In the company of Ravens

Owen Watts is a rather interesting fellow, he loves making the old ‘comics’ you see? He was kind enough to invite me to participate in his latest time travelling anthology  title - The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel. Owen put me in touch with Mike Lynch, a talented writer from Ireland, Mike sent me his wonderfully [...]

What is it they say about the road to hell? Anyway, been a hectic week or two what with one thing and another – so have managed less work than I’d hoped for, but no girnning – back into it with a wee colour study of some digital layouts.

The continuing adventures in layout land… it’s fast becoming my favorite part of the process. Fast and carefree – great fun! The full page looks like this, so next I’ll print this out as a guide and get it penciled onto some bristol board. Things will enevitably change of course, I’ll also pencil in backgrounds [...]

I’ve  started doing layouts digitally – ‘layouts’ for me are a pre-pencil stage where you consider how the all the story telling elements will fit together, where dialogue will be placed, light/dark balance, tempo etc. Ideally there should be a fair bit of experimentation at this stage I feel, it’s not finished work so is [...]

I’ve been tinkering with the WordPress install, trying to persuade the various plugins to co-operate – not always as straightforward as it might appear. Here are some text & images, also added modal windows for the image zoom – lets see how these work… This is a panel from the 1st episode – I’ve recently [...]

It’s looking a tad spartan round here I’m sure you’d agree, I’m going to do a live design – so things will undoubtedly fall off, change and explode upon occasion. Do not be alarmed. Design or feature suggestions are very welcome of course, I’m considering doing a wee competition or two for some art and [...]

So here we are. Decided to start a production log for my art & writing project, An Unkindness. An Unkindness has been muddling along for a while now, sadly always seeming to be on the back-burner – I really want to change that, because I need to see it finished and in the hands and [...]