Tag: update

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.

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… :/

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…

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…

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…)