{"id":1447,"date":"2017-08-04T18:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robjonesart.com\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2017-08-04T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T00:35:56","slug":"endingsandbeginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/featured\/endingsandbeginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Endings and beginnings…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back, I stopped work on\u00a0Perfect Storm<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After more than 12 years years of starting stories, jumping to other stories and going back and re-doing pages over and over because of the changes in art style in the years in between\u2014and never really completing anything or being satisfied with the work\u2014I felt like it was time to move on. That\u2019s not to say that co-creator Gary Carbon may not continue with\u00a0Perfect Storm<\/em>, or that I may not be involved with whatever comes next, but as far as\u00a0Perfect Storm<\/em>\u00a0being my day-to-day, first-thought-in-the-morning-last-thought-before-sleep passion project, I felt it was finally time to move on.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s the years of work, yet still not being where I want it to be; the constant displeasure with how my art looks; or the real-world personal issues that have taken up so much of my time and energy (whether I thought so or not). All I know is that after getting five-and-a-half pages into re-doing the origin story for, like, the sixth time, I was done.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve not really enjoyed comics in general in a long time, and am down to only reading two regularly (Sex Criminals<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Fix<\/em>). I\u2019ve not taken on a work-for-hire comics job in even longer, and have long given up on my goal of doing a regular project for DC or Marvel, which themselves are no longer the companies I once thought they were. Honestly, I thought I would be done with comics once I finally finished re-doing the\u00a0Perfect Storm\u00a0origin story\u2014just one last story to tell, then I’d be done.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

Those who have followed my work for a long time may remember an idea I had many years ago about Alexander the Great. This story has been stuck in the back of my head for as long as I can remember, and now that I\u2019ve moved on from\u00a0Perfect Storm\u00a0and have time on my hands to do something simply for the joy of it, that’s what I am going to focus on.<\/p>\n

And this time, I\u2019m not going to create the thing in a vacuum. That was one of my issues with\u00a0Perfect Storm<\/em>\u2014I would work and work on something for months at a stretch before anyone would see anything, so it would be forever between updates. This time I\u2019m going to be posting constantly, showing you sketches, script doodles and asking for your opinions and critiques. both on the web site here, and on my new Patreon page,\u00a0.<\/p>\n

If you’re not familiar with it, Patreon uses your choice of credit card or PayPal to charge a reoccurring (or subscription) set amount at certain times. I\u2019m set to monthly, so if follow me on there, you will not be charged until the end of the month (between the last day of the month and up to the 5th, depending on method).\u00a0And the great thing about Patreon is that there is no risk to you as a backer. You can change you pledge at any time, or you can cancel any time.<\/p>\n

To reach my goals, I’ll be offering rewards such as exclusive artwork, Patreon-exclusive prints, commissions at a discounted rate for backers,\u00a0and\u00a0I’ll be able to explore my other great artistic love: pin-up artwork. (After all, who doesn’t love a good pin-up?!) Every month I’ll create new pin-ups for my backers, based on those backers\u2019 suggestions and requests. And I’ll do all of this at reasonable pledge levels, which will help me get to my goal of being able to spend more time on\u00a0Highspot.<\/em><\/p>\n

And now that you know the basic gist about what the story is going to involve\u2014Alexander the Great\u2014I\u2019m going to share what I\u2019ve come up with for the title and logo of the story, as well as the first character sketch:<\/p>\n

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Let me know what you think! <\/p>\n

Thanks so much for sticking with me\u2014the best is yet to come!<\/p>\n

Rob<\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back, I stopped work on\u00a0Perfect Storm. After more than 12 years years of starting stories, jumping to other stories and going back and re-doing pages over and over because of the changes in art style in the years in between\u2014and never really completing anything or being satisfied with the work\u2014I felt like it was time to move on. That\u2019s not to say that co-creator Gary Carbon may not continue with\u00a0Perfect Storm, or that I may not be involved with whatever comes next, but as far as\u00a0Perfect Storm\u00a0being my day-to-day, first-thought-in-the-morning-last-thought-before-sleep passion project, I felt it was finally time to move on. Maybe it\u2019s the years of work, yet still not being where I want it to be; the constant displeasure with how my art looks; or the real-world personal issues that have taken up so much of my time and energy (whether I thought so or not). All I know is that after getting five-and-a-half pages into re-doing the origin story for, like, the sixth time, I was done. I\u2019ve not really enjoyed comics in general in a long time, and am down to only reading two regularly (Sex Criminals\u00a0and\u00a0The Fix). I\u2019ve not taken on a work-for-hire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}