I was looking through my old rejection letters from the first time I pitched Adamsville, (then just called THE UNKNOWNS) and it was surprising how I felt after looking at those rejections. I wasn’t saddened by them or upset, or discouraged. I enjoy this book series for myself and have enjoyed making it for myself […]
The Original First Scene From My Pitch For Adamsville & A Word On Failure Read More »
Last night I finished chapter 3 of the Adamsville. This chapter felt like it lingered and lingered. Mainly because I had to study for and pass two licensing exams for my job during that period. But the tests are behind me and so is the chapter. I feel like I really was able to refine
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Today I thought I would walk you through how I make a page of Adamsville. Don’t want to give away much of the context of this page, gotta keep my spoilers low, but here we go! First things first, I go through my script and do a pretty standard thumbnail of the page I will
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Since about the end of December I have been studying for a new a set of licenses that I need at my job and it has made work on Adamsville a bit spattered. Well this week I finally passed both of them, so now things are wide open. I have my schedule in place and
Progress Is Now Unhindered Read More »
I have been fascinated this week with the idea of your specific voice in storytelling. Trying to understand the things that attract you most to a medium or say what is most on your heart. It all sort of cropped up in me after watching this interview with one of my favorite filmmakers M. Night Shyamalan:
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This week marked an important milestone in production on Adamsville. I passed the actual haflway point on the book. I sort of took some time to reminisce on this moment. I jokingly posted on Twitter that I was a bit teary eyed. It sounds corny, but it was true. A lot has come and gone
My Journey Through Work Ethic (How I Overcame False Expectations) Read More »
I recently began thinking through my topics around planning and how to sustain myself as I enter into the final push to finish Adamsville bk 1. It yielded some interesting observations. I noticed that the primary way in which we think through the process of finishing something is to plan like this: I can probably produce
It’s All A Part Of The Plan Read More »
I recently wrapped up reading two books that I thought I would give a quick review of that I think are a great resource for aspiring artists. The first is OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at what makes a successful person. It’s at once inspiring and at the same time discouraging.
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It’s all downhill from here! I have now passed the halfway mark of inking the book and things are moving smoothly enough! I got very busy for a few things at work involving studying for two licenses I need for my day job. Things were going well without it effecting my comics stuff, but then
Past The Halfway Mark! Read More »
Here’s a peak at a page from Chapter 2: I’m busy working my way through the colors in chapter 2 and they are coming together really fast. I’m pretty proud of this chapter and the storytelling along with everything else in it. I had done some back and forth recently about releasing this book to
Wrapping up Chapter 2 – Thinking on Chapter 3 Read More »
