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CURRENT - 2009- 2008- 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 2.28.2010I don't know why I'm so tired lately. It seems like I spend most of the weekends sleeping, recovering from the previous week and recharging for the next, instead of creating. This… displeases me (to put it mildly) As I've been posting new art online, I've been neglecting to add much descriptive text of the works or the process of creating them. Maybe it's just an ego-trip, but I always find the process writing other artists include with their works fascinating, so I want to include them in my own. I love getting insight into the process of others. As much for education as commiseration. The problem I've been having lately is that, in order to properly analyze the creative process, I have to break my flow to some degree. I had hoped I could just rattle off "stream-of-consciousness" bursts of my internal monologue as I work, but it seems to be instead, that I ruminate on that which I've have completed, instead of taking the creative "high" of finishing a page/piece and using it as kindling for beginning the next one. It's like there's an artistic inertia. An artist in motion will stay in motion. Diverting that inertia into analysis seems to be slowing the freight train, when I want to stoke the coals. Perhaps if I can find a way to achieve the same creative high from writing about what I'm doing, or somehow fold it into the piece itself… 2.14.2010SEATTLE! Mar 13-14 I'll be at EMERALD CITY COMIC CON! Find me @ Table B-06 w/ my boy Karl Altstaetter …Come out, say hi, and pick up come comics! 2.07.2010Some notes I made to myself, trying to codify the informational capacity of comic books … 4 layers of comic book storytelling Each one of these elements
can tell a different story from the other elements in the same pattern,
creating a complex mosaic of narrative…Within a single comic book
panel
In addition - Each panel can juxtapoze against the other panels in the page 1. Design-wise Most other forms of media are linear in their communication, whereas comics deliver information in multiple simultanious streams, to be organized within the reader's brain.
Also… I made a video slideshow of chapter 01 of Eye of the Gods 1.28.2010Comic Pimpin'! - Some very good friends of mine have some comics coming out: http://komickarl.deviantart.com/ Pre-Orders for Issue #2 of
Emerald City Blues. The saga continues as Dorothy
and Three covers! Alternate Dorothy Cover Alternate Dorothy Sketch
Back Cover “Emerald City Comic
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books Paypal
at karl@hyperwerks.com A noir classic in the making.... (Re-post via http://smifink.deviantart.com/) Hey all, I have come across something
that I am excited about...and that's a rare thing. :)
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1.10.2010Oh Snap is practically done… but you won't be seeing it for a while. It's not long enough for a full issue's worth of comic book (16 pages) so I'm gonna wait until I have a few more short stories to bundle it with, Antholgy-style. In the end, it served as an excellent exercise for refining the style I plan to use for my next few projects. In the meantime, I'm getting started on layouts for a new all-ages one-shot and character designs for the next graphic novel. I may post a page, here and there… just because.
1.04.2010Listening to an audiobook of Mike Carey's 2nd Felix Castor novel. Vicious Circle. Took a little while to warm up to the narrator and the tone of book, but over an hour into it and I'm hooked. It feels very John Constantine Hellblazer, but I'm a fan of the character… even though I have had a chance to read Carey's run on it. Ended up wasting time on Amazon reading up on some of the other books in the series, and even digging around collections of some to the Hellblazer writer's runs. I'm trying to wind down from a week off from work, so I should probably pack it in at a reasonable (1:20AM) hr to make the transition a little less painful. Still, though… tempted to read a bit more of Guy Davis' THE MARQUIS. before Nemoland. I'm struggling through a
bout of ADD as I crank out the lettered roughs for the last 3 pages
of Oh Snap. My task was very simple. Make alterations to word balloon
placement and print out enlarged layouts for tracing to final bristol.
Fortunately, I worked out the composition of the cover months ago. I
just scanned in the postage-stamp sized thumbnail at 600dpi and blew
it up to the size of the rest of my pages. Might as well finish the
whole thing in one foul swoop. Here's the thing, though… I don't want to fall into the trap of making changes for changes' sake. It's something I have to deal with constantly with clients whenever doing design work. I am of the opinion that changes which make a genuine improvement are the only ones worth changing. In a year's time, I'm not gonna care if I didn't make the button on that shirt perfectly elliptical, so why drive myself into crazy over it? In another sense, I may look
back on this phase of my life and say "What a fool!" It may
well be the sum of those tiny details that add up to the greater whole
that I seek… but for now, I wanna jam. I think Jonathan Hickman's
THE NIGHTLY NEWS is uber-meta-dense. So is the work of Alan Moore &
Grant Morrison. I think George Perez and Dave Gibbons would fit into
those categories as well (to give fair time to the visuals.) Dense,
not in a rendering, hatching, sense… but in a sense of meaningful
descriptive visual information clearly communicated to the reader. I'm a simple man. I just try to suck a little less each day.
CURRENT - 2009- 2008- 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002
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