Nautilus.StudioPixi

I happened to find this image on my HDD while gathering things for a portfolio. It just happens to fit a wide screen monitor perfectly. Well, nearly perfectly at least. Go Go Flickr!

For awhile now, The Adventures of the Nautilus strips have been missing. This is my partial attempt to remedy that -

The first 10 strips (As of writing this; There will be more of them as soon as I get back to a computer…) are avaiable on Flickr. I don’t think that it’s a very elegant solution, but hey, at least they’re back online.

Addendum: I toyed around with posting the large versions of the strips on one of the pages here. (under the long stories link.) It would have enabled you to simply scroll down that page and read all of the comics in order, without having to click though the flickr links. However, it seems that this will not work as long as I keep using this theme. The width limit on the blog itself causes the images to get all distorted.

Ok, I’ve failed to keep up with updates yet again; however, I am posting one now so…

Anyway, this is what I’ve been up to. It’s the first 12 pages of 16 Hours to live. I’ve tweaked the rough sketch (turned it to this nifty non photo blue color and photoshop’d it a bit), lettered and spell checked it, and then I printed it out on this smooth Bristol Board. It’s all ready for the final inks. That’s right 12 pages ready to go. That means I’ve got roughly ~40 pages left. I plan to have another 20 pages in this state by the end of the weekend. Then all I’ve got to do is ink them (inking with a brush is perhaps my favorite part of the entire process…) and drop them into inDesign. Woot!

In other news – I’m really starting to despise wordpress. Every time that I post it tells me that it’s not going to let me post. (Although, I think that this might be more a symptom of Blue host than wordpress.) Then after I click OK to the error message it deletes half of what I’ve written. Perhaps I’ll just renew my deviant art account -

Thought that I should post a bit of update on the status of 16 Hours to Live Part 2. As of right now, the scripts are written, the thumbnails are drawn and printed. I’m currently ‘penciling’  (although I’m using a pen, which is the reason for the quotes…) and lettering it’s 50 pages… This is going to take a little while. So, I plan to post updates on the 2nd books status so that anyone who has read the first one can see how long it’s going to be for part 2.