Pecha Kucha Tonight - 17/02/10

I'm getting really excited about Pecha Kucha tonight. Lots of really talented people coming in to talk about what they do. I'm excited because I get to go first, so I'll actually be able to enjoy the night after speaking, instead of sitting with guts in knots until my turn.

I'll be talking about comics and reading and showing pages from "Trailer Park..." Speaking of which, now that the drawings are finally done and I've been moving through to paint the last pages, I've had a chance to reevaluate how I've been coloring things all along. Got hit by a bit of a bolt from the blue and I've now gone back and recolored the first 150 pages and am getting started on the rest. Here's a before and after shot of how things look. These are the first two pages of the book.

It's fun because, where before I was using spot color, but using it haphazardly and using lots of spot colors, the symbolic nature of the color was getting lost. And production wise, it was turning into a 4 color book. With the revisions, I'm just using one blue ink, one red ink and variations within them. The book ends up looking much more unified as a result.

Pecha Kucha Night, Brighton - 09/02/10

If you haven't heard of Pecha Kucha, then well, that's where I was last November. But I was taken along to one of their events on my birthday and loved it. A series of ten speakers come along and present on any number of topics. The clincher is that the format is that each speaker is given 20 powerpoint (or Keynote if you're an Apple person) slides and each of them is shown for 20 seconds. So, you've got 6 mins 40 seconds to get your point--whatever it may be--across.

Here's the esteemed company I'll be keeping. Check them out and please come along.

Rory Walker
Illustrator
"Happiness abounding - Stealthy lines and excessive colour"
www.roryroryrory.com

Jake Spicer
Painter/Printmaker
Drawing as a vehicle for social good
www.jakespicerart.co.uk
(I'm psyched about this because this is the same Jake whose life drawing class I've been going to. He's a kick-ass painter and an all-around nice guy.

Jonathan Gilhooly
Artist/lecturer
Apparitions and Illusions
www.jonathangilhooly.com

(Yours Truly)
Illustrator/Graphic Novelist
Aiding and Abetting: Reader Complicity in Graphic Narrative
www.welsheldorado.com

Woodrow Kernohan & Helen Cammock
Directors - Brighton Photo Fringe
Brighton Photo Fringe - towards the 2010 festival
www.photofringe.org

Das Petrou
Advertising Copywriter
The Main Influences on My Graphic Novel: Ring of Roses
www.dasandjim.co.uk

John Watkiss
Film, Visual & Story Development
Selling Sherlock Holmes
www.seventhsealproductions.com
(I'm really excited to see this guy. He's been a visual development artist on a lot of wonderful movies and his paintings are pure expressive gorgeousness!)

Scott Sansom
Film maker
Creating a film to meditate to
www.sacredearthmedia.com, www.tibetmeditations.com

Juliana Sissons
knitwear Designer
Inspiration from the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries

Nelson Evergreen
Illustrator
Illustrating for Little Kids and Big Kids
www.nelson-evergreen.com

And just to keep things interesting, here's the pregnant model from last week's session. Yup, she was pregnant and it was pretty different type of drawing class, but it led to some interesting drawings.

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