Things have been a little mental lately, but back to say hi again and give you some rambling updates.
MG&GL has been going pretty well so far, although the slow speed I’m able to work on it is being a little excruciating. Jack and I actually have quite a lot of story planned out for the thing that I can’t wait to get to. And in the mean time it’s been fun to draw, and an interesting challenge adapting his prose into single-page suitable scripts (when I’m much more used to working long-form.) Makes me want to break out and re-read the Nikolai Dante that much more… there’s something really special in the pacing of stuff like that series, where you have these great on going stories that also have to work in 5-page chunks so every single page has to be spot on. I don’t buy the progs, so when I read them I get the story all at once but because or the original form it’s pretty much super-condensed. You don’t see that much in mainstream comics outside of 2000ad and print versions of web comics. Unless I’m wrong, in which case give me links, people.
(Interestingly, I’m not sure FreakAngels does it. I love it, but then I also love decompressed storytelling too. Instead of cramming in a tonne into 5 pages, FA seems to just flow from one intense moment to the next, it always leaves you wanting more without that hyper distilled storytelling you get in something like Dante.)
Back to me (egolicious, mmm) and comics though, I’ve been having great fun with a series of workshops I’m doing with the lovely Andrew Barton for CYC. The deal is this: For Culture Shock festival this year, we’re making a comic. A massive comic strip, on big banners to go up in the camp-site. We’re taking the banner to schools and youth clubs and each group is adding on, continuing the story. This has been some of the most fun I’ve had in a workshop, and the banner is looking great so far. The next date is this Saturday 2-5pm at Harrogate Trax, followed by another in-school one on the 15th. The Trax one is open to anyone, so come along and join us.
In other news, the web design work I’ve been doing has been making me want to spruce this place up again… but I’m gonna give it a wait, lest we have yet another thing where I spend more time doing redesigns than actually updating the thing. Online content wise, I should hopefully be doing some more streaming in the next couple of weeks as well, for a couple of commissions and possibly for colouring a MG&GL page, if people are interested in seeing that.
Meanwhile, I’m going to leave you with some sketches and pieces I’ve been doing lately. Enjoy.
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- Teto and Carbunkle
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- Curon Commission
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- Conell Janiever
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- Calvin will not build you a deathray. Stop asking.
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- Miss SCIENCE!
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- The Gentlelady Thief
OMG, I LOVE YOUR ARTWORKS< SO COOL, yeahs, i hope you draw more cool manga~ cant wait, been a fan of you for like, ever since i saw your book, how to draw manga, you snd my brother made me draw manga, even though i love it, i can only draw boys, but I'm all goods, boys are cool, my drawing type is blocky but sketchy, I'm pretty alright, hopefully i might post some on my facedbook, if you have facebook, hope you can add me ~ and ill see you soon~ btw, what type is your drawing style … i might need to do you on my homework xD if you don't mind (:
From when you first published your books on ‘how to draw manga’ to making a website called chaoslace.co.uk until now, I have been watching you…and my have you improved. I’m just your average Joe from Australia and just here to say that you are doing a great job. You are also an inspiration to me as well. From when I first got your book and drawn pictures. I was then started to realised that I can draw. Ever since then I’ve been doing some artwork ever since. One question though. Why is it that you share your personal stuff to the public? Why submit art online?
Cheers
I submit my personal stuff because art should be shared, really. It’s stuff that I wouldn’t be getting paid for, I’ve got no reason to keep it hidden.