Personal Update: A Lesson Learned From a 2 Year Old.

This weekend my Niece brought her boyfriend, son and her mother over so that her son could see all the trains that I have running in the house. This photo was taken by her mother in our basement. I had been sitting at the computer all morning before they arrived and was a little worn out. It was fun to see everything through the "fresh eyes" of a 2 year old. After they left town I went back down stairs, started up the trains and just stared at the table again and for just a while watched the trains go round and round...a good lesson taught by a 2 year old, thanks Gabriel.

Flanedor Update 4/14/13

I think I have gotten the system down in the last couple of days, I have drawn and ink more in the last 3 days than I think I have in the last 3 weeks. I manage to in all of LAST weeks panels as well as Thursday thru today I have drawn pages 26 through 32. The 2 others that I have shown the roughs to have said that it is better than most of the work to date. I'll put the pencil works below.

 I was also invited to do a little plug for Falendor for Casey's Podcast, "The Department of Offense" at Blindninjastudios.com. Thanks Casey, it was fun. You can find the interview at my site cartoonsbysketch.com. Let me know if it works for you, some have had problems.

For the rest of this week I am going to be doing the inking, the last penciling and some ad work for the comic, wish me luck.

Falendor Update 4/7/13

My weekend has FLOWN by but I did manage to get pages 8, 9, 10, and 11 penciled

 

 

(These first two I redid because I didn't like the way that the fairy turned out so I redid the character setup and in the process we renamed her..."Ella Kalen" in Saxon & Celtic, as far as I can tell from the translations, is it means "little warrior" or "angelic trouble" I thought it was perfect. )

and then I managed to get pages 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 inked! The one thing I can promise is that this work is more detailed than all the work I have done before. Now? Now it's time for me to go spend the rest of my Sunday Night with my wife.

Falendor Update 4/2

This weekend I finnished up penciling one of the stories and then turned around and finished inking them as well. Here are some of the pencils.

 

  

This morning I started penciling yet another story and will be finishing up inking them later this week. I have kicked it into overdrive and am frantically trying to get this all set up and working...in between bus routes!

 

 

Falendor Update.

Im running late and have to get to the bus garage here soon. I managed to get pages 19 and 20 penciled and page 19 is inked as well.

Earlier today I put the count down on the top of this page and cartoonsbysketch.com, I thought it was a great idea since people have started asking to purchase them. When Shannon got a peek at it she said to me: "Whoa! No pressure or anything!" I didn't have any until NOW! THANKS A LOT!! :)

Falendor Update!

Got some more rough sketches done of the tavern owners, I like these better. Penciled out page #18.

Falendor Update!

Pages 16 & 17 Finished penciling and inked.

New Blog setup and Falendor update.

My sister pointed out to me yesterday that I had not posted in a while and I did not remember until just now. Over the last week I have been doing a new route at work and I had some down time to get some work done and I have been focused on that, sorry for not posting in a while. I have a list of things.

First of all you will notice that I took ALL of my existing blogs (i.e. Falendor, Tangles, Trading Cards and Barney) and I have placed them ALL here, its a whole lot easier this way, for you as well as me and I did not realize just exactly how MUCH has been going on until I put it all together. I will be posting them under the title of (name of work) update.

Next, as of this weekend I have started on the layout and penciling portion of Falendor.

With each one of those white sheets being a page in the comic book.
Then I started working blue line specifically of Sir R.o.D. splash pages, and a couple of the story sheets.

 Last week I aslo started working on "The Princess" an illustration page inside the comic. This is just a preliminary and just ignore the notes..I am working through problems at the same time as drawing her.

Plus I am just finishing up on the final rendition of Sir R.o.D.

Finally, I am ALSO working on the three women who own the tavern where the story of Sir R.o.D. starts out, these were just thoughts but I think there funny, maybe you'll recognize them.

Ok, so with that being worked on, I have also finished up the script for Sir R.o.D for the comic, and ideas are already starting to come for the next one :)

For the Spring Con show on the 18th and 19th of May I will be releasing TWO different kind of comicbooks for Falendor one will be the standard comic and the second will be a special edition limited run comic that will be just like the other one but will have FOURTH STORY, two trading cards and a special cover that I can draw on. I will only be doing a small number of these and I think they will go fast. I will be selling these at Spring Con only so come by and get one while they last.

Thank you for all your support and thanks to all of you for your ideas as well.

I will post more this week...promise.

"Sir Raymond of Dale" preliminary sketchs are up!

During the course of the last week I have been working on just getting some of the work for "Falendor" completed. Over the last two days I have finished "Sir Raymond of Dale" or "Sir R.O.D." as I call him.

Since we have officially been invited to "Spring Con" on May 18th and 19th, I have decided THAT'S where I am going to be releasing the first copies of "Falendor" and also release the LAST book of "Small Town Values."

Here is the intro for "Sir RoD":
"Trying to prove himself in a world where chivalry is but a rumor, honor is only whispered of and courageousness is reserved for all but the dead, our Hero is in search of the mystical, Ring of Eternity. He battles on through every quest hoping that after each encounter he is one step closer to achieving his prize.

He is courageous, dependable and ...without a clue ... he is, Sir Raymond of Dale.

Our first show of the year!

It's official, we have been invited to the M.C.B.A.'s 25th Anniversary "Spring Con!" This two day event is held at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, May 18th & 19th, 2013!!!!!

I have to tell you that this is an honor for me to be here, this organization puts on an incredible show, and takes great care of their artists as well as their visitors. I will be doing some trading cards for them to hand out at the door as a special gift for a some of the visitors.

For this show I will be releasing this last and final edition of the "Small Town Values" collection, as well as I will also be releasing the introduction to "Falendor: The Forgotten Kingdom." This will be the first place to get them, so stop by and see us!

If you can make this GREAT event PLEASE DO and help support this great organization as well as some talented artists.

http://www.MIDWESTCOMICBOOK.com