James
01-02-2012, 04:17 PM
Been a while since I posted here, which is for me, like wandering back into your old house and blowing the cobwebs from your shoulders (must be I'm getting old).
Been working on an online comic which stories are running daily when a new adventure releases. It's like a bigger version of what myself and Paul L Mathews did on Cartoons Dammit! Stripped Bare series - accept this is singular story rather than a collection.
Foxhell is a story set between two warring cities in the afterlife and a protagonist who belongs to neither side, stuck in the middle. It's meant to be a little unearthly, for all its angels and devils motif, but very much entrenched in people. How else can we dramatise about anything outside our own experiences? And Foxhell is very much the epitome of how we people dramatise our visions of the afterlife with our own pedestrian mindsets. Heaven is about harps, hell is about fire, all of which is relatable to humans and in the bigger picture neither really focus on the nature of immortality but rather the finite nature of happiness and fear.
Okay, I'll shut up now, that's getting far deeper than this series - or any of us - really should go.
I've set the story running at foxhell.com (http://www.foxhell.com) - it runs daily at the moment, and is currently on episode 7 (I think, I'm terrible with numbers). I've attached the introduction here below (or above, I'm still not used to the new TZ interfaces!).
As for the Drawing Board relevance - the art - it's all black and white with hints of greyscale. Inked with a brush, then scanned into the PC and doctored and lettered on an ageing Photoshop (for a commercial illustrator, I seem to always like basic tools - same as when I did music, never looked for the expensive guitar - just one that did the job).
Art itself is, by and large, something I'm okay with given it's a sidejob. When you're drawing and arting for a living, investing full energy in a side project can be hard, so given that, I'm fairly happy with the feel.
Interestingly, I feel the art evolves as the story does, as I get used to the world and format. News Strips are a fascinating medium - they are constrictive and liberating. Constrictive in space yet liberating in pace. You can make each one move extremely fast, or extremely slow - it makes for a great conundrum in terms of story telling as much as art. Anyhow, waffled enough! Thanks for listening - or reading - this post!
Been working on an online comic which stories are running daily when a new adventure releases. It's like a bigger version of what myself and Paul L Mathews did on Cartoons Dammit! Stripped Bare series - accept this is singular story rather than a collection.
Foxhell is a story set between two warring cities in the afterlife and a protagonist who belongs to neither side, stuck in the middle. It's meant to be a little unearthly, for all its angels and devils motif, but very much entrenched in people. How else can we dramatise about anything outside our own experiences? And Foxhell is very much the epitome of how we people dramatise our visions of the afterlife with our own pedestrian mindsets. Heaven is about harps, hell is about fire, all of which is relatable to humans and in the bigger picture neither really focus on the nature of immortality but rather the finite nature of happiness and fear.
Okay, I'll shut up now, that's getting far deeper than this series - or any of us - really should go.
I've set the story running at foxhell.com (http://www.foxhell.com) - it runs daily at the moment, and is currently on episode 7 (I think, I'm terrible with numbers). I've attached the introduction here below (or above, I'm still not used to the new TZ interfaces!).
As for the Drawing Board relevance - the art - it's all black and white with hints of greyscale. Inked with a brush, then scanned into the PC and doctored and lettered on an ageing Photoshop (for a commercial illustrator, I seem to always like basic tools - same as when I did music, never looked for the expensive guitar - just one that did the job).
Art itself is, by and large, something I'm okay with given it's a sidejob. When you're drawing and arting for a living, investing full energy in a side project can be hard, so given that, I'm fairly happy with the feel.
Interestingly, I feel the art evolves as the story does, as I get used to the world and format. News Strips are a fascinating medium - they are constrictive and liberating. Constrictive in space yet liberating in pace. You can make each one move extremely fast, or extremely slow - it makes for a great conundrum in terms of story telling as much as art. Anyhow, waffled enough! Thanks for listening - or reading - this post!