My latest work - an entry to Image Comics' competition to draw a comic by Frank Cho & Doug Murray. Draw the first 6 pages, and win a chance to draw the next 90... so here's page #1.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
50 GIRLS 50
My latest work - an entry to Image Comics' competition to draw a comic by Frank Cho & Doug Murray. Draw the first 6 pages, and win a chance to draw the next 90... so here's page #1.
Monday, September 7, 2009
September - Part Deux, the link-dump.
So here are some of the current crop of links I follow looking for work - please, feel free to suggest more, or let me know if they're squirrelly.
san francisco bay area art/media/design jobs los angeles art/media/design jobs new york city creative chicago creative gigs london creative gigs
Other: deviantART Digital Webbing Forums GUTTERZOMBIE.com Penciljack Forum Gigposters.com Drawing Board Creative Hotlist Amateur Illustrator Graphic Design Forum GFX Forums RPGnet Forums The CAFE » Freelance Corner Worth1000.com Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles | Call for Entries altpick.com :: the source for creative talent and information ComicBookClassifieds.com artshub.co.uk | For UK Arts Workers Art Jobs - Art Career - Art Employment - Art & Design graphic:DESIGN:basics - graphic design basics, competitions, news, and more http://artdeadlineslist.com/eag/submission.guidelines Creative Hotlist: Job Searches, Portfolios and Recruiting for Graphic and Web Designers, Writers, Photographers and Illustrators PRINT Magazine Writing and Graphic design jobs for freelancers ArtDeadline.Com Communication Arts: Magazine creativematch i creatives FILTER/TALENT Aquent.com Job.com Art Squad Artlinks! mediabistro.com Design & Creative Jobs | Design Week Jobs
Concept Art: Full-Time Positions - ConceptArt.org Forums Freelance Jobs - ConceptArt.org Forums Small Freelance Jobs (Under $500 USD Total) - ConceptArt.org Forums Part-Time Jobs - ConceptArt.org Forums
Freelance Bid Sites (I have actually made money from one of these sites!):
Craigslist:
September.
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.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Moving along... How Soon Is Now?
Just got a new Mac. The old one was getting stuffed with crap - music software, art software, I was running games off of an external HD...
So it's all wired in via DVI so my colours are much more colourful. My software runs blazing fast... yummo.
But that's not what I want to write about. I have a bunch of old comics I drew several years ago that I need to get around to tidying up and lettering. And then put 'em online. A 30 page black and white 'Nemesis The Warlock' kinda fan-fic thing. 'Judas Lucy', a couple of fully painted long-form stories. I still have 'Soft' as an ongoing 'Thing' as well... somewhere around page 80 or so of... 400?
So, I have a LOT of content that needs to go online. And that's why I stand knee-deep in oily water, greasy wrench in hand beating away at MySQL and PHP... WordPress, you WILL be my bitch, as I have Important Comics that must go online. Now.
Currently playing with MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) Virtual Server, WP, ThemeDreamer & DreamWeaver, and Artisteer 2. Maybe I have too many options...?
Friday, June 26, 2009
Caving in is so easy to do...
So I caved and re-instated my Twitter account and feed.
I feel like such a worthless whore, but if I can use it to find work...
Friday, June 19, 2009
Egad! Followers!
So I signed in to write a quick post, only to find I had followers. It was a sensation akin to coming home from work, randomly looking behind the sofa, only to discover an undiscovered tribe living there, cooking dinner over an open flame.
Being a social sort, I gave them a widgety thing there on the right.
This of course means I have to imrpve mii riting skillz and learn to type complete sentences as I am now being watched.
Back to my original post. I have renounced MySpace, and Twitter. I hardly visit them, and while I might miss out on opportunities via Twitter - writers looking for artists for publishers, that kind of thing (true story, folks! Coming soon.) So my Twitter widget has gone bye-bye.
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