September. I spent much of August in London, fixing up my mother's spare room. And drinking beer, and eating sausage rolls. Too much to really talk about.
So September is rolling along and I'll be spending the month looking for work - anything, really; and downsizing my living arrangements. Make of that what you will, but for the ... assuming anyone reads this, I'm living La Vida Single now.
I've emailed my portfolio to a bunch of Illustration Agencies and Reps to a very low rate of returns. What I'm going to try and do here, is start talking about my efforts to get illustration work. The sites I visit, the kinds of replies I get. Maybe rant about the dick-heads on Craigslist or Deviant Ar that don't know that "Unpaid Intern" means nothing unless College credits are given. Or that
expecting spec work on a project is well, stupid and evil. How about asking for a drawing of a figure and thinking $20 is a fair price, when you should be looking at double that for
just a simple sketch.
In other news, I'm working away on an OGN called "Lucky Town," written by Anthony Venutolo - which has a publisher attached.
At San Diego ComiCon, Archaia wanted to see a solicited submission for "Neverland," written by WORK! co-editor Eric Palicki.
I've spent the last few days knocking out some quality work for this,
Frank Cho & Doug Murray's "50 Girls 50". It's only 6 pages, with the promise of a 4-issue mini-series at the end (and $3,000 an issue) so, despite my complaints about spec work and contests above, this is a different kettle of fish altogether - it's not a logo for $50, the stakes are much higher, and additionally - I
like drawing comics. Like all scripts for these kinds of things, it's deliciously complicated - giant aliens, spaceships, crowds...
Which is strange, as a try-out script I have for 2000ad - also 6 pages, lots of buildings, odd perspectives and also, 6 panels a page (not many, I know, but ... annoying with the detail I put in.) looking at it a month later, I hate it. The figure-work seems forced and lacking any dynamism. While my heavy inks work okay in a sci-fi or noir setting (hey, space has hard shadows) maybe I should explore my pencil for a while... it gets the strongest response so far.
Amongst all my other things going on, I've turned out a 12-page fully painted comic in conjunction with the wonderful Mark Growden. The story is inspired by his lyrics from four of his songs.
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