forge

No new art has been produced recently as I’ve been working on a new GOLEM story.Im hoping to get it to a point where I’ll be willing to spend the hours to do the art or shelve it. Work in progress.

Not working on the fight stories at themoment. I’m not happy to work on the short stories as I dont believe readers get enough enjoyment out of them, if they were released as part of a compilation (as an example, 2000ad) then maybe but it is not something I wat to read.

So DEATH NOTE was shelved, although it still looks good in my head, and was replaced with an extension of SOUR, expanding that short into a series of fights. Though my interest is currently to work on DA, then use the fight stories as a way to work on my art style.

Nothing to be released short term though. Will update the homepage to reflect this content hiatus..

I’ve been spending time collating the files for print, one of the problems about learning as you go is the early stuff is shit. Which unless I decide to redraw issue1 from scratch will not change. Im not wanting to dwell on STM, but it is not stopping me from redrawing a page which sucked, I still liked the expressions in the original, but it sucked. Also the final three of iss1 but lets face it if you don’t like the story by that point, better art will not help.

For the new set of short FIGHT STORIES, Im going to trial replacing the old flash player with a lightbox gallrey format instead.

5 Down, 2 to go.

It looks like once Golem is complete and I start work on DARK AGES,  I’ll work on a new set of POC stories, grouped under the name FIGHT STORIES.

These will be 4 pagers, as previous.

Loose sketch layout for the last 7 pages. Starting work!

5 pages complete. Lettering/tweaking then up [!]

Page 12. Running Late.

With the drawing arm being damaged, moving house etc 03X03 is a shorter than originally intended but punchy all the same. Onwards to 04

The  non-flash based player is available as a test here

http://www.theblackgates.com/golemJS.html.