Sneaker Peeks

Whew Buddy,

Knocked out the writing and inking of PFS003 as well as the writing for 004. I should say writing very loosely because it's not shakespeare or anything. But still. I'm most excited about this saturdays (003). It has the highest joke to panel ratio yet.

Best Buy was having a sale today - Buy Hot Fuzz and get Shaun of the Dead for free. This is a deal I wanted. Seems everyone else did too -- every copy (save 1) of Shaun of the Dead was sold and all but 10ish Hot Fuzzes. I found a copy of Shaun on the Dead sitting on a random shelf but you could tell that the DVD had been dislodged from the little DVD holding thingie. Customer Service opened it for me to see if it was scratched all the hell or not. It had some minor scuffs but I think it will play just fine.

Best Buy also had a Pi/Requiem for a Dream 2-Disc/Value DVD kind of thing for a whopping $9. So I had to pick that up as well. I've been wanting to watch Requiem again and here's my chance.

Finished up the really basic color layers for the postcard. Once the PFS is colored tomorrow I'm going to try and add some wacom layers over top. Nothing fancy, but not something I've done on anything of mine before.

Here's a glimpse at one section of the postcard.



Your guess is as good as mine on to whom that beard belongs.

Also - I ate pizza today. That is always pleasent (with enough left for lunch ^_^).

P.S. XBOX Live Marketplace has some free tv shows available, one of which is called "Clark and Michael" It stars Clark Duke (Never heard of him and don't much care for him -- Sorry) and my favorite and yours, Michael Cera. They have 6 on Live and 7-9 on their website. They are only about 5-10 minutes and the last couple I watched had some amusing parts. I really love it when Mikey Cera flips out in anger and knocks things over (at the video store). Check it out. It's kinda funny.

Phase Two

1. Tonight I began what I will call "Phase Two" of my attempt at getting freelance work. This phase consists of creating a postcard image and making postcards to mail out. Some magazines don't like envelopes. So they just want postcards. Well, I can bend to that. The image has been sitting around my "studio" waiting to be drawn and tonight was the night. I worked out all the kinks I could catch and finished the drawing/inking portions. Next will be color and back design...I'll hopefully have it to the printers a week from today. I've got to finish Prettyfishessatellite003 before I work on this card. I seem to have lost all of my square grids I printed tho. Rats.

2. Finished up Harry Potter on Saturday. It wasn't the ending I was hoping for but it was an ending all right. Now we sit and wait for 2 more movies and the Harry Potter chapter of the boring book of my life can be finished. Sadly upon finishing the book I no longer care about the Harry Potter blog I was going to start/run. If you are unfamiliar with Harry Potter (shame on you) then know this: Harry Potter is called "The Boy Who Lived" because he lived through a direct attack from the super villian Voldemort. The 7 books chronicle Harry's time in Wizard school, ending at the age when he would enter Muggle (regular dude) college if he were a muggle (or real). So the idea for the blog was as follows: Harry Potter now finished with wizarding school decides to go to Muggle college where no one knows about him. The blog would be written by his roommate. It would be called "The boy who lived with The Boy Who Lived". Posts would describe Harry ordering a Whopper but when he sit down to eat he has a double Whopper. But the roommate shrugs it off constantly. There it is. HardeeHarHar.

3. Warren Ellis is taking all of my money. More on that as time and money permits.

nothing.

Nothing all that great to talk about. That's why I didn't post yesterday and I probably won't tomorrow.

The new PFS (#002) is finished and ready to be posted this saturday morning. Make sure you check it out, maybe you'll like it.

Finished Undeclared last week. I loved it. Freaks and Geeks hit a bit closer to home for me, but Undeclared was still great.

Still not done with Harry Potter. What's my deal?

Ninja.

Yesterday I came home from work and "wrote", drew, inked and lettered the second strip in the grande adventures of the prettyfishessatellite gang. Tonight I laid down the colors for about 60% of it. I like saying laid down the colors because it makes it sound like I'm doing a lot more then simple masks in photoshop. And I also use " " around wrote because I would never really call what I do for this strip "writing." It is barely planned in advance, which is the way I have always done pfs/mzt* (*what pfs was a few years ago...maybe i'll post those wretched strips here some time). Anyways. Whatever. I may or may not put the second one up here earlier then saturday...I like that they have a set release date but I also kind of need more stuff to blog about.

I read this article before leaving work today. It is really really interesting. I wish I could eat these guys' brains and know what they know.

Also read that Alan Moore will be on an upcoming episode of the Simpsons. That's exciting.

I'm am about 230 pages away from the end of Harry Potter/Deathly Hallows. It has been great thus far, and hopefully the spoiled ending I was told isn't actually the real ending.

It's dark and hell is hot.

A Quick One aka. PFS001

Just a quick post as I have a lot of Harry Potter to finish and Guitar Hero: 80s to play.

I have decided that the weekends will be for doing the majority of the things that will populate this blog. So I will only be updating during the week.

For today we have the very first in a weekly series of comics taking place in the PFS(PrettyFishesSatellite) universe. Without further adoo-doo:

Further ado, you have to click this as I am too rushed to make thumbnails and upload things and such. Sorry.

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Alphabet Post-Its

I missed out on posting yesterday because I was watching Lord of the Rings with Ben from Masked Bandits. A thousand pardons.

Nothing too exciting to post about -- New Harry Potter book tomorrow as well as the first in a hopefully weekly series of comic strips taking place in the PFS universe. It will be a part of the "Saturday Morning Revival" by my pal Deric (link) so watch for it tomorrow. I'll post it here too, but there may be some other good strips on there to read. Not to spoil anything, but I'm excited for the first handful of strips.

I am also working on some Nonogram/Picross puzzles to go along with the comics. The first one won't be ready for tomorrow because I still have to type out all the rules for poeple that don't know how to do them. But there will be the 1st in a series next week and probably one every saturday after that. Hopefully.

Anyways, here are some PFS post-it notes that I did at work while bored. While scanning these I thought that a PFS Alphabet book would be interesting. We'll see if I do 26 of these.

1. A is for Avast (Random PFS Pirate)



2. B is for Bite (The Vampire Cactus)



3. P is for Pwn (The star of the show, Tonight the Gnome Wizard)



A-blee-a-blee-a-bleee; That's all folks.

Art Farm & Mad Libs

A quick post of some work hot off the lighttable!

(Click the images for a larger view)

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The Artfarm '07 finished t-shirt/sticker image. On the t-shirt the yellow will be black since we only have 1 screen, but on the sticker it will be yellow as shown. Artfarm is a super fun and delicious art gathering at a farm in New Hill. Thrown by Lorna Wang.

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A friend and fellow ECU Alumni, Jodi (website when I can remember it...), sent out these blank mad lib(tm) cards. When they were filled in we were asked to draw what was written. Did I write first or draw? I don't know either!

I have more, but it'll have to wait til tomorrow...

Jordan Crane & Mouse Guard

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Not too long ago Drawn had a post about Jordan Crane's books being on sale at reddingk so I decided to pick up a couple of his postcard sets. 1 copy to keep for myself and 1 copy to spread the gospel to all my friends and penpals. The books are beautifully made, and since I just finished hand addressing 100 envelopes to potential freelance clients I was happy to see a hand written card from Mr. Crane. I was already buying his stuff because of his drawing, and I will continue to do so due to his hand writing commitment.

2. Got my copy of the Mouse Guard hardcover today. My local comic shop only got a few copies and they were snatched up quickly. I've heard good things. I guess I was stupid to have turned down the chance to buy the issues as they were coming out. Something about the small format bugged me for issues, but not for a bound collection of said issues.

- Just finished up Invincible Volume 4. Robert Kirkman is awesome and I am slowly catching up on this series. I'm interested to find out where these many plot lines are headed. Don't tell me.

- Trying to finish up Perfume this week before the new Harry Potter is sitting on my doorstep saturday morning.

I can't stop sneezing right now.

X-Mas Sleeves

1. I caught Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix with my pal Dan and his wife. We were in the second row, so I could see every bogey in Ron's nose. The girl they got to play Luna Lovegood was amazing. The perfect cast. Just like fishing on TV.

2. Someone who gets tattoos needs to get a tattoo like this -- A full sleeve of Christmas images. I'm talkin' a tree with ornaments, santa, reigndeer, rudolph, elves, presents, that popcorn on a string stuff, mistletoe, ernest, cookies, everything. I was pitching to the idea to a friend and local tattoo artist, Matt Kerley, and he was saying that he was dying to put XMAS TIME across someones knuckles. It's a perfect match. I need to see this on someone's arms.