General Chat

[Idiot Savant]

Good idea (never hurts to have some more "edufication" to make yourself more marketable) and good luck Tom!

[Avalon]

How's everyone doing, people?

[AcidDragon]

So so. What have you been up to, Avalon?

[Webslinger]

Not too much, work and home. Finished the Ultron BaF yesterday. Now waiting to get the Rhino and Hulkbuster waves...oh and the reveals from SDCC!!!

[Princess_Amethyst]

What's been going on in your lives?? I started a new job that has me doing a long commute every day but at least it's in my field.

[Webslinger]

Long time no see Princess, how ya been doing? Grats on the job too! I can't speak for everyone but I have been doing okay, I had a little family drama with my daughter (turned 18 and left home) but nothing I can't get over in time. work has been hell, not sure what it is about a certain mouse themed restaurant but good lord, people just lose all their manners when they walk in. Working on a few custom figures and waiting on some figures to come in the mail soon.

[Ken Davis]

My wife and I went on our first cruise ( through the western Caribbean) in Dec. Booked our second to Alaska for this June.
I've been working on drawing cartoon/comic commissions for the past couple of months, got a upcoming paying storyboard job that should start any time now. Was supposed to do a 6 page intro comic story for a local fan magazine, but had to withdraw because of the other work. Still going to do it for a subsequent issue, and then lead into an actual first issue for the book itself. Will see how things go.

[Idiot Savant]

Good to hear from others again...I hope all goes well for you Webs and congratulations on the new job, your Highness...I'm interested to hear how things go for Ken's new WIP's

Myself, I'm going to c2e2 this Saturday and I CANNOT wait much longer...I'm g
leaving @ 5 AM with 5 other nerds but at least we're spending the night this time. Not a lot of talent appearing overall, so that's a bit of a Belgian Bummer, but otherwise am excited like Hulk in purple pants factory...

Oh yeah...Happy St Patrick's Day everyone; SLAINTE

[Ken Davis]

I had to truncate my previous update a bit.
The commissions I've been working on are a inked image for a charity auction, with the theme being "literary characters or heroes". I got a list of possibles from the client on this, and didn't really feel excited about them--truth be told I was feeling lazy and they all felt like too much work. So I picked two "easy" characters: a meet-up between Winnie the Pooh and Paddington Bear. The client was pleased with the idea and the image.
That dovetailed into a series of images I've been working on the last two weeks for another client--a small paying job for a colouring book for a local heritage building "safari" project. The client wanted a caricature of herself to be the cartoon mascot for the book, so a series of the character in certain situations, poses and costumes. Should be done this one in a day or so--have about a half dozen images left to do on it.
The third thing in the midst of all this was done last week, just in time for a FB friend to print them off and take them to a convention: Joelanta--in Atlanta, Georgia. I did some design sketches to start development on a private go at reviving Big Jim--Mattel's sports/action/adventure figure from the mid 70's. But this time around he'll be 12" tall......and Mattel has NOTHING to do with this project. See, we discovered that Mattel had let numerous trademarks lapse for Big Jim, and my friend snatched them up. He's had a prototype figure made, and showed it and a handful of my sketches at a panel at the con. Now we are slowly developing a more modern take on the characters.
This is going to be a limited run of stuff, likely sold privately and not be a retail chain thing--but we'll see where it goes.

After that, unless the paying storyboard work comes in, I'll probably jump back on the comicbook project I mentioned. I have rough thumbailed out the 6-pager--but I want to take another look at it and revise some things. I have the thumbs all on one page, but I'm going to re-do them 2 to a page and tighten them up more there to work out the potential problems.
Then the transfer to the bristol board pages will just be straight drawing and no problem solving. And seguing from that will be in time for the next cruise, most likely.
Unless the phone rings with more work.

[Doctor Fate]

Nice to see everyone on this tread is doing well and appreciate the candor here.