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Fweeb, a fellow member of the World Artist Network helped me out with the Photobucket problem. He told me that I can host images from my personal website. I totally didn’t realize or think about that! Screw Photobucket and their censorship, I’ll use my own website thank you.
-Z
Obviously if you look below you can see why. One of my figure drawings was deleted for “Violating their terms of use.” I’d understand if it were a nude porn photograph, but its not. Its ART!!! I hate censorship, and especially censorship of art. I’ll be searching for a new image hosting site asap. Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking Flickr, but I don’t know if they have the same problem with ART or not.
As many have heard by now Diamond Distributors, the top comic book distributor, has increased its benchmarks. I was a bit fuzzy at first on what this meant, other than what everyone was saying: “It just got a bit harder for the indie side of the industry.”
After reading the New York Times article at the link below, I now understand what it means and how this will affect the industry. Lets hope that this “economic crisis” gets cleaned up fast.
I am totally and utterly disappointed with how the first few pages of Fastback came out so I am redoing them. I didn’t stick to the vision I had for it. In the meantime here’s this:
-Z
I went to a figure drawing session today at a friend’s house. The model was awesome. I hadn’t done any regular figure drawing since May of last year so I was a bit rusty. It took a while to get back into. I was kind of wishing the 2 hour session was more like 3 hours. Here’s some of the good and some of the bad. 10 second warmups, 30 second warm ups and a couple 10 and 20 minute poses. Like I said… rusty…
-Z
I’ve been making “advertisements” to put up on my website http://www.degainedesigns.com to promote the projects I’m working on. Here are some of them I have completed so far:
NYCC
Its a new year and with that comes a new year of Comic Cons.
First up is the NY Comic Con. I had a great time last year chillin’ at the Heavy Proton booth in Small Press with Bill Rees and Jeff Clemens.
This year I’ll be sharing a Small Press booth with Suz LeGrand’s Silenlily Studios and few other friends including Dan Olwell. We’re listed on the con’s site under Silentlily Studios, booth #2460.
I’ll have original pages for sale (maybe, just maybe, some Riot Girls pages). I haven’t posted any of the Riot Girls pages yet, but I’ll see if I can to boost some hype for it, though it won’t be in print for this con (Maybe WW Phily).
I also have two copies of my 40 page artbook left, and may be putting together sketchbooks for the con. I’ll have a new artbook ready by WW Phily.
I’ll be doing sketches too.
That’s all I can think of for now.
-Z
