Sketch time! 

Ok, so I ended up being busy and not doing the 24 hour comic thing. Boo, but oh well! I haven't done much drawing/plotting/etc lately, because I have been totally distracted with watching all 4 seasons of Battlestar Galatica. OMG SO AMAZING. I'm not sure that I can wait until 2009 for the show to finish up! Originally, I had a hard time getting into the show because it's not the same as Firefly (which I love to death - so happy!) but eventually the military-ish, crazy-go-nuts plot of BSG grew on me. 
Anyhow, updates to resume next week on the comic. 
In the meantime, I think I've finally come up with a good hair cut for Val Kerry. I did a bunch of sketches today while I was watching BSG, so I'll try to upload those sometime soon. Woot woot! 

Mishy

Apparently there's a 24 hour comics day going on in Australia at the moment, and I kind of want to be in on it. I'm going to start either tonight or tomorrow - hurrah! (Today I have to clean, it's disgusting over here). Anyhow, you can see what I come up with starting tomorrow at http://24hourmishy.comicdish.com. 
Also, apparently there's a music-related comic anthology looking for authors? I AM SO GOING TO ENTER LIKE RIGHT NOW! (Ok, not really, but yeah, AWESOMENESS!). Link to it: http://www.poseurink.com/sideb/
Woot woot!

I've been doodling on-and-off for the last two weeks this character called Val Kerry who's going to be in the comic. Right now, I really don't know how she fits into the storyline, but she's supposed to be sort of a short, spunky character who is really outspoken, unlike Le Rossignol. I played with the idea of making her a punk, but that seemed overdone, so Jenny suggested I make her sort of an "American Apparel" style hipster. I'm playing with that idea and doing a bunch of sketches of people that I seem to remember seeing on the street of Montreal. (Hipster seems to be quite the style here - at least on the Main, anyway). I'd still like to retain her cussing, smoking, leather-jacket wearing self, but translating the bad-assed-ness into the body of a hipster is kind of difficult!
I'd like her to meet up with Le Rossignol in a bar, and then go from there. I think Val Kerry is already starting to solve the same mystery that Le Rossignol is, and they sort of meet up in this bar and end up getting the next clue. I really want there to be like codes and stuff, but I'm hoping that that isn't a bit too "DaVinci Code" for people. We'll see - it just depends on what I come up with. I've never been really that great at coming up with mysteries, since I don't read much of the genre myself. In any case, that's sort of the direction I want to go with it. 
Anyway, eventually, Val Kerry becomes a superhero as well, and you can just about guess what she calls herself.... I really want her also to have some kind of really waif-like, thin, swedish-supermodel sort of sister, who can fill in as a rhinemaiden). If I really get on this theme, maybe I'll throw some Norns in too for good measure - I did design a couple of them in Ashland several years ago, so maybe it's time to bring them back out. I don't know how they would fit in with all this, but I'm sure I could make it work somehow. 

I learned how to draw better starfields today, courtesy of a link from the Podwarp 1999 guys. Woot woot! They rock. Anyhow, I used the tutorial from Greg Martin's site and it was super helpful. I retouched a couple of the pages of Le Rossignol and I should be posting the new pages soon - just depends on how fast I am with everything! 
Pg 4 and 5 are still in progress...I am slow and got carried away on really minute details that will only show up in the print version. Anyway, I should be done soon-ish!
Mishy