A little bit disappointed about things, atm. The 'Comic Book Challenge' I was raving about a while back came good. So, what exactly is disappointing about winning a spot in the Top 50 and being invited to pitch one's concept in San Diego? Well...

Unfortunately the original arrangement of bringing your release form along with you in July was abandoned, and a swift reply (along with signed and scanned attached release form) was required by the very next day...a Saturday. Meaning the reams of esoteric legal speak had to be deciphered by my totally non-lawyer brain, and a signature applied to a document which (British cynicism alert!) potentially allowed corporations to do God-knows-what with me and my concept/ property. I was perfectly willing to pay to have a solicitor look it over...but simply didn't have enough time.

So after putting in the amount of hours that I have into what I'm convinced is a viable concept/ project, I didn't want to be hurried into making a potentially catastrophic decision. To be honest I'm genuinely gutted that I felt I couldn't be part of it. Ah well...probably for the best? Needless to say I've withdrawn my entry. :(

As a plus though, my photographer friend Matt has come up with a potentially cool plan which involves 'comic-ifying' fashion shoots, in the vein of 'Scanner Darkly', and possibly getting a few lucrative ad' contracts that way. Well, it'll be an interesting experiment, if nothing else. I put my Intuos skills to good use, drawing a line art rendition of a model on one layer, then using various effects (posterise/ solarise/ watercolour, etc etc) on various layer copies of the original photo, for model and background. Matt and his editor were over the moon with my initial relatively hurried roughs, and so he's doing a full shoot on the 30th June, giving me 6 pictures to work on for a to-be-published editorial project.

This could be really good! :)