This is the beginning a new project. My plan is to tell a story with daily drawings and hopefully learn a lot and improve a lot. I’m going to try to sketch a drawing a day during my lunch hour at work. In the evenings I’ll ink and hopefully color the drawing. I may end up having to forego the coloring at first if I don’t have enough time. I won’t be doing dialog. I want the drawings to tell the tale. I’m also not scripting it out ahead of time. The story will evolve and unfold as I go.
Requesting comments on an Artist Trading Card iPhone App idea
So I had an idea of creating an iPhone application for collecting and trading digital artist trading cards. This post is a request for comments on such an application. Would anybody be interested in such an app?
It would consist of an iPhone App available from the App Store and a web site. The iPhone App would be similar to the Photos App that comes with the iPhone with some additional features such as information about the artist that created the card. You would be able to flip the card over and see that back side of the card where the artist may have put a personalized message, a link to their web site, etc.
The web site would allow artists to upload their cards which would consist of a front art side image and a back side image plus some other information to go with the card. The artist could designate the card as a one of a kind that only one person could posses, a limited edition card where the cards are numbered and only a certain number of them can be distributed or an unlimited card that anyone can get. You could also designate cards as being part of a set.
The web site would allow an artist to send a card to someone’s email address. You would register on the site with your email address and log into the iPhone app with that email address which would link your cards to you.
Does anything like this already exist?
Would artists want to sell the cards?
Any thoughts are welcome.
Random pages from the ole sketch book
Top view of a keep:
Floating city:
Space ship:
From the Sketchbook
Here are some of the sketches leading up to the comic I posted yesterday.
She Talked To You
I’ve been sketching these characters for quite a while and finally decided to do something with them. I know, the dude has a huge nose. Deal with it!
The Web Comics I Read
Here’s a list of the web comics I read in no particular order. I probably missed a few that weren’t in my RSS feed today. Please comment if there are others that you think I should be reading.
I’ve been scarce lately
I’ve been a little scarce with posting here lately. We are getting our basement finished and have been moving six years worth of crap out of it into my garage. It’s amazing how much stuff we accumulate over the years. My wife has spent lots of time organizing a bunch of it into storage totes. She’s a master organizer! We have to be since our 900 square feet of basement storage will be reduced to 200 square feet soon!
I’ve been doing lots of sketches lately. I’ve mainly been working on some character designs in the little chunks of time I’ve had lately. I’ll post some when I get a chance.
