Higgs Bison shirt featured on Redbubble

My Higgs Bison shirt is featured today on Redbubble's "Blinded by Science" page. (And selling like hotcakes! Four! Woot! <>)

Get one! (or another shirt) (by me) CLICK HERE!

Opinion Polls and Character Designs

On Facebook I did an opinion poll for a character design featuring two very different versions of a character. It was a landslide. The loser, however, was my favorite of the two.

It poses an interesting question. As we're trying to sell books in end, do I go with the popular choice, or the one I like? That's the point, right, for the book and the characters to be popular?

In this poll, the popular guy is the expected one. "He looks like what he supposed to be." It's part of why I like the one I do. He's different, outside of the normal sort of actor cast for the role. Also, he fits the physical rigors of the book. The popular one is big and lumbering, whereas the other is--what someone else labeled, and it's one of my favorite words so I can't help but agree--spry.

Spry is good. Here we arrive at another consideration with a character's design--the rest of the cast. The other characters are spry too. So spry and lean and everyone is spry and lean and there's no juxtaposition. A potential bore. Perhaps I adjust one of the other characters to be slow or lumbering. As a chase is the central of the book, this doesn't quite work out either.

As with all characters I design, I will know him when I see him. At the end of a pencil stroke there he will be, smiling at me.

This process, however, is fun and if not fun, at least interesting. Lots of pieces in putting a book together. Minutiae and nuances lurk in every part of the story and its mechanics. Lots of stuff to be sorted out, some of it questions you didn't know needed to be asked.

"You just draw it, right? You draw it and it's simple like that."

Not remotely, my friend. Not even remotely.

Redbubble Store Open

I've been a fan of Redbubble for a while now. It's been my go-to for tshirts. The shirts are American Apparel, which I totally dig. Also, the quality of the print is really good. All of those things considered, I decided it was time for me to put some work out there. (It's really easy to get started and add work. If it sounds like an advertisement, it sort of is. I want all of my favorite artists to post their work so I can have more sweet threads.)

I added three Halloweeny themed shirts this weekend, but there are several of my more popular prints on for order too.

I am having a blast. There is more to come.

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