I think a comic drawn like this would be kinda pretty freakin’ sweet. This story is currently rolled up like a fussy hedgehog, uncooperative and prickly and encouraging me to go work on other things. It still likes to get worried over and doodled, though.
Directly after I last posted, I went and started shooting a liveaction short film on the weekends. We’ve been continuing to shoot for the past month, mostly from 10 pm to 3 am on weekends. It’s pretty neat that I have to draw all day at work, because the only time outside of work that I’ve put pencil to paper in the past month has been to note down what we need to reshoot and to diagram out camera and light setups. Shooting is now done and we’re editing the short together. It’s nothing spectacular, but for something powered completely on enthusiasm and inexperience, it’s remarkably coherent. There’s a production blog here: Meat Love. If you’re curious, the short will be about 7 minutes long and tells the story of a butcher who falls hard for a vegan girl.
Unfortunately, sacrifices must be made. I figured I could massively restructure & redraw my Afterworks comic while making a short and working regular hours, and that was maybe a bit optimistic. The deadline came and went while I was working on this short film. I won’t have a story in Afterworks 3, but many awesome talented guys and girls will. The anthology will be out for Comicon this year.
After the short film I’ll get back to the short comic. James (my comrade in deadline-missing) and I are considering self-publishing our Afterworks shorts as a double feature, titled perhaps Afterworks: The B Team or Overachieving Slackers or something like that.
Argh! You won’t be in Afterworks 3??? Argh!
I really hope you finish and self-publish. You and James are amazing.
Comment by smacleod — February 13, 2009 @ 11:13 am
Afterworks: B-Sides? Left Overs? After Births? Better late than nevers?…ya I know what you mean - getting stuff done outside of work is a Sysphean task (however the hell you spell that)…I’m rambling - but I need a “I’m a Meat LoveR” T-shirt to wear to the premier!
Comment by Anonymous — February 13, 2009 @ 11:37 am
There will actually be Meat Love t-shirts… once I finish the design up and put it up on Cafepress.com! A poster, too.
Maybe Afterworks: Overtime… or The Chaff… or Stragglers…
Comment by Emma — February 13, 2009 @ 11:47 am
Your comment on my blog may just be the sweetest comment I’ve ever gotten :)
Thanks Emmaaaaa, lovely post!
Comment by Tom Scholes — February 13, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
Yeah, I’m workin’ on it… Slowly but surely. How does Sfar do it??
Comment by J — February 14, 2009 @ 11:53 am
Yeah, the new look looks cool - that arrow in his back, that’s gotta hurt - Gee, you’re quite the Renaissance woman with all these projects… too bad about the scheduling conflict for the Afterworks story - still looking forward to seeing it…Hopefully the hibernating hedgehog will transform into the industrious beaver! I’d still like to see the original version as well, like maybe via an underground bootleg version, on orange rice paper, with green ink, only available as a German import…. Movies with butchers are cool - The one with Ernest Borgnine for example, the one with Daniel Day-Lewis is another…
Comment by Skylark — February 15, 2009 @ 9:16 am
I would like to see a comic drawn in this style. Good energy!
Comment by Howard Shum — February 17, 2009 @ 12:52 am
Yep, I really love sketched comics. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen Mike Kunkel’s HERO BEAR & THE KID, but he just scans his pencils and darkens ‘em. No inking and only red for an accent. All the skritchy-skratch lines somehow make the drawings “aliver”. I’m saving my pennies. . .
Comment by Nate — February 23, 2009 @ 2:37 am
[…] able to be mimicked in the digital realm by adjusting the opacity of a drawn line. Over on her blog, Emma posted a drawing that combines her strong sense of story and motion with a loose sketch style […]
Pingback by Research Sketching and pro-Pencil rant « Labsquad — March 1, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
Very interesting site, Hope it will always be alive!
Comment by Tamiflu — May 1, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
This is badass. How did I miss it?
Comment by Kelly — June 4, 2009 @ 11:12 am