Hey...where did you head off to?

Hi there guys. You may all be wondering what the hell happened to this. Well, first off its not dead. Not at all.

This last year was one that was especially difficult for me, there was a lot of loss in many different forms, family deaths, moving, job changes, life changes, medical problems. It was kind of unstable and this heavily affected my ability to work even on projects I really wanted to engage in.

But, even if this outlet has been a bit dead, that doesn't mean the comic I started roughly a year and a half ago has died. It has been slowly, slowly developing. As it stands, there are currently 16 fully completed pages and loads and loads of scripts, development sketches, character studies. While the last year has been especially hard for me, it has also helped me grow and I think, even if it delayed the comics creation, this will ultimately be beneficial to the project. This past year and a half I've had the good fortune of making friends with a talented artist and writer named Joanne Renaud who has helped me considerably refine this tale. While I liked what I had at this time last year, I'm really excited for what I have now, and I think a lot of that comes from the help she has given me in trying to clean up and tighten the story.

There isn't really room here to post all the stuff I've been doing for development her

e, and hey, some of that stuff would be spoiler city, but in the meantime enjoy two of the most recent sketches I've done for the project.

A gllooooorious and magnificent return.

Hi guys, I am so sorry I've been gone such a long time.

This project got derailed by a lot of things. I don't want to list them here, it's not important. Suffice to say the train is back on the track. There is a whole slew of pages I need to post here and despite the time I've spent away from this, it has been percolating pretty intensely in my brain. I'm constantly learning new things to bring to this and I hope that I can start using these more often.

I've even linked this to my email so that I can just post straight from my ipod XD. Yes, I'm a cheat.

Anyway...it's back. There is so much I can't wait to show you guys.

What has happened to this project?

It is not dead my dearies!

I am ever, ever so sorry for the delay and I am working hard to get some time cleared to get back here and update some of the thoughts I have had about this project. This is still something near and dear to my heart, and the very fact that I started this blog as a way to journal the experience and then did not update the blog for something close to a month makes me feel remiss in my duties to the project.

However, I have three fresh pages ready to be posted up here (Which I will need to do tomorrow, I'll need to jump off the computer soon or I'd do it tonight.)

As a way to remind myself to discuss this at some point in the future, I just want to say, I am horribly excited to create certain scenes. One of my faveorite scenes period, which I am immensely excited to script and draw when it's time arrives is called "Live. Love. Live."

Dandelions are also going to start needing to be inserted into things here and there...a sort of, well not a foreshadowing so much as what I'd like to think of as a 'visual buildup'.

Mono and dichromatic color schemes may soon be making an appearance (Well, relatively soon anyway) as well.

I am also realizing how rewarding and frustrating this project is each day. I am constantly learning that I both know more than, and far less then (more often its less than) what I thought I did. There is so very much I need to do to clean up and present this comic in a more professional and appealing format. There is something that does not feel as though I have completely introduced it properly because of how I have formatted it. Day by day this proves to be so much larger than I had thought.

For as much work as I do with this, it needs much more done...I just hope I am doing the story and characters justice in the end.

Page 5...and I explain my absences

Hey guys! Sorry for the absence! I've been working my little bum off to get these comic pages finished for a portfolio. But on the bright side, that means you guys will benefit from my absence. I'll be able to show you more work once I am finished. Much love! See you all soon :)

Page 4

All right, this next week things are going to be kicked into overdrive. I'm trying to get a good 3 or 4 or more pages finished for a portfolio, so yeah. It's going to be an intense week.

Anyway, I realllly, reallllllly, realllllllllllly enjoyed making this page, not sure why, just really dug it. Hope you all enjoy!

(And yes, I will actually be posting this onto an actual comic site soon)

Page 3...now with more cherub ass!

Sorry for the low amount of activity lately amigo's. I'm heading out of town tomorrow and this week has been a mess trying to get everything prepared for that. But, I did manage to get page 3 out! I'm not totally happy with it, but I met the deadline, and I can fix the problems with it later.

Thankfully, this is the last page for a while that will be using color so heavily, so the rest of the pages should be coming out much more quickly.

See you soon hepcats! Oh, and enjoy the continued, gratuitous exhibition of cherub ass. So round and pink and chubby, it's like "Putti Gone Wild!" up in here!

She's alive, she's alllliiiivve!

Page 2 at last!

This thing took for-freakin'-ever, and in the end, there are still mistakes despite my best efforts! The windows by the altar are kind of kattywumpus. Also, that altar happens to inadvertently be Bernini's "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa". Since I first laid eyes on an image of it I fell in love with it, and without knowing it, I slipped the piece into my comic.

As to how it works in their...I'm just going to say it's a dream. That's not a real Cathedral (though it is based on one in Germany), it's kind of a compilation of various elements of rococo architecture.

Anyway, enjoy her!