In all the excitement of Autumn approaching, I very nearly forgot to mention that the Empyre pitch is rapidly nearing completion. Hurrah. This will be winging it's way to semi-interested people very soon.
Empyre chum Adam Bolton is also excited for he is heading to the New York Comics Con where he will be revelling in the launch of his 'Where's My Shoggoth' book (wrote by Ian Thomas). Do go and buy a copy of this super kiddies / Lovecraftian book. I said that you would, and you wouldn't want to make me a big fibber now would you?
In other news, I've recently discovered the mightily splendid Procreate for the iPad. If you are in any way interested in creating comics and own one of these infernal devices, then I strongly suggest that you make haste to grab an 'app' (I believe that's what the kids say?) of Procreate and a stylus pen - although it is surprisingly easy to use with your bare digits. This is about as close as you'd want to get to a version of Photoshop on the iPad and is super-duper to use.
I've been tinkering with it for about a week, and really believe that I could put together a snappy comic with it - without having to trouble my drawing board. From a screen resolution point of view, I think that I may struggle to get more than 3 or 4 panels to a page, but this may be down to my chunky scribbles. It will be interesting to see the paper print quality of some of the stuff I'm putting together, but for a web comic it's truly great. I only need someone to put together an IOS version of Illustrator and I might never turn my PC on again (only joking my trusty machine)....
I'm toying with the idea of a BIG digital project at the moment, and will attach a couple of quick jpegs from my initial scribblings. This page and a half took me about an hour to put together - all without having to leave the comfort of the settee.
RT
