Odd and the Frost Giants page 12 (chapter 1)

See? It didn't take as long as the previous one... I told you.



The end of the year is coming pretty fast. About six months ago I thought that this point I would be doing chapter 3... but life has that tendency to take a perfectly good plan and screw it up totally and completely. Ah, well... that's good ol' life alright!

Right now the bottle-neck in this project is the coloring-thingie. I actually have two inked pages (and one pencilled) just waiting for the coloring, but the problem is that I currently have considerably less "computer-time" to do these fun projects. I'll try to figure out something... but in the mean while... if there's a colorist aching for a project with ABSOLUTELY NO money and VERY LITTLE publicity involved, email me, OK?

Cheerio.

Neil

Here's a picture I sent to Neil as a birthday card. Cute, eh?


Cheerio.

Odd and the Frost Giants page 11 (chapter 1)

Yup. It sure took it's time... but I promise the next page won't take so long.

Cheerio.

The Graveyard Book

So, I've read (and listened at mousecircus.com) Neil's new book... and I loved it.

Once again Neil tells us stories filled with ghosts and ghouls and monsters. And once again those creatures are described with such accuracy and clarity that they seem more real, more HUMAN, than most of the empty-faced strangers that you'll see walking down the streets in the REAL world.

And once again the most powerfull parts of the stories are not the scary bits (and there are those too), but the more silent and gentle parts where you can almost taste the joy, or sadness, or longing, of the characters... and you can most certainly feel it.

Cheerio.

Blinking at the sunlight...

It's been awhile (and certainly longer than I anticipated).

Right. The past six months have been pretty rough. Nothing dramatic though. More like a slow avalanche of work- and family-related stuff that really needed my attention. But at some point during that time I realized I was wearing myself out, and decided to put all the "extra-stuff" on hold for awhile. Now, few months later, I'm still not ready to go full-speed ahead with Odd, but the "itch" is slowly getting unbearable and I've even done some drawin' during the past couple of days.

So. I'm still not out from the woods (and neither is Odd), not really, but I'm getting there (and so will he). There's just too much cool stuff already sketched or visualized in my head to quit at this point.

Be seeing you.

Cheerio.

Odd page 11 inks

YES, I'm still doing things you know...

Cheerio.

Be patient...

(taking a slightly apologetic face)

Just wanted to drop by and tell you that I'm still kinda trying to catch my breath after last weeks disasters (computer breaking and both of my kids getting the chicken pox)...

Sorry.

Cheerio.