Devoid

I think Unwanted Children just became much bigger than I ever intended for it to be:

Devoid

Something to Show

This image is proof that Mike and I are still working on Unwanted Children and the project hasn't been scrapped.

Aaand, I'm spent

I wasn't going to update today, but then I just got done saying this will be a weekly blog, so I might as well try to stick to my word. Nothing to really update on. I'm sick and Mike is hard at work on pages for Unwanted Children and several other projects he needs to attend to. He has his stylus, so he better be doing something.

I may start work on some more writing. We'll see.

Back on Track

It's Wednesday and here is an update, even though I missed last Wednesday. Sorry, there was nothing to really say last week.

Anyways, Mike received his new stylus in the mail the other day and is hard at work on the comic pages. I should have some pictures to show by next week. We talked a little on the phone last night about certain elements of the pages. Things should move along smoothly now.

Until next week.

Revisions, Rewrites, and an Update

Okay, two things to talk about today. First, this blog will be regularly updated once a week. Wednesdays, to be exact. I had seven posts in September because the blog was new and I had a few months of work I wanted to share with everyone. Now that I have everyone caught up, I figure the blog will be best with weekly updates. I get a weekly update about the progress of things from Mike, so I should have no problem handling weekly updates on here.

Secondly, I've been doing some rewrites with the scripts of the first three issues. Mike and I had a breakthrough with some great ideas the other day and this called for me to rewrite the scripts. Plus, I wasn't happy with the look or feel of certain scenes, so I really wanted to change those. I think the revised scripts are much better. Issue one isn't too different. Issue two has a lot of new dialogue and the sequence of events are completely different now. Issue three is nearly unrecognizable to its original incarnation.

The main thing I did was changed the initial setting of the story from Los Angeles (which I live close to) to San Francisco (which I have a better knowledge of for some reason). San Francisco really fits the mood of the story.

Well, that's it for today. Until next week when Mike should have his stylus' and perhaps a new page for me to show all of you.

Page Test

His stylus may be broken, but Mike called me last night and demanded that I hop online to see what he had to show me. Here is a page test of one of the 6 pages we will be putting in our submission package:

Style-less

I think I'm doomed to never see this comic come to fruition. Mike's stylus for his wacom tablet broke. He had to order a new one. He actually ordered two, because he wanted a fancy one, as well as a regular one. Now we have to wait for the stylus' to be delivered. I guess he can still do the pencil work, but this puts a small delay in the production of the first issue. More importantly, it puts a delay in the 6 pages we want to put into the submission package.

Anyways, enjoy some art samples he sent me before the stylus broke. They're just tests for the style of the comic:

This was just shown to me as a comparison to the following:

Rougher details. Not as smooth as the previous image. So, we're getting somewhere, at least.

Just got off the phone with Mike, in fact, and he informs me that he has been working on the pencil work and is just making them as perfect as he can before he sends them my way. So we'll probably have another update soon enough.