Random video test
Sometimes I have an idea for a project. I set up some test shots, only to remember that there is only 24 hours in the day, and many of those hours have to spent of such things as work... eating... sleeping... y'know. The usual rubbish.
Which means I end up with random stuff like this. Clearly a project that would be a little dated if I actually went ahead with it.
Anyway. Enjoy this random test shot.
Sign at Big Cat Sanctuary
Sign at Big Cat Sanctuary, originally uploaded by Antony Bennison.
Vector-based book covers
As part of their Inspiration series, Vector Tuts+ has a selected over fifty great vector-based book covers. I love looking at stuff like this in bulk, it really helps you get an idea of what themes are used often, and how they are sometimes subverted. Here are some of my favourites. Click the link below to see the whole set.
The light of day
It feels like I've been working on a lot of projects recently that have yet (or never will) see the light of day for one reason or another. So, while I'm waiting to see if my most recent design work leads to anything, I thought I'd post a few test images from a project that unfortunately didn't work out.
Comments
I'm enabling comments on (some of?) my posts from now on. In the past I decided against this because a) even much more popular sites than this one get very few comments, and b) I couldn't be bothered dealing with the spam.
I've decided to give it a go because WordPress does offer a spamfilter that I've heard good things about and, well, it just seems a shame to not at least give some of you guys the option.
Time for a redesign
I'll be redesigning this site over the next few days. Why? Oh, a few reasons. One is because I want it to reflect my output more. The last design was created for a comic-based output. But me being me, I'd spend one period drawing loads of comics, then another period taking lots of photos, then another experimenting with new graphic programs, then another period writing something or other, and so on and so forth. Limiting this site to just the comics part meant that there were often long gaps between posts.
So, if you come here between now and, oh, say Monday, and the place looks weird, then don't worry. I like to play about with WordPress and I'll often publish Work in Progress live as I go.
Some Things Just Feel Nice - Nov 2009 Screenshot
Just what the hell do I think I’m doing?
So it appears this webcomic is transforming from an ink-scribbled semi-true blog type thing into... something else. What, I don't know. And I've realised I don't care. When I started Some Things... I thought it'd be best to keep to a single style, one that would hopefully improve over the months and years, but ultimately remain consistent.
Turns out that's no fun.
So now I'm just going to draw (or photoshop) things I feel like producing. Things that 'just feel nice' as it were. Sometimes they'll be meaningless, sometimes they'll be part of a series. Sometimes I might get bored with a series and return to it at a much later date. Think of it as flipping through random TV channels, only I'm holding the remote.
Outside of this site I'll continue to stumble between all the other projects I take on. Writing and drawing that graphic novel, taking photos, photoshopping, script-editing a Flash adventure game, and above all writing a novel (the one thing I'm sure I'll see through to completion, even if it involves failure).
It's a satisfying way of working and I like that this webcomic will reflect that.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
I'm liking this:
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
[via BoingBoing]
New Project
You'll have noticed that my last two comic posts have been a little different. This is because I've started writing and drawing a new comic titled Bifrost. A better-looking plot-driven graphic novelaffair. It'll be some time before the first story is up, as I'm writing and drawing it myself. In the meantime I'll be posting preliminary sketches and whatnot in the run up to launching Bifrost.
Hope you like it.