Yay! The cover to Issue 8 is finally inked. Took long enough. Now to do the coloring. I always worry about doing the coloring. I think it’s because it seems like such a big task and I’m often concerned about how the colors will turn out. It’s often an experiment.
Hey all. I’m about to rush off to my appointment, but I wanted to post this first. Matt and I are going to start working on a new design for RCSI Publishing here in a bit. I’ve spent this morning creating a mock-up. I rather like how this turned out.
Things will change during the coding stage, but this is just a general idea. And, on that note, I need to dash. Thanks guys and take care!
It’s a new month, which means a new wallpaper. This month, we’ve a segment from one of the comic pages of Wynnie. I like Wynnie and thought the panel turned out pretty so… I wanted to use a larger version of it.
You can download the image on the Wallpapers page.
Due to how large the site’s becoming, we’re going to stop offering the 800×600 versions of the wallpapers. Hopefully that’s okay. The 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, and 1680×1050 will still be available. And yes, all the old wallpapers are still available. It’s the galleries that took the cut. I still need to go thought the blogs and edit posts that link to images in the gallery since… those images are in the process of being removed. It’s all good.
Maybe I’ll do that this afternoon – clean up the blogs, I mean. They’re just going to get bigger.
That’s all for now. Thanks for sticking with us, guys!
And, the commission is now complete. Hopefully it came out okay. Though personally, I love that camel. I don’t know why, I just do.
And yes, this was done with Prismacolor pens and Copic markers on 11×14 Bristol. My wrist is pretty sore, so I’m going to zone out for a bit before hopefully starting the wallpaper sketch. I need to get that finished up tomorrow.
It’s after midnight here as I write this, which means I should be asleep. But, for some reason I can’t fall asleep just yet, so I thought I’d show you what I’ve been working on this weekend. I still have the rest of the base colors to lay down as well as the shading. While the pencils went quickly, the inking took most of the weekend. The wrist had a lot of do with that. The odd mis-colors and over saturated markers are from scanning. They’re not on the drawing itself.
My goal is to have this one finished up tomorrow evening. It’ll be a long day, but doable. I then have to get back to working on the cover to Issue 8. I also need to do the cover for the trade as well as the trade’s extras. That needs to get to the printer by September. Oh, and I need a wallpaper for July too… Okay, I’ll do the wallpaper Tuesday. When did all these projects show up? When?!
For now, I need to get to sleep. Night all, and thanks for sticking with us!
Hey all. Just checking in with another quick report.
The recolors of Issue 6 and the ‘Mail Bag!’ intermission are complete, as is page one of Issue 7. I’ll be switching gears tomorrow and finishing up Bear’s commission. I can’t wait to see how that turns out. There’s so many fun things to color in that one! So cool!
Would you like to see one of the recent recolors? There are no spoilers here, since you’ve already seen this page in ink/tone.
Wrist wise, the right is still sore but back down to a manageable level. As long as I don’t push things too far, I’ll just have to deal with some sharp pain at night. The left is starting to act up for some reason, though. Which, makes no sense. The right is from carpel tunnel combined with having a large stack of books smash on to it when I worked at a library while in high school – over fourteen years ago. See, librarianship is dangerous, man! The left… no reason at all. I’m going to blame it on the storm fronts we’ve had moving in lately.
I do need to find a new wrist guard thought. I had a stretchy fabric one which I loved, but it’s a little too tight now. ACE bandages have latex in them which I react badly to. I’m wondering if I should also look into some fingerless gloves if I do ever find another stretchy fabric wrist guard. It’s a little embarrassing wearing a guard at a con. A nice pair of fingerless gloves might help to hide that.
But for now, I’m going to go back downstairs where it’s a little cooler. Thanks for reading, and take care!
Due to the site moving to a new server, the galleries have been removed from the site. As a result, posts beyond this point may contain broken links and images. While I should go back and fix these errors, there are close to 250 posts at this point and, to be honest, the time spent correcting and removing links could be better used elsewhere.
So, as a note, if you decide to read beyond this point, please remember that most of the links/images will no longer work. Sorry for any inconvenience.
One of the FUN things about server moves is the confusion that surrounds them.
Some people, of late, have gotten notices about their time on their Supporter’s account being almost up.
If you’ve received one of these:
Hi there YourNameHere,
This is a reminder that your Supporter Account for ‘Code Name: Hunter’ will expire in less than seven days.
We at CN:H wanted to thank you for all your support, and would hate to have you sit through 2 months of repeats on the main site.
You can renew your account at: http://www.rcsitravel.net/Support.html or on the “Manage your account” link on the supporter’s site.
You’ll receive another reminder just before your account expires.
Thanks again!
RCSI Publishing
[This is an automated message.]
In the last several days, it’s probably a false alarm. Check your account settings first.
What’s been happening is the old sever (morgan) has been cheerfully going about it’s automated business, checking account times and sending out reminders. Where the new server (miranda) is doing the same thing. Only morgan doesn’t have the updated accounts on it. So it was sending out false alerts.
The problem’s been fixed, but I wasn’t sure how many people have gotten a false reminder.
Hey all, Darc here. I’m sorry about yet another downtime. With all that’s been going on this last week, the place is a mess and Matt and I are both rather stressed out. Matt decided we needed a break to get things in order – he’s my manager/agent. It’s his job to make those decisions. The final deciding factor was, unfortunately, my wrist. I got most of the cover to Issue 8 inked Saturday before my wrist gave out. A day and a half later and it’s still even sore to hold the mouse.
So, my game plan over the next few weeks is thus…
Until then, here’s a screenshot of the cover to Issue 8 so far.
Okay guys, Holly’s letting me know she wants to go out and I need some aspirin. I’m sorry again about the downtime. This was not something I wanted to happen. I’ve been waiting to get to Max interacting with his family for months now. Noooo!
Hi guys, Matt here.
I don’t post much, usually prefer to keep to the background (plus I often don’t have a lot to say).
I do have some news, as Darc is busy at the moment, and I’m taking a break from the server reconstruction.
For those of you not in the know (and most of you are), last week our server was hacked by a script-kiddie who defaced every client website and destroyed about 10% of our core programming.
This made what was supposed to be a week of downtime into a hell-week of late nights, bad food and generally high stress. Both Darc and I have ulcers that are flaring majorly, which aren’t being helped by the amounts of take-away we’ve been eating.
We have a made arrangements for a new server, which you’re seeing now, but it’s going to take several more late nights (about 2 weeks worth) to bring it back up to full working order.
I’m putting the comic on hold until the 3rd of August. This will give us about 6 weeks to pull the server back together, rebuild the damage to rcsipublishing.com and let us _finally_ get the house back to order after the fire this winter (It’s still a problem in that stuff is still scattered all over even after 2 months)
Supporters! You’re actually making out on this. We’ll keep you up to date as best we can (Yes, we know, we’re not the greatest correspondants), and we’ll be updating your accounts tonight with an additional 10 weeks of time. (6 weeks for the break plus 2 weeks for the server hack, plus 2 more weeks just because)
Now, this break time isn’t just us slacking off. This time we’re going to do the following:
-Catch up on owed work.
-Fix the server
-Get the house fixed up
-Get the prep done for the Political Spell Trade Paperback
-Send out any outstanding orders
And who knows what else.
And now, I get to go halt the main side updates so they don’t get ahead.
P.S. In an effort to give you guys something. If anyone wants to send us some fan art or fan comics, we’ll post them on the front page in the blog and give you a link back. Send what you’ve got to rcsi@rcsitravel.net