He slimed me

I'm trying to find a spot to use the pages of Wychwolf I did for the UK WebComix Thing flyers.
The 2 pages were set with the BrightAngel team investigating an abandoned country estate the month before the current story arc...

Champeens

I've tried most of the filters in my old janky copy of Photoshop Elelments 4.. but still haven't found the combination I want for adding tea rings, and pin holes, finger prints and paper curls... making stuff look OLD, is tricky..
Getting there slowly...

Sidetracked

I've been listening to the Dave Gorman podcasts, from Absolute radio, and they are very enjoyable, I am very taken with the whole light hearted approach. Mr Gorman reminds me very much of a dear old fellow I used to share an office with, Danielle does the best Cheryl cole impression ever...I think, though having never heard her speak, I'm not sure how qualified I am to judge.... and Martin, well he comes from East Grinstead, as did I...
Anyway, there's been a darts theme running through the podcast, and I've been struck by the comedy implicit in Darts being taken in any way seriously, so I thought I'd add a little synchronicity to the story over at http://www.wychwolf.com, by including a darts team made up of some of the pivotal characters in the story...

A sense of action

Today when flipping through my Google Reader feeds, I was struck by a post from Stephen Silver. He's a remarkable fellow, producing some top notch work, and is now running a class. From the thumbnails in the post, the change in style he'd managed to engender in his students looked quite remarkable... and on closer inspection I was equally impressed, in most of the cases.

Then I had a look at the cost of the class...

$998

Why this should feel so extravagant in a world where I often see "consultants" with day rates of £500, even £1000 a day, I don't know, but it was quite telling.

Looking through the images, I was also struck by the sense of dynamism in the characters, something that's sorely lacking in Wychwolf at the minute. Strangely I can remember having the same issue with my work about 15 years ago, when my editor at Harper Collins returned a rough, saying I'd lost my sense of action, "where was the artist she'd hired?"

So, the next few Wychwolf strips I draw need a bit of motion, dynamism... they shouldn't just look the way they do because it's the easiest way to draw them.

Ninjasaur VS Ninja Bunny

Instead of spending my lunchtime getting stuff up to date for the http://www.wychwolf.com, I sat looking in awe at the Ninja Bunny prints I got from Phil Spence at the Webcomix thing on Saturday.

I then managed to cover my desk with DELETER no 3 ink, as I tried in vain to replicate his style.

I ended up with a far too fiddly sketch, but will persevere.

Page 3

Page 3 is up, or rather will be up on the http://www.wychwolf.com site, as soon as ComicPress makes it so, which should be midnight, very appropriately, the wyching hour.

Anyway, our page three is a little more boney than you'd like, but heralds the end of the prologue, and the start of the story proper on page 4.

Dom has a page of inking to get done ASAP, I have a full inbox, and limited time this week, but I still want to get a bank holiday special page done for Wychwolf, and maybe finish off a page of Ninjasaurs vs Pirobots for this blog.

Wychwolf page 2

I've printed off some flyers for the UK Webcomix thing, that are a mix of 2 "interlude" pages for the Wychwolf story, a page from Adam's novelisation, and one page from Dom's story, hecklr.

I've printed off several sheets of stickers to hand out to those with webcomics passports, and I've printed a few pages on shiny paper so we have something to put on the table.

I've also put up a second page for the Wychwolf story on the site, I'm not sure if I'll have time to put up a third picture before tomorrow, but obviously we "update on Mondays":

Webcomix thing March 2010

Just connected up the Google Buzz feed to all my multifarious hoses ... thought I'd do a quick post to see how it works.

So the webcomix thing on 27th March, we have a table, and we have 2 comics.

My effort is Wychwolf, a tale of evil Nazi scientists, medical experiments, and pyramids, in leafy wartime Sussex...with none of the old guff you might find in a Dan Brown howler.

Dom's effort also seems to be slightly Nazi based.. which now I come to think of it is a bit of worry...

Adam is writing a transcript of my story to make the comic more accessible.

Wych Wolf

So with the target date set, Dom, Adam and I have started fitting all the disparate ideas together to form the spine of the story. We put up a dirty great bit of lining paper the length of the front room and started adding ideas, and plot points. So far so good, though there have been a couple of "artistic differences" already.