Happy Halloween!

Alright, you've got to be a Marvel fan to get this Spider-man joke:

Oh, yeah, and I've added a bit of Charlie Brown in there for you. Happy Halloween, everybody.

Upcoming Webcomic: It's coming along, people. Stay tuned!

The Joker sketch

Today I drew this, err... elaborate Joker sketch. I'm actually quite proud of it.

Now I'm going to tell you the steps of how I created this maniacal Batman villain. First I drew it on pencil with a blue pencil and inked it with a nib pen and India ink. Then I scanned it onto my computer.

I opened the file with Photoshop, and started coloring the flats. These are the plain colors that fill each shape. Once I'm finished with that, I start shading the colors in, to give the picture some depth.

The Dodge tool brightens the colors. The Burn tool darkens them. Once I "burned" the edges of the Joker and the other stuff, it looked like it does now.

A Sad Story

Way back in February, I said that I was going to start a new Super Rooster series. I originally stated that it would come out in Spring. I wasn't finished with the script by then, so I moved it to Summer. Then I decided to stop working on that script, and I started a Sampler comic script. So I finished that script in June, and started the pencils. Four months later, and those pencils are still only a quarter complete.

But I've decided that I don't like the script. It's not that the jokes are bad, but I'm starting to lose interest in the idea as a whole. The setting and characters don't give me much stories to tell. Each one would go along the lines of "Evil animal uses something to catch chickens, then Super Rooster saves the day!" If I want to make this comic, I'll need time to make some changes and widen the possibilities, hopefully to create a more interesting comic.

But, no, I'm not going to bump up the release date again. I'm going to put the project on hold. This means that I won't be working on the current Super Rooster comic anymore, and I'll be starting other comic projects. I'm trying really hard to think of a cool webcomic idea, and I'm almost there.

Oh, yeah, and I've made a new rule for myself: Don't set release dates until the comic itself is complete.

Magneto Sketch

Here's a sketch of Magneto I drew today:

Before I used the mighty power of Photoshop to edit/color the drawing, it looked like this.

Also, I'm getting to closer to coming up with a webcomic idea, so stay tuned!

From the Archives: Bean

Today I'm going to do another From the Archives post! This is a thing I started in March 2012, and ended in March 2012, but I decided to do another one today.

This comic is called "Bean" It was started sometime in 2008, and I wrote three (and a half) of these books until 2010. The stories were about a lima bean who went on lima bean adventures.

I've scanned some spages for you here. The first two are pages 6 and 7 of the first book, "One Courageous Lima Bean," and pages 10 and 11 of the fourth, unfinished book.

 So, yeah. This is how my mind worked when I was 10.

For a full archive of From the Archives, click here!

October News

Hello, fellow readers. I have a bunch of things to say, but none that are important enough for their own blogpost. So, (roughly) every month I'll do a "News" post like this, for tidbits of random blog info.

Last month (September, for those who don't use calendars), I beat a new record for least number of blog posts in a month. A measly four posts. This is very saddening, as you loyal fans (anyone?) had little to read here for thirty days! For this, I apologize.

I completely re-wrote my "About" page. It's got a new description of me. And some links. Check it out here!

I'm still thinking of a webcomic. I've got dozens of ideas, but I'm still trying to pick the best one. More information on this soon.

Lastly, I've got a little sketch of Bilbo Baggins: