My Patreon Page!

Hi fellow browsers of the interweb...


Fed up with the lack of time I have to be creative, including the drawing of the comic book series Jar I'm working on, and my own graphic novel series The Void, I have taken to Patreon!

For those who don't know what Patreon is it's an excellent crowd funding website in the same vein as Kickstarter and GoFundMe but aimed strictly at creative people who are looking for help to get their projects underway, or wanting aid in the task of getting away from the day job they may be stuck in, and free up some time to be able to pursue their dreams of being creative full time, basically to try to avoid that age old stereotype of the struggling artist from coming true.
People become sponsors and donate amounts of money to the creators in return for one of several reward tiers, therefor helping said person get a little closer to their goals.
These reward tiers include various goodies you can receive such as having your name in an issue of a comic on the contributors thank you page, having pictures drawn for you of your favorite characters from film, tv or comics etc, or getting copies of the books for free once they reach print, and at the highest reward tier even helping to create a character within the story itself!

The main aim of my page is to try to get my Science Fiction/Fantasy graphic novel series underway and eventually completed, if  I can achieve that before I die I'll have reached my creative lifetime goal and will die a happy man!
I'm wanting to undertake a writing course to make sure the writing is as good as i can get it, possibly some life drawing courses to fine tune my anatomy skills. The long term aim will be to rent a studio to work in and get the funding to get the book written, drawn and published!

Please feel free to check out my page here - https://www.patreon.com/GJJaryas

It's been a while since I've had any reasonable amount of time to get any YouTube videos made, but hopefully there'll be one up soonish, I have been being creative as much as i can but it's mostly working on Jar getting the design of it all done, and lots of writing for The Void, which is shaping up into an excellent story, if I do say so myself! lol

Anyway, hope you all have a great week, here's to being even more creative in the future!

Catch you all soon!

Jar - Character Design Sketching - Bill

Hi, long time no post!

Well, you say you're going to start doing two YouTube videos a week... and then you do none for a month.
I hadn't planned on my day job work being quite as tiring as it was over the past few weeks, many days of full on hard labour with minimal time to recover, the kind of days you get home at 6 or 7pm and don't even  have the energy to half concentrate on a mindless TV program!

I have managed to get some writing done on my own graphic novel series and am very happy with the progress of that, but it's not at a stage to share so that will have to remain where it is for the moment.
And we're completed the layouts for the first issue of jar and are underway on the second issue, so progress is being made in multiple ways really!

But anyhow, I got through it all and am now in a slightly less physically demanding schedule so am making the most of it and getting some work done on the Jar comic book project when i have the time to.

Today I worked on one of the character designs, below is the final rough sketch which both myself and the writer of the series are quite happy with, so now it's onward to the next character, whilst I still have the time and energy to do so!

Take it easy people, if you can....