I hate doubles

Last payday, I bought a neutral tint, Jaune brill #1 and put them on my pallet.

Only realizing a couple days later that I already had those colours. Not only that, I had them on my pallet, and I had put the new ones right next to the others and wrote the names on them without even noticing. Like what kinda dork does that?
The me kinda dork, thats who.

So because of that, and because this isn't the first time I've brought home doubles of colours, I made myself a little chart on a small business sized little card.

Here are my watercolour paint colours, they are all either Holbein or Windsor and Newton, and there is one Daniel Smith called Kyanite Genuine, which is kinda sparkly when it dries ( but i generally avoid DS watercolours because they rot and are unstable). You can see some colours don't scan as well as others (and I cant spell).
Several of the colours don't really look acurate when scanned. It always makes me think that is some of the peoples art I see online, looks that good online, imagine what it looks like in person!

Thats always something to think about.
But for now, time to paint.

what do you do with a drunken sailor?

I cant seem to add people to my follow list anymore for blogger.
It doesnt help that people seem to be removing the follow me link from their blogs, which makes following them much more difficult.

I have only today to finish thie latest comic page. I dont think it's going to happen either. I may end up posting a have done page. ..
Thats why the Print version is better :B

I did a couple sketch cards for some co-workers that I now wish I had scanned before I gave them away.

I only have 3 comics left for sale, thankfull I have ordered 10 more and they are already shipped.

I bought some more art supplies (it's payday).
I bought Holbein Jaun Brilliant #1, Marine blue and a new gold (ran out).
I bought Windsor and newton Davys grey (ran out) and a neutral tint, which I've never tried before.
I got an Opus Allegro 00 brush. I like the Allegro's, they are Sabelite fibres, so they act like sable, but without the death of innocence.
I also got a brush water dish with a spot to hang my brushes upsidedown to dry. Now I'll never loose my Davinci brushes again.
Oh and a little pencil carasol for my extra pens and brushes. It'll sit on my computer desk.

okay, time to paint!

Sketches, and distributors

So heres a sketch I had been working on my breaks. Theres a little raptor in the background. I intend to paint it not only for use in the comics, but to submit to galleries as well. I know my style is not always welcome in galleries because of my comicy undertones, even with landscapes, but I'm going on the offhand chance that they will find it new and refreshing.

The galleries around where I work are tough to get into. It's always fine artist, or conceptual artists. Even the comic galleries here are full of the most ridiculous stuff. Everything the same, like they could have been done by the same artists. I hate that.

On the comic note, I was rejected by Haven Distributors. That was a bit of a blow, but I was prepared for it. Ka-blam is coming out with a new Direct to market distribution called Comicsmonkey. Which is my only other option apparently at this point. Diamond is just not an option with their extremely high prices. They are not attainable for someone in my position.
Apparently with comics monkey you'll be able to get a ISBN and UPC from them, which would be easy, and prevent me from having to submit newpages and getting charged that pre-press fee. I'd just pay a fee for the barcodes and ISBN directly from them and they can slap them on. Hopefully.
Making Daqueran POS ready would make me happy as a clam.

Anyhoo, I had lost my favorite little davinci brushes a couple days ago. I cant figure out how! I never let them out of my sight! EVER! I am very protective of my favorite brushes! I was very upset.
But I found them the other day so YAY!!
It was so hard to paint with the old ones and I got so much more acomplished having my new good brushes back!

I've recently gone through and replaced all my watercolours with professional quality ones, too.
I generally stick to windsor and newton and Holbein. My friend Jammy likes Daniel Smith, and I admit they have some nice unusual colours, but they are so unstable. They are always separated, so you get puddles of gum Arabic all over the place. The tubes sometimes expand and pop open at the bottom.
I'm sorry, but to me, thats simply not a quality product.

I have to get ahead on these comic pages. It really sucks being behind and litterally finishing a page, rigth before they have to be posted. I liked having several weeks of them done ahead of time. I dont see how Im going to get back into that position again unless I do some simple pages, and Im not willing to do that.

I do have to re-write a bit of chapter 3 when I get the chance because I've come up with some better ideas that fit with what I have done now. SO that'll be cool.
Thats one of the benifits of posting web versions, you get to see what peoples reactions are.

Anyway, onward and upward, Im almost done this page.

Starting

I need a place where I can ramble about my daily arts, talk about art and think as an artist.

So to start, my art life so far:

This year I have published and started selling my first issue of Daqueran. I printed it though Ka-blam and it looks wonderful.
Of course the first few pages are really embarrassing to me, I always have really bad drawing in the beginning of the girst issues when i do comics. Its hard to get the character to look and act right, even though you plan, you sketch and make scenerios. The first few pages always seem akward. But you only notice that when you've finished drawing the last page of course.
Thats all part of it though, and thats only a few pages in what will ultimatly be a larger project. Incidental.

Estonian FHM has asked to write and article about it, and I have given them permission to. They also say they will send me a copy of the magazine when it is published.
That'll be the march issue, so if you live in Estonia, pick up a copy.

Also, the online comic Pheonixlore will be publishing Daqueran Issue one as well. It'll be the print version, so it'll be the only way to read the print version other than buying it. Which I hope wont stop people from buying it.

I havent had much time to paint and actual painting other than comic pages lately, which is kind of disturbing because I have som nice sketches I'd like to finish.

So anyway, in closing, this blog will contain sneak peeks of sketches, inside into to my inner arty workings and the like.