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Inkbook #2:
No progress since the last update, still stuck on nine pieces. I’ll try to squeeze in some once I’m further ahead with comics work.
Moon Jade Angel #2:
This one’s being set back a bit. Why? Because I have decided to separate the comics content basing it on a simple equation. People who want my comics in print will probably be unwilling to pay 6$ for a book that has 10-20 pages of comics, whereas people who buy these for the art pages alone won’t really care if the comics are gone. So the current amount of finished art is probably below 10 pages.
Coilstar Illustrated #1:
So far it’s a working title but it’ll probably stick. 52 pages of comics and nothing but comics, full color and priced 5.99$. Got at this point 34 pages ready and two more half-ready (a short comic that needs some edits). It’ll also reprint the 14 pages of comics from MJA #1 (which is part of those 24 pages) and contain every short color comic that I did up until this day. Well, every existing one that is. I can’t reprint work from my childhood or the 90s for a simple reason, those pages don’t exist anymore. Hoping to have this one finished for June.
Robyn Hood:
No change since the last update, except I’m pretty certain it’ll end up in Coilstar Illustrated #2 (if it’s finished in time for that).
“nanowrimo novel”:
Still in proofreading. Maybe I can have it out by the time next nano happens? Hopefully.
Amen City Chronicles:
Not really moving forward as I’m trying to build a large buffer for Carnivore Carnival first.
Carnivore Carnival:
Currently have a buffer of 12 pages (pages 3-14 of The Herb) and I’m trying to find the next story to work on.
Script Frenzy:
It appears this project is off, sadly. Unfortunately it’s too late to start this or the planned “Thumbnail Crazy” variant for I was way too busy working on The Herb.
other projects:
I’ve been toying with the idea of an improvised b&w heroic fantasy/action comic, but I have no idea whether I’ll start working on it soon or not. Also, other projects are bumping around my brain, making it difficult to focus on a single thing. We’ll see what comes out of this.
Inkbook #2:
There are nine new pieces ready. I haven’t decided whether I’ll do the book in the same fashion (that is 40 new and 10 old pages) or whether I’ll fill the book to the brim with new drawings. I’d love to go with the latter, so that would mean 43 pieces to go.
Moon Jade Angel #2:
Tricky math here. I have 5 pages of comics ready and also five pages of art. Also, a b&w 2-page comic that I want to run on the inside covers. There’s a couple more pieces that resurfaced after I assembled book 1, and one or two that simply didn’t make the cut, plus a four page section on my really old drawings and digital doodles (I was unhappy with the written part so I cut these pages out entirely). I’m thinking about taking a bunch of b&w drawings that simply don’t have what it takes to make it into Inkbook and applying some good colors on top of them. That could take few more pages I guess. So I don’t really know how many pages I have at all, haha. But 10+ is a good guess at this point.
Robyn Hood:
I’m still not sure on whether to draw this one now or not. I could do it and just get it out of the way but it doesn’t feel right so close to my grandma’s death. We’ll see… I’m thinking of rewriting it a little and either expanding it to 40+ pages, adding a second story to fill up a full 48-52 page book, or compressing and streamlining this one a bit to get it below 24 pages. Depending on the choice, it’ll either become a larger oneshot, or a long tale inside of one of Moon Jade Angel issues.
The “nanowrimo novel”:
Still hasn’t returned from proofreading, although work is progressing on it. Slowly, but surely forward. Hoping to have more news on that one soon.
Amen City Chronicles:
I’ve redesigned the structure and will aim for 250 page volumes (or closely thereabout), and a 5-7 days a week updating webcomic. Depending on whether I can achieve a tempo of 3 pages a day or have to stick to drawing one page a day (depends on day jobs and such) I’ll be either looking at roughly simultaneous publishing online and on paper OR the webcomic going at its own speed with the printed volumes coming out every 3-6 months, so faster than online.
How’s the story? I have v1 partially rewritten and expanded to contain majority of v2 + a bunch of new scenes that did not go into Din Krakatau, but it needs a finalized script. Also, I have the opening sequence and the following 50-70 pages of v2 written down. Beyond that all I have is loose ideas and plotlines, nothing set in concrete.
Carnivore Carnival:
I’ve been a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of my ideas that could be adapted into short comics. In short, I don’t know what to focus on next. I’ve been slowly chipping away on several scripts though. The plan for the webcomic is to continue as it is and then put the stories either into Moon Jade Angel, or as standalone oneshots (if they’re long enough for that). I will try drawing them in the “sketchbook method” I wrote on about in this post. Got a bunch of cheap notebooks bought specifically for that.
So this concludes the update session. There are other things in work, neither of which will see the light of day this year probably, so it’s too early to write about them.
Ah, finally some new art to post! The result of today’s “digital doodling” session. The original sketch ended up interesting enough so I expanded it into a full piece. Might go into Moon Jade Angel #2.
The second Carnivore Carnival story has started. It’s somewhat different from the first one and also half of it was drawn over two years ago, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy it too.
Page six of Carnivore Carnival is up! This concludes Planet Adam, the first short story, so if you held off with the reading it might be a good time to start. If you don’t want 6th page spoilers, that story starts here.
Monday, second story will start, Conception and Definition. As a reminder, both stories are already available in print in the Moon Jade Angel #1 sketchbook/artbook/short comic collection.
Well, this is the last image of the batch I pencilled awhile ago. This marks 9 finished pieces for Inkbook #2, and I can see it’s already starting stronger than the first one did. In fact, I think I’ll try shooting for 52 pieces this time. That leaves 43 to go.
So, I guess Inkbook #2 won’t be all monsters after all.
Here’s the two pieces I inked today. Both started kinda miserably and I struggled a lot to pull out something interesting from the pencils, but in the end I think they came out fine.
 
As you can see, the pencils were quite different. The guy in front was meant to be the main focus, but as I was trying to fix the anatomy/proportions, I kept on making weird tangents with the monster’s legs or back, so in the end I scrapped him, deciding the beast would be more interesting.
Ended up adding wings instead and building some basic 1-point perspective.
I started with the wings (took me 3 or 4 attempts to get them to look fine) and then kind of on a whim, I did the shadow cast by the right wing on the beast’s back. That sort of made the whole click in my mind and fall into place (before that I had no clear idea of where the light should be coming from). From then on it was just a matter of sticking to that and building the background around the grid (which got partially reworked too).
The larger version of the full image can be found in the previous post.
About… uhh… three hours of work? four? I lost track of time to be honest.
As usual, it ended up looking totally different than planned, but I’m quite proud with the results.
Second inked page for Inkbook #2 that I finished today, giving me five total. This one’s more detailed I guess. About 90 minutes work total (not including the pencil sketch which probably took 20 minutes max).
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Coming Soon an untitled heroic fantasy novel
Robyn Hood
a "Mystical Action Fantasy" 32-page oneshot comic
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