure-hunting fool. From Sebastian Brant’s Navis Stultifera, printed by Bergman de Olpe, Basle, 1494.
I have a lot of work to get done this week, and then have a couple of weeks of leave… I’d like to think I’ll get some pages into a buffer, but that means they need to be written (cough) and also that I get round to doing them. Currently the plan is to spend most of my holiday repairing window frames, painting and fixing toilets. What a holiday :)

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