blip dj

trying this little web dj site out. kind of cool. it's easy to find songs but hard t ofind ones that are actually available.

http://blip.fm/mikeyboy42

missing time, weddings and crashed computers

Missed a couple days at the end of last week trying to get some stuff done for my sister-in-law's wedding in South Carolina last weekend. Now I'm back. Fixed my computer (again) and am ready to get back to work. hopefully I can get a page colored by monday.

page 7-8 colors

Almost done with this. got a little to do on the back grounds, panel 1 and some clean up but this is pretty much it. some work to do over the weekend and then on to page 9.

Colors page 6

Colors page 5

Back into colors now. Kevin has to add the words, then this should go up over at Legendsofsuperwrestle.net pretty soon. WE are trying to get a page a week up for the next couple weeks. I am already a few days behind on that but this was a good page for shaking the rust off. Let me know what you think.

page 13 done

I am pretty happy with this. inking and all. probably the most ink I've ever put on a page.

page 13 work

found some time to draw today. I have to say t's really nice drawing in the afternoon rather than in the middle of the night. ah well...

life drawing

Attended another open life drawign session at the art league this weekend. my best drawing was my first of the day, a 10 minute sketch.



Will post some work on page 13 of Pinned tonight.

life drawing

Links: Bike Trainers

http://www.bicycling.com/article/1,6610,s-1-4-304-1,00.html
http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-4-20-13681-1,00.html

page 12 done

page 12 more work 2

page 12 more work

lots of drawing this weekend but didn't spend too much time with the comic until today. Added a lot to page 12 today but still have a way to go.

page 12

did some work on page 12. major page elements placed. I like how it's shaping up so far.

Some tunes to listen too:
Nothing ever happened to me - Deerhunter -
Adam and Steve - Megapuss (tropical taint?

page 12 - gettin started again

Shook the rust off with some sketches yesterday so tonight I tried to do some work on page 12 - -still rusty. Trying to get the perspective of the city street and nate on his bike so I created a little scene in sketchup...here are two layouts I like.



Now i just read some battle angel so I am jazzed about the way Kishiro draws speed. Not sure If I am going to try this in here but I played with it a little bit on Nate's legs and the wheels as he pedals fast down the street...



looks a little hairy but could look cool.

sketch

Liquid Revolver

Liquid Revolver is a comic I worked on with a handfull of other folks is being published by Matt Dembibki at Three Crows Press. I only did a handful of pages but I am really excited! Go check it out and buy a copy!!!!

Life Drawing

Note to self:
Don't forget.

Bernier At Comic Tools

Matt Bernier over at comic tools hits the nail on the head:

I feel good about the work I'm doing, but I'm not working this hard because I want to, I'm doing it because I have to. The way I stay balanced is by making sure that nothing leaves my table that I'm ashamed of. But it's SO hard not to get lazy. It's so hard, when you're ready to move on to the next page, and you see that a panel could be re-shot from another angle to be a little better. It's so hard not to say "It's good enough, no one will care," and move on to an earlier bedtime.

But what I know is, when I buckle down and do it, I'm always proud and I sleep soundly, and when I don't do it I sleep with a thief's conscience. When I do it, people look at those panels and compliment me, and the memory of that praise obliterates the memory of the labor, but when I don't do it, I know what I did and the work feels wasted and pointless.

So true.