Quick post to say

I am making some comics, but here's the deal: the comics I am working on at the moment probably will not be released as they are finished. I am working on a little project which will hopefully see the blog tied with a new comic website I have produced. Either that or I will be publishing them in a newspaper at some point (possibly the student newspaper considering I doubt I'd get paid for them.)

So while it may look like a bunch of empty promises, I assure you I have been had at work getting things ready for a launch hopefully by the end of the summer. Stay tuned!

BUBS: 1st June.

Quick update to BUBS on the fly as I have to out to dunner in twenty minutes! I was about to get changed to go out when it hit me that I hadn't updated in a while (and having gone to the gym this afternoon, I figured now was the perfect time!)

I admit that its hard to notice a change due to the difference in camera angles each time, but the change is so gradual that I don't think it matter much anyway really.

I think I definitely need more protein in my diet, I am doing a muscle workout at least once a week (I have hardly had time for anything beyond that which will hopefully change come summer) and I certainly feel a little stronger, but the wait is killing me!

And here I thought I was a patient person, oh well. Next time!

Wait for it...

My graphics tablet arrived. Looks like my plans for the summer are sorted!

Comics incoming

Getting ready to cartoon again.

I ordered a new graphics tablet from Amazon last week and am just waiting for that sucker to appear though the post. I am at university at the moment have been working on a new website to host it in my down time. I am working with a quirky design, but it will be centred around the comic and therefore gives me more incentive to keep up with it at least on a regular basis.

I have also been looking into having it placed into the student newspaper. It would be such a boost to my confidance as an artist and cartoonist to have my comic published, even if the paper is free and tends to come out whenever it feels like it rather than on a regular basis.

I am working on a new format for the comic. I will continue to do the full page ones which I am used to doing, but will also be producing short strips about a 1/5th of the height of an Af page (like the ones which normally appear in a newspaper.) Much like some of my favourite online web comics such as Ben, Faux Pas and the like. Full pagers like Awkward Zombie, Manly Guys Doing Manly Things and VG Cats still have a warm place in my heart, but I like what Tim over at Ctrl+Alt+Del has done; producing a regular full sheet comic and seperate 'sillies' in news print format. Of course, this is a very casual hobby (though not as casual as it was in the past) and so it won't be updated as much as the professionals do so.

Gonna pull out some tasters soon, I have only a few weeks of uni left to suffer through and then its a long summer with a few projects to work on.

BUBS: 13th May.

Quick update on my progress with Build Upper Body Strength...

The going is slow, I've managed to get to the gym once a week since my original post of BUBS as I've been so busy with other things. I did a lot of cardio on Monday and Tuesday; walking to and from the Lowry when I was working on The As Yet Impossible, not to mention spending all day on my feet when there. However, I have eaten fast food a few times this week which is unfortunate but I assure you, much needed/deserved.

Speaking of diet, I've managed to inject a bit more protein into mine. I'm trying to eat at least one or two eggs a day, usually scrambled as its the easiest way to condense two eggs into one meal. Typically if it isn't a scrambled egg sandwich, fish finger sandwich or either of the two with cheese, its Eggy Bread & cheese with Fish Fingers and Baked Beans. Other meals such as breakfast is usually cereal and a coffee, lunch when I am in halls (which I think I have been this week) has been Tuscan Bean or Tomato soup.

I'm a little let down with the fast food, I think if I hadn't have had McDonalds three times this week I probably would have done better sooner, but like I mentioned in my last post I am under no delusion that this is a short term project.

I'll probably leave it another two weeks or so before posting the next post on BUBS, as I have quite a few essays and assessments to worry about, but I shall continue to eat right and might strive to get to the gym at least twice in one week!

Please note, the pictures are taken on my phone as you can see; the angles and lighting will change as well as...  well, I've just got out of the shower and am ready for bed, of course I am in my pjamas. Love it or leave it people!