Coloring

Coloring the July 15, Boomerang.

Bad Idea Abandoned!

I’m constantly critiquing my own work. After all you are your own worse critic. But I abandoned this strip after half-assing the art and realizing the punch line was too lame a payoff. So warts and all, here goes what could’ve been this weeks strip.

In other news I'm a little sick and this prescription is making me sleepy.

Lazy?

Repeating images in comics is somewhat frowned up; it's considered bad form. Repeating images in comics is somewhat frowned up; it's considered bad form. Repeating images in comics is somewhat frowned up; it's considered bad form. Repeating images in comics is somewhat frowned up; it's considered bad form.

Yeah, so what! Now I do agree that repeating images is somewhat bad form, but it is definitely a time saver. So when you see it happen, like in this week's comics, just know I only do it out of necessity. What necessity, you say... sleep!

Derk doin' Work

Found this going through the desktop, been meaning to post it for a while. I know I always like to see the workspace of cartoonist. Now just a lil' FYI my desk isn't that messy now--that was pre-move art table. Post-move art table is a lil, empty since I've been drawing on a portable drawing board more. But just a lil pic for the voyeurs.

Now there's always something new going on with ColoredComics.com, new ideas or new comics--like Random Acts. I've come to discover or at least I'm now more conscious of the fact I come up with ideas faster than I can produce them. As such, its best not to talk anything up too much until its close to finished. All that being said, I plan to finish up loose ends on the website by summer's end. Like the about pages, and character pages, and possibly debuting Colored Comics Presents (whoa, anybody remember that?) all being finished up.

Thanks again for continued readership (on the comic, not the blog, cuz well it's rarely updated so I doubt many of you read it)!

I'm a Twit!

So I've succumbed to peer pressure and started a twitter account. I hate social networking sites, and I am social mind you, not a super extrovert, but not an introvert,but social networking sites have been an achilles heel for me. IMO, there are not that many interesting people, and as facebook and myspace have shown, a lot of people don't have jack to show for or talk about, ie. drunk/half-naked pics.

Now for me, I will find interesting things to talk about; honestly I think a twitter is more appropriate for my style of blogging than having a blog itself (see exhibit one this blog, which has been updated infrequently as of late). If you have twitter, come follow my account: colordcartUnist. That's pronounced colored cartoonist. See the play on words *rimshot*

Random Acts of Boredom...

will no longer be featured on this blog, well not regularly at least. Hell I barely update this thing. But it's not for lack of caring, just lack of material worth sharing or ranting on, which is why I haven't bothered to twitter. But I will be moving Random Acts of boredom as a feature on Coloredcomics.com. Admittedly some of the comics posted to this blog under the random acts banner were humor failures, but it was in part because it was more for the exercise of experimenting with a non sequitur/"independent" style of humor comics. And that's not to say I'm abandoning the spirit of that, just not as far reaching.

Pretty Bad Week

Well after several weeks of not updating this blog, I finally have something to blog about. Unfortunately its nothing really celebratory. In fact some may even consider it self-depracating, but cartoonist occassionally enjoy bemoaning their short comings and today, I vent.

So this week's The Super Senior (and all of the comics) had been posted late; and when I update late it really annoys me. Funny thing is when other people's website's are updated late it doesn't bother me so much, if at all--but the point is I was late. To compound matters, I did a rush job/bad job on the this week's comics. Sure I have ideas back logged just in case, for stretches of writer's block, but having ideas that can be easily drawn and colored, not so many. Now I can detail how I produce a comic, but to make a long story short, my personal schedule didn't allow for a full commitment to the drawing board for this week. And that sucks, because I pride myself on consistent updates (ignore the fact Toadyhog didn't get published for April 1).

So I forced an update. Crappy comics were made and crappy comics got published. And really the ideas are pretty solid, but execution is everything. I didn't get a chance to give any really thought to the ideas. And A once weekly update schedule doesnt't allow for bad weeks--that could be a lost potential reader! But live and learn right? After all there's always next week.