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Blog 2024
Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae I’ve been working on the Domestika course, and switched to analog, I rewrote the chapter to be first person, Todd’s perspective, and added 3 pages, and quite a few frames to the project. This is Chapter 1, Scene 1, Frame 005. This is Todd looking down the street … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 005” »
Editing hell. I rewrote Chapter 1, Scene 1 of Todd and the Fae from third person to first person. It seems to flow better, and I feel more connected to my main character as a reader, so going to keep this version. With that decision made, I continued on and rewrite Scene 2 as well. … Expand “Author Blog Update 5/6/2024” »
Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae I’ve been working on the Domestika course, and switched to analog. As I mentioned yesterday I also rewrote the chapter to be first person, Todd’s perspective. This is Chapter 1, Scene 1, Frame 004. Full Body shot, Todd walking.arriving at the trolley stop. Shadows of evil magic creeping around … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 004” »
Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae I’ve been working on the Domestika course, but switched to analog art. I also revisited some common advise for new authors about checking the voice you use, checking genere expectations, and decided to rewrite the book in first person from Todd’s perspective. So the new frames are based … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 003” »
I wrote 3 books out of 5 of a series. They are in various states of editing hell. and books 4 and 5 are in various states of outlined, and rough draft depending on the chapter. It’s a cozy fantasy mystery series based in 1920 Cleveland, but with the twist that in 1820 magic was … Expand “Artist Update – Q2 2024” »
Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae I’ve been working on the Domestika course, but switched to analog art. I can’t get my brain to engage with the digital art methods the same way I can do with pencil and paper. Giving this a try for a month and see how far I get. This … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 002” »
Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae I’ve been working on the Domestika courses, but switched to analog art. I can’t get my brain to engage with the digital art methods the same way I can do with pencil and paper. Giving this a try for a month and see how far I get. This … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 001” »
Spent the day penciling in a few storyboard frames of the rewrite of Chapter 1, Scene 1 of the WIP Todd and the Fae. I decided to not use 3rd person in the story, and to switch to 1st person. So I rewrote the chapter to be from Todd’s perspective. This is a beginnings of … Expand “Sunday 4/22/2024 Storyboarding WIP TATF” »
I took the Master Class that Jazza created. It was fun and I see improvement already, which is great because I haven’t done any character design before I started working on the “Todd and the Fae” webcomic. The whole webcomic is a huge learning project.
Project: Todd and the Fae WebComic : Frame 002 – Inked I’ve been working on the Domestika course, and using Goodnotes to work on the rough draft. This is Chapter 1 : Scene 1 : Frame 2. It’s a long distance shot Cleveland from Lake Erie adjusted vaguely to a 1920 skyline. What classes are … Expand “Final – Digital – Frame 002” »
