No Saturday or Sunday drawing, but a little bit yesterday. (Wish it wasn’t yesterday already. More sleep please…) Now a 3rd of the rough sketches for issue one have been completed. Won’t get another chance to draw for days due to ‘work’ work and general busy-ness. Slowly but surely though, and the pictures can only get more clear in my head…
Fraction of the way there
Kept on rolling with the Wet Shards momentum yesterday and got a fifth of the way through roughly sketching out issue one. I feel like a fifth is a quantity that I can feel relatively happy with. It sounds good. Relatively good. Wanted to keep going, but 3 days of full on box office work are happening instead. Looks like Saturday for the next bash, fingers crossed, or maybe a bit of cheery Mother’s Day drawing…
Lovely lovely new pens :)
I would love to be able to post a picture of me posing with the lovely lovely new pens that I bought today, but, alas, I do not own a digital camera or even a camera phone and I couldn’t justify having some passport photos done, so instead we have the layout of one of the pages from Issue 1 of Wet Shards.
I was a good girl this afternoon, and made a long overdue trip to the artshop to purchase my drawing materials. (I really have no excuse now.) When I returned home I decided that I should draw out all the page layouts in order to see more clearly what I’m dealing with. This could be deemed as procrastinating, but in fact it’s proved very helpful, making the whole thing a bit more tangible in an odd way. Besides, the new pens really are very very lovely, so it will be hard to procrastinate with them looking at me in the sweet way that they seem to do. (I may have a problem, but not one that I’m worried about yet…)
Quality Time
Today was mainly devoted to getting on with the sit-com treatment. I have neglected it of late, but a good few hours on it has ensured a good deal of progress. All I can do for now has been done, and I have sent it off to be taken apart by some more knowledgeable friends of mine. There will have to be a fair few changes I’m sure, but I’m certain that we’re on the right track. Emma is chipping away at it all too so the mountain is looking more and more like a welcoming hill. Crunch time is getting closer…
Playing away
Not long back from a day trip to Ipswich. Travelled up there to record the violin and vocals I had come up with for Jason Ware’s ‘Pink Cake’ soundtrack. After a fair sized helping of tube and train delay, the day went very well, and I had a lot of fun being musical in his producer’s bathroom for a few hours. (Acoustics you see!) I came away with a rough mix of the songs so far, and it’s all sounding great, despite being far from finished. When they’re fully mixed and produced I will upload some of them for your listening pleasure. Now to bed for a much needed kip…
Site specific
Heads up
They’ve now been viewed by the writer, so they may be viewed by you if you so desire. Click here to see my first minimalistic ‘Wet Shards’ character sketches in full…
Gah!
Been doing some useful work this afternoon on the Treatment for the sitcom that’s being developed by Emma Hamilton and myself. I really wish I didn’t have to stop to eat and to get ready for work tonight – the treatment is long overdue, and I was in on a roll…
Mini tick
Months ago John Harrigan asked me to design a banner for his website. I put a few ideas down on paper one day back in December, and knew what direction I wanted to go in from there, but I haven’t really done anything with those ideas since.
However: little bit of time yesterday, little bit of time today, and I’ve come up with something that I think fits the remit quite well. Will wait and see what the verdict is on banner version 1.0…
Finished, but not ready…
Well, I’ve finally finished the preliminary drawings for 3 of the characters from ‘Wet Shards’ but I can’t post them just yet. (John wants to see them first!) So, Tuesday/Wednesday for the first glimpse…
This is all new territory for me and I’m happy to say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised with my progress thus far. Here’s to more progress!