I-Mac Says "Chill On My Dad's Deadline Or Heads Will Roll."

Well, Script Three is late. And it's this guy's fault.

Now, normally, as per our unanimously-agreed-upon arrangement, the writer who is late with the script will be sock-beaten, then taken out to sea and keel-hauled, then buried up to his head in wet sand, then dug up and kicked in the nuts, before finally being burned as a witch.

(This arrangement doesn't apply to Ben, as Ben won Immunity during the Arm-Wrestling, Speed-Calculus, and Snuff Sudoku rounds.)

So usually at this time we'd be throwing a drugged and cross-dressed (Eben's idea) Adam into a trunk on our way to the Sock-Beating Place. (Kinkos.) But, frankly, I don't want to tangle with this little guy. The reason the picture is blurry? It's because his atomic matter actually vibrates at a slightly higher frequency than ours does. Two minutes after he was born he called me a "slightly boorish but nonetheless pleasant simpleton". In ancient Phoenician. He also suggested he might have developed, in utero, an advanced algorithm for ensuring that every Washington Redskins play-call is successful. He implied he had the margin of error down to negative six. I still don't understand that.

We'll give Adam a short grace period. This will give Eben more time for lingerie-shopping.

-- Jables The Younger

Anatomy of another Promotional Image

So, this time we start out the same way, with a simple thumbnail and an idea...
Except, now I go straight to the tablet and rough in color study really fast, by keeping it loose, small and low resolution....
That study gets developed into this rough in photoshop, then I print it out on the old trusty hp..
...and with a light box and my mechanical pencil (and a few hours) I do this finished pencil drawing. I really like how this one has evolved, now tune in for a color version later.

BRP!

Blog vs. Site Clarity

Hi team -

So - JBL posted a comment about how I see the blog being used vs. the Official public web site. . .

My thoughts are these :

This blog is a place for us to create a dialogue with our readers and to share stuff (LIke the great anatomy of a promo) that won't really have a home on the Official site. This will be a link from the official site and an ongoing behind the scenes peek into our process.

I'm keeping the blog private for now because I don't want to give anything away yet and at the same time want us all to be able to post whatever we want and whatever strikes our fancy even before we take down our collective fly's and show our junk to the world.

So use this blog as a place to talk about or show whatever you like (as long as it doesn't give away info on issue 2+) and go wild. This is to be more real, more raw and more fun than the "Official Site!"

Rock on!
E

Anatomy of the Promotional Image

Here's a quick breakdown of how our promo image came to life. First it all started with some thumbnailing from an idea from JB Love
That quickly progressed into a rough pencil drawing colored in photoshop...

Then I printed out a non photo blue version of the pencils and ink them in, and wound up with this, which just didn't do the job that we wanted...so back to square one..
So, to catch the attitude that was necessary for this piece, I went back to drawing that I had done of Amy that really worked well for her character..
And directly in photoshop with the trusty ol' wacom tablet we add her armor and do a quick value painting...
Then add in our frontpage, wall, etc...
On a new layer I do the finished figure painting, notice it changes a lot from that first color study...
A few tweaks and some last additions and we've got a promo piece!

I'll post soon about the new promo...

BRP!

HERE IT COMES!!