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Thought I'd share some of the fruits of this week's photoshoot.
We finally got together and got some great shots for production of my photographic novel Mark's Bad Day, starring as Mark and my good friend Shannon as Felicity.

I won't be showing many of these, as plot spoilers would be easy to reveal, but expect more to come.


I've also reached a place with the logo/title that I'm very happy with. Check it out below.



As for distribution, once I'm finished, I have no idea how to actually get it to people. I'm a little spoiled for choice, actually, I suppose I should think about how to best get it to my target audience, but suggestions are welcome.


Another word on my digital painting practise, I included this in the second-to-final revision for a band's artwork, and they settled on removing it, so it's all mine!
Mwahahaha...


Stay tuned <3~

I've been putting my Wacom tablet to good use lately, finally grabbing some spare time and running through some tutorials in digital painting.
Having always admired concept artists, the work of and jumped up and grabbed me, so I gave this a shot, and am quite pleased with the result. Only took me eight hours.




Now that my artist has gotten back on track (and how) I've also been coloring some of his sketches.




In other news, production on Mark's Bad Day continues with gusto. I'm preparing for our second full photoshoot on Wednesday, and can't wait to see the results.
Here's the second screen test.



Stay tuned, y'all!
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Mark's going to have a bad day.

So I've been working on this little project between the usual - studying, writing, designing, playing Witcher 2 - and we've finally got a couple of pictures to show for it.

As far as I'm aware (I've looked, but not too hard), this is the first of it's kind, which is quite exciting and will take all of our combined awesome. It's a photographic novel, or a comic book with edited photos instead of hand-drawn art; obviously, it's still sequential art, but I wouldn't call it an actual comic book.

It's called Mark's Bad Day

It follows Mark, an industrial saboteur, during 8 hours of a very bad day. In dire financial straits, he breaks his ethical code and agrees to have an investigative reporter film him going on a high-risk job to bust a missing person from a research facility, where his client believes horrific experiments are taking place. Hilarity ensues.

In the spiritual tradition of Cloverfield, Rec, and Blaire Witch Project, it's done documentary-style: everything from the perspective of the reporter's "eyepatch" camera rig. Unlike those movies, it'll be next to impossible to get motion sickness.

Unlike my last comic book project, which sortof died at the gate, this is going along at a consistent rate, which is relieving. This time, I mean srs bsns.

We're still unsure how to bring it out into the open, but I see these as our options...

• Post each page on its own deviantART account...
• Submit it to SmashBooks...
• Create an iOS app for it (which I'm currently learning to do)

Hm.

Stay tuned for more screen tests and a teaser page.


MBD screen test 1