Hundred Acre Hood

So, you’ll notice there was some intermission. Andy and myself got busy with the craziness that is life but we’re still trucking along, just not in blogged fashion as should be custom. But, fear not, after an for-now-to-remain-unnamed spokesperson took a haymaker to the jawbone for telling people of our ambitions only for them to discover our unannounced intermission, we’ve had a new fire lit.

On with the point though.

I’ve been holding off as I wanted to have a polished, finished first panel made based on the script Andy wrote. But, noooo, my perfectionist side wouldn’t let me get things done so I spent the last week or so drawing and redrawing things until I felt insanity creeping out of the eraser-shavings scattered about my drawing table. You can tell that the top half has been done for a while, with the faded and phantom lines scattered about the bottom half. I had a helluva time making Robbie run in that 3rd row. He looks way older in that pane too because I couldn’t get the dimensions right for his torso (needs to be shorter and not lanky-looking) but I’ve decided I’m going to let it slide because, well, I don’t need another spokesperson getting busted chops because I can’t get over my drawings having sporadic growth spurts.

Really don’t like how his face is on the 2nd to last pane on the bottom row is either. Didn’t realize how hard it is to keep uniformity on faces until doing this. I have a huge respect for the skill it has to take to draw and redraw the same face 1000 times in the same way so it’s recognizable visually.

So, it’s not done, it’s not even inked or touched up and the monologue is absent but, this my friends is what I shall call for now a “skeleton panel”. Look for something similar to this soon but in a much sexier finish.

Well, between my computer randomly showing me just how much I really need him by deciding to corrupt it’s Windows XP install, and work being so busy I’ve had dreams about it, January started out much more slowly than I had hoped in the old Comickery.

However, I’m pretty psyched after breaking out the drawing tools. I made my first page today. Now, it’s not really related to anything I’d call canon but what it did for me was get me into the habit of drawing more than curly haired guys with different smiles. I think the hardest thing for me, in as far that I like to write, is that writing with pictures is basically what creating good comics is about. Telling a story without words is what makes or breaks a good comic I like to feel. Not that I’ve had a lot of experience making them of course, but damned if I haven’t read a lot of them. So, degree by habit I say. Right?

So, feast upon weekend randomness.

Both Brandon and I have a lot going on in 2008, but I feel that the only true way to get this site going is by brute force.  I’ve proposed a post every day starting on January 14 for the next 365 days.  My wife feels that this sort of goal is absurd and most surely will end up in failure. I know she’s just saying that to provoke me. Bless her. For the next couple of months I don’t think we have the free time to post the quality comics we have been envisioning, however, I think posting “anything” is better than nothing so we’ll see how it goes.  Happy new year.

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