Featured!

March 19, 2012

Just thought I’d quickly mention that Branch has been featured on The Duck!

Besides being generally pleasant and hopefully drawing a bit more readership, it’s also interesting to hear the admin’s summary and someone else’s perspective on the plot:

‘Curtis Dorsett is a bit of a wide-eyed newbie at space travel. Everyone gets sick their first time anyway, no big deal. He gets some friendly advice and stops by to pick up his luggage. Luggage listed under the name of “Emanon” and which contents immediately alert security to the fact that Curtis has a little more going on than you might expect. Turns out he (or more likely the package) is so involved in a thing he needs a cyborg (sorry, “enhanced” escort)… but while she’s introducing herself, security is getting murdered. Just what is going on here? This cool, gritty-cartoony comic should catch your attention!’

Now, time to make good on the extra interest and push forward with the next page!

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Excuses, excuses…

March 6, 2012

In all seriousness though it wasn’t for lack of trying that Branch’s new page hasn’t materialised, I’ve been steadily working on it but ended up having more trouble with some areas than anticipated. I promise, within this week, no matter what!

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Expo Confirmed (and other trivial stuff)

January 29, 2012

Following on from the other related post I’ve now gotten my badges/pass for a table at London’s MCM Expo in May so barring the most unfortunate of events I’m confirmed for it no matter what :) There’s still plenty to work on, sort out and decide upon in the coming months, however this sets me an unshakable deadline to gather my work up into a coherent printed volume of some kind.

On the subject of deadlines, I have another college one for next Wednesday requiring me to present a new statement of intent for the final MA project. This provides a good way for me to refocus my goals while taking into account the many developments and changes which have taken place over the masters. However, on the downside it also means I won’t have time to prepare a page for tomorrow; if this is a race to the finish line I need to get more organised and stop taking stumbles like this…

Regardless, I’ll make sure that when the page does arrive it’s worth the wait and since the blog has been research light as of late I’ll see to it I write-up on something a bit more substantial soon!

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Practice Needed…

January 26, 2012

Returning to life drawing today I have to say my output was distinctly poor; I found myself lagging behind on the quicker poses with very few approaching anything near finished, the one above being the nearest to something complete. Ack.

On the bright side though I’m sure this is good for developing my technique, I feel like a lost touch with observational drawing over Christmas (among other things) so now’s the chance to take it up as regular practice again. Like the class tutor Melodie explained, it’s more important to identify and try to correct mistakes than to make pretty pictures.

I’m getting things wrong, but at least they’re wrong in a productive way…

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SOPA & PIPA

January 20, 2012

Typically I’ve tried to keep everything on this blog work related, but for once I felt an exception was in order:

As much as I enjoy fictional dystopias in cyberpunk writing, comics and film, I’d rather we didn’t see a real one come to pass in the next few years. The internet may have become an enormous conduit for piracy, trolling and general ignorance but it’s also allowed an enormous hive of creativity to develop that’s thankfully not monopolized just by the corporate fat cats, something we can kiss goodbye if bills like these go through.

Seriously, tell everyone you know about it. Don’t let these idiots disguise digital fascism behind four innocuous letters.

EDIT: Truly delicious irony, I had to reupload the link because the original video was taken down for copyright infringement -_-

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