Smash Girl Pg 9

Smash Girl Pg 8

Smash Girl Page 7

Smash Girl Pg 6

Smash Girl Pg 5

Smash Girl Pg 4

Rasputin

Wow, 2 posts in one day...

So last night after I was done w/ Smash Girl I wanted to paint (cause my painting skills suck) I'm doing this short story for an anthology book that follows a sword through time. I wrote one story that's been illustrated by another artist (you can see it here : http://www.comicspace.com/chadhurd/comics....p;comic_id=7856
) And I'm illustrating one about Rasputin... so I figured I'd play w/ painting the Mad Monk.

It's not great, but again, I don't have the time to spend on it, so this is just a rough... 2 hours.

Smash Girl Pg 3

Here's the 3rd page of the story, hopefully we're makin' the it pretty easy to follow from page to page, that's really one of the challenges of doing this is making it as fluid as possible with our two styles. This page took 1.5 hours, pen and ink on a 11x17 board. It was a quick one, and I'm not happy about the center pict of SG, I messed up, and when you're going strait to ink on the board, there's no looking back. Anyway, when I say it only took 1.5 hours, that doesn't include the time I spent thinking about what I wanted to happen... I did that periodically through the day, say on a bathroom break at work or whatever. It's amazing how productive you can be sitting in the bathroom for 8 minutes.

Smash Girl Page 2

Here's AJ's first page... and what he had to say about it : "so, i set myself about 2.5 hours to complete this...from conception to completion. sadly not only could i not complete this at the level i wanted, but it took me an additional hour. sadly, i don't think it shows. but, that what this whole this is about, right? to get better...and i'm hopefully going to be alot better when we finish this." I think he's being a bit hard on himself. I dig it... more tomorrow!

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Smash Girl

Ok, so I don't waste enough of my time not working on things I should, that my good friend AJ and I have started a nightly sequentials challenge. Here's the deal, AJ came up with this character Smash Girl, and we are going to tell her story... one page at a time. What happens is, I started this story by drawing page one. Tomorrow night AJ will write and draw page 2, Wed is my night again to write and draw page 3. We aren't working from a script, it's a total experiment in storytelling and problem solving. On this page I set up that the character can take a great deal of punishment from a laser, that she's been in this program training for 3 year, and this is her first mission. AJ has to take that information and continue the story... hope you guys stick around to see how it goes... now this page took me 2.5 hours. I have a feeling that ALL the pages aren't going to look this good, some nights I'll only have a half hour or so to do it, but I guess we'll see when Friday comes around how nice they're lookin'.

ZOMBIES!!!

I went to a Dusk til' Dawn Zombie movie marathon this weekend!!! 12 hours of awesome at the Somerville Theater in Boston! http://scifi.vintagelinux.com/node/6

It's a movie marathon that spawned from the 24 hour Boston Sci-Fi marathon that I've been attending for the last 6 (I think) years.

Anyway, this was the line up.

1. Shaun of the Dead : Awesome movie, if you haven't seen it, run out and rent it!!!

2. Brain Dead (or in America) Dead Alive : One of Peter Jackson's first movies, so good... one word Lawnmower (or is that 2 words I just crammed into one?)

3. 28 Days Later : They aren't truly zombies, cause they're not undead, BUT, they kinda act like zombies, and it's a hell of a flick!

4. 28 Weeks Later : Well, ya can't just play the first one?!?!

5. Zombi 2 (or Zombie in the US): An Italian Zombie flick w/ (and I crap you not) Mia Farrow's sister Tisa Farrow. Not that I want to give anything away, but it's a classic bad zombie movie, you wouldn't believe they gave this guy money to do more movies, but they did... anyway, the best part... zombie fighting a shark... awesome!

And last, but not least
6. Fido : A lovely story about a boy and his pet Zombie in the 1950s... I have a feeling this is going to be one of those movies that becomes a cult classic.... It was the only one I hadn't seen out of all the movies, and I really enjoyed it. Light Zombie Fun!

Here's a sneak preview of the opening splash page for Rex Rockwell, Weird Game Hunter featured in Episodes from the Zero Hour! Volume Three. Written by Jason Butkowski