REPOST: I'll Draw Just About Anything For You!

Want some original art? Got a character that you love? Need a unique gift for someone? I’ll do commissioned drawings. These will not be sketches, but fully rendered drawings, detail depending on the subject you request. All drawings will be on 8 1/2″ x 11″ card stock, making them easy to find a frame for. Depending on the subject matter, the medium will be charcoal or ink. Either way, you’ll have a nice darkly rendered drawing to show off. The price for a drawing is $25, as long as you’re not asking for more than three people in it.

I hear you asking, how will this work?

First off either e-mail me at carpaltunnelpress@gmail.com or private message through Facebook, letting me know what you want. If you want a likeness of someone, send me a photo. I draw comics, but for you, I’ll draw just about anything. When I’m done, the time period varying based on my schedule, the difficulty of the subject, and your own needs, I’ll e-mail you a watermarked scan of your drawing, at a resolution of 72 dpi.

How do you get money to me? I prefer PayPal, but you can mail me a check, if you want. Once I have the money, I’ll mail you your drawing in a plastic sleeve and inside a reinforced envelope, clearly marked “DO NOT BEND.” If you have trouble with your mailman bending your large mail to fit, consider having it sent to a work address.

New Strips on the Horizon.

That's right, new comics are coming, the two weeks I spent in painting mode are done and an unexpected hole in my scheduling has left me plenty of drawing time. I may just get Factor of 01 finished by the end of the year after all.

11/19/2010

Whew! Bet you thought there wasn't going to be a strip today, didn't you?

11/01/2010

I've decided not to countdown. You guys know it'll be around the end of the year, so counting down is pointless. I'm not entirely satisfied with this strip, but after a while, you have to cut it loose and say so long.

10/25/2010

We're into the home stretch, now! Beginning next strip, each post will be titled with a countdown to the finale. I'm shooting for the end of the year, then taking a week or two to get ahead on the next storyline.

Currently, I'm debating collecting all strips and annotations in one volume, but given the state of my finances, I'd have to print it as a minicomic, and that would be one bulky minicomic, and I'd have to forsake my usual cardstock cover. More on that as it comes closer.

"...While You're Making Other Plans"

Sunday has come and again I've found myself halfway done on a strip and too much to do on top of drawing a comic. In an effort to get this story done by the end of the year, this next week will see two new strips. That is my resolve.

Working on Getting Ahead.

I know that it's been two weeks, but this week, I should have some time to get ahead on the strip while I get situated in my new surroundings. I am taking some steps now at life after Factor of 01. I am also looking at making some changes in the general look and content of this web site.

Now, because I just don't wan this to be another "the strip is late" entry, I want to turn you on to one of the inspirations for the current incarnation of Jet-Pack Jenny. Peter O'Donnell's strip Modesty Blaise has the tone and attitude that I'd love to emulate here. Granted Modesty isn't the type of character that I'd want Jenny to be, but in almost every storyline I've read thus far, the hints of Modesty's past are always intriguing enough to keep me reading looking for something new that's revealed. I know that it's all known by now, and I don't yet have a complete collection of the stories, but it always comes into play in the story. The current story owes a lot to O'Donnell's character, even though Jenny's role in her world owes more to Ian Fleming's spy than to Modesty, but the more I read of Peter O'Donnell's adventurer, the more that character places her hooks in Jet-Pack Jenny.