It can sometimes get lonely working alone on my books but hey, thank goodness for having the good company of my brain… Yup, good old brain reminding me of all my mistakes and when I made a fool of myself…
So just a quick one from me this week. You see, I’ve got plans! Plans for things to do with the here website!
Yup, an (almost) weekly blog and sporadic Mac & Cheese reviews plus the occasional comic strip just isn’t enough for me(!) so you see, PLANS!
First off, as I’m picking up comic books pretty much every week so I figures I should maybe talk about them here. I just need to work out the details on if I want to cover every book I cover (as I’m crazy slow at getting around to reading them that might not be the best) or just cover a single book or maybe even just whatever catches my eye be it even just a panel in one particular book. I don’t know but once I get it in my head I’ll be posting about it on here!
Secondly, I mentioned previously how much I loved our simplified table display at GCCC and I, in part, want to hold on to that. If nothing else, I really liked how much lighter it was carrying everything to a convention! So going forward I’m going to still have the big print display behind (to the side?) of me but the table will be less cluttered with only the books and the like. We’ll see how it goes. But yeah, with that plan in place then what to do with all them discount prints? Well I’m hoping to figure out the best (and easiest) way to sell them from either here or over at BigCartel where we sell our books. But yeah, much like with the comic reviews once I figure it out I’ll be posting it on here!
So yeah, short and sweet this week but I’m really excited with trying new things!
More soon! Bear hugs!
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With issue #13 all done and dusted it’s time to move on to updating issue #14 which I’m confident won’t take anywhere near as long to do!
My first challenge was to update the cover and I knew I wanted to do something with Rizos’ (that’s her in front of all them punched up aliens) hair that would then be updated throughout the book.
And this became a bigger thing than I first thought….
You see, on the left we have the original cover which along with a few issues had a grammatical error(!) Like, I’m messing up on the cover – that’s not good!
After correcting the wording I got rid of the Bubblebear design on Rizos’ t-shirt (as it was never used again in the book) and made a few other tiny changes.
But as for the hairy colouring style I tried to go with a big messy hair design which I only realised afterwards I had tried way back when I first worked on the character and I never liked it then either!
I then decided to go with an (almost) white streak in her hair riffing from Bride of Frankenstein and was super happy with it and yeah, all good and cover saved.
The thing is, the next morning I checked the cover again and realised that I still had a problem with it! You see, I never felt that Rizos looked the same as she did on the interior pages. I had already made her hair a bit sharper and added some body to it but she just didn’t match up. I then realised that I had made her head too big which made her look younger – like in her early teens rather than late teens/early twenties (Yup, my basic cartoony shaped characters have ages! And I can tell by looking at them!)
So yeah, a few more updates had to be made but it got me to this finished cover!
What do you think?
You know, I started this post by saying that it shouldn’t take me long to update the book and I’m still sticking to that belief despite how long it took me to rework the cover! There’s not a lot of characters in the issue and it’s a pretty tightly written book (if I remember correctly) but I guess we’ll find out.
And yeah, I see ‘we’ as I’ll be updating you guys as I go along!
More soon! Bear hugs!
With my recent trip up to Aberdeen for Granite City Comic Con it gave me a chance to try some new Mac & Cheese eateries and Aberdeen is full of them!
But hey, I was only there for a couple of days so had to pick wisely and I like to think I did! The one essential stop on my trip, and the very first place I went to having gotten off the plane, was Thains Bakery on George Street!
…how are you feeling?
I have to admit having worked extra hours yesterday for my day job, getting home late and being off the alcohol I’m doing pretty good (he says trying not to brag…) That being said, I did make and eat all by my lonesome a meal last night that should have served 4 to 6 people so….. oops. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
