Great news of the day: looks like I’m set to hit the Edinburgh Festival in a few months time with Brand X’s new show ‘VEGA$M‘!!
From past experience with Brand X I know for a fact that it’s going to be one helluva Summer in every way you can think of!
I’ll post updates as I get them, but for now – check out what you’re in store for here…
Yesterday I had a photo shoot courtesy of Scott Hallman of Funk Vision (the company I’m doing the short Horror Film with.) Lots of good piccies! I’ve got several hundred of them to sift through, so it will be a while until I’ve managed to find time to choose the best selection, but when I’ve done that they shall be straight up on my Gallery page! Will let you know when that’s done…
Wet Shards update: Most of the pictures have now been found. Only a handful left to get. Fingers crossed I shall be drawing away feverishly next week… Woo hoo!
As for today – Emma will be round in about 10 minutes so we can do some more work on our Sitcom Treatment. Teabags are at the ready! 🙂
Yesterday me and Emma sat in the Bank Holiday sun and did some more prep work for our sitcom. We are now the proud owners of six back-of-a-dvd/television-guide type blurbs – one for each of our planned episodes. It took some work to whittle our complicated plots down to this size whilst still retaining their quirkyness, but we got there in the end with the aid of a couple of cups of tea, some nice biscuits and a smattering of birdsong. Now to rejig the treatment a bit and write a few short taster sections of dialogue…
On the Wet Shards front, Vittoria from FP has been trawling through Google image search as well, finding some great pictures, so the list of stuff to find gets ever smaller and the inking of issue one gets ever closer. My deadline is the end of this month. That really doesn’t feel very far away in the slightest…
It may have been a bit quiet on this here news page of late, but it has been nonstop in Lois Land I can assure you:
worksleepworksleepdosomethingfunworksleepeeeeeeeat… you get the picture!
Well the last few days have finally provided me with some time to Wet Shards photo hunt. The glorious Google has been coming up trumps and I’ve managed to source a fair few pictures. Still a lot more to find though…
To give me a break from all my Googling, I decided to finally put together the ‘Lois Tucker’ definition that I’d been meaning to do for a long while. You probably saw it on the way in? If not, you can find it here.
Tonight is re-shoot night for ‘Blood Hungry’, a Horror short written and produced by Funk Vision (new website coming soon. I’ll post the link when it’s done.) in which I’m the protagonist. The main bulk of it was shot last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but due to them inevitable technical hitches there is to be more of me being chased by meat cleaver wielding demons tonight. Yeah!! I should have a copy of it fairly soon and if the guys let me upload it then it’ll be somewhere on this site for a bit.
Just got some new photos printed from my current contact sheet, so there’s a couple of new headshots up on my gallery page if you wish to have a gander…
Last, but definitely not least, Vittoria of FoolishPeople has come across a site that enables you to ‘South Park’ yourself:
These are Tor’s spot on interpretations of me, John and her glorious self. Team FP all South Parked up. Hehe 🙂
You can find a link to the site in question here at Vittoria’s lair on the web.
Yesterday I ventured forth to Hertfordshire for a meeting with John and Vittoria of FoolishPeople. After perusing my first sketches, having a good catch up and imbibing a good dose of caffeine, we got down to the ominous task of setting John and I some Wet Shards deadlines. The aim is to have 2 issues published by the end of the year with another 2 finished and ready to go. There will be 6 issues in all, and once we’ve got going, they will be published once a month. My deadline for inking the first issue only gets closer and closer… John and Tor will be helping track down the images I need for issue one, in between all their other goings on!
On another creative note, it looks like I’m going to be involved in a shoot for a Horror short later on this week. More details to come 🙂
Ooh, and I’ve finally downloaded the Firefox internet browser. It comes highly recommended so far…
The necessary courage was indeed built up today and I am now up to page 19. (These eyes will be found on page 17. Well, a pair very similar…) Only 3 more pages to go. Reckon I can knock those up tomorrow afternoon. Phew! The next phase is then to track down some photographs of existing things I need to portray – a particular type of bus, a certain coffee shop etc etc… When that’s all done I can finally use my lovely lovely new pens to ink my first set of Wet Shards images onto the rather attractive graphics paper I have purchased.
Mmmmm graphics paper…
To give me a break from necessary chocolate eating, I have been doing some more sketching today. I’ve now finished up to page 15 of issue one, so only 7 more pages to go. Woo hoo! Got some really difficult images to get my head round in the next few sessions. Hoping I can build up the courage to have a go at tackling them tomorrow before I go to work in the evening. I’ve possibly got a meeting with the FoolishPeople massive very soon, so it would be nice to have the sketches all finished for them to glance over.
Right, back to my grazing…
A whole day off with no reason to leave the house which meant – Wet Shards aplenty! Now just over half way through the rough sketches for issue one. It’s quite taxing working out how to layout the action in a panel, well for my inexperienced-in-comic-book-illustrating brain anyway, but I’m really enjoying the challenge. Just… want… more… time… :/
Made a trek out to Farnham today to be a body for some students at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Nice to keep my hand in with the acting in front of the camera side of things. I also managed to learn how to roll a cigarette, which is something I have never attempted before (ah, my non-smoking innocence…). I ended up having to do it several times in the scene so I think I may be a pro now. Well as long as there isn’t too close up a shot of it then I may get away with claiming that!! Thankfully I didn’t have to smoke my handiwork – they weren’t looking for added comedy moments as far as I could tell…
Hoping to get back onto the Wet Shards case on Wednesday if all things go to plan…
