Back to the Stone of Grinding

As the title states, I'm back to the grindstone. After a weekend off, well most of it, I'm back to work on the Stardust story. I started the pencils today, only to be confronted by how difficult it actually is to keep ones self working without the pressure of deadlines. Oh well, no bother. I should be able to get this thing done within early February, which makes me happy and excited.

Other news, nothing major. I did get a small, part-time gig teaching 8-13 year olds how to draw cartoons at a nearby arts center, which should be pretty damn fun. Starting next Thursday I get to teach the little chittlins the basics of figure drawing and figure construction.

No new content to put up today, though I encourage everyone to check in on the Daily Burrito tomorrow for it's grand re-opening. Hope to see everyone there.

Namaste
Jon Jones

Locked and Loaded

The web page, well, re-done web page is up and running. Finally. I do hope you all enjoy it and from here on out, I intend to do smaller, more timely updates. In any case, today, being my birthday, is a break day.

Namaste,

Jon Jones

Nothing Much

While not necessarily accurate to relate to my current progress, the title pretty much sums up this blog entry. Work on the web page is moving along at a slow, but at least progressive pace as I attempt to implement some of the ideas into the page.

I finished the first draft of Justice, though the title of the story is certain to change.

Otherwise, nothing much. Hunting for money-makings outside of the realm of comics eats up some time, but given that I only started today, not much of an excuse.

In lighter news, I do at least have an illustration, inspired by the idea of getting a roommate for Ramona the hamster. Hope everyone enjoys!

Namaste,
Jon Jones

The Battle Begins

So, after finishing up the rough thumbnails for Stardust, I began what is to be an epic two week battle with Dreamweaver and the interbutts, trying to get the webpage updated by my self-set deadline. Though the scanning went smoothly of the old sketchbook stuff, Dreamweaver, as usual, made life difficult by not doing what I want it to do like the whore that it is. . .rough, maybe, but it's true. Simple alignments can be a major pain in the ass with the program, but then again, I don't have to learn none of that html jive, so, fair trade.

Back to the scanner though, a word of warning for potential investors. If you own the macbook or the macbook pro, do not purchase the Macrotek 160.00 dream machine. Apparently there is something incompatible with the usb drive and the device, rendering the device kinda. . .I dunno, useless. If anyone has successfully gotten one of these suckas to work on a macbook pro though, let me know how you did it. Please, pretty please. Ah well, nuff begging for one night. Also, the canon scanners, particularly the CanoScan LiDE 90 work quite well, though they aren't large format.

Namaste,

Jon Jones

Back in the New Year

Okay, okay. It has been way too long since my last post. Moving to Atlanta, Christmas, and New Years put a damper on my progress. Excuses aside, I'm back for the New Year with a plethora of new projects and stories in mind, and hopefully before the year is over, I'll be able to share a large portion of these ideas with everyone. Before the content updates get underway (I finally got some stuff scanned in) I'll take a quick dip through the daytimer:

January 24: The new website launches. A few new content updates, but mostly a new look with a different set up for navigation through stories.

January 28: The Daily Burrito re-launches with a different idea. I liked the idea of themes, but honestly, sometimes I just didn't feel like keeping with the theme on some weeks, or some themes just sounded better in theory. So, with the new Daily Burrito, it's just burritos, some from shows or as parodies, others as the burrito in all its wonderful glory. That being said, without the themed weeks, any burrito will be accepted for the Friday posts, so fans of the little guy, draw away!

February 1: Stardust vs. The Dastardly Duke launches. A little too late for the anthology, but I liked the story enough to just do the thing anyway.

February 29: Justice launches. The first tale from the Dangerbook E.P. woohoo!

Now, with the two month forecast out of the way, let's get to the content updates.

Though I want to keep the story under wraps, I did want to share some of the work from the Stardust story.

First, the final design of Stardust, followed by an earlier idea.

Second, the villain(s) The Dastardly Duke.(Also note, apparently Link is in the story?)

Next, some children. . .without which no superhero story is complete.

Finally, some random sketches.

Until next time,
Namaste,

Jon Jones