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The Tyranny of Choice

Feb27
by smudge on February 27, 2015 at 4:53 pm
Posted In: News & Reviews, Smudge's Journal

So now that 'To Kill a Dragon' is in the can, I now contemplate what my next project will be. Only problem is, now that I'm not consumed in a project, ALL my other ones are scrambling for attention... at the same time. Including a new one, something I told myself I wasn't going to do. Thanks, brain.

Right now, I'm trying to sit down and organize the different stories: outlining basic arcs, getting characters ironed out so I know the different casts I'm dealing with, and trying to take a long look at the media each of the stories wants to exist in. As such - my art production is mostly going to be super-rough pencil sketches and semi-random doodles that probably will only make sense to me for a while.

In the meantime - here's what I've been poking at for a bit; Character designs for the new story I told myself I wasn't going to do. Tentatively titled "A Song for the Earth and Rain", it's a Romeo and Juliette style love story set in a fantasy Far-East.

Gau-studyThis is Gau (Farwalker), an Elf and main character. He's a long traveled merchant who ends up in the orient ala Marco Polo. Since doing this, he has told me that he also dances Ballet, but thinks he's no good at it and keeps it more as a hobby.

Do note, his "not that good at it" is kind of like someone who just missed the cut at the Royal Ballet saying they are "not that good". We all wish we were "not that good." ~.~

Design is totally NOT final. Not sold yet on the Tudor fashion, but I really like the concept of the cod piece as part of his native dress.

Rest below cut due to slightly NSFW artistic nudity.

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└ Tags: A Song for the Earth and Sea, elf, Gau, gnoll, Rhedasalm, skecthes, smudge, Yuling
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Will be opening for commissions on 3/2/15

Feb23
by baron on February 23, 2015 at 10:10 am
Posted In: Baron's Journal

Just to give a heads up to my watchers and supporters I will be opening up for commissions on Monday March 2nd. It will be an open docket for both simple B/W sketches to more advanced color work. I am not setting slot limits this time instead I will cap it based on the complexity of work I receive. For an idea of prices and type of work I'll do follow this link commission guidelines . I provided a direct link to the site guidelines because the internal site link is not functioning. Sorry for any trouble this has caused folks visiting our site.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MY EU WATCHERS in light of the recent implementation of VAT MOSS link we will not be accepting commissions from watchers in the EU until we've resolved the issues of registering. We are very sorry for this and we're looking at upgrading our shopping cart on our site to make it compliant with EU requirements. This is also means that in the future all commissions will be handled directly through the SM-EW website. Eventually we hope to have set up so commission holders will be able to log in and view the current status of their commission via a project status page.

└ Tags: baron, Baron Engel, commissions, EU VAT MOSS
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SMEW Comic Easel heart s2Member up on WordPress.org

Feb16
by smudge on February 16, 2015 at 6:20 pm
Posted In: News & Reviews, Plugins

My new plugin, SMEW Comic Easel ♥ s2Member, is now available on the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. It's designed to let you integrate Comic Easel with s2Member for drip feeding of webcomics. Free to use and enjoy!

Because the comic weasel said so!

Comic Easel

└ Tags: Christina "Smudge" Hanson, Comic Easel, plugin, s2member, smudge, weasel, Wordpress
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To Kill a Dragon – on up on SM-EW

Feb14
by smudge on February 14, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Posted In: News & Reviews

We are so happy to announce that 'To Kill a Dragon' is now available on on http://www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com! It will be posting 3 days a week from now until the end of the 4 issue miniseries. While you can read the entire story for free, we also are offering a subscription version (for 99¢ a month via PayPal) that gets you +1 week access and larger/higher definition images of the pages and no adds.

We hope you all enjoy!

To Kill A Dragon, Part 1, Cover

To Kill A Dragon, Part 1, Cover

To Kill a Dragon

After a devastating attack by the assassin Veniamin on the King's airship, a lone survivor wakes up confused and mute after falling into Nadine's apple orchard. With the entire kingdom in an uproar, only this strange, quiet man holds any knowledge on what happened that day and where the Great Dragon 7th, the assassin's real target, has disappeared to. Now both friend and foe want him, and the race is on to who can find him first.
4 issue miniseries, full color
Fantasy/Drama
by Christina "Smudge" Hanson
└ Tags: Christina "Smudge" Hanson, comic, subscription, To Kill a Dragon
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To Kill a Dragon cover 4

Feb11
by smudge on February 11, 2015 at 4:40 pm
Posted In: Smudge's Art, Smudge's Journal
To Kill a Dragon cover 4

To Kill a Dragon cover 4

Nadine is on a MISSION! And poor Betsy is being treated like a motorcycle.

I'm really pleased on how this cover came out as a whole. Issue 4 is nearly in the can and I hope to have it uploaded to various websites by Friday. I'll also be posting on SMEW mostly to test out the new drip-feed plugin that I wrote. Posting to ComiXology is coming along. They should have issue two available anytime now and I just got the notice that issue three will be available soon as well. I've also entered talks with iVerse about adding it to Comics Plus and their Library Service program. Hopefully good things will come of that but nothing official as of yet.

Hope you all enjoy!

└ Tags: art, cover, smudge, To Kill a Dragon
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