Sketchbook 2012 – 8
Waiting for the email
As ever i’m eating breakfast and trying to get ready for work and ideas are forming in my old brain sac.
This morning i tweeted about how i’ve handed out a stack of comics and mailed out stuff over the last ten years and received very little response. It was a moment of needy weakness. This will happen again i’m sure as i slowly withdraw from the convention jamboree.
But i’ve been thinking, why do i do it? Why do hand comics to publishers, hand them to cartoonists i really admire.
What am i expecting?
Well the publishers the answer is obvious. So are the conclusions reached after ten years. Publishers are busy and if in this era of the comic book no-one replies, then it’s safe to say your work is not considered a commercial option.
Fine, move along keep making keep publishing enjoy what develops.
Handing comics to cartoonist you admire. I do this so much. Why? What do i expect? In the early days i hoped that my genius shined so bright that i would be taken onboard for an apprenticeship and the future would be a an oasis of creativity discovery.
Or some such bollocks.
Then it was a way of saying ‘I do this too, i am one of you’.
I still do this but it’s more of a way of describing my work, as in this is the type of comic i make.
Afterwards i feel awful, and think, ‘Why did i do that again?’.
It is Angouleme in a few weeks and i will be there with my friends. We have a table again.
This year is going to be different for me, i’m not handing stuff out and will enjoy the festival instead.
Afterwards i wont be sitting at my computer waiting for the mail.
Sketchbook 2012 – 7
Sketchbook 2012 – 6

Right back to the posting after the birthday weekend. Another sketchbook page that will be part of my mini comic for Angouleme, if i can get it together in time. A colour sketchbook, will be interesting to see how my work looks in glorious colour. In other news i was accepted for TCAF 2012, which is really exciting stuff. More later.
Happy Birthday!
Sketchbook 2012 – 5
Sketchbook 2012 – 4
Sketchbook 2012 – 3
I started a series of watercolours last December to try out some colour ideas. There was a lot of noodling in the drawing, no real images emerging. I now have a stack of these things with no narrative to connect them. So i decided to start scribbling on them in Photoshop. That’s pretty much it.
Sketchbook 2012 – 2

Day two of posts and a theme has appeared, mirroring images. The idea was to make a sketchbook to take to Angouleme, A4 sized full of two page spreads.
Sketchbook 2012 – 1

This is the first work posted in 2012. I have been adding colour to sketchbook work, so its a bit free form at the moment. the intention is to develop more colour work with a view to making colour comics. Sort of catching up with the 21st century.
I draw with a dead line in my sketchbooks, then add colour in Photoshop. Fairly standard so far.






