Archive for July, 2010
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Hey look, a pin-up of everyone’s favorite cat and squirrel team! This was a sketch I had of Oscar and 42 and I decided to use it as a coloring exercise. I think it came out pretty cool. I also got some solid Bullfinching done last night on the actual comic which was exciting and re-invigorating. I’m not making an official announcement yet on the return of Bullfinch comics but we’re definitely getting closer.
I’m still deciding on the format to use once I return to regular comic updates. Full page, full color comics which take a little longer and would probably only debut on a Tuesday and Thursday schedule or the traditional half pages I usually do three days a week? Any suggestions are appreciated! I really enjoy doing full pages and the freedom it affords me for backgrounds and camera angles, but the half pages are easier to work on and would speed things up. I guess I have to decide between the artistry of full page comics and the more palatable update schedule with more constraint. Either way for starters you’ll probably see more full page stuff at least in the first couple of weeks.
I watched a crapload of soccer during the FIFA World Cup and I’m kind of in withdrawal now that it’s over . And don’t bother with the anti-soccer arguments, I already get bombarded with those from my friends. Yeah I get it, “What the hell is with the stoppage time?!” (It’s not that hard) “I hate the flopping!” (Yeah we all do, I hate it in the NBA too) “Not enough scoring!” (Well, I like a good 1-0 baseball game and I love a good defensive 13-7 football game too). I think the national sports radio scene has covered the hate in detail for decades now. Anyway it’s damn good fun and I like the idea of international competition even if the USA did lose to some African country. So where to go from here? The MLS is easy and often on TV and it features a growing number of international players like Thierry Henry. It also affords me the chance to actually go to a game someday live. The English Premier League is pretty huge too and I kind of like the idea of following players you will see come 2014 in the next world cup.
Or the NFL season will start up and I’ll forget all about this come September….
TL
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Ah, Captain Stubing, everyone’s favorite squirrel time travel buddy. You know in all these years I’ve never sat down and drawn a character study of Lil’ Stubing so I finally started one. Here is the result, it’s still not a full on proper character design sheet but it’s close. I finally have come up with some appropriate dimensions and general feel of him. Usually he was a bit of an afterthought because in most panels he’s drawn really small. Hopefully in the future I can use him a little more properly and devote some panel space to him seeing as how he’s become such an important character in the Bullfinch mythos.
I would like to thank Brock Heasley for the kind words he said about my departure from Superfogeys:Origins. Also the robust comments from the lovely readers over there because they’re so thoughtful and supportive of what we do. That was a really fun gig and ending on the Soviet Sam story was a nice way to go out. (Also we did a lot of stories with people crying. It’s a little weird in a humor comic) Soviet Sam was really a joint creative combination between Brock and myself and I love that I got to add someone to the great Superfogeys universe. Thanks everyone.
TL
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Here are some recent KC sketches I’ve done in blue pencil and ink pen. I’m really happy to get KC and my other characters into a more animation style with some rounded 3d features. I’ve been researching a lot of different art styles lately and looking at a lot of art based magazines and websites to try to grow as an artist myself. Hopefully all of this will pay off primarily for Bullfinch but also in a freelance artist way down the road here. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing full page stories here like I do with Superfogeys:Origins. At the very least I’ll be staying half page and full color, but having more space for backgrounds and different shots is tempting. I’ll get a poll up here sooner or later.
I also ran the Utica Boilermaker yesterday and finished it in about an hour and sixteen minutes. I was pretty happy with it being kind of a casual runner. It’s 15k which works out to be about 9.3 miles. The temperature was good and it was sunny so it was comfortable up until mile 7 when it started to get hotter. Good stuff though and I believe I came in around 2,471 out of about 11,500 people. Which basically boils down to me being a pretty good casual runner because I wasn’t able to catch up to the Ethiopian guy who won it and ran it in about 45 minutes. So close too…
TL
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