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Challenges
I’ve started a little project here to practice my skills while at the same time creating a series of illustrations featuring the cast of The Epic of Sally. I’m taking a scene that I find somewhere (a...
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Goddamn Bellingham! Postcards, prints and originals…
click to visit larger imageGoddamn Bellingham #1 From the Fenworks This is the first in a series, as you may be able to tell from the title. I’m actually working on #2 right now! And as I finish each...
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Epic of Sally: Making Page 60
click to visit larger imageEpic of Sally, page 60 From the Fenworks This is a true story. Epic of Sally: Making Page 60 originally appeared on Drawing Contraption on 2014/01/14.
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A Name Tag
At work, where I work, we have three graphic designers. And each graphic designer has a rack that’s kind of an inbox that’s a rack instead of a box. It makes sense if you see it. And for each of these...
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Branding the Fenworks
So, here’s something I’m working on. My plans are to watercolor it, so I’m keeping the texturing to a minimum. Based on my past business card, however, I think this is going to work out quite well!...
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Business Card
And here it is, finished! My new business card. click to visit larger imageFenworks Business Card Illustration From the Fenworks I’m going to do a test print to see if there’s any editing or touch up I...
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How to prep your artwork for printing
click to visit larger imageComparison of differently prepped artwork From the Fenworks This was a very telling lesson for me today. Especially since I already knew it. But I had to relearn. Now, I’m...
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Epic of Sally: How it Works
click to visit larger imageEpic of Sally, page 61 From Grass Dog Studio Woah, a comic page! It’s a page, from my comic! By the way, the final proof of the second book is being printed right now. When...
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In the Beginning
‘i Ge ‘erRoPeGu KtleTaChaTe “Have you heard of the Dragon People?” click to visit larger imageThe History, page 1 From Grass Dog Studio You may notice in The Epic of Sally Robertson that Fenmere, the...
View ArticleFeNeKeRe: the Language – Lesson 1
In light of yesterday’s post, I thought I’d start sharing how to read and speak the language depicted there. FeNeKeRe is the first language of the Dragon People, or The Children of the Great One,...
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A translation of Brian Eno’s “I’ll Come Running” into FeNoKeRa. I’ll provide translation tools for this later. For now, you can listen to the original English here. For now, if you speak FeNoKeRa and...
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FeNeKeRe: the Language – Lesson 1.a
Following as closely as possible on the first post of Lesson 1. Here is a flowchart of the Grammar for FeNeKeRe, or the FuNaKeRa as it may be: click to visit larger imageFuNaKeRa – the grammar of...
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Burn! Burn! Retribution! begins!
click to visit larger imageCover Art for Burn! Burn! Retribution! From the Fenworks If you follow the link to that comic page, you’ll see something interesting. There are a number of pages in the cue....
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BBR: page 1
click to visit larger imageBBR page 1 From the Fenworks Before you start following this comic as it updates, you might want to re-read the old issues as a refresher: Book #1 – The Lazy Boxer Book #2 –...
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fenimero ef’u'o
click to visit larger imagefenimero ef’u'o – My first full poem in Fenekere From the Fenworks English: The moon sleeps so that the sun may watch, but the moon sees also. When the sky is dark, only the...
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For those who are interested, here is a gloss of yesterday’s poem. It’s not marked in the traditional manner, because I’m not very familiar with the terms. So, you’ll see things like “SBJv”. That means...
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BBR: page 2
click to visit larger imageBBR page 2 From the Fenworks Picking up right from this page here, essentially. As I look over my old comics, which I had with me when I was working on this page, it appears...
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BBR: page 3
click to visit larger imageBBR page 3 From the Fenworks When we last saw Ian, he was using his skills as an artist to get his way in a gag that has haunted me ever since I published it. I’ll be, like,...
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BBR: page 4
click to visit larger imageBBR page 4 From the Fenworks If you’ve just noticed this is going on, this particular story starts here. If you’re new to the Harmless Free Radicals, to follow this story...
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BBR: page 5
click to visit larger imageBBR page 5 From the Fenworks As we all know, time flies funny in Fairport. What this means is that if someone leaves Fairport (or Jam), they experience time like the rest of...
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