Aquarium Drinking guest art

Aquarium Drinking by Christopher Wrann is momentarilly on hiatus as this is called. Until the next updates come around a group of artists (me included) have made a guest piece to fill the gap. Check my contribution here in it’s natural habitat and if you are not familiar with Aquarium Drinking I suggest you browse through the archives and get to know the lives of PJ, Carly, Luke, Lindsey en Jeff.

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Guest art by Mathieu Moyen

I just received this wonderful illustration of Semmie and Bear in my mailbox and just couldn’t keep it from showing to you. Like the title of this post indicates it is made by the talented Mathieu Moyen of the thrilling story called 6-Commando. Go check out his website for more amazing art or visit his blog for some really insightful articles.

Groetjes,

Joost.

For sale!

The time has finally come, I have uploaded (after a few minor adjustments) the final print document to the printer last Sunday and changed the status of the project to “Direct Access” which means you can now order your very own copy of Semmie the Forest Gnome! (Click here to order it through Lulu.com)

Let’s put all the facts in order:
Title: Semmie the Forest Gnome
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Interior: Full-color
Number of pages: 36
Price: € 15,-

And since I have not been updating for the last two weeks I have made an illustration of one of the most important characters from Semmie’s second story, just to make it up to you (click for full-size).

Finally!

Here it is, finally it arrived all the way from France. The very first copy of the very first book of Semmie the Forest Gnome!
Last Thursday I received a message from my printer that my book was sent by mail that very day and from that moment on I have grown more nervous by the day. I eventually came to a point I had little faith it would ever arrive at all and I would have to order a new copy. But today (thank god!) it arrived and it is truly amazing!

Now I can hear you think: “What is it going to cost? And where can I order one?”.
Well I should ask you all for a little more patience, I am printing this book through the “Print on Demand” principle which quite an expensive way to make books. However it is my goal to offer this book at a price you would pay for a normal comic at a bookstore.
When I have all information, I will make the book available for order trough this website.

Oh yeah and with a beautiful hardcover!
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I have uploaded the printing file of Semmie the Forest Gnome to the printer last Sunday evening and ordered my first advance copy. I can’t believe it is done, that in a few days, after all this time, after it consumed every spare hour I had I can really hold it in my hands.

Preliminary work on Semmie 2 is also progressing, below is a study of the Grey Heron a bird very common to the Netherlands and found along many canals and water filled ditches, that is the reason it is going to play a very big part in the next story.

Click on the image for the full version, have fun!

Preliminary work for Semmie 2

Work on Semmie 2 is moving along with a steady pass, one of the most important locations in the story is by the waterside near a mill. That’s why this week I visited some polder mills in the region to make a few photos. The illustration above is the direct result of this visit, for those of you who aren’t quite familiar with the workings of a polder mill, the hatch you see here blocks the entrance of a tunnel that transports the water to the mill’s paddle wheel. This paddle wheel will then lift the water for 1 or 1,5 meters.

In the mean time the work on the printing document for Semmie 1 is still going on, my Graphic Designer still has to take a critical look at it all before it can be send to the printer, so I will keep you posted!

Post 9 by Jim Francis

This is already the last page of a truly fun project, it’s a pity it is over. I hope it will not be long before I again have the opportunity to create a good story with such a talented group of artists.

The last page of Bran-Jar’s story comes from the stylus of Jim Francis of Outsider. Outsider is the story about the officer Alexander Jardin who is thrust upon an alien society during a galactic war. Alexander is part of Earth’s Scout Corps which has to form an alliance with an alien society to ensure Earth’s survival.
Read this space opera from the start here.

For those who don’t know yet, ReMIND is a graphic novel by Jason Brubaker about a cat who’s actually a super muscular lizard man. We follow the cat named Victuals on his quest to get his super muscular body back from the lizard king in a city deep, deep, deep below the surface of the water.

I must have caught your interest by now, so if you want to know how the story really goes you just click here.

The great story about Bran-Jar is written by Christopher Wrann of Aquarium Drinking. Aquarium Drinking is a graphic novel about five friends who are in there late twenties and start to question everything they have ever learned about life and love. I recommend everybody to follow these 5 friends  from this point in their search for the meaning of life. Updates every Wednesday.

Check my contribution to Bran-Jar’s story here

Have fun!

Post 8 by Daniel Lieske

The story of Bran-Jar is coming to an end, next week will be the last installment. This week’s page has been made by Daniel Lieske of the online graphic novel the Wormworld Saga. The Wormworld Sage is the first online graphic novel that I have seen that makes excellent use of the ”infinite canvas principle” which is available to digital comics.
The Wormworld Saga is about a boy called Jonas Berg who is staying at his grandmothers for the summer. During this summer vacation he discovers a passage to another world through a painting on the attic of his grandmother’s house.
Read the first chapter here, this is also the place to buy Wormworld Saga prints.

For those who don’t know yet, ReMIND is a graphic novel by Jason Brubaker about a cat who’s actually a super muscular lizard man. We follow the cat named Victuals on his quest to get his super muscular body back from the lizard king in a city deep, deep, deep below the surface of the water.

I must have caught your interest by now, so if you want to know how the story really goes you just click here.

The great story about Bran-Jar is written by Christopher Wrann of Aquarium Drinking. Aquarium Drinking is a graphic novel about five friends who are in there late twenties and start to question everything they have ever learned about life and love. I recommend everybody to follow these 5 friends  from this point in their search for the meaning of life. Updates every Wednesday.

Check my contribution to Bran-Jar’s story here

Have fun!

Post 7 by Sarah Ellerton

The story of Bran-Jar continues and the illustrator for this week is Sarah Ellerton, known for the graphic novel The Phoenix Requiem. The Phoenix Requiem tells the story about a young man and a nurse who have to find out why the man is unable to escape the supernatural beings that seem to follow him like shadows.
Read all 800 pages here or pre-order the book with the first 5 chapters here.

For those who don’t know yet, ReMIND is a graphic novel by Jason Brubaker about a cat who’s actually a super muscular lizard man. We follow the cat named Victuals on his quest to get his super muscular body back from the lizard king in a city deep, deep, deep below the surface of the water.

I must have caught your interest by now, so if you want to know how the story really goes you just click here.

The great story about Bran-Jar is written by Christopher Wrann of Aquarium Drinking. Aquarium Drinking is a graphic novel about five friends who are in there late twenties and start to question everything they have ever learned about life and love. I recommend everybody to follow these 5 friends  from this point in their search for the meaning of life. Updates every Wednesday.

Check my contribution to Bran-Jar’s story here

Have fun!

It has been a while since I posted anything about Semmie the Forest gnome, but now that all side-projects are done I am finally able to dot the final i’s. I am currently coloring a newly drawn page 5 and after that I will make one big document that will be send to the printer.
I expect to have the first samples done by next month so after some tweaking left and right I should be able to have the book available for everyone by the end of May or begin June.

For anybody that forgot what Semmie the Forest gnome is all about or for everybody that doesn’t know yet just click here.

For now have fun and I will keep you posted!