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Genre spanning… mind the gap!

13th September, 2008 - Posted by Chris - 2 Comments

You don’t know how difficult it has been to drag myself from playing SPORE this weekend, however I know that if I even went on it for a little while I’d still be on it come bed time.

Anyway!
The dust has now settled on the CGS Super Show and from the sounds of Scott’s post over at Resolution Comics, it went pretty well despite not having the finished comic there. I’m very interested in seeing what the reception is at the next con when there’s actually a product to sell.

That’s all out of my hands now though which is good as I have been very busy recently. I sent a number of ideas to Chad Cicconi and he picked his favourite, we’re now developing it for submission to a print publisher rather than the Zuda.com route.

The project itself is tentatively titled EduKate and is a story that features super heroes of all different types and power levels. Chad has begun sketching out ideas for the character bios I sent him and I had the first one back yesterday. Here’s a teaser snippet of it :

edukate_preview

Out of this whole process of getting ideas to Chad I also generated a number of other story concepts that I am very excited about and now have a whole folder full of things to develop both in the Horror/Sci-fi genres and a few more Super Hero ideas.

However for now I need to finish off the character bios for EduKate, then I need to finish off a Prose story to post over at in the Geek Syndicate Writers Competition, then I need to go over the dialogue of ‘Pilgrimage’ and tighten it up in anticipation of getting some pages back from Marc, as well as doing some work on Seeing Shadows.
That’s just writing wise in terms of colours I need to get myself some random sequential pages to practice colouring on as it’s much different colouring sequential than it is to colour the pin ups you see me post here.

I also need to practice my lettering with those same pages… my aim for this weekend is not to go on SPORE at all, it’s a weekend of work for me… *sigh*

To conclude this post here’s my latest colour job, I was trying my best to get some ambient lighting from the cape etc to shine on her outfit etc… I think I did an okay job, I need to work on my hair colouring though. Gah!

Here it is :