the break and the birth

Well it's as good as official at this point. If you go to Reeder Rabbit theres an announcement basically telling the world that i am on break... but i link off to Unconscious Ink and The Noir Project in REALLY BIG words to hopefully pull some of that traffic over to whats gonna be my main focus in the next few months, [ui] inklings. I'm really excited about this transition and I've already drawn out a few of the up coming UI's so that i will be ahead. Unlike Reeder which i felt i could never keep up with, i will definitely be posting every Thursday at midnight and possibly more then that per week (but i don't know for sure about that yet). After working on Ali's website and making it look really clean, I decided to fiddle around with the Unconscious Ink's site a bit. Ideally this is also my art portfolio for future references, and potential clients so i can pick up some freelance work. I currently haven't posted any art yet (most everything is here in the blog), but i plan to over the summer at some point since i should have a bit more free time. For now i think the site looks good, and I'm excited about how things are turning out right now. Any feed back you can give me would be appreaciated; i fixed most of the noticeable glitches, but if u see others tell me. Thank for the support while i go through this non-Reeder comic transition! :D

retirement

i've really deeply been considering retiring Reeder Rabbit for good. I'm not sure tho, i mean worked really hard getting it to be something and its just not what im happy with. That doesn't mean im done with art or anything like that of course! I just posted a new UI tonight and ive been doodling a lot again. I stopped doing Unconscious Inks in the first place because doing them purely in Photoshop took hours. As i'm learning alot about different mediums i'm finding that i can do traditional pieces a lot faster, and I'm realitively please with the results. I posted about this in the forums but i didn't get alot of responses. What do other people think about this idea? Over all I feel like id be happier just doing a few creative illustrations a week which keep my creative juices going and run the noir project while i do this. I may bring reeder back at some point,but not till im satisfied with what im doing artistically. I may even just do another concept entirely once i get better at drawing. peace.

winter anchor

At first glance you may see a flower, or more likely because of the colors snow flakes against a black winter sky. This is not what was my initial intention with this concept. I started with an anchor, one simple anchor which i repeated several times into a full circle. i like the way it was looking so much that i decided to incorporate that into a repetitious design. Since repetition can be rather boring i offset the entire thing, pushing most of the weight to the top corner of the design to the top corner.


When the teacher told us we had to take a simple shape, fill it in and repeat it i was rather weary about the assignment but overall i ended up really liking the "anchor flake" that came out of this.. If we ever find a decent company to do shirts through i may take this design and incorporate it into a shirt. It would more then likely not be that same repetitive design.. i have a few ideas (if i do it)...but well see.

the rabbit hole

as many of you know the noir project for the time being has kinda gone on hold; cos of the fact that ali and austin are on break. Because of this i am the only active artist on the project. Ali and I talked about it for a while and we decided to make a forum linked to the main page to keep the site active for the time being. The forum is designed to allow people to discuss the comics as well as culture, politics and so on. If anyone is interested heres the link: http://thenoirproject.com/rabbithole/ come join in, i'd love for everyone to chat with me on there.

life and the nonsense

We'll to be honest, i am really excited about what gonna happen with the noir project. I've spent several hours, and sleepless nights setting it up.. but i'm hoping by next week everything should be ready. With this new layout we are becoming a "comic press," which is something that over joys me! haha. i know that sounds stupid, but it gives me more of a purpose for spending hours on a web comic. I should be focusing on my GRE and grad school.. but its the furthest thing from my mind at this moment.

I'm still struggling with what i want to do with my life, I'm really not sure if Psychology is something i want to do full time or not. Now that i have my BA, I'm really just working on doing what makes me happy,and i've seem to have come back to my first love recently; art. I plan on moving to Seattle come june, and i would like to have this site self sustaining so that i can focus on getting a job and surviving out there and still have time to draw a weekly Reeder and UI. Hopefully Marc is down to make some of the last minute changes needed. We'll see.

I asked Buttersafe to join the project last night.. around 4am i wrote them this long ass e-mail.. i hope it didn't sound stupid. I really want to make this website professional and i think with a comic like that... and my steady progression of Reeder's quality, and Ali's new project that this will actually become a reality.

Well back to the website grind.