I spent the afternoon going around parts of Austin taking photos for the next series of comic books:"The Legend of Richy Vegas." I hope to start outlining the first three or four issues in February, 2017. I believe that I am finished with compiling reference for these books, for now. There are some things that I want to sketch out before I try to render them in the book; mainly interiors of all kinds of buildings from houses, to factories, to museums, to all kinds of businesses. I think I'm finished taking photos for reference.
There's a lot of things that aren't around anymore. Not just businesses such as G/M Steakhouse and Sound Exchange, but actual buildings where things were; the factory where I worked, the house where I ran into Gil Wilson at that party (listen to the two "Blind Assassin" songs on my MySpace page for references to Gil).
I found quite a few of the houses where things took place. For some houses I just snapped one in the neighborhood that looked close enough. I also snapped a lot of intersections because all the light poles and signs and other urban detritus are hard to recall from memory.
The current book is coming along fine. I should finish it in early to mid February. It is not an after thought at all. I'm at the critical stage where I am trying to make good finished drawings. I just finished page 28.
There's a lot of things that aren't around anymore. Not just businesses such as G/M Steakhouse and Sound Exchange, but actual buildings where things were; the factory where I worked, the house where I ran into Gil Wilson at that party (listen to the two "Blind Assassin" songs on my MySpace page for references to Gil).
I found quite a few of the houses where things took place. For some houses I just snapped one in the neighborhood that looked close enough. I also snapped a lot of intersections because all the light poles and signs and other urban detritus are hard to recall from memory.
The current book is coming along fine. I should finish it in early to mid February. It is not an after thought at all. I'm at the critical stage where I am trying to make good finished drawings. I just finished page 28.
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