Yeah, something like this.

Not a lot done today but a little is better than nothing.

Coming along nicely.

The Living Dead

Apparently this movie is still coming along; one day we might get to see it!

At least

At least some things are moving forward.

She made her escape....

...an incline into a quarry, a multi-story car-park with no cars. In the somewhat brighter rectangle of light at the bottom of the steps there are tattered flags, black sails and remnants of sponsor decals and propaganda. Tarpaulins of plastic, wire and derelict lamp posts make a canopy that are clasping hands covering the marketplace.

Riot District sketch.

...

Ah, set backs

what would I do without you?

Just one more painting:

(Actually I lied, I still have to finish the back cover shhhhh!)

These pages are mostly all painted at about 11" x 17" and they're going to be shrunk down to about 6" x 10" I worry that a lot of the meticulous detail I've put into these will not be apparent in the finished work (dependent on paper stock and print quality etc.). I'm sure I will have my anxieties alleviated when I see some samples before the full run but for now, it really does feel like I've put in all this effort into giving birth to this baby only to now be getting ready to hand it off to a roving band of gypsy printers to raise it.

I suppose that settles it I'll HAVE to do a huge coffee table book of art in the future.

The thing

The thing about taking two years to do a comic is that you improve a great deal over that time. It's hard to see that when you're trundling along day after day sketching on lunch breaks in your car but it's there. When you're doing the final layout before printing it really becomes obvious.
I'm pretty amazed by the range of quality of my work on this thing. From stuff I really should be just painting on the back of to stuff I can't wait to show you when it's released.

A mixed blessing is being fairly proficient with the Photoshop dark arts. With relative ease, I can actually go back and "fix" some of my older, less good work or fly-in some entirely new paintings to keep the art more consistent with the newer and better stuff.

All it costs you is a tremendous amount of time and your dignity.

An art blog is a very different thing from a writing blog. As Something Animal wraps up and I turn more and more of my attention towards Riot District (which is much more of a writing endeavor than a painting one at the moment) it is becoming harder to show you what I'm working on. It's a great feeling to be finally channeling all these ideas into one place and having the means (somewhat) to do it all by myself. So you'll have to just trust me when I say it's going to be good.

Sage advice.

Shink