Sketchbook 2012 – 8
A new sketchbook post using collage and brush work. An unfinished psoriasis diary page.
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
A quiet landscape this morning, straight watercolour.
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!
I like birthdays so today is a good day.
Sketchbook 2012 – 5
Sketchbook 2012 – 4
This image is a combination of sketchbook and some thumb prints. I started working on a series of thumbprint comics, but have yet to complete them. So i figured including them in some illustrations may be interesting (To me). I like the axeman at the top of the face.
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.
