Yes! In fact, I’m working on a Dicebox Fashion Art book that I plan to have ready to Kickstart beginning of fall. And one of the incentives, indeed, will be paper dolls of Molly and Griffen with some outfits. Stretch goals will include additional outfits for them and dolls of Mare, Betty, Rande and Burt!
This week’s page of Dicebox is running late. It might be as late as Saturday for reasons I can’t quite talk about— but I should be able to soon.
One thing I can mention is the I have an interview up over at spaces, an online magazine of art and literature. If you were ever curious on how I chose a color palette, I talk about it there.
Apparently I have a thing for Molly looking through windows, as seen in page 17 of Marriage.
Really regret missing last week’s update, between Stumptown Comics Fest and my own learning curve, not only with Manga Studio 5, but processing all the varied art lessons I’ve over the past few months, especially from the weeks of extra pages. (which need massaging, good lord.)
I really feel with Manga Studio that I can actually get the line I want. Not quite there but it’s already infinitely more pleasant to draw digitally. Though still not as sexy as paper.
About to begin day two of the Stumptown Comics Fest and unlike yesterday I will have something new on offer, being the print pictured above. (there will be a Molly companion piece someday soon)
If you can’t make it to the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend, you can visit our virtual tables at least: City of Roses, and Dicebox. (—And thanks!)
(Photos by Taran Jack.)
Rejected art for the last panel of page 16 of Marriage (now up). The pose wasn’t quite working for me. Nor the close crop.
All orders placed from the free/reduced postage sale are well on their way. (Note to self: don’t offer free sketches AND try to increase page output at the same time.) Thanks yet again to everyone who took part.
Also, thanks to a fortunate turn of events, I will be exhibiting at the 10th Annual Stumptown Comics Fest after all! I’m very pleased I won’t have to break a perfect attendance record.
Page 15 ofd Marriage is now, finally, up. Also, as a reminder, today is the last day to get free U.S. shipping from the Dicebox store. Thanks to everyone who took part in the sale or made donations. You are all amazing.
One of my favorite book sketches from last night, a slightly goofy Molly.
Like I said yesterday, I’m just going keep putting sketches in any book ordered between now and end of day April 15th, on top of offering free U.S. shipping (reduced elsewhere).
But only for the next four and a half days.
With page 14 we’re almost done with this scene.
And, yeah, I wanted this page up two days ago. And I’m hoping to get another page up by the end of Saturday. Dammit.
My delay in getting this page up has some to do with this valiant eight year tool finally starting to crack under pressure:
I’ve used and abused it just about everyday for the past eight years, it’s been dropped, stepped on, used a cat toy, teethed on by an infant, a drumstick for a toddler and yet it’s probably only been failing for the past month. And it was the last thing I suspected that was causing time lags, dropped lines, unintended lines and so on. It was only after preformed major clean and optimizing operation on my system this weekend that it occurred to me to pull out my back up stylus.
Live and learn.
There’s a little under one week for free shipping throughout the US (reduced elsewhere) on everything in the Dicebox store. And, honestly, I’ll be sketching in every book I sell from now until the April 15th. Cause I have been in every one sold in this sale so far. (So sue me.)
I forgot.
That is, to make special note of a new page of Dicebox last night.
Another page of Dicebox will appear at some point this weekend, which’ll then bring this week’s page count to two.
There’s a little over one week more on free shipping throughout the US (reduced elsewhere) as well as the more pages a week challenge, more details of which can be found here. It’d be great if I could sell another 30 books worth in the next week. For all those who have bought and donated already–thank you so much, it’s made a hell of a difference.
