I just remembered that there is this really cool thing I can do with comics and flash that I haven’t seen hide nor hair of since the prototype was first posted to the web. I’ve been wanting to try it since I first saw it, but hadn’t learned Flash yet. And it uses the simplest of Flash’s capabilities, which I now know.

Now I just need to find the time to make it.

It’ll be easier to show you than to explain what I’m talking about. Not sure I can find the link to that prototype, though. It was cool.

Oh, and if anybody uses the term “motion comics” at you, flip them off.

The Bellingham School of Comics meets tonight, as it does every monday night, at the Black Drop at 7pm. I will not be able to be there.

However, it is an important meeting, and I urge everyone to show up. Member Tony has been planning a 24 hour comics jam of sorts to be held next Saturday at his house, and this would be your last chance to jump aboard! Or you can comment on his thread at the community blog (which is also a great place to learn more about it).

If you need to meet with me specifically, I’ll likely be available most other 5:00’s this week (except Thursday). Just let me know and I’ll schedule something with you.

At the prompting of my friend Tai, I swapped the colors of the lettering. It makes the whole thing much more Rock ‘n Roll somehow:

click to visit larger image Improvement on Possible Album Cover for SRC’s Skull Island From Grass Dog Studio

This is damn near done, but needs a lot of little tiny tweaking and polishing to get it perfect:

click to visit larger image Possible Skull Island cover From Grass Dog Studio

That is, if the rest of the band approves.

The skulls, for instance, are just copied from images out of a google search. I’d have to redraw them, basically. But they also aren’t placed with any sort of good balance, so they also need shuffling… Also, I’d like to add detail to the outline of the gorilla wall.

But I sure am proud of the poster anyway! (I did the logo work and the layout)

click to visit larger image Poster for Caps show (deer illustration by Johann Octavious Gans) From Grass Dog Studio

press up, up, down down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter key, then right click, press up, down and you'll see red circles....

I recorded these video clips using Ustream. Then, I edited them in a program called MPEG Streamclip. Then, I put them all together in Flash MX.

This piece is titled “No Content, Issue #1″. I’m going to try something new here and put it behind a LiveJournal cut. Let’s see how that effects the blog:

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My goal this week was to completely finish the first set of $10 dragons and set up the Calendar for ordering. I also had hoped to start work on the $15 dragons and draw a couple more monster pin-ups.

This is a lot of work, but I thought I could do it. However, I didn’t get a very good start at the beginning of the week, and then something else happened.

I still have a deadline, at least for the Calendar. The end of the month. I’ll get these things done by then.

But right now, I must work on another project. I have an opportunity for work that is really difficult to pass up, and I’ve never put together a good portfolio of my art before. And I need one, both for this job opportunity and for the future. So, for the next four days, that’s what I’m working on.

I believe I will be showing it off to you when I’m done. I may have to turn it in before anyone can critique it, but critiques will be welcome as I will need to improve it later (hopefully much later, but it’ll still be handy even five years down the road).

Thank you for your patience!