Sketch Fridays #99 – Yoga

Apr26
by on 26 April 2024
Sketch Friday #99 – Yoga

Maybe it comes with the territory, but my imagination can be a bit overactive. My wife has taken up yoga classes and is really enjoying it. Earlier this week, I received a text message from her, sent right when her class was about to start, exclaiming, “My glasses just broke!” Not two seconds later, she followed up with “I have sunglasses” (we both have prescription sunglasses, for what it’s worth). I couldn’t shake the image of her doing these intense yoga poses all while wearing sunglasses, and all the attitude such a look implies. So, I had to draw it.

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Chapter 6 Update

Mar29
by on 29 March 2024
Okay! Okay! I’ll give you a Chapter 6 update!

Things have been very quiet around here but things are trucking on as they always are. Chapter 6 has been quite a challenge in terms of trying to make all the pieces line up. It’s easy enough to start a story and complicate things and set up arcs and payoffs, but no one really talks about how difficult it is to end a story in a satisfying way.

There’s an incredible satisfaction when an expression comes together even in the loose pencils of a page.

However, I’ve locked down the story beats and am bouncing back and forth between pencilling/inking and thumbnailing the rest of the chapter. This helps keep it from feeling in just building a taller and heavier wall that could crumble on me at any moment.

That being said, Chapter 6 opens up with a long, complicated, and––dare I say––super fun scene. I will say that it’s the big action set piece of the chapter and I’m really excited for it to come together in the final book.

Some very wild action opens up Chapter 6. It’s fun challenge to choreograph and draw.
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New 5-eBook Bundle!

Jan22
by on 22 January 2024

I just wanted to let you know that, after getting some feedback from my wonderful readers, there is now a discounted 5-eBook bundle on Gumroad! You save $5 in the process and get high resolution pdfs of ALL 5 Long John eBooks for immediate download.

Just to remind you that the Long John eBooks are basically just digital versions of the physical books and have all of the content that is found in the physical books. So, if you’ve been wanting to download digital versions of the all the books so far for your tablet, phone, or desktop/laptop computers, this is the best way to get all of them now!

If you can, leave a review/rating on Gumroad! That would help spread the word about the books in Gumroad’s algorithm that promotes a book on its storefront. In related news, if you’re a GoodReads user, some kind soul has put the first four books on that website and I would heartily encourage you to leave reviews there, too! Every bit helps (and thank you!)!

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