Podcast Updates

This week I was happy to have two shows.  The first one on Tuesday was with is writer and artist, Caleb Palmquist, he runs the famed Enkidu Studio, home of Modern Mythology and Small Favor. 

He just launched his newest Kickstarter for his anticipated Comic book, Unicorn: Vampire Hunter.

Then, on Thursday, I had with us the award-winning illustrator and storyteller, Hannah England of Studio Hannah.com

She’s talked about all things illustration, digital and traditional, and maybe talk a bit about her upcoming graphic novel: Lampblack!

Project Updates

While working with the six-year-old on her school work, I was able to do sketches in my sketchbook to get back to the skill level I was at.  The thing about drawing is that if you don’t practice it daily, your skill slips.

As I was going through my sketchbook, I was reminded that I wanted to make a book full of funny exclamations.  I might start doing that again and focus the art mostly on fonts.

What I’m reading

This past week I read Zander Cannon’s graphic novel, “The Replacement God”.  Page design-wise, it was a great layout.  It was a slow start, but the characters started to take shape too far into the story.  The world was established strongly at the beginning.  As a reader, I became connected to the world before I was connected to the characters.  At the end of the book, I was really excited to see more.  Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a volume 2.  Not sure if Zander Cannon even made one.

Personal Updates

I had a battle over the summer.  It was with Keter.com.  last year I bought a shed kit from them through Amazon and it sat in its box over the winter.  This past May I assembled it and first off; the shed was super easy to put together.  Good product.  As I was in the final assembly parts, I realized that they sent me 3 left corner connectors and only 1 right corner connector.  I called the company and they told me it would take a couple of weeks to get the part.  Fast forward almost six months and a dozen calls asking for an updating and hearing, “two more weeks”, I finally asked for a refund.  I’m still waiting on that.

Good product, bad customer service.

In the meantime, I still need a garden shed, so I cut up one of the left corner connectors and tried turning it into a right corner connector with wire and glue.

That was my big project this past week.