sure..wouldn't mind seeing how you do yer drawing stuff. :)
still selling prints out of second Ed?
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...as in "dimwitted". But we'll get to that in a few minutes. So,
okay, I realize I've not been online much for the past month. Truth
to tell, I've been rather busy with a few RL projects, amongst other
things, and haven't been able to do much in the furry market aside
from kicking out a bunch of rough drafts for future pictures. Which
brings me around to the primary intent of this portion of the post!
Would you folks be okay with me uploading a few rough sketches, as
compared to finished artwork? It'll be a while before I can complete
these pictures, but I thought it'd be kind of cool to put up some
preliminary drawings (at least for anyone who's interested in how I
draw a character). These pictures are prelims, as in, not polished
up like the pictures from the "Ladies in Red" folio. The majority of
the sketches I've done recently are of the Caterwaul crew, since I
have plans of redrawing and re-releasing the books in the near future
(in fact, work has already begun on the pages of volume one).
On the mechanical side of things, I'm making some good headway on
putting the cruiser together. I've got a little glasswork to finish
on the rear fender, as well as some wiring on the front end. I've
found a place which makes and sells Hypercharger kits and 2-into-1
exhaust for the bike, but I'm torn between tweaking it for power or
making it more fuel conservative. I may hold off on purchasing any
more engine upgrades until after I've logged on another thousand
miles or so on the current mill set-up.
Also, I was pleased and surprised to take home the first place
award for the "modified metric" class at the recent big bike show
here. "Metric", in this case, meant anything not made by Harley.
This also meant that section of the parking lot was the driest and
most oil-free (my obligatory jab at Harley). It was a cool show,
even if I got burned to a crisp by the sun.
I will be starting an auction on Furbid within the next 2-3 days,
and this will be the LAST AUCTION I will hold where I will auction
off any of my pre-existing originals. Future auctions will likely be
for specialty artwork or work/prints by other artists.
The website is progressing along, but it's taking longer than I
thought to do the "characters" section. The text part isn't that big
of a deal, but having to draw and color a head shot of every
character I've drawn is a rather daunting task. I had no idea there
were so many different characters!
"Team Player" is in pre-production now, with the bulk of the work
focusing on layouts and rough drafts. After all the changes have
been made, the images will be cleaned up, redrawn, and then set up
for the final versions.
"Bigger Than Life 2" will be available before the end of next
month. I've been holding off on releasing that folio, since I wanted
to debut it as close to the MFM convention as possible (which I will
be attending). Of course, chances are, some fucklog will scan the
entire thing in and post it online for the world after 3 copies are
sold. But hey, this folio is limited to only 100 copies ever being
printed, and there will be no more printed folios after that, so if
you want to get one, don't dawdle. I don't know how long they will
be available.
Also, I won't expand too much upon current online events, but let's
just say it's amusing watching dogs searching for bones in the wrong
yard, and we'll leave it at that. :D It _is_ quite "chuckly" though.
So, I will now return to work and will try to get online by no
later than Tuesday to find out if you all are cool with the "rough
sketch" idea. Talk to you all then!
--JMH
Received on Sun Jun 10 2007 - 02:04:42 CDT