I've been spending most of the last few months either preparing for Conventions, attending them, recovering from them, blogging, tweeting, facebooking or writing (and I'm pleased to say that I've roughed out Issue 2 of
WesterNoir).It's difficult to do all of this and still attempt anything 'art'y (I was tempted to say artistic but that would imply a certain amount of prowess).
To keep my hand in with the cutting and sticking, I think they're called collages in the real world, I've decided to have a go at making a few cards that are roughly the size of those old
Victorian photos and follow this theme so far as to setting characters into that time period.
First up in
The Iron Man...
I think I got a bit too heavy with the background brown, and will try a good old cup of
Earl Grey tea for the next one rather than acrylic paint.
I've been playing around with proportions.. thinking ahead to when I do my Two Templars book that'll follow Strange Times. I want to have a different look and feel to the characters, but also to bring across the kind of cartoony feel that I've now got to grips with. At the moment I'm playing with some recognizable (hopefully) characters, but soon I'll start to define the look of the Templars.
Just back from another fantastic Komiks.DK event in Copenhagen. The Danes are a very friendly and hospitable bunch and we're always made to feel very welcome. Over the last 8 years we've made a lot of friends over there. I'll post a full report over on the Accent UK website this weekend (hopefully) but in short, we sold every Accent UK title we took, and between three of us and a box shipped over, it was a lot of comics ...
