THE SIMPSONS NEWS

I got a call this week from work.  It seems there was a revision that needed to be done a section of a board in a show I worked on.  Turned out they were looking for the original artist that revised that part of the board.  It wasn’t me. False alarm. I return to work next week.  My hiatus went by surprisingly fast.

MY WEB COMIC

Below is my roughs. The blank panels I left blank, knowing that they would have panels that where the same as the ones before:

And below, is the under drawing I inked.

Next week comes the final page.

GHETTOMATION

Jim Lujan did it again.  He finished this almost a month ago but I thought I’d post it up for anyone who hadn’t seen it:

WRITING

The time I SHOULD have been using to finish the last itty bitty bit of my treatment last week and this week, I spent, framing artwork, writing my process comic process for a booklet that will be displayed with my artwork, writing this blog or reading my new book on writing.

 

The first two things really took up a TON of my time, and they NEEDED to be done. I had a deadline to meet. This REALLY messed up my momentum in a big way. It made me stop thinking about my story, and that was no good.

 

On top of that, the book I ordered SAVE THE CAT! by Blake Snyder, came in the mail.  I flipped through it, read a little bit of it and then couldn’t stop.  The info in it is fantastic.  There are some things in the book that I’d rather use DRAMATICA for. There are also some things I really disagree with, but overall, there is a LOT of stuff in this book that isn’t in a lot of other books on writing.  Very good info on how to SELL an idea and put it together.  I highly recommend it.  I’ll be using this book a lot, along with DRAMATICA. 

 

This left me with the dilemma of finishing my treatment somehow. The thing is, that after reading SAVE THE CAT! I have a few slight adjustments I want to make to my story. Nothing big but they need to be done.  I just didn’t want to get to them until I finished the big changes I AM making. 

 

My goal was to finish fixing the treatment before I got back to work. Well, I’m glad to say that I managed to make the fixes.  I had a print out of the treatment I wrote the fixes on and I had a sheet of paper that I wrote anything new that didn’t fit on the print out. Now, I just have to retype the treatment and make the adjustments so I can have a cleaner version, but I consider myself done, since the hard part is over.

 

Feels good.

 

 

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