Hey, so, remember a while back when I said I was working on something? Of course you do because it’s right down there on the page below this post. Well, it’s alive now. I hope you like it.
It is called Knifestone and it is a fantasy… I won’t say epic, but, y’know. Fantasy regular? It’ll be fun. See you folks there.
Hello folks. That is, if there are any of you out there who read this but don’t talk to me in some other way already. There has been something of a lack of content here for a little while now (and a long while now for some things *cough*Dr.Octopus-for-a-Hand*cough), but that is for REASONS. Like, real REASONS.
Namely, that I will be, within about a month or so, launching a new ongoing thing. Like, for realsies. It won’t be hosted here at tranive.ca (although technically it is still under my same hosting plan, just at a different domain. Whatever), but I’ll definitely post about it here when it launches. And when it does, tranive.ca will become what it was kindof always going to be – a repository for my weird ideas and short stories and unfinished/in-progress things. Think of this place less like the place to find The Thing I Do, and more the place to find Some Stuff I Did. Tranive is to my real project as Gabeart is to Penny Arcade. Does that make sense? I think it does. Yes.
Anyways, yes. As long as I doodle there will be Ballpoint Days, but it’s not necessarily going to be as weekly as it has been, because all my creative energy has kinda bee siphoned off into this real thing, which is For Serials coming soon.
See you in a few weeks.
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So, Stumptown taught me two things: One, thanks to the sage words of Erika Moen (which I believe she actually told me last year as well but didn’t sink in until I heard them again this year), if I’m ever going to get anything approaching good at this whole game I need to be more serious about it and treat it more like something I do, not just something I kinda do. And two, that I want to have something that I can be proud of for one reason or another.
That’s not to say that I’m not proud of anything I’ve done. There are a few panels and even full strips in the old dailies that I like, I like the concepts behind Dr. Octopus-for-a-Hand and look forward to having more ideas for those characters, and as a whole I’m pretty proud of Bang, but having one or two things floating around, not updating, not moving, not progressing, that’s not something I can really abide. So to rectify that, I’m going to do my best to do another ongoing story. I have no idea what it will be about or where it will go, but that’s sort of the idea. Take it back to basics. Let the story tell itself. Learn as I go. And end up with something I like at the end, be it due to how the story went, how I drew it, how I grew in the process, whatever. I’m gonna fly by the seat of my pants on this one, try and use what I’ve learned so far, and try even harder to learn even more as I go.
It is raw, it is new, it is mine, and there will be No Edit.
So Stumptown was pretty neat. Sold a couple books. Thanks to everyone who spent money on me. Especially the dude who bought the original Darth Cubone art. That blew me away. And thanks to everyone who I threw bookmarks and free copies of Bang at who have come by and looked at the website. I hope you like what you see enough to stick around, because I have cooler things coming. Totally.
Also, if you haven’t, you should check out Mei K’s stuff. We sat next to her, and she does some wonderful adorable work. Sorry I didn’t talk to you really at all!
Hey dudes and dudettes! I totally just threw together a fun little set of drawings of some Pokémon dressed up as characters from Star Wars. Because it was the nerdiest thing I could conceive to do at the time, apparently. I threw it over on Flickr just in case the universe thinks it’s awesome as I do and it manages to get picked up by some blog somewhere, that way it doesn’t totally rape my bandwidth. Anyways, go and check it out.
Speaking of things that would matter if anyone knew who I was but no one does so it doesn’t, I am officially at table #46 at the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend. Y’know, because there are totally people reading this who know of me and aren’t already my friends who live here and aren’t going. Totally.
