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Hey guys! Today is 08/08/08 AND I GUESS THAT'S AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY TO MAKE AN UPDATE.
So as you might know this Monday is the last page of the first arc of Skin Deep. I don't want to jump into the LA arc quite yet (PS I need a name for it that isn't "The LA Arc"), and I have that 8 page Fiddler's Cave comic that you've already seen here that I'm going to use for a month of buffer. Also that will be right around September/October (aka the Best Time of the Year) and I want to do a short Jim's Birthday/Halloween comic. I'm writing/thumbnailing it differently than I usually do (I usually write the script THEN thumbnail it), because I did it this way for the Fiddler's Cave comic and I managed to keep the page count down that way. Although I don't think this is gonna be terribly successful, since I'm already on page 21 and I'm not done yet. I'm trying to end it on Halloween, but I'm not sure if that'll happen. Oh well.
In the mean time, look at this wonderful set of haphazardly done thumbnails! PS I've been doing this at work to keep me sane. You might recognize the middle page as being the comic version of this sketch, which is funny cause I didn't mean for that to happen, this is just my craziest page of sketches.
This is a horrible sketch, but I've been trying forever to get a good drawing of Michelle's Halloween costume (PS SHE FINALLY HAS ONE) and none will be had. So instead you get this crappy half-finished one. I did this long before seeing the Dark Knight, around the time when I was reading The Long Halloween and c'mon guys I love the Riddler. Also Riddler/Sphinx, that seems like some retarded pun that Michelle would fine clever.
We have Production meetings every week and look! My note-taking skillz have not improved since college! Whatever I really had to figure out the anatomy of a Makara guys. Things like remembering how to replace Rich Black with Black in InDesign documents were just not as pressing.
OKAY YA'LL THE REAL REASON I MADE THIS UPDATE. I stole this meme from thefrumiousjafe who stole it from aidosaur and it is great.
The jist: Make a Bestiary of sorts with a bunch of your characters. I colored the first one, and I might color the rest, but we'll see how long it takes till I lose interest. I wasn't gonna post these at all till they were all done as so I wouldn't lose my steam, but I'm impatient SO THERE YOU GO.
Abigail: is a Harpy and the bartender of the Nightclub, which actually has several names that I can't remember at the moment.
Blanche: Is a White Stag and he can't wait till September when he can get rid of the goddamned velvet on his goddamned horns. He keeps pickin' at it but his dad is all BLANCHE DON'T PICK YOUR VELVET and Blanche is all YOU AIN'T THE BOSS O' ME.
Colin: is a vicious trouble maker who covers up his crimes with pure adorableness.
Django: is a Bohemian lion from Scotland who can't get his shit together to stay human for more than four seconds and ends up in a Carnival Freak Show in the Midwest during the Dustbowl!
Erin: is a super gay Nokk with a foul mouth and the ability to talk for a billion hours about that time he got chased out of [insert name of small town].
Father Quinn: is an old excommunicated priest who squats in an old church in Chicago. He reluctantly befriends a foul-mouthed angel with a penchant for hard liquor and poker.
Greg: is a satyr we all know and love. He wishes he was not a goat.
Horace: is a boring ol' buggane and Ike's step-father. He could be standing right there in full finny-glory but you probably wouldn't notice cause he'd be too busy talking about accounting or something frightfully dull.
Ike: is Horace's moody grumpy sadsacky step-son and I did not mean to put family members on the same page of this thing but Skin Deep is sadly lacking in the H and the I departments re: First Names. I drew his nose wrong but Sheana can just deal with that.
Jack: is a jackalope that likes to kick things in the ass with wing-tipped shoes. Maybe he is immortal, who really knows I sure don't.
Kiernan: is a satyr I do not draw enough. He gets drunk and jigs to rude songs.
Lorne: is my Nemean homie. Look at that chevron jacket. I know I want one.
Margot: is a faun that I also never draw. She kicks boots with Jack sometimes and freaks people out with her weird doe-eyes.
Nightmare: likes to invade your mind and make you live your worst fears while crushing you to death with her creepy horse skull. She is my favorite.
Orville: would probably date Nightmare if Nightmare were a bugbear. But she is not so instead he will collect more poisonous animals and vintage 50's horror movie posters.
Paul Simon: usually wears his hair in liberty spikes but I cannot draw those very well. He will make a bet on anything and usually lose pretty badly.
NO Q OMG
Ravi: pretends to be a mantis of some sort but is really like the oldest living thing on the planet that still has corporeal form, and even then that form is just for funsies most of the time. Collects rude limericks.
PERHAPS I SHOULD HAVE MADE TWO POSTS. whatever you don't care. I don't care. I'm going to hang out with friends and play Silent Hill all night and then go swimming in a lake the next day I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOUR GRIEVANCES. PS Somebody bug me to finish the alphabet, I still have plenty of good characters for S-Z.
So as you might know this Monday is the last page of the first arc of Skin Deep. I don't want to jump into the LA arc quite yet (PS I need a name for it that isn't "The LA Arc"), and I have that 8 page Fiddler's Cave comic that you've already seen here that I'm going to use for a month of buffer. Also that will be right around September/October (aka the Best Time of the Year) and I want to do a short Jim's Birthday/Halloween comic. I'm writing/thumbnailing it differently than I usually do (I usually write the script THEN thumbnail it), because I did it this way for the Fiddler's Cave comic and I managed to keep the page count down that way. Although I don't think this is gonna be terribly successful, since I'm already on page 21 and I'm not done yet. I'm trying to end it on Halloween, but I'm not sure if that'll happen. Oh well.
In the mean time, look at this wonderful set of haphazardly done thumbnails! PS I've been doing this at work to keep me sane. You might recognize the middle page as being the comic version of this sketch, which is funny cause I didn't mean for that to happen, this is just my craziest page of sketches.
This is a horrible sketch, but I've been trying forever to get a good drawing of Michelle's Halloween costume (PS SHE FINALLY HAS ONE) and none will be had. So instead you get this crappy half-finished one. I did this long before seeing the Dark Knight, around the time when I was reading The Long Halloween and c'mon guys I love the Riddler. Also Riddler/Sphinx, that seems like some retarded pun that Michelle would fine clever.
We have Production meetings every week and look! My note-taking skillz have not improved since college! Whatever I really had to figure out the anatomy of a Makara guys. Things like remembering how to replace Rich Black with Black in InDesign documents were just not as pressing.
OKAY YA'LL THE REAL REASON I MADE THIS UPDATE. I stole this meme from thefrumiousjafe who stole it from aidosaur and it is great.
The jist: Make a Bestiary of sorts with a bunch of your characters. I colored the first one, and I might color the rest, but we'll see how long it takes till I lose interest. I wasn't gonna post these at all till they were all done as so I wouldn't lose my steam, but I'm impatient SO THERE YOU GO.
Abigail: is a Harpy and the bartender of the Nightclub, which actually has several names that I can't remember at the moment.
Blanche: Is a White Stag and he can't wait till September when he can get rid of the goddamned velvet on his goddamned horns. He keeps pickin' at it but his dad is all BLANCHE DON'T PICK YOUR VELVET and Blanche is all YOU AIN'T THE BOSS O' ME.
Colin: is a vicious trouble maker who covers up his crimes with pure adorableness.
Django: is a Bohemian lion from Scotland who can't get his shit together to stay human for more than four seconds and ends up in a Carnival Freak Show in the Midwest during the Dustbowl!
Erin: is a super gay Nokk with a foul mouth and the ability to talk for a billion hours about that time he got chased out of [insert name of small town].
Father Quinn: is an old excommunicated priest who squats in an old church in Chicago. He reluctantly befriends a foul-mouthed angel with a penchant for hard liquor and poker.
Greg: is a satyr we all know and love. He wishes he was not a goat.
Horace: is a boring ol' buggane and Ike's step-father. He could be standing right there in full finny-glory but you probably wouldn't notice cause he'd be too busy talking about accounting or something frightfully dull.
Ike: is Horace's moody grumpy sadsacky step-son and I did not mean to put family members on the same page of this thing but Skin Deep is sadly lacking in the H and the I departments re: First Names. I drew his nose wrong but Sheana can just deal with that.
Jack: is a jackalope that likes to kick things in the ass with wing-tipped shoes. Maybe he is immortal, who really knows I sure don't.
Kiernan: is a satyr I do not draw enough. He gets drunk and jigs to rude songs.
Lorne: is my Nemean homie. Look at that chevron jacket. I know I want one.
Margot: is a faun that I also never draw. She kicks boots with Jack sometimes and freaks people out with her weird doe-eyes.
Nightmare: likes to invade your mind and make you live your worst fears while crushing you to death with her creepy horse skull. She is my favorite.
Orville: would probably date Nightmare if Nightmare were a bugbear. But she is not so instead he will collect more poisonous animals and vintage 50's horror movie posters.
Paul Simon: usually wears his hair in liberty spikes but I cannot draw those very well. He will make a bet on anything and usually lose pretty badly.
NO Q OMG
Ravi: pretends to be a mantis of some sort but is really like the oldest living thing on the planet that still has corporeal form, and even then that form is just for funsies most of the time. Collects rude limericks.
PERHAPS I SHOULD HAVE MADE TWO POSTS. whatever you don't care. I don't care. I'm going to hang out with friends and play Silent Hill all night and then go swimming in a lake the next day I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOUR GRIEVANCES. PS Somebody bug me to finish the alphabet, I still have plenty of good characters for S-Z.