Work notes: I had a busy work week, so I’m behind in the comic progress. I’m working on a story loosely based on some elements from the Portrait of Dorian Gray, trying something slightly different with the visual storytelling. But right now I’ll take a brief detour to finish a piece I intend to use as promo for my October Patreon portraits, a silly short comic about ghosts. I’ll keep you updated about all of these.
On Patreon
Posted a collection of the “partial stories” so far. I’ll skip making a new one this week and instead will use another exercise to go along with the blog.
What Else is There
I read the Mörk Borg rpg guide this week. I love how it integrates the fantasy world (which is metal-inspired apocalyptic bleak fun) in every little aspect like equipment lists, treasure findings, and basically every random table generator it features. It’s a game that wins you because of how it looks, though, and I get the feeling that its graphic design approach has already permeated other works and media.
Flickr user Ivan Chekhov collects “dust jacket cover art starting from the 1920s” and there are tens of thousands of them. I landed in this particular page featuring many beautiful Deco inspired covers, a great source for typographic work.
A blog with analysis of the work of Javier Pulido in the comic Ninjak, a rich use of the medium.
20 years later, Mamoru Oshii’s “Avalon”
Good Night (music):
Vangelis – Inside our perspectives