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January 29, 2005
Life As Geeks Know It
I've named the comic and done the first panel layout. I'm happy with the way it looks too. :)
Click here to see a larger version.
Edit: Yeah, I know. I need to learn to fuckin spell. Bleh, I don't care. It's just a test for frames anyhoo.
Posted by ed at 12:37 AM | Comments (0)
January 28, 2005
The comic is still a work in progress
Just to let everyone know ... the comic is still under development. I've been rather busy over the past few weeks, in addition to being sick. Needless to say, I've had very little time to myself and/or Amanda, much less work on my comic idea.
Hopefully things will be calming down in the next couple of weeks, and life will get back to some kind of normal state.
Posted by ed at 01:20 PM | Comments (0)
I wonder if this was intentional?
I came across a Web page today that was talking about Starbucks. Apparently there is a vicious Internet rumor saying that Starbucks doesn't support the war in Iraq. Because of the lack of support, the company refuses to send coffee there. Needless to say, the story is false and Starbucks does indeed support the troops.
The interesting thing about the article, and what I found ironic, the Web site that published the story has an ad for Starbucks on their page.
Doncha just love the Internet?
Posted by ed at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
January 22, 2005
I got a good laugh from this one...
Posted by ed at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
January 13, 2005
I hang with mental people
Meet my friend Kevin. Kevin is mental. Don't believe me? Look at the crazy look in his eyes. Those are killer eyes. Can't you feel the hair on the back of your neck standing up? Kevin has threatened lives if this picture were ever to appear on anyone's Web site. I cropped it down for the protection of a few innocent people. God save my soul.
Posted by ed at 09:10 PM | Comments (3)
I went to work today...
Boy, what a mistake. I managed to make it from 7:30 to 11am, but the more I moved around the worse it got. By the time Amanda had come by to check up on me, my head was really swimming.
So now I'm back home, looking at the walls again. I didn't realize this until now, but I guess I don't move around all that much while I'm here at home. At work, on the other hand, I'm moving around *ALL* the time. I guess that even the little bit of moving that I did do just wound me up too much ... even my knees started to get wobbly at one point.
I decided after lunch that it is probably in my best interest to slow things down a bit. I'm going to the doctor tomorrow, so there's really no need to rush myself anymore until then. I'm sure that Dr. Brown will pretty much do the same as she had done last time ... check my balancing skills and order some drugs to help keep me from vomiting from motion sickness.
Man, I love vertigo...
On a more positive note, I got my "Troy", "Stubs", and "Hash" characters done today. I've been working on them a while, and I'm finally happy with the results. Thus far, I've spent the most time on Troy, mostly because of the ball cap. I don't think I've ever seen Troy without one, so it wasn't right to have a character that was without a ball cap.
And here they are, in all of their glory...
Troy, Stubs, and Hash put my collection up to 8 characters now. Two more to go until I reach my goal of 10. Something tells me that I'll probably go beyond that initial goal, but it at least gives me something to shoot for.
I think I'm also going to start working out the panel over the weekend. I've been trying to decide if this will be either a 3 or 4 panel strip. I'm currently leaning towards 3, with the ability to expand to 4 from time to time should the need arise.
We shall see...
Edit: I've been working on different shirts too ... they suck at the moment, but it shows that I'm working on things other than turtle neck sweaters. :)
And the total cast thus far:
Posted by ed at 02:12 PM | Comments (3)
January 12, 2005
New character and status update
I've been off work for the past two days. Apparently I've gotten what seems to be a bit of vertigo. Nothing as severe as my last bout, thankfully, but frustrating and overly irritating none-the-less. I'm going to make an attempt to go back to work tomorrow. I called Neal today to see if I could come back to minimal duties, which he said was fine. I just can't stand staying around the apartment all day long. The walls start closing in on you.
Now, with that said, I've had some spare time to work on the comic a bit. I've gotten a new character created: my mother. She told me to create a character for her after she saw the one I had done for Michael and myself. The only point that she made was "make it good". Well, I have hopefully done just that. Here she is:
The "Phyllis" character puts me up to a total of five unique characters thus far. I'm hoping to get together a total of 10 before it's all said and done with. I think 10 people will give me enough diversity to create tons of story lines.
Speaking of story lines, I'm debating finding a writer for the comic. It's one thing to be able to draw the comics, but it's an entirely different deal to create the stories that the comics are based on. Sure, I have a few good ideas to start off with, but keeping them coming on a continous basis might be a difficult thing to do.
Anyone interested? Let me know. :)
Posted by ed at 02:13 PM | Comments (0)
January 10, 2005
Yeah, more comic stuff
Since this has become my hobby of sorts, don't be surprised to see alot of my posts on the site be about my progress on my comic project. The more I get into the project, the more I seem to enjoy it. I have four characters thus far. Three of them have already been introduced. I've added a fourth recently.
I decided to make my brother, Mike, a character in this comic. His character's structure is a little bit different than the rest of the characters. He uses more detail than the others, and has a stubbly face. If you've ever seen Mike, you'd understand the stubble. He can grow a beard about as well as I can. If you have ever seen my attempt, you'd understand.
Anyhow, I'm thinking of creating several more characters so that I can have an entire cast at my disposal. There are several people that I have in mind thus far, but I'm going to make sure that I get their permissions before I venture forward with their creation. After all, I don't want to waste the time if I can't use them in the comic project.
Speaking of the comic, I really need to start thinking of a name for it...
Posted by ed at 08:55 PM | Comments (0)
January 09, 2005
The comic saga continues ...
Just thought I'd post some more stuff I've been working on. After I got Amanda's boobs figured out, I figured I'd work some on facial expressions, as I haven't been happy with the eyes and mouth structures thus far. I think I've gotten a few believable expressions created however:
Amazing how you can keep the same mouth symbols and change the eyes ... boom, you have a completely new facial expression. At least that's the way I've seen it in other comics anyhow. I think the labels I have on the headshots fit well. I'd love to get some feedback if anyone is interested in doing so.
Also, I've created a new character. Can anyone guess who this is? If you're stumped (or just too stupid to know who the hell I hang around with), just look at the image file name.
BTW ... for those who're wondering what I'm using to create this "comic" idea, it's Macromedia Flash. For those who don't believe me, you can see that I'm not lying in the screenshot below:
I've been using this program since it was known as Futuresplash waaaay back in the mid-90s. A company known as Futurewave created Futuresplash. When Microsoft decided to make the move from their proprietary AOL-like online service to the Web, they decided to make the transition using Futuresplash. Soon after this transition began, Futurewave was purchased by Macromedia. Shortly afterwards, Macromedia rebranded Futuresplash and re-released it as Flash 1.0. The rest, as they say, is Web history.
Posted by ed at 12:09 AM | Comments (2)
January 05, 2005
Hot child in the city
I've been wanting to do a comic for quite some time now. As a matter of fact, I even think that I've posted about it on this blog a few times in the past. The main reason why I've been wanting to do a comic is due to two reasons:
1. My old hobby, computers, is what I do on a daily basis now. While I haven't lost my love of things PC, it can and does get old from time to time.
2. I know I have a creative bone in me somewhere. I used to draw and write poetry all the time. When I got into my early 20's, I stopped because of my computer hobby. I've been feeling a need to express myself in a new way, but something that I'm familiar with.
Low and behold, I've finally gotten the first pieces of something I can call a "web comic" beginning to take shape. I've drawn a comic version of myself in Macromedia Flash. After some tweaking around with it, I've managed to get something together that allows me to build ... um ... me ... in a rather short period of time. Because of this, I can feasably put out a comic on a weekly basis ... or maybe even daily. Hell, I dunno.
Anyhow, without further delay ... here's my mental projection of my digital self:
Edit: Now with Amanda, with boobies, in a frame with text. It's amost a comic now. :)
Posted by ed at 11:01 PM | Comments (2)
January 01, 2005
DSL Reports
I was just sitting here messing around with my machine, and I tested my broadband connection on DSLreports.com. I'm waiting for Michael to see this so he can be green with envy...
Oh yeah, 3.554 mbps down baby ... and 358 kbps going up!
Posted by ed at 02:31 AM | Comments (0)