Pretty Weird State of the Union: April

 Hey Everyone! Pretty Weird Art has been slaving away at the artistic grindstone for the last two weeks. We've been so busy we haven't had time to post our weekly update for a little while. 

Here's a short rundown of what we've accomplished in our recent online "radio-silence"....

1. Rachel storyboarded 50 pages (the first chapter) of the 2nd Death Elf and Woose Graphic novel between teaching all her online art and ESL classes!

2. Ethan thumbnailed a 160 page graphic novel that will be the first in a series of three fantasy graphic novels modeled after the manga format. We're going to make it manga sized and black and white so our fans with smaller budgets can enjoy it!

3. Both Rachel and Ethan have been making character designs for our future graphic novel projects (Rachel's been drawing ugly mermen and Ethan's been drawing dragon turtles).

4. Ethan took his 2020 experimental Instagram web comic about a Divorced Penguin and formatted it into a 40 page one-shot comic...and just because he's an artistic masochist, he plotted out two more 40 page one-shots that follow the family as their kids react to the divorce in their teenage and college years. 

5. Rachel edited our first Youtube video!!!

So as you can see....we've been busy busy busy....

Here's the cover for the Divorced Penguin one-shot. 

And here's page one of the comic gridded out for print. 

Pretty Weird Weekly Update

 Hey Everyone, This is Ethan from Pretty Weird....I really dropped the ball on my Monday state of the union address this week...Oh well! I'm getting to it now on Saturday.

Pretty Weird had a busy week this week. We both focused our efforts on script writing. Rachel worked on the 2nd Death Elf and Woose graphic novel while I plotted out three other stories we have in the works. We've separated the upcoming D&E graphic novel into 4 parts and Rachel's just about completed the thumbnails for the 1st part. Our next step will be to start doing large page roughs followed by pencils. 

Here's photographic proof of Rachel working on the scripts!

We received the first hard copies of our Skull Gun Bunnies graphic novel this week.

Getting that in the mail and seeing it in it's full 200 page glory triggered a story-telling bug in my brain so I've spent my drawing time for the week refining script ideas for several other projects. 

I usually type up a one page story synopsis of my script ideas, then I'll do a bullet list of plot points and character descriptions. Once I'm happy with the basic ideas, I'll then break down the story on a page by page basis, followed by pencil thumbnails for the page layouts. I've made some really messy pencil sketches for character designs for several of these scripts as well. When they are more refined, I may post a few of them to show off as the story development progresses. 

Another project I've worked on this week is back patches for metal vests. I submitted several of my band posters from our pre-covid concert days to a printer so that I can have 11 x16 back patches to add to my jean jacket and vests. It looks like we might be able to go back to concerts again later this year, so I hope to go to several wearing my own artwork. 

That's the recap for this week's progress in the Pretty Weird Art World.