Hey, doodlebugs! My hardest college semester is over and my free time has been greatly extended, so I figured now would be a good time for some updates on the projects I have planned for the new decade.
Due to the high quantities of studying and homework I had to do over the last few months, work on the Unbeatables comic has been minimal, but still ongoing. While I don’t have anything related to Issue #1 ready for display just yet, here is a concept piece for the first outside member of the group, Ironheart!
The Project FORWARD trading cards are on very temporary hiatus as I prepare the designs and backstories for lots of new characters that live across the world of Gaia. Here’s a very early sketch of what will likely be the first card for that second set, the menacing outlaw named Goldseeker.
Earlier in October I started work on a new project that has heavy distant-future science fiction elements called Project BLAZAR. The plot is loosely based on the short story Who Can Replace a Man? by Brian Aldiss, as well as several contemporary science fiction films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar. In it, a humanoid robot gathers a small group of automatons to search for the last living human being in a galaxy that has long rendered them extinct; throughout their journey, the robot and his companions learn about the many positive and negative qualities of human behaviors while second-guessing their own mortality and whether or not reinvigorating the human species is even a good idea to begin with. I don’t have a lot of visual designs ready yet, but I’m excited to see where this project pans out in terms of presentation and scale - it might even take the form of a novel, who knows?
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas, and see you soon!