Archive for July, 2005

Shroud: Notcarding through Chapter 7

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
Ha! I got an extra writing night in! After a little bit of pizza and musing with Heather, I headed to Mother Fool’s and ensconced myself at one of the desks in the back.

Then, I notecarded my way up to a point in Chapter 7 where I felt the chapter should really end. I moved the start of Chapter 8 up.

Feeling really good about this. Starting to realize that chapter 7 and 8 are really the middle of my novel. I’m looking forward to moving the outline around. Only two more chapters left to notecard.

yay!

See more progress on: Edit My novel

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Sweet Madness

Sunday, July 24th, 2005
Sweet Madness

Latest art, first art finished in a month. whew!
Micron inks, and photoshop colored.
I used this pose/costume/model -
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12852583/ and a texture from this great pak -
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20387713/
Thanks to their awesome submissions.

This was fun, but man, coloring things on the computer takes like 5x as long as coloring things with real media/markers. And I’m very comfortable with photoshop! *shrug*

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Shroud: Notecarding up through Chapter 5

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Wow. I notecarded like crazy last night. I’m mosly just taking the points from my outline and putting them down on the cards.

I’d say I got about halfway done with notecarding last night.
We even switched coffee shops, as the one we were at closed at 9. We headed over to Mother Fool’s and got some dark chocolate, and I put my headphones on and notecarded my way through chapter 3, 4, and the 30 notecards of chapter 5. (guess which chapter needs cutting down.

It kinda feels like a real story though, just reading through the outline again.

I ran out of notecards! I had to grab some ones that I’d been using for the last book I wrote. (they had only titles that I’d scratched out for the proper Shroud title/chapter on them)

I’m numbering each card in the bottom left corner, for each chapter. That’ll give me an idea later what order I originally had them in. If I move things around or add new ones into a chapter I think I’ll put a new number on one of the right corners somewhere. Hrm.

Feels like progress though. Moving slowly on.

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Pieces of 8ight

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

You know you’ve been listening to your piratey cd’s a bit too much when your alarm goes off and declares ‘Pieces of Eight’ instead of ‘BeepBeep Beep Beep’.

Of course, waking up with the prospect of Pieces of Eight is a lot better than normal groggy mornings, so I’m not complaining.

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Slow Progress

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
It’s been a bit since I’ve really done art, understandable I know, but now it seems I’m arting again, and it feels good.

I still have that zelda art trade to color. It’s been inked several times, but my plan to scan the inks, print them out and color them does not appear to be working. The markers make the printed ink run. :P I should try to get motivated on it too, because I’m happy with the poses and it’d feel really good to finish and send it off to Marc.

What I should do is… ink on marker paper over my sketch(or even over a printed version of the inks, then let that dry for a day and just color it! So close to finishing. sigh.

I do have another illustration on my plate, and it’s about 70% finished, I’m computer coloring it. It’s been sketched, and inked and just needs some additional shading and perhaps effects in photoshop. so. depending on how I get moving on these, I’ll have 6 and 7 of this goal done within weeks. whew. Leaving me still on target to achieve this goal for the year.

but, eep, I have to do 4 more pages of my comic by the end of august(or so)! must get moving on that. Perhaps if I can get these illustrations off my plate, I can completely commit and focus on the pages. (That and stop playing so much xbox live. evil evil Halo2)

wish me luck.

See more progress on: Create 12 original illustrations in 2005

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Anna Bis - Dance

Saturday, July 9th, 2005
Anna Bis - Dance

Anna Bis is my cyberpunk role playing character, she’s an exotic, she’s had a bit of genetic/cosmetic surgery to give her slight jackal appearance. She usually fights melee, with her rippers(claws kinda like deathstrike in the xmen2 movie).Anyway, she’s hiding out at the Arc House as an exotic exotic dancer.

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