http://www.sffworld.com/forums/blog.php?17359-SkyFitsJeff en Sun, 26 May 2013 01:53:03 GMT vBulletin 25 http://www.sffworld.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.sffworld.com/forums/blog.php?17359-SkyFitsJeff http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?3505-The-Caveman-Conspiracy Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:34:24 GMT [IMG]http://www.wanderingkoala.com/550/003caveman.jpg[/IMG]
I've wanted to find the perfect form for telling stories for some time. I noticed some times of scenes and sequences worked better as text, some worked better as images, and some worked better with a combination of both. Traditional prose, novels, short stories, and novellas are perfect for the first type of scenes, and comic books are perfect for the second and third type. But what about stories with all three? Almost every story has them. I also wondered what the images should look like--should they be black and white line art, should they have tones, should they have color?

So I set out to create a form that was flexible enough to handle all three. And I did it with a story I've been kicking around in my head for a while--a murder mystery, scientific conspiracy thriller that makes you question what you think you know. I also tried a new style for the art work. I used a Zig Calligraphy pen to ink the drawings (I love how it traces form) and a free set of textures I found online for anyone to use. It made rendering them so fast and led to my "raw umber" style I've used in a couple of illustrations.

So now it is published and available to the world. Part one is free in hopes of enticing readers to buy part two.

Check it out! [url]http://www.WanderingKoala.com/short003.php[/url] ]]> SkyFitsJeff http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?3505-The-Caveman-Conspiracy http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2295-My-new-novel-is-finally-out! Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:42:02 GMT Image: http://www.wanderingkoala.com/550/02powertrip.jpg My new novel Power Trip (a Wandering Koala tale) is finally out in paperback and all eBook formats! After working on it for two years, I was beginning to wonder if it would ever see the light of day, but it has. Here is a brief synopsis:... [IMG]http://www.wanderingkoala.com/550/02powertrip.jpg[/IMG]
My new novel Power Trip (a Wandering Koala tale) is finally out in paperback and all eBook formats! After working on it for two years, I was beginning to wonder if it would ever see the light of day, but it has.

Here is a brief synopsis:


René thinks he’s hit the jackpot!

After six months of no luck following college, he finds the perfect job with excellent benefits at The Power Company doing what he graduated in.

But a newly hired manager has a mysterious agenda. Employees disappear with no warning, and René is caught in a massive explosion that leaves the city of 8 million without power during a record-breaking heat wave. Riots rage and fires burn as the city plunges into chaos, and René finds himself framed for sabotage.

Only the intervention of a silent wanderer can save him and the rest of the city from a deadly power trip.

I've posted the first five chapters online for anyone to read at [URL="http://www.wanderingkoala.com/s_powertrip1-5.php"]http://www.wanderingkoala.com/s_powertrip1-5.php[/URL].

It's such a good feeling to see something you work so hard on finally complete. ]]> SkyFitsJeff http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2295-My-new-novel-is-finally-out! http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2144-One-more-character-design Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:11:46 GMT Here's one more character design I thought I'd share from the Jak Phoenix universe. Enjoy!

[IMG]http://www.skyfitsjeff.com/vis/Dodge-S.jpg[/IMG] ]]> SkyFitsJeff http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2144-One-more-character-design http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2124-A-couple-more-characters Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:54:36 GMT Matt, the author of Jak Phoenix, liked the other sketches so well, he commissioned several more. Here are two of the more interestingly looking characters who, unfortunately, have very little to do in the book. Image: http://www.skyfitsjeff.com/vis/Zelus-Voth.jpg These were drawn with a... Matt, the author of Jak Phoenix, liked the other sketches so well, he commissioned several more. Here are two of the more interestingly looking characters who, unfortunately, have very little to do in the book.

[IMG]http://www.skyfitsjeff.com/vis/Zelus-Voth.jpg[/IMG]

These were drawn with a crowquill pen that I haven't used in a long while (I've been favoring the brush of late). I colored them in Corel Painter X, the greatest graphics program I have yet used. ]]> SkyFitsJeff http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2124-A-couple-more-characters http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2118-A-few-character-sketches Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:34:13 GMT [IMG]http://jakphoenix.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/jak-phoenix-4-characters.jpg[/IMG]

A fellow indie author asked me to do a few sketches of characters in his novel, [I]Jak Phoenix[/I]. It's an old fashioned space opera romp. I just thought I'd share here for anyone interested. ]]> SkyFitsJeff http://www.sffworld.com/forums/entry.php?2118-A-few-character-sketches