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Going Dark

Andrewj — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:01:58 +0000

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..

pre print

Andrewj — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:46:03 +0000

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.

Move to lightbox?

Andrewj — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:16:50 +0000

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

Golem: Final 7

Andrewj — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:11:48 +0000

5 Down, 2 to go.

Fight Stories

Andrewj — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:02:37 +0000

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.

Golem: Final 7

Andrewj — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:12:15 +0000

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

Art done

Andrewj — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:20:39 +0000

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

03×04 in prog

Andrewj — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:26:13 +0000

Page 12. Running Late.

Shortened 03

Andrewj — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:47:33 +0000

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

JQ PLAYER (HTML/JQ)

Andrewj — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:26:34 +0000

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

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