Oh hey, what's up? Not much, just the same old same old.

I'm back into my routine. Eat, sleep, read, draw, work, watch stuff on Netflix, not always in that order of course, but it's not been too exciting. I've made some progress on the Embrace Infection stuff this week, mostly. An idea hit me hard today and got me digging through and scanning 21 pages of notes from my high school Biology classes, mostly charts, tables, illustrations, and a handful of pages about genetic mutations, which I'm planning on trying to implement into some of the pieces I'm working on right now and other, future pieces. I've started a fifth illustration, and I've got a sixth one in mind, but trying to find an appropriate model to work with for it.

The concept and all are gelling together with each piece. The narrative is being played more loosely, and instead of sticking to a single, solid theme, a lot of different ideas and emotions are being poured in. I just do the work, and when it's all done and I can look at it all together, I can figure it out then. I've abandoned the body horror "guy turns into a monster" thing, but I did put together this quick sketch of what I was leaning towards for the final monster alien form thing:

Those t-rex arms with the membranes? Weak. The rest of the design is kind of neat, maybe I'll throw him into some other future project...

I guess I'm thinking a lot about whatever will come next, and how I can push myself and my work. On the side I'm scribbling together a plan for a new comic, but I'm also taking my time with it because I want it all to come out nice. Thinking of serializing it as a webcomic somewhere other than here, but we'll see. Also considering content for Burst Reach 2, and when it would see the light of day, and where to go with that whole thing.

I'm posting a lot more focused, possibly more interesting things over on Tumblr, like thoughts on Grasshopper Manufacture's next game, Ghost Rider poster designs, movie trailers, stuff like that. I guess that's where I talk about the things that interest me a lot, while here I just talk more about myself and my work like some pretentious jerk.

Or something.

Gosh, I feel like my head's full of cobwebs right now or something, I'm sorry this is kind of a lousy blog. I'm trying to think out loud and I'm not doing a terribly good job of it, so, as Warren Ellis would say, back down into the mines I go.

[Brett]