Done…kinda.

by walterostlie on July 11, 2013 at 8:18 am
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Greats news!  I’ve finished writing/roughing out Shiver Bureau.  The first story ‘Welcome to London’ anyways.

In total it will be 149 pages (though I am sure I will do some edits before I am done) and 7 chapters.  44 pages are already posted online.  So that means I have 105 still to finish.

I had a really great time thumbnailing the pages as I wrote.  It is very organic and immediate.

Of course now it’s the hard part.  I have to do some real drawing and make these pages pretty.  Just to show you how much more work I have left, here are the first 4 pages of chapter 3 in the rough form.

But the story is done and I had a crap ton of fun writing it.  Wish me and my hand luck with the pencils!

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Operation Update

by walterostlie on June 27, 2013 at 10:05 am
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I’ve been making a little more progress into Shiver Bureau.  I was meandering for a bit because I didn’t really have a goal.  So I’ve set myself a deadline of posting new pages before MegaCon2014.  So I set a schedule to have all the chapters drawn and 1 chapter lettered/colored by March 21st, 2014.

So there you have it, an official date for the restart of SB…now to stick to schedule…I’m already a day behind!

Want to read some other comics?  Check out my brother from another mother, Gabe Ostley, webcomic Eagleburger.  The Kickstarter just kicked off as well.


In the meantime I leave you with this commission piece that someone was kind enough to request.  I am really happy with out it turned out and was sad to see it go.

And for you process junkies

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Shiver Time

by walterostlie on June 17, 2013 at 8:54 am
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I’ve been chugging along ever so slowly on Shiver Bureau.  I finally finished thumbs for chapter 3.  Honestly I wish I was further along, but life has other plans.

But look I brought a gift.  A Shiver Bureau wallpaper in the style of Adventure Time.  I am a new fan of AT.  Everyone seemed to be watching it, so I figured I should give it a shot.   Love the off the wall humor.  Marceline is great!

And an updated progress bar…hopefully the next update will be completed thumbnails.

Keep looking under the bed…

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Comic Vanguard: Hinges

by walterostlie on May 21, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Posted In: Blog, Comic Vanguard

Ran across this comic via Project: Rooftop. Meredith McClaren did this awesome Wonder Woman redesign and that lead me to her Deviant Art page. She’s an awesome artist and she does a free webcomic that is also awesome.

It’s called Hinges. It starts off with a bit of ‘What the heck is going on?’ that I love so much. It doesn’t really say too much of what is actually going on, but I have a feeling it will be a great ride.

Here is the webcomic site.

There is also a Kickstarter that is about to end (21 hours!!!!). Read the comic really quick and then get a print copy before it’s too late.  KICK IT!

Here’s a bit of fan art.

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Back on the Trolley!

by walterostlie on April 5, 2013 at 9:01 am
Posted In: Blog

 

So here we go, time to get back on the trolley.

I’ve looked over the story and tweaked a few things and I think everything is good to proceed forward.  My plan is to ink all the way to the end chapter 6 before I start posting anything.

So in the next couple of weeks I will thumbnail all the chapters, this will be part art and part writing.  This will be fairly large hurdle.   Once I feel like I have something good I will move on to pencils.  My plan is to pencil a chapter, then ink the chapter, then pencil the next chapter, then ink and so on and so forth.  I am sure this will depend on my mood, I may pencil everything, then go and ink everything.

Once I’ve completed inking for all chapters, I will letter and color chapter 3 and that is when the posting will start.  I don’t take very long to color/letter.  They are also less stressful parts of the process, so I feel comfortable posting as I work.

I will try to post bi-weekly updates to this progress chart and also some sketches and page teases as we go forward.

Case in point…

I was planning on using this image for the progress chart and reveal a piece of the image as I made progress, but grew tired of the idea.

 

 

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