Brock BeauchampWhew. Comic-Con is over (I’ll have a write-up later this week) and I’m back at home, entirely unprepared to resume my normal work schedule. Is it a vacation when you’re more burned out and exhausted than you were when you left? Anyway, here is the third page of the Chris story. Click through the image below to jump to the entire short story.
Brock BeauchampWhile I’m off at San Diego Comic Con and preparing the second issue, I’ve brought in an artist to help with the next Variables short story. His name is Rey Siasar and he brings a unique style to this story and so far, the pages I’m seeing are great. Also, this is the first short story written by Nick Hemsing, the co-creator of Variables. Jump through the image below to see the first two pages of Chris Volsky’s story.
Brock BeauchampI’m running a bit late with this update but given that it’s summer, I’m not terribly worried about it. The completed page should be posted Wednesday-ish. I learned a valuable lesson while inking this page: do not attempt to ink a page when the room temperature is somewhere in the high 80s. The ink is runnier than usual, the paper sticks to your skin, the sweat from skin will smudge even dry ink, and it’s almost impossible to cleanly ink small details. Normally, a page takes me about 15 minutes to clean up after I scan and ink it; this... View Article
rzzachelHappy First Wednesday of July! And happy First Wednesday of the Month Book Blog Post! Today I shall introduce you to Zoo City by Lauren Beukes. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2011, and is a fantasy book accidentally chosen (not by me) for my sci-fi book club. Mostly, I will tell you that Zoo City rules! Zoo City takes place in an alternate today, or possibly tomorrow. But not long from now – everything about the world is recognizable. It has a few things going for it right off the bat: – Female protagonist – Not about white... View Article
Brock BeauchampAnd here we are, the second to last page of the first issue! I started work on drawing the cover back in January and it’s kind of freaking me out to see it nearing completion. Is it any good? Should I fix some of the more blatant screw-ups or do I leave it as-is? I’m sure I will end up adjusting a few things here and there but my ultimate goal is to leave things be and just move on to the next issue, learning from the mistakes I made in this issue. One of the areas I feel I’ve... View Article
Brock BeauchampIn my never-ending quest to never leave anything be, I have restructured the site… again. This is the third major iteration of the site in seven months and is the sixth or seventh minor revision. This time around, my goal was to set up Variables on its own subdomain. Once I finished that, I decided that SelfCentEnt and Variables should have slightly different layouts. Then I decided they should use different colors. Etc, etc, etc… So there you go. Now that I have Variables on its own subdomain and the blog on the main domain, I can continue to customize... View Article
