{"id":15212,"date":"2016-02-23T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2016\/02\/23\/outputting-the-creative-output\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"outputting-the-creative-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2016\/02\/23\/outputting-the-creative-output\/","title":{"rendered":"Outputting the Creative Output!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest book for Strategic Coach is out the door — on time! And, in addition to our team learning how to work even better together,\u00a0I had a breakthrough in the process\u00a0about sticking to a limited colour palette to distinguish each chapter. (Exciting! What, no?<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Since finishing that project, I’ve been using my extra energy to blast through side projects, both at work and in my spare time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

One big “Wahey!” is finishing the first\u00a0interactive story for my website. It’s called: wait for it: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation<\/strong><\/a>“. (I’m still chasing the bugs out of it, so if you play it and get stuck, let me know where it happened. And sorry in advance!)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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My goal with these is to create little “Choose Your Own Adventure”-type stories that the user can play through in five minutes or less. It’s a much more fun way to show my work, I figure, than posting a bunch of out-of-context illustrations. (And I can’t really show a lot of my work for Strategic Coach, ’cause it’s full of their ideas and intellectual property.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I also wanted to lower the bar to entry by illustrating this first one with simple, raw pencil drawings — ’cause “done” is much more valuable to me here than “finessed forever and never seen”. It’s one thing to have whole work-days to pencil, scan, lay out, ink, letter, and colour my cartoons for the books; it’s quite another to do that in the evening or at the weekend, when I’m also trying to be a husband, friend, and, y’know, general person<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Along that theme: Yesterday I got stuck full of needles. The Children’s Aid Society basically requires its adoption applicants to get all their vaccinations again. I know some people go bugnuts about these shots, but a) I had them once, and was fine (and didn’t get any preventable, horrible diseases, which I see as a plus), and b) I appreciate that CAS doesn’t want to place vulnerable children with anyone who could harm them in any<\/em> way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So now I’ve got a sore arm and a bit of tuberculosis living under my skin. Yick!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow at lunch I’m teaching a bookbinding workshop to two of my colleagues. They’re good friends, and excited about learning this skill, so that’s going to be fun. And I haven’t taught in a long time. It’ll be good to get back to that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I also submitted an application to volunteer at TCAF<\/a> this year, and pitched the idea of teaching a class on using the comics software package\u00a0Clip Studio Paint<\/a>\u00a0 — which I use just about every day. Howevermuch they decide to use me, it’s exciting to think about being involved in this event.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In my absence, Toronto has become one of the brightest spots in the comics universe. The one year I happened to be here when TCAF was on, I ran up and down the aisles, saw a bunch of my heroes, and sheepishly left again without speaking to anyone. Not this year!<\/em> I need to develop relationships with other comics professionals.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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