Busy, busy, busy!

Things have definitely ramped up this month. I’ve been working pretty much 7 days a week since well before Christmas routinely from 9 A.M. until well after 10 or 11 P.M.

So, what have I been working on?

The weekend before Christmas I began to pencil The Mighty Motor-Sapiens from Matt Plog’s layouts, but with week 22, on January 7th I began pencilling the daily strip from scratch. I finished up week 23 on Friday morning only to dive into a last minute rush job doing pencils and inks on three days of a new daily webcomic for Microsoft. After a few rounds of revisions I finished that up late last night and dove back into week 24 of the Mighty Motor-Sapiens.

That contract wraps up in less than 5 weeks with the completion of week 28, so I’ve been on the lookout for more work. I might have something as an animation studio contacted me last night about doing a test for a storyboard position. I don’t know when the production would start or how long it would last, but I get the test tomorrow, so the rest of the week and weekend is going to be filled up with Mighty Motor-Sapiens and doing the test.

Oh yeah, I’m also drawing a 5 page story (written by Jim Bricker) for inclusion in Comic Book Tatoo, an anthology of stories inspired by the songs of Tori Amos coming from Image Comics this summer, and the rough pencils are due on the 1st of February. I’ve got to shoot some reference photos tomorrow and start solidifying the doodles I’ve done into something a little more visually pleasing. The final coloured art is due the beginning of April, so things aren’t likely to let up any time soon.

And, of course I’ve continued to work on Wahoo Morris, cleaning up the roughs into pencils, lettering, and inking a page a week. Though, Wahoo Morris is suffering at the moment. With the animation test this week I just couldn’t afford to put anymore time into this week’s page after getting it lettered and cleaned up. I’ll be posting pencils only tomorrow, and probably next week too. Hopefully inks should return on the 6th of February.

I’ll be going skiing on the second, which will end up being my first full day off since Christmas day! Then back to work!!

Busy, busy, busy

I didn’t expect to have it finished quite so soon, but the new store is now open.

I built it using a separate WordPress install, so items are added as posts and are organized by product category. Once the theme had been adapted for the store’s look and functionality, it only took the addition of an item in each major category to test it out. At the moment I still have a lot of items to add, and several years worth of original art to catalogue and price, but everything available in the TooHipGottaGo Graphics.com store is available here.

It’s fully searchable and I think fairly intuitively organized. We’ll see how functional it is when I’ve got several hundred pieces of original artwork added to the database!

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Okay, so after a few days of farting around with testing this site over at Too Hip Gotta Go Graphics, I decided to try one last thing here before giving up.


I wiped the old installation of WordPress, created a new database, and installed a new WordPress on this server in it’s own dedicated directory. I built all the links, imported in all of the previous posts, then moved the index page down a level changing the appropriate links, and here we are.


I’ve got my fingers crossed. I’m going to use this install until something happens. If you continue to get the ‘access violation’ error messages, please let me know.


Now, back to work on tomorrow’s Wahoo Morris page.

I’m going to run this site using the default them for a little while to see if I get the same errors.

Double Sigh… so much for creative freedom.

This time I’m testing to see if the date and time stamp is working correctly.

I’m still getting tons of PHP Access Violation errors on this server. The server is telling me it’s probably my theme and not their server that’s at fault. I’m a little sceptical. This server is runnin a wndows 2003 server and I mainly signed up because they are cheap and, at the time I wasn’t running any databases for the two domains on this server. TooHipGottaGoGraphics.com is running on a different, Apache, server, mainly because at the time I started it I wanted to run a shopping cart and a message board. So, I’m running this theme over there at http://www.toohipgottagographics.com/WordPress for a few weeks to see if I get the same access errors on an Apache server. If not, and the errors continue over here, it will be time to find a new server for this website.

Sigh….