Archive for March, 2009
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First off, regular updates will resume Tuesday 3 March. Short of a day-long incident, I will not miss this one. I have two completed comics ready to go.
Next, I plan on pushing this new site into production by the 15th of March. I have already done a soft rollout, and plan on introducing new people to the site over the next week. I still have some gallery code to straighten out and some extra pages to add. If you have any other things you notice that need tweaking or fixing, please point them out at your earliest convenience. It takes time to fix these things.
Enjoy the two gallery postings as an act of contrition. I haven’t felt particularly “comicky” the past week, and doing some watercolors and working on the game have really gotten me back into the art mood.
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I didn’t plan on doing this landscape to start with, and it is an adaption of some of the landscape elements I found in Gatlinburg and some of the landscape elements from the Spring Canyon Park landscape I did last summer in Colorado. I added the snow on top of everything with white “watercolor” (I suspect it’s gouache) flicked off of the end of a rounded brush. the roads were actually a mistake in trying to put some tree structure in the foreground. I think it adapted pretty well, and if I hadn’t done that landscape in Spring Canyon Park I probably never would have considered that fix to my mistake. I like this one a lot better than the first one.
This is a quick and dirty landscape I did in the evening, looking from a hotel over the Gatlinburg strip. It’s very Impressionist (fancy word meaning lacking details) in many fashions, primarily because I was dealing with fast-changing light conditions. I am really pleased with the ski lift lights and the choice I made to oversimplify the town with grays, browns (for roofs) and yellow for lights. The orange-yellow in the sky isn’t quite right, but I lost it before I was able to really capture it.