Plugging Away

I've had a lot of time to work on my to-do list
and so I've been getting as much done with the profile pictures as I can, along with writing chapter 18 on the side. (I love this chapter so much so far)
any ways, here's the newest profile images I've completed over the last few days.

New profile Pictures Ahoy!

Have not finished all of them, but this is the majority I have so far...



Hopefully if you're familiar with the characters by now it's not hard to discern whose who. That's all I have so far, and I've got a lot more to go, and a lot of writing as well.

But that's not all... for I have finished a new painting
"Self Importance"

A J.C. Leyendecker-ish style portrait of Maxwell (same from previous update)
Though you can see I've made a lot of changes.. That usually happens before I finish something. There's never a guarantee that a sketch or WIP will remain the same when I get finished with it, cause I'm always making changes and so I've done a lot with this one. I decided to get creative with the appearance and presentation. It's supposed to look like a slightly crooked painting of him against an art deco style wall er background. I also added a color fading effect because I thought it was a nice final touch.
Also the pattern on his vest was a doozy and normally it's just plain but I felt like adding it for style

What I've got in store for the website

I had been doing some deep thinking, trying to come up with some really good ideas for the presentation of the website, and well it's finally hit me.

The character profiles section is getting a huge makeover and I've got everything sorted out. This time it's not going to be a TL;DR page with all the characters and descriptions... nooo this time I am going make it so that every single character has their own page. I pay for the extra storage so why not? Anyways... as far as the appearance goes I am remaking/re-doing all the human portraits in sepia to look like this. Mipsy is my first Guinea pig for the experiment


I'm going to have the human half section set up like an album, no names under them as the users will click the portraits which will bring up the individual profile pages. And those profiles will have the same photos only they will be tinted with color like so.. (me and my obsession with old portraits I know)
I hope to include a lot more information for each and possible a small gallery on the bottom of the bio.

As for the Zyrians? I'm still debating that in my head, but so far I've come up with the idea of presenting them as Egyptian works of art, with their actual portrait on the profile page.

Updating the entire section is going to be a lot of work and will require a lot of re-writes and much added material.. but I think it will be worth it. Atlantech is my pride and joy, so why not?

anyways that's it for that section.. now I'm still working on new material for the Hoopla page. I've got a few interesting sections up but I need to work on more.
one interesting tidbit I added is the Advertisement page. Now it's not what you think it is.. the page is going to be full of all the ads and posters seen throughout the comic, as those are individual pictures themselves and are pasted and blended into the backgrounds.. damn you know my secret now! Nah.. it's not much of a secret anyway. Some of them are pretty witty, so I guess that's another reason I created that page.

Still working out chapter 18.. damn I keep wanting to say 17 I get so lost when I havent worked on the writing portion for a while. Page 11 of the comic is in the works, and yes I'm working on several paintings on the side.
speaking of paintings here's a recent WIP



A J.C. Leyendecker-ish type portrait of Maxwell Graham.. looking like the ignorant asshole he is. Maybe I can make him look even more asshole-ish in his brand new sepia portrait!! It's kind of funny to me because Maxwell always looks like a jerk and Stan always has that "serious don't fuck with me", kinda stare heh...
Same with the Zyrians.. I don't think they ever smile.. well not a smile of happiness anyway, just your average wicked smirk.
Okay since I'm obviously rambling on here, I'm going to wrap up this post.
Tomorrow is my Birthday, and I'm turning 25.. dear god I'm getting old
it seems just yesterday I was 21
oh how time flies...

Well

This update isn't going to be as long and detailed as the previous, in fact this is just a current update of whats going on in the Atlantech Universe.

Comic pages 9 & 10 are complete and posted on the website. I added a new section to the gallery for sketches, but might go ahead and make it sketches & WIPs
that way I'm not just posting sketches, but actual progress of the recent paintings.
I'm still thinking of some new and fun ideas for the website's appearance. Still brainstorming for that while doing some re-writes of the comic diologue for page 11
yes I am getting right on it, not going to have another two month gap between updates. That was brutal!

I also working on the same paintings from the last update, as those were just WIPs, along with some new ideas. I've got one, but I hope I would feel up to going through with it. The title would be "flyboys" and it would have all of the AMF pilots together in one shot, maybe MAYBE with one of the AF fighters in the background for eye candy.

Chapter 18 is it? is still in the works, I havent been able to get to it since I was focused on getting the new comic pages done and so maybe I'll start on that.

Also I will be getting interviewed by JT of the Protoculture times about my fan project. No audio though, it will be a written interview. I will also admit that hes a good friend of mine and so he asked if I would be up for the interview. I love talking about Atlantech so I couldn't pass it up.