tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42027633038891602662024-03-13T08:00:10.142+08:00Fanty and Mingo's - a touch of classThis where I talk about stuff I'm interested in.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-83822589024729081462013-12-25T14:55:00.004+08:002013-12-25T14:55:45.995+08:00The Coker CoOp is now LiveAfter a year away from the blog, I finally have something worthwhile to share! <br /><br />Shof, Funlola and I have started a little operation of sorts, called <a href="http://www.cokercoop.com/" target="_blank">Coker CoOp</a>. I hesitate to use the word "company" right now, at the moment it's basically a place where we can focus our collaborative efforts, talk about our process and let folks know what we're working on. Stuff like comics, videogames, statues, jewelry etc based on the ideas that we've come up (including stuff from the Jonahverse) with will go up there. <br /><br />Some of the stuff will be free, and some of it for sale eventually. It's the biggest and most ambitious thing we've worked on yet, and it's still in its infancy, but we've got grand plans and we sure hope you'll come along for the ride :)<br /><br />Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cokercoop">facebook.com/cokercoop</a><br />Google+ Page: <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Cokercooppage">google.com/+cokercooppage</a><br />
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<br />Oh! And Merry Christmas to you all ;)Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-7231024334720914542012-12-07T19:38:00.000+08:002012-12-07T19:38:11.300+08:00Time to do some world-building<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of months ago <a href="http://www.shofcoker.com/2012/08/ekologue.html" target="_blank">Shof put up a blog post</a> with a sample of some concept art he'd created for a TV show called <i>Ekologue</i> that we pitched to an African TV network. We worked on a show bible, and had been discussing ideas for the first season. For a while it looked like things might take off, but in the end the project never really got off the ground (there's still some hope though).<br />
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Lately I've been thinking I might go back and expand the bible, maybe flesh out the first season's story arc a little more and flesh out the characters. If the show never gets backing for traditional TV, who knows, perhaps we could look at broadcasting on the 'Net? I've been thinking about drawing from videogames for inspiration, things like Minecraft, Dishonored and a few others.<br /><br />Should be a fun time, if you'd like to see more of Ekologue, I recommend having a gander at <a href="http://www.shofcoker.com/2012/08/ekologue.html" target="_blank">Shof's blog post</a>.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-14701314470639647692011-08-21T01:09:00.000+08:002011-08-21T01:09:14.387+08:00It's strange...Arsenal just lost at home to Liverpool for the first time in over a decade, my team is probably the most vulnerable it's been in 15 years. It's been a long, long week, and yet I feel pretty darn pleased with myself right now. G'night everyone :)<br />
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Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-36122224660951115622011-07-25T15:21:00.000+08:002011-07-25T15:21:53.770+08:00Light, Sweet CrudeFor about a year and a half now I've been working with <a href="http://www.kennethcoker.com/">Shof</a> and a mutual friend named <a href="http://cfarnold.com/">Chris Feliciano Arnold</a> on a new comic adaptation, a political thriller called <a href="http://sweetcrude.blogspot.com/">Light, Sweet Crude</a>. Last week we were able to get the first 8 pages together and show the comic off at Comic Con (by we, I mean Shof and Chris, I stayed put in Manila).<br />
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If you'd like to have a closer look and flip through the first 8 pages, you can <a href="http://sweetcrude.blogspot.com/">do so here</a>. Chris wrote the story and script, adapted from a short story he wrote and got published in Playboy in 2009. Shof did all the art, and I'm doing consultation on the project.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-31228635808043523172011-06-12T23:23:00.001+08:002011-06-13T14:49:04.658+08:00I discovered today...... that you get to a certain age, and wearing a baseball cap backwards just looks wrong.<br />
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I do it anyway.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-74618316472363272302011-06-12T01:58:00.000+08:002011-06-12T01:58:05.141+08:00That time of year again...... now I get to start watching Star Trek: TNG over from season 1. It's been about a year since I've gone through the show in sequence and I'm so excited!Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-44619967323403257492011-06-06T19:22:00.000+08:002011-06-06T19:22:02.426+08:00I wonder whether...I was looking around my apartment today at my action figures (Superman, The Thing, Asterix, Obelix, Conan), and I had to wonder whether a girl walking in and seeing them littered about experienced the female equivalent of what I do when I walk into a girls room and see Cabbage Patch Dolls and My Little Pony's adorning the landscape.<br />
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Still, they don't make My Little Pony's as <i>awesome</i> as <a href="http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=9013901&ref=home&new&preorder">this</a>, do they!? Someone HOLD ME!<br />
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</div>There's a <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/03/paramount-plans-to-launch-star-trek-console-game-in-2012/">new Star Trek game</a> in production,this news makes me so very happy. Now pleaaaaaaaaase be a good game. We<i> deserve</i> it.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-58095331233739492212011-06-03T21:13:00.000+08:002011-06-03T21:13:00.717+08:00How to build your own gaming PC, by EurogamerFor anyone who builds (or has ever tried) to build their own gaming PC, I present this amazing piece of work from Eurogamer on the subject.<br />
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<blockquote>Look, your consoles play games just fine. Some of them do other things as well, like streaming movies or facilitating identity theft. You don't need a gaming PC.</blockquote><blockquote>1. Should you do this?<br />
Probably not. It's sort of complicated. Take this questionnaire.<br />
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Do you know how a computer works?<br />
A. Yes. The hard drive is for long-term storage, RAM is for short-term data, and they both connect to a motherboard, which... [You continue to recite an accurate outline of a computer's workings even though I have obviously stopped listening.]<br />
B. Yes. I type the thing into the Google, and my internet goes to the thing.<br />
C. Yes. I push the lever down, and a few minutes later, my potato waffles are done.<br />
For those who answered anything other than "A," put down the hammer and nails - you are not going to be building a PC today. The fact that you thought you'd be using a hammer and nails should have been a red flag. </blockquote>Read the rest <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-20-how-to-build-your-own-gaming-pc-article">here</a>, seriously, it'll put a smile on your face.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-31593537358634590872011-06-01T00:01:00.000+08:002011-06-01T00:01:46.739+08:00Much ablog about nothing.For the past few weeks I've been feeling increasingly frustrated. I want to blog, but I can't figure out <i>what</i> to blog about. Everything seems so downright trivial! Well, not to me, to me it's actually important, but if I were not me and I was reading about the things the real me isn't blogging about, I'm pretty sure they'd be trivial. <div><br />
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</div><div>Enough! Let's get to the good stuff. Some time back I promised that I'd write about the process of creating <a href="http://nigerianatlarge.blogspot.com/2010/11/visions-of-gods.html">a web comic</a> I've been working on, the page below has actually been done for a few months but I'm only now getting around to posting it. I've got a new computer set up here in the Philippines and will at last be getting back to the project. This is actually a page from a third of the way into the book - I decided to start on page 11 you see. There's no text yet (apart from a font style test in the first panel), I hope to post more over the coming weekend.</div><div><br />
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</div>Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-90587583091947624632011-04-25T19:07:00.000+08:002011-04-25T19:07:37.316+08:00Ice Cream and MarshmallowsYou know those task lists you create in MS Word, or Zimbra, or Outlook that track what it is you're currently working on in the office? Well mine just blew right past comically long. I need to get a handle on things.<br />
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At present work is moving a mile a minute. Sure, I complain, but I'm not sure I'd have it any other way at the moment. Besides, I'm still trying to prove to myself I can actually <i>do</i> this, actually wrap my head around properly managing and organizing what needs to be er, managed and organized. It'll pay off personally and professionally. Maybe<br />
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I was thinking last week that I need to start writing a journal, mainly because I hardly ever blog about anything deeply personal here. And lets be honest, in a hundred years when I long gone people are gonna want, nay, <i>need</i> to know how I spent my valuable lying around time.<br />
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I discovered ice cream with marshmallows in it last week. I've had 3 and a half TUBS of the stuff this week. That can't be good.<br />
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I've also been meaning to start writing a series of posts about roMANce Movies for Guys (non-working title), but for one reason or another I haven't got around it to it. My list so far reads thus:<br />
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<ul><li>Karate Kid II (stop snickering in the back)</li>
<li>Solaris (the 2002 Soderbergh flick)</li>
<li>The Fountain</li>
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Oh hey! I had a haircut this weekend (in hopeful anticipation of the resurrection of my estranged dating life). This news is in and of itself not really significant except that it was a "proper" haircut performed by a professional, and not one that was self inflicted. All told I think it went well... except that my barber, a friendly man by the name of Mr Ed (<i>I kid you not!</i>) took to cleaning up the fringes of my haircut with a straight edge, and my poor delicate skin just does not take kindly to the touch of the blade.<br />
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Finally, I recently started watching the TV show Frasier, frankly, it's brilliant. I'd caught an episode here and there in the past, but never really kept track of things.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-63379302951634792042011-03-22T22:59:00.000+08:002011-03-22T22:59:41.924+08:00The Tale of TagaytayCome, gather 'round people wherever you, roam for a tale of Tagaytay I have to tell.<br />
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It's not often I'm caught entirely by surprise, as such it's a rare treat I tend to relish. So far it's happened twice already in 2011, once when my dear brother bestowed upon me the magic of PlayStation, and then again last weekend when a dear friend sprung heinous trap.<br />
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Saturday, March 19th. Mabie had talked me into coming with her to play the bongos this weekend (don't ask), it sounded like fun, so I agreed. First Mistake.<br />
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Second Mistake? Not bailing as soon as I sensed something was up. We met at a little coffee shop in the mall at around 3pm and were there till 5pm. A little late I thought, but maybe the bongo festivities start at night?<br />
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Third Mistake? Getting into the car with Will and Bryan, Mabie's co-conspirators. As soon as we hit the highway, Will said "so wants to break the news?" Cue ominous laughter. If you've ever seen the scene in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Boys_(film)">The Lost Boys</a> where Keifer Sutherland takes Jason Patric's character out for a night time ride on the train tracks, you probably have a good idea how I felt.<br />
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In the end? We made our way to the mountaintop town of Tagaytay, where one of Mabie's friends was having a birthday bash for friends and one gate crashing Nigerian. Fresh air, lots of food, lots of booze, and some good conversation capped off a truly fun night, as you can see from the pics below. Also, I got a bushel of fresh lettuce to take home :) Did I mention the party took place at a lettuce farm?<br />
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So.. thanks Mabie. Watch your back.<br />
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For some this means nothing, but to me it's been a major change, one that's difficult to adjust to after more than a decade and a half of doing things the other way round. Commands I once performed using muscle memory alone have become labored exercises forcing me to stop-think-execute. It would be great to be able to carry this philosophy into my day to day. As Obadiah Stane put it, "no more of this ready, fire, aim nonsense".<br />
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I'm stealing time out from my lunch hour to post, I must confess I really feel like firing up my PS3 (brand new, courtesy of the bro) to play some Mass Effect 2, but I think I'll settle for preparing a ham sandwich and some music.<br />
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PS. Is the background of my blog a tiled image of a frog for anyone else?Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-29045361736210431922010-11-24T02:11:00.000+08:002010-11-24T02:11:23.170+08:00The Magic of Moonlighting<i>Moonlighting</i> is an amazing show. A fast talking, pre-<i>Die Hard</i> Bruce Willis, a gorgeous post-<i>Last Picture Show</i> Cybill Shepherd, both engaging in private eye hijinks backed by awesome 80's music and a fist full o' cheese.<br />
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I loved the show as a kid, but I haven't really been able to watch reruns since then as pretty much no one seems interested in syndicating it (surprising since Bruce Willis was the male lead and the show was a hit at the time).<br />
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Anyway, I recently managed to pick up all five seasons on Amazon for under $50, and am quickly making my way through seasons 1 and 2, loving every minute of it.<br />
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What I hadn't realised back then was just how tight the writing on the show was, sure the cases don't really matter, but they're always interesting, and are almost always great ways to put Maddie and David in unexpected situations.<br />
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Willis' comic timing in particular is excellent, and I truly wish more directors would cast him in comedic roles, the <i>Fifth Element</i> was a great showcase, but see the criminally forgotten and underrated <i>Hudson Hawk</i> if you don't believe the man has an eye for comedy.<br />
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Now, on to dinner.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-4311797101573358722010-11-21T23:17:00.000+08:002010-11-21T23:36:05.462+08:00Visions of the Gods.I'm not entirely sure when this became an "art only" blog, it was never intended as such, it's always been my intention to write about the things that interest me day in and day out, so I'm going back to that.<br />
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That said, this new post is in fact, art related.<br />
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A little while back I decided that if I wanted to finish a project I've been thinking about for the past 12 years, then I'd have to actually start working on it (shock, awe). As such I've recently started work again on a project that I've called, for a long time now, <i>Visions of the Gods</i>, a name which barely seems appropriate these days as the story and tone have changed quite a bit, but a name which I'll probably end up keeping just because I'm too lazy to think of anything else.<br />
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<i>Visions of the Gods</i> or <i>"Visions"</i> for short, started out as something of an African take on <i>Lord of the Rings</i>, of course, this was before I decided I wasn't smart enough to attempt that. Over the years <i>Visions</i> has changed multiple times as I tried to figure out what sort of representation African comics and Nigerian comics needed.<br />
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There was a lot of stopping and starting along the way, and I've finally come to the decision that instead of working on what I thought was needed, I should just work the way I wanted (what a novel idea!). The result is hopefully something that mixes pulp and whimsy in equal measure, my two favorite things you see, I'm also hoping to make it an ongoing web series, posting pages sporadically as I finish them.<br />
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I've got an old script from about 2 or 3 years ago that I'm using as a spine, but I'm kind of winging it, and I'm trying to enjoy the process and learn from it.<br />
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From this point on, I'm going to be posting as much as I can about the process of writing and drawing <i>Visions</i>, in an attempt to chronicle the difficulty of creating a comic for any other artists struggling with similar endeavours. I'll also be talking about the decisions I make with my art and writing, why I make them, and it'll hopefully also be a cool little visual log of how my art changes over the course of the project.<br />
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Here's a panel from the page I'm currently working on.<br />
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As a bonus, it's even tricked out in green, white and green! Be sure to check out <a href="http://www.kennethcoker.com/2010/09/happy-50th.html">Shof's blog</a>, he's got another wallpaper he put together to commemorate today :)Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-12379736865615480862010-09-01T02:49:00.000+08:002010-09-01T02:49:38.462+08:00A mural for GreenspringsGreensprings, for those that don't know, is my old high school. I have fond memories of Greensprings, mostly involving games of frantic football in the classrooms... with <i>Fashionable Fashionate's</i> bunched up socks...<br />
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Anyway, a couple of weeks back, my dad was asked to do a mural for a brand new kids library in the schools currently-under-construction new wing, and I took a stab at designing it myself, here's what I came up with.<br />
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The whole piece -<br />
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It was an interesting experience because I had to take into account things like windows, corners and furniture which will be present in the physical location. I'm not painting the mural on the wall myself, but I'll post pictures of the end product once everything's done.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-15897192910308807872010-08-19T08:47:00.000+08:002010-08-19T08:47:50.998+08:00The thing about blogs...is that the longer you leave them alone, the less likely you're ever to return to them. Shocking, I know.<br />
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What you see here are a pair of renders based on a design I worked on for my dad. We're building a children's library in a new school here in Lagos, and we thought it would be cool if the library had a really impressive Vernesque centerpiece that the kids could go up into and read for a bit. Hey! How about a bathysphere coming to rest in a docking station at some underwater city?<br />
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Construction is gearing up on the room, the bathysphere itself is going to be made out of fiberglass and wood, and the four walls and ceiling of the room are going to be fully painted so that the kids can "see outside" and have a great view of giant squid, schools of fish, a coral reef, and a massive city in the distance. At least that's the plan.Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-26065946080244123572010-04-28T16:22:00.000+08:002010-04-28T16:22:59.146+08:00Jupiter Jonah Script 1 is done!Not that it needed an announcement or anything, and there have been <a href="http://nigerianatlarge.blogspot.com/2008/01/script-for-jupiter-jonah-is-finished.html">false dawns</a> before, but this time, for real, the script is finally done.<br />
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Now we wait for Shof to have the time to start on some layouts, (not rushing you Shof).<br />
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In other news I've been working with Yegwa Ukpo at Spaceboy Nigeria on some other comic related projects. I don't know how much I can talk about or show right now, so I'll just point you in <a href="http://spaceboynigeria.com/2010/04/13/character-design-from-third-comic-book-monster-boy/">this direction</a>, and <a href="http://spaceboynigeria.com/2010/04/13/preview-of-panel-from-new-africa-benson-series/">this one</a>.<br />
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Lastly, I'm thinking of picking up an old project from a couple of years ago that I put aside based on the mythology of Nigerian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisha">Orishas</a>. I had done some <a href="http://nigerianatlarge.blogspot.com/2008/01/two-more-tests.html">preliminary</a> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ms8VREzMkjM/RxvX1hi7zSI/AAAAAAAAACU/P6-oHfKWjlE/s1600-h/Practice-page2.jpg">work</a> on the project with a friend, Bolaji Alausa a few years back, but it didn't really come to anything. I think now might be the right time to pick it up again and finish the project myself.<br />
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I think the script might need a polish though...Shobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810015232159896480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202763303889160266.post-21962431832769132012010-03-06T05:24:00.000+08:002010-03-06T05:24:31.866+08:00Two more Jonah wallpapersI think these ones are nicer, I have my method down better and it shows (I hope). Once again, if you'd like to see some of 3D models I used in these, check out <a href="http://www.kennethcoker.com/search/label/Jupiter%20Jonah">my brother's work on Jonah</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kennethcoker.com/2009/12/jonah-lives.html">Shof created</a> the 3D model for this a while back, and I worked on the graphics for the poster but wasn't satisfied, after some tweaking though I'm finally happy enough to put this up. I've made it in three different sizes:<br />
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There are (I think) two more murals to go up on the opposite side of the building. Obviously the building isn't quite done yet, but here are some better views of the murals:<br />
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This latest post covers the last 30 or so of the designs I did for the mysterious client known only as... Embroidery99!<br />
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What I have here are is a failed page from Jupiter Jonah. After working on this on and off for a while I decided it just wasn't coming together. The process was far too involved and laborious, and I went from being excited about it to quickly realising it was a major pain. I started over using a more traditional pen and ink approach on paper, then scanning that in and coloring and I think that's what I'm going to stick with.<br />
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Below you'll find the initial sketch of the failed page, and failed page itself. Stupid failed page.<br />
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The news of the day is that Jonah isn't really my main focus at the moment, as I'm working on something with another Nigerian creator, hopefully, sooner rather than later I'll be able to share, but in the mean time; <br />
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