26
/ JUL / 08 - 2133 PST : Awesomeness is tiring...
Hey
folks.
Back
at the hotel and totally beat from a crazy day, but I'm not too
tired to post few pics from the con. More to come later.
Later,
-Ed
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24
/ JUL / 08 - 1922 PST : Weathered the storm...
Hey
folks.
Just
a quick update from the con.
Now
this is my first year at SDCC, so I really have no frame of
reference, but from what people have told me, it is insanely
busy this year. Thursday (with the exception of Wednesday's
preview night) is supposed to be the slowest day, and yet today was
easily as busy as Saturday was last year. Which I'm guessing
means that Saturday will be like something out of 28 Weeks Later...but
with a lot less of the killing and flesh eating n' stuff (I hope).
I
spent most of the day trucking around with my buddy Jeff handing out
my colour portfolio to any comic publisher who was accepting
submission packages so I didn't get much of a chance to take many
pics, but here's a couple of them to hold you over till I get a
little more snap happy.
The
first is a shot I took after lunch as Jeff and I were heading back
into the convention center. And even though it does show a
fair number of people making their way to the pop culture promise
land, it still doesn't do justice to just how crazy it was.
And
the second pic I got for y'all is one I snapped of Evil
Inc's, Brad Guigar (the guy sitting down signing a book) and
Starslip Crisis's, Kris Straub
(the guy not sitting down signing a book).
I
can't tell you how great it was after doing the color work on his
strip for almost six months now, to finally get the chance to meet
Brad face to face. And now that I have I can honestly say that
not only is he one of the nicest people I've ever had the chance to
work with, but he's also one of the nicest people I've ever met, period!
Unfortunately
I didn't have much of a chance to talk to either Brad or Kris for
very long, but with any luck I'll be able to chat with them again a
bit more before the cons over.
Okay
folks, that's it for now. Hopefully I'll get my photog on
(that didn't sound right, did it?) a lot more over the next few day.
Later,
-Ed
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0533 PST : The quiet before the storm...
Hey
folks.
Well
after taking a car, to get to a plane, to get to a bus, to get to a
train, I finally arrived in San Diego. I got my badge, got a
bit of sleep, and now I'm ready to "get my geek on" for
the next four days!
I'll
try to keep y'all updated as the week goes on, but for now I need to
log of and fleshing out my plan of attack.
Later,
-Ed
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09
/ JUL / 08 - 1447 CST : Green with frustration...
Hey
folks.
Yep,
I've had to go ahead and post another work in progress page from my
colorist portfolio in lieu of a new strip. Believe me when I
say that I'd much rather provide you with more wacky GT adventures
instead, but unfortunately the portfolio is all I've had time to
work on lately.
I
should note that while I am happy with the progress of this page so
far, it is easily one of the most frustrating and painful attempts
at colour I've done to date. Still, the whole reason I picked
this one was because I knew it would be a challenge, so looking at
it that way I think I made a good choice.
Alrighty
guys, I'm off to bed now. See y'all tomorrow.
Later,
-Ed
******
08
/ JUL / 08 - 0845 CST : And we're back...well, half- back...maybe
three quarters...
Hey
folks.
Well
my four week break from the Geek Tragedy universe has come and gone,
and I'm back to producing new strips for you folks to see.
Sorta...
Here's
the thing guys. I've still got a lot of stuff I need to get
done and less time than I'd like to do it in. And I'm not just
talking about the short term goals of getting my portfolio ready for
the San Diego Comic Con, or having all my prep work done for Connecticon
(though those are my top priorities at the moment). I'm
talking about me looking ahead to the next year or two to see what's
needed to get my art career to where I want it to be, and realizing
that the one key element that I'll most likely be lacking is the
free time I'd need to do what needs to be done.
At this moment there
are two major time sinks in my life. There's my job (which
pays me enough real cash money to afford food and shelter), and Geek
Tragedy (which also pays me enough money to afford food and shelter,
providing of course my "shelter" was a mud hut in Ecuador,
and my "food" consisted of insects, leaves and tree
bark).
Now I'm pretty sure
Ecuadorian mud huts don't have much in the way internet access (at
least not broadband I don't think), which means that even if I were
to quit my job and move away from modern civilization, I'd have no way to keep
that fat webcomic cash rolling in anyways. So
during this last couple weeks I did a lot of serious thinking about
how best to accomplish everything I need to do, keep you folks
entertained with Noname and the GT crew's wacky antics, and yet
still keep the job that provides me with a warm bed and a belly full of frozen
pizza.
Broken
promises...
At
the beginning of the year I made the commitment to provide you guys
with four updates a week come rain or shine for all of 2008, and I
think I managed to do a fairly good job of staying the course (at
least until the middle of June anyway). However, since first
making that declaration in January, a lot has changed. I've
taken on the colouring duties at Evil Inc six days a week, I've been
getting more commission work, and last but not least I've really
started working towards getting work as a professional colorist (for
comics I mean, not hair).
In
essence, I'm doing the best I can to get to a point in my life where
even if I'm not yet able to generate all my income from working on
my own projects, at the very least I'd like to be making my entire
living working for others as an artist instead of a
lab monkey. And while in a perfect world that would be a goal
that I could still accomplish while working full time and doing the
site four days a week, unfortunately the reality of my situation is
quite different.
So
folks, for the next few months at least anyway, Geek Tragedy's
update schedule will be more in the "twice to three times a
week" range. Probably something along the lines of GT˛
on Mondays and Fridays, with a colour update on Wednesdays.
Yeah,
I know. It's not exactly my ideal setup either, but it's just
the way it's gotta be for now I'm afraid.
So
there you have it folks. Geek Tragedy may not be back in full
force, but at least it's back none-the-less.
Alrighty,
time for me to get some more work done.
Later,
-Ed
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03
/ JUL / 08 - 1112 CST : And the colours keep on coming...
Hey
folks,
I
don't have anything new to post just yet, but I figured I'd give you
peek at the next bit of lineart that I'll be colouring next.
The pencils for this
piece were done by Ivan Reis, and the inks are by Jeff Dabu.
There are a few reasons
I picked this page to add to my colouring portfolio. First
off, I'm a big Green Lantern fan. Also, despite being quite
busy, it's a very subdued page, and I figured I should show what I
can do on a page that isn't driven by action. And lastly, I'm
pretty sure it's going to be a total bitch to colour, and I kinda
wanted to challenge myself.
Alrighty!
Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be have breathed some colour into this
page and will have a new bit of work to show y'all. So I guess
I better get to it then.
Later,
-Ed
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