Ghost Parade

I finally posted my first complete website online, and will put my link out for my friends and family. I also posted page 27 of chapter 4, the Ghost Parade. It has a crowd of figures of different sizes. The most detailed page, I did some of the character drawings in Adobe draw, an iOS app for vector art. It took over 2 months, because I also went to Sweden and London with my wife and daughter. Only 3 more pages to complete the chapter.

Speech bubbles

Page 26, Deep Conversations, is full of speech bubbles. The most talkative page I have done. For this, I found it very challenging, and I don’t like it as much. However, I worked it until it had the ‘complete’ feeling that I look for before I can post it.
Not to be held back by challenges, my next page will have, by far, the most characters in it. It is causing me to dream about solutions, as the layout is complicated and awkward. It’s supposed to be a surprise, and will probably be called City of Ghosts. Since this blog is read by nobody, it will be a complete surprise. It may even surprise me, if it turns out good. My Isle Obscura presents creative challenges for me often.

Progress towards a website

With Chapter Four almost complete, I have started three different kinds of websites, and hopefully finally will get a good one online, that friends can use to read the whole story in order. I am learning much, but have little time beyond my day job. I am content being creative, and giving a look to my dreams. I look at the first book, and see much that is not good art. I still am not good at dialog.

Book printing

I have chapter 4 up to page 15, and I have printed the first two chapters as a book. Finally, a graphic novel in print! I hope, sometime next year, to print chapters 3-4, but now I have the challenge that these chapters will be more than 100 pages, so I will have to find some way to print it somewhere else. My pages have improved. I have also started sketches for the next book, Detour Tales. It is an insert, to follow the travels of Trambite and Zendu through the ruined city. It is fresh story.

The next stage has begun

Chapter Three: The Caverns of Knowledge has begun. I draw when my wife is at work, and I work from home twice a week. Page three of the chapter is the next one on my plate, and I am glad to be going again! I still work as a graphic designer in elearning, and I also do development and audio creating.
I expanded the beginning of Chapter Three, so the first several pages didn't exist until recently. I felt that a huge bird in the sky deserved more attention and story, and it is HUGE. People would be tired of my clouds, if many people saw these. I'll have to research how to draw different, less expected ones.

From July to December

A lot has happened. I changed jobs, to one that takes over an hour to drive to. Now I have little time for anything extra, so my couple months break has become a forced split with my story. I hope that I can get some lifestyle changes happening, so I can pickup my book again, but I haven't landed on my feet yet. I have been doing less graphic design, and added audio editing to my skills, among other varied skills, and I went with people at my new work to Las Vegas for an eLearning convention.

I have sketched several new pages for the book on my ipad  . . . I just haven't had time for inking. Hoping to show real progress soon, but I like where the story is improving, anyway.

Latest Chapter of Uendyr, the Creativity Machine

I completed the second chapter of my graphic novel, and it is double the length of the first chapter. I can see development in my skills since the first chapter, and feel that it is closer to what I have dreamt for it. Still a long way to go, to complete 8 chapters for the final book. I stopped putting it on Tumblr, because it has to be reviewed backwards, like Deviantart. It is completely on Deviantart, but very few people have seen it and even fewer have made any comments.
I am taking a couple months off from it to read some good books and plan improvements for the format of Chapter Three.