terror of the Gravin Empire

Tis my second entry into the weta raygun shootout contest.

I'll be...

I'll be posting updates to people of the clear waters again this saturday, and hopefully be doing updates every saturday from now on.

I've been posting regularly to the Goober nice to meep you comic for a pretty much the whole time it's been running.

I need to get back into writing them, as my year long buffer is running out on them.

and I keep promising the I will post a new web comic and I intend to. So by way of commiting to it I will tell you that it's to be called: The workshop of Cobble and Bodge.

It will occasionally have stories and such but mostly it's just my muses. Basically the idea as it exist right now is... Introduce them, have them share the ideas and art that really has no other place to be expressed and then move along.

So occassionally it will be photos of some creation, or a sketch, or a joke ect.

At first it sounds like it would be rarely updated but ... as will be explained in the intro comic, my muses are not subtle or spareing. It will be sort of a visual blog of ideas and creativity with commentary and appearances of my muses, who are using the Psuedonims of Cobble and Bodge.

So while I tend to my lists of goals and responsabilities, know that I shall return with something to share in the near future.

Take care of yourselves,
Roving jack.

pictures... maybe

This is Mr. Jellyfish Esq. I think his mustache needs to be cleaned up a bit and many seem to support the suggestion of giving him a monocle.

He's made with wool knit into the shape and then a mustache stitched through the front and un wound and combed out before it's all felted together. Then the little bowler cap was felted out of more wool. It was mainly an experiment on felting, but also inspired by another Deviant Art posters crochetted jellyfish. I think Jelly fish are cute and needed more plush versions of them in the world and clearly they need a spokes model.

the other creation is ...
Dyskord he is felted into coomponents; hands, feet, body, head, arms and legs, and horns. I custom made the eyes after finding that there where no buttons that would do the job so I made them from sculpey.

He's kind of cute, but I already have ideas on how to improve on him, and I learned a few things in the process of making him.

I'll be beack in a few days.
Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack

Okay I did something

I created a truely impressive wonder. Okay maybe a slight exaggeration.

I've been fiddling around with wool yarns and making some giggle worthy things.

I'll be posting pictures of one in the next day on my deviant art page and if I can do it here I will.

Then I'm going to see about finishing up another creation to show off before wednsday.

I've managed to do those two projects while watching TV, which I usually don't do much of. But I've wayched a fair amount lately.

Some of which was the latter two thirds of the movie 300.

I' was not happy with it.

In this case rather than a rant on the topic, I will simply state that the history and mythology behind the actual events was far more powerful and impressive.

Anyway, that aside, I'm going to maybe see about sneaking over to Mums place for mothers day. and then getting back her to work on projects.

Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack

A master list revisit.

1) advice column
2) keep up with my web comics
3) add another web comic for my muses
4) make more jewelry and then list it on etsy
5) write up some book proposals for non fiction.
6) see about being a tutor or life coach
7) tend to my growing number of blogs
8) create several new props
9) create some hats
10) Make a clock
11) make runcible items
12) make prototypes of games and play test them
13) Artist alley at Connecticon
14) Penmanship
15) carve gourds
16) signlanguage study
17) metal working
18) altered book
19) learn to play an instrument
20) make hand made paper
21) make paper dolls and items for them
22) fabricate a few other items (lamps, spice racks, journals, ect) for experimentation and possable sales.
23) glamour bomb
24) edit some more of my past writing
25) finish some of my writings
26) Nano 2010
27) script frenzy 2010
28) make five maps at least this year
29) get something printed in a magazine or a newspaper
30) network more
31) learn how to better sell myself and not sell myself short.
32) finish some bussiness cards
33) Loom knit something
34) make some toys
35) look into having a vending machine
36) make working locks.
37) talk to locksmiths about maybe apprenticing.
38) make a terrarium
39) Utile Toga
40) Soaps, perfume, or other fragrance items in the twelve styles I came up with.
41) plant some seeds and try my hand at growing something from seed again.
42) retry realestate reasearch and querries.
43) lamp work glass now that I figured out how to do it with what I have and where I am.
44) make buttons
45) a fake newspaper with elaborate world and regular releases.

The rule is I do five goals and I can add five goals, the last five were added after I completed five.

Then I did five more. and thus it's time to add five more.

I know I'll add

46) Talk to 3 clock repair shops about employment.
47) Produce another 3D model using blender, for the competition.
( http://www.raygunshootout.com/submission/108 )

I'll think on more. and I'm at twelve now done so by the time I add my other three I may have another five to add.

This way I can't ever finish the list but I manage to get many intresting things done during a year. Heck we are still under half a year in and I've got twelve done.

That's not counting my monthly list which for aprils was fourty one items long and I did thirty of them.

One of which was my script frenzy. Started on Wedns night after 10pm and finished on friday night just before midnight est. Now to edit and then storyboard it for future making of the graphic novel.

I'll try and be better at tending my various blogs and comics in the coming days.

Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack