I was thinking last night that it might be fun to see all the TLC toons together in a book format... so I'm thinking I'm gonna look into doing that! The question will be though... full color or b/w (in most cases full color is significantly more expensive to create and therefore to buy.... so we'll see what happens)
For those of you wondering whatever happened to the Zeek And Dent (which I just noticed was finally removed from online....) book I was putting together... well, I have a couple more bonus cartoons to add and a quick forward to write. My original plan was to have a button set featuring the trio as a gift for pre-ordering... I ordered those buttons in AUGUST!!! A few months later I find that the company I placed my order with was shutting down. I've emailed repeatedly, no money... and no buttons.... so we'll see what happens with that. More about it next year!
I just wanted to take the time to say a quick thanks to those that have been stopping by, checking out my toons, random art and sometimes even more random posts. The comments and encouragement have been great... so thanks. Here's to more fun in 2007!
I hope everyone had a great weekend and a Merry Christmas! We had a relaxing day, watching our 2-year old succumb to the "daze" of Christmas... eyes glazing over, unsure of what to make of all the new toys. Cute.
This week is Guest Artist week over at "Nobody Likes Tony Pony", and I'm one of the guest artists! So head over there and check it out along with the other guest toons, and if you haven't been reading the comic... go check it out!!!!
ALSO, I'm not sure how it works for you, but for me, when working on a project, sometimes it takes just one thing to "click" for the ball to be rolling... that happened this weekend as I thumbnailed layouts for John and I's (is that grammatically correct? crazy english language) submission for Parable (deadline is coming up, so it's full throttle time). After months of doodling pages, I finally am producing layouts that I LIKE! Which is very important to me. I've passed them on to John for suggestions... and will continue to do more! So, yeah... no art in this post... but perhaps I'll be posting more of my scribbles later this week :D
Well, here we find ourselves in the craziness that is 4 days till Christmas!!!!!! Woo... with that, here's this week's toon:
In other news, we're having an actual prize over at littlegreenball. This week's caption contest has an ACTUAL PRIZE!!! A GIFT CARD to Walmart... and not just ANY gift card... a collector's edition, first of it's kind, LITTLE GREEN BALL GIFT CARD: Also, listen to Chris Quimby tomorrow morning. He's co-hosting Mike & Mike in the Morning" (you can listen live via their website). That's all fer now! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
And I just wanted to take the "time" to thank everyone who took the time to check out our "It's Your Show TV" entry and voted.... thank you! I'm not sure when the results will be in.... so we'll see!
Voting for the workout challenge is now open!If you would like to vote for our "CRITI-CISE: with Betty Lyttle" please go to HERE scroll down, select "CRITI-CISE:with Betty Lyttle", scroll back up, enter your email address, click the box that you accept the rules, and SUBMIT! And please feel free to pass this info along! THANKS!
Our entry for It's Your Show TV's workout challenge! There are a ton of self crits about this but overall we're pretty happy with it! This was a HUGE step out of my wife's comfort zone, and she did a great job, I'm proud of her. Hope you enjoy! I'll post when it's time to vote for it!
A little something I did last week during my time off from work (and yeah... posting it on Friday? a little late with the post ;) )
I've been meaning to draw one of Mark Melton's characters from his comic book "Angeldreams". Since I have a preference for fire characters, I took a stab at the angel Dominiq, so here he is, from rough pencils to colors:
Crits and comments are welcomed... on the self crit side, I've fallen into my common trap of creating a symmetrical pose, giving it a lifeless/static feel. On the inking, I feel like I'm heading in the right direction in that department... but looks like I could've spent more time detailing the legs and such. The colors are not bad, but not great either.... it could use some more tweaking and pushing of the rendering.
I'm constantly doodling for the submission John and I are doing for Parable, I have yet to stumble onto anything I feel is post worthy... I've got rough layouts of the first few pages... again, not quite where I want it to be... I've been referencing alot of landscapes and valley pics for this project.
And with that... that ends today's post! Don't forget to check out littlegreenball.com and my bits and posts at Daily Comedy. Hopefully Monday I'll have a post on my progress on my "It's Your Show TV" submission (preferably the finished product since it's due on TUESDAY!)
