Just making sure you guys know we're not in Templar, anymore. Or rather, we're not in Templar YET.
This update's vote sketches are a grab bag; random crap from a random directory. Enjoy!
PS: Webcomic Idol? Votes? For me? Why yes, thank you!)
October 2007 Archives
Things look very lovely and peaceful. Something must be dreadfully wrong.
Where I grew up, I lived about half an hour from a neighborhood of beautifully maintained Victorian houses. The owners kept them up in the original tastes, with brightly-colored paint and old-school shingling on the roofs. Their houses showed up in books on Victorian architecture constantly; there was one with lavender and pink trim that was especially memorable and not nearly as garish as it sounds.
This house isn't Victorian, though. The style's called Queen Anne, and it was popular around 1900. When you moved to Yakima at the turn of the century and made a fortune farming, this is what you built.
Just saying.
But hey, since you've read this far: The second round of Webcomic Idol is underway! Please keep voting, I'd really like to stick around for at least another week.
And this week's vote sketches are more Secret Project nonsense: A scene from the original, two-year-old roughs I'll be ditching, on account I'll never be able to convince anyone that I didn't steal the idea from Bioshock. Oh, well.
It's how I say thank you for your votes over at Webcomic Idol.
Updated and tidied, with images re-linked so that everything shows up properly, including the cast page and downloads.
You earned it.
Take that however you want.
And in advance: I am deeply, deeply sorry.
Not really NWS, but I still wouldn't look while at work.
The excitement (Ha ha, I just suggested this comic is exciting) begins Monday. Today, we have the required chapter pin-up, which I was foolish enough to color with an untested technique which could have backfired disastrously. Fortunately, whatever went wrong wasn't anything I couldn't save. So you all get to see Gene in his birthday suit! LUCKY YOU.
Not as Body-by-Auschwitz as Ben, but also not a walking side of beef, like Scipio. Call him a happy medium. I think he's adorable. But maybe that's just me.
Also: Dudes, thanks to you, my survival of the first round of Webcomic Idol is all but assured. THANK YOU! But my pestering will continue, since there's a whole month of rounds yet to go! But since you came through, I have something for you. It'll go up later tonight or early Sunday. I won't spoil the surprise.
Also, because people have been asking: yep, I'm already thinkin' about Book Two of the print edition of Templar! But I won't even start on it until every single Book One pre-order is out the door. I'll be uploading the last of the pre-orders... the ink commissions... to my Deviant Art gallery as they're completed; I've already got one up now. Take a look!
And as always, Mystery Vote Sketches.
Bye!
And that's it for the Elliotts. What sweethearts. I'll miss 'em, I will.
Starting on Friday: And A Stick to Beat the Devil With, chapter 3 of Templar, Arizona. Coming up: Flashbacks, poor fashion choices, the rings of Saturn, and bad television. Stay tuned! And if you haven't voted in Webcomic Idol, please do! Me an' Lucid TV are turning into Ali/Fraiser, it's getting interesting.
And oh, yeah, more mystery sketches. Shhhh. Don't mind me.
Also, John Swaine: Your orders came back on me! Did you change your address? Let me know!
One more page of this left. Enjoy these two charmers while you can.
Both are named Elliott, but neither goes by Elliott. I like to think that they knew each other for weeks before they realized they had the same first name.
The Elliotts hang out together because even shit company is safer than going it alone where you're sleeping in doorways. Which is probably what they were doing before they were sacking out with Reclamation. And is probably what they'll be doing now.
Maybe. No promises.
So, there ya have it. Clueless King Street trust fund kids, Riverview workin' stiff Low People, And the Skinner-bound homeless, all in the same chapter. Don't ever let 'em say I'm writin' you folks a Utopia.
And hey, guys: THANK YOU for bumping Templar to the top of the field over at Webcomic Idol! Holy cocks, FIRST PLACE. Granted, the week's still young, still plenty of time to get my ass kicked. BUT STILL. Words cannot express! Thank you!
This update's vote sketches: Two more day-at-the-zoo drawings and a lady in her underpants. Enjoy!
Hi, guys! Voting is live at the Bomb Shelter Comics site, now. This year's Webcomic Idol has begun, and they're taking votes. Please cast a vote for Templar, if you are so inclined.
And hey, so's this post isn't entirely a shill, here's a leopard. I drew him at the zoo.
I tried to draw the gorillas, but they wouldn't stop moving.
Because there always has to be a Stupid One.
I didn't blog the update before this one, I'm afraid. So you'll have to page back to see it. Suffice to say this week has been psychotic. I won't bore you with excuses, though.
In other news, I've been getting questions about the book orders; I'm sorry for not keeping you guys abreast of that. The current status: All sketch commissions and plain signature orders are DONE. And by "done," I mean packaged and labeled and waiting for the post office to open. The remainder will be going out Monday. All that's left now is the ink commissions, and those I've already started; there are nineteen left.
Two books have been returned to me by the postal service recently; the stamps for a book mailed to the Netherlands seem to have peeled off in transit, and Tone, have you changed addresses? If so, mail me the new one.
That should cover that. I think the books take about a week to get to people after I mail them, so there ya go. Almost done. Thanks for your patience, guys.
BUT HEY, IN OTHER NEWS: Voting opens Sunday for this year's round of Webcomic Idol! Templar made the top ten out of 105 submissions, which is already awesome, but you know what would be even awesomer? If I survived the first round. Five comics are getting cut in the first elimination, and I'd really like to make the grade. Please vote, maybe? I'd appreciate it. The polls open on Sunday.
Oh yeah, and I got interviewed by Xaviar Xerxes for ComixTalk. Read it here.
Oh oh oh, and I'm on Twitter, now! I've plugged it into the languishing Current Events box on the Iron Circus frontpage, too. Voyeur-tastic!
No, this isn't what they're kicking him out for. I'd say it's pretty clear they never even guessed. Which is... Pretty extraordinary, really.
I didn't blog about the update before this one, and sorry about that; I've been pretty busy. Take a look at this round's vote sketches, you'll see what I've been up to. Part of it, anyway.
No details. Sorry. Not until I think I have something worth telling you guys. I hope I will.
And because people have been asking, I did spray a few of the sketch commissions with fixative before sending them out, but I stopped; it made the books smell funny. I don't think your commissions will be in much danger of smearing, but if you're concerned, a little hairspray will keep everything in place. Hairspray and fixative are basically the same thing anyway.
I also need to update my con schedule; obviously, I wasn't at SPX this weekend. I will, however, be at Sugoi Con, Youmacon, and the New York Anime Festival this year. Exciting.
Back to work...
Gotta be careful, this is starting to look like plot!
Sorry about skipping Monday, folks. I forgot my notes at home and couldn't draw the page. You forgive me though, right?
I say "at home" cuz iI spent the weekend at Minnesota's Fallcon. It was a great trip, and I had a great time. Hi to everyone I met, not limited to but including Abby, Tyler, Joe & Chris, Meredith, Allison, Jilly, and Kurt. And to people I saw again, like Paul! Wow. Stayed busy.
Todays vote sketches are a con commission and a diptych, both of which I go into greater detail on over on my DA account. So hey, there ya go.
Back to work...
Spending the day trying to get a lot of emails and paperwork out of the way, seeing as how I'll be at Fallcon this weekend. I'll be offerin' up books, original art, and sketches for sale! Drop by and see me, I''m all but guaranteed to be horribly lonely.
BUT: I should have a buffer up, no problem. Templar should update as usual while I'm gone. Thank goodness for monochrome intermissions.
New page, and a buncha sketches I made this weekend.
The last intermission was all pencils, but I wasn't satisfied with how it came out, so this one's gonna be straight ink. It'll be interesting to see if I remember how to do it decently, without relying on colors. It's been a while.
Next: Reclamation, The Oarlock, and the Elliotts. Stay tuned.
