195 - Happy Holidays!!!!!

Happy Holidays Peoples!

Here's hoping you are all having a fine holiday season. Mine has been full of ups and downs. Life is strange sometimes. I have been unable to get on my desktop computer since Saturday morning so I have been unable to get any coloring down which has left me very unhappy. I have a stack of pages and all I want to do is work on them and right now I can't. It's so annoying. My partners in GEEK have been kicking ass lately. Axel is kicking out pages drawn and inked, Shawn is dropping letters like crazy and each day I am falling behind. Matt's going to be unhappy if I don't get caught up. The good news is a that I have a virus scan running off of a thumb drive right now that might fix everything, and if it doesn't I have found my Windows 7 disk and will have the fun of doing a full re-install. The wife has been really helpful with this whole thing which is good, because I was pissed. And really just wanted to punch my computer. It wouldn't have helped but it would have made me feel better.

As it is I will be getting all GEEKy colorful as soon as possible and plan on spending all weekend coloring watching Netflix and listening to podcasts minus the time I will be watching Ryan Stegman do a live ustream for the people that backed his Kickstarter and sketching live, should be a blast.

That next blog will include a pic I've been working on to show the fun I had at Halloween this year and I do have a couple of things I have been working on that I can share so good stuff is coming.

Enjoy your holidays! Don't let your families ruin it for you!

192 - What a GEEK of a day!

Okay so. Work day. Payday. Comics day. Got my Avengers Blu-ray day. Work out day. GEEK funded day. Hot damn it has been one hell of a day! Think I'm gonna go eat dinner. This day has left me exhausted. Love you all! 

191 - with 5 days left, you better get him to the GEEK!

So here it is in all of its glory. This is the piece that I sent off to the guys, Shawn DePasquale, Matt Cohen, Axel Ortiz, showing what I would do with Axel's amazing pencils. Going in I had no reference for what any of the color scheme was suppose to be so I was informed that there would be some color notes as certain choices have been made but the important part is that I have gotten nothing but positive feedback from the guys and I'm really hoping that the G.E.E.K. fundraiser does well enough that they can afford to bring a colorist onto the book. 

Speaking of which, go click here ----> G.E.E.K. Kickstarter Page!

The first step is still to get the book funded. There's not much chance of anyone getting to color this bucket of awesome if the kickstarter itself is not first successful. So go take a look, watch the 2 great videos, 1 main page, 1 an update. Give if you can, and if you can't but still think it is a worthwhile project share it with your friends, and family, and pets, and facebook acquaintances, and Twitter followers, and MMO guild mates. You know, that whole big social media thing you have built up, put it to some good use and spread the love of G.E.E.K.! 

189 - Trying to get my G.E.E.K. on in a big bad way.

Don't want to be sharing out of school so all you get is a little snippet of the coloring I have done this week for the G.E.E.K. Kickstarter project. Which can be found HERE! The genius that is behind the podcast Bagged and Boarded Mr. Matt Cohen of SMOD Castle fame got an idea for a comic and put together a great team of Axel @pecks13 and Shawn @shawnwrites to help bring his dream of a comic to life. If you haven't checked out the Kickstarter click on that link above as of right now there is still 11 days to go and the project is about $2500 from funding. Being that close I'm really hoping it funds firstly because I want my copy of the book and the other great rewards I have pledged for, and secondly because it just looks like a great fun book. Seriously check out the pledge levels, Matt Cohen has some crazy cool and fun rewards on this super cool kickstarter.
The other reason that I am super excited to see this project not only fund but go above it's funding goal is the guys talked about getting a colorist to work on the book if the funding gets high enough. So I did the one thing I needed to do and hit the guys up on the twitters and facebooks and offered up my services as a colorist. I was sent a promo image that Axel had penciled and inked, to color, along with the other people that had shown interest in coloring the book. I finished my versions, yes versions, hopefully I didn't go overboard. I sent 3 different versions off to Shawns email this evening. Fingers crossed, at this point it is out of my hands.  Here's hoping they liked what I did and offer me the position. I'll be waiting nervously by the email box.

181 - Look at the body on that babe!

Whilst working on other projects I keep kicking around an idea in my head for a webcomic. The webcomic arena is huge and extremely diverse but as this idea just keeps coming back to me multiple times it might just see the light of day at some point. And if it does I will make sure I have myself a stack of already finished pages so that I can hit the ground running and not slip as from what I have seen the very first thing that real hardcore webcomic fans want is regular updates with no excuses.

So as I was happily working towards another fine fine first place finish of @GeeksWhoDrink over at the lovely @Brewforia I sketched the little lad above to further work on the idea for my webcomic. It  might be an all ages idea, I'm not sure yet. Though the sketch above isn't really representative of any of the characters that will be in the story he's more of a starting point.

Kickstarter News!
I am slowing working towards just giving all of my money to Kickstarter. I find way to many cool projects on that thing. Including this one: G.E.E.K. by Matt Cohen and Axel Ortiz.  
This looks like it is going to be a blast to read and all of Axel's art so far looks amazing! If you get a chance before Friday Sept 28th 2012 check it out and maybe throw them a couple bucks. You'll get some great swag in return.

150 - Get your GEEK on

Trying to work through the cold medicine and day long headache. Thought putting some colors on a nice image might help my brain to wander so I went into my cool pics from the internet folder and found the above image. Matt Cohen (@cameltoad) from SModcastle/Bagged and Boarded/Camel Toad Productions infamy is writing a comic and has Axel Ortiz (@pecks13) working on the art. The GEEK poster above is the only promo image release so far but I think it looks like it might be a really cool book when it comes out.  The only part I did is the color, all the rest of it was down by Axel. Think it turned out pretty good. Ah time for more aspirin.