The very kind Shara White invited me to write a guest post for Speculative Chic’s “My Favorite Things” article series. I had a blast writing the piece! Please check it out.
Podcast with Brian Williams
I should have posted about this awhile ago, but I’ve been buried at the dayjob. A few weeks ago Brian Williams invited me to be a guest on his “Tin Pod” podcast. We yammered about comics, art, writing and all that good stuff! Give it a listen!
Lamp and Human Soul Brush
Name of a brush I found in Clip Studio’s asset library. Now THAT’S a brush name!
Ever After High GN Update
I just found out that Jessi Sheron has been assigned as the artist for the Ever After High: Class of Classics graphic novel I wrote. Talk about a dream come true, I love her art!
Rejection
Scrivener Templates
Justin Swapp’s excellent collection of free Scrivener templates. Post #1, Post #2
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I’m really happy with how this barn interior came out.
Clip Studio Paint – Swap Main and Sub Colors
I’ve been going crazy for awhile trying to figure out how to swap the main and sub colors on my toolbar. This is a feature I use frequently in Photoshop to easily reverse gradient directions.
This is especially important in Clip Studio Paint as there is no easy way to swap gradient directions (you can do it, it’s just not easy. The toggle is buried a bit in the gradient palette). Unfortuantely, there’s no swapper arrow and clicking on the colors just opens the palette to choose a new color.
After dealing with my mounting frustration, I sat down and decided to figure this out.
As you can see, by default, “X” is assigned to “Switch main color and sub color”. This doesn’t mean the sub color is brought into the foreground, it means the sub color is selected. Not quite what I wanted. After a little trial and error, I figured out that the option I want is “Switch between main color and sub color”. This brings the sub color into the foreground and moves the main color into the background.
I swapped the shortcut and added it to the option I wanted. Problem solved!
Little Witches – Halfway There!
I’m officially at the halfway point with the inks!
Page 70
I’m going to tighten up the backgrounds in the top and bottom panel, but I’m pretty happy with how these came out just freehanded.
Books!
Pretty happy with how this page is turning out.
Marie Lu’s Champion Script – DONE!
I finished the script for the Champion graphic novel and turned it in yesterday! WHOOT!!! Now it’s back to Little Witches full time!
Champion GN Adaptation
Finishing up this project – on the homestretch now! Should be done in a few days.
Jo Art
Still working on this when I have time.
Publisher’s Weekly Announcement
Publisher’s Weekly: Rights Report for Week of March 21, 2016
Robin Herrera at Oni Press has acquired world rights to the middle grade graphic novel Little Witches: Magic in Concord by Leigh Dragoon. A retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, the graphic novel follows Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy as witches-in-training. When Mr. Laurence, a witchfinder, moves in next door with his grandson to investigate renegade magic, the girls get caught up in the action. Publication is scheduled for 2018.