HWC or Hardwood Comics is my new website, it has the same stuff, just a new name.

In what I've been doing lately.. hmm I have a digital painting I've been working on. I've spent about 6 hours on it, maybe more. Its part of the new comic I'm making. I hope to have it finished soon.

I see so many deviantartists doing paintings and I've become insanely jealous, so I decided to practice some painting in photoshop. I've never really done acrylic type paintings, so I thought Photoshop would be better. I've also thought about maybe doing some watercolor, marker or colored pencil drawings. Getting in the habit of thinking in color. Its definately a different process than doing ink and then coloring it later. It seems like a never ending process of refining, refining. I get stuck on one corner and I'm doing the detailed brickwork of houses that are so far away you shouldn't be able to see that detail. Oh well.

Its not only looking at the other paintings that got me on the digital art kick. The walls in the townhouse I live in are pretty bare. A few people I know suggested I put up some of my own art. Its seems a little strange to do that with my own art, but I'll try it out and see how it feels.

And the final reason I'm painting is I figure I can use it to put on the novel I come out with for my comic. I've contacted a few fantasy artists to get paintings that I could use for a book cover, but never with much success. For some reason they all seemed kinda flaky. It could just be that they are very busy, but the email chains would always break early on. If I can paint my own covers why not? Paint the cover and write the interiors? What's next bind the book myself?

In comic news:
I really wanted to start my current comic project by now, but I've been slacking (my latest comic is on comicgenesis,linked through my website). World of Warcraft has taken hold of me again... Hopefully by the time I hit 80 with my druid I won't feel so compelled to play. I do have most of the thumbnails done, now I'm struggling with making it a 20 or 24 page story. I can't get it to fit in either size. I could be I'll have to do a small story in there as well to make it fit the multiple of 4 pages format.