LAST DAY!!!!

I'm busy pinstriping and adding flames and decorations.

Blogger is acting up so I'm not sure what I'm going to get to post...

FINAL DAY!!!!

Blogger is giving me crap, can't seem to upload anything. I'm working my way through the pages using the pen tool in Illustrator to outline my flames and pinstripes.

I pulled some screenshots to show you the desktop and my MO within Indesign/Illustrator. I'll have to post them later when Blogger starts to behave again.

I have some ideas for calligraphic brushes which I'll apply to the strokes and outlines as soon as I make my way through the pages.

Tedious, but I'm getting faster at laying down the kind of lines I'm looking for. I'll have more ideas on that later I think.

Two days left.

I'm setting myself a fairly relaxed workload for the weekend, because I'm burned out.

I've already marked out the flames and pinstripes on a new small scale print of the book taken from a near final pdf I generated yesterday. I'll scan this in today and tomorrow will be ready to go on with the final stage of decoration.

I've been having a blast with this project, its got everything I love. Racing cars and hell and the devil and flames and crashes, oh my.

More tomorrow...

And Alonso wiggles his ass in Schumachers face for the last fourteen laps of the Turkish Grand Prix. Woohoo! Take that you red bastardo!

Sorry about that unrestrained enthusiasm, but it was a great race. I was on the edge of my seat for the whole thing.

Brilliant.

PS Fuck Ferrari...

Heres another one, theres not too much to do on this one. Looking forward to getting started.

Playing around with the silver markers made me want to add a third color, but I'm going to resist because metallics are expensive to print and that wasn't part of my original plan. If someone else was paying for the printing I'd put it in, but they're not so I won't.

More tomorrow.

This is a scan of my pdf print with the pinstriping and flames drawn in with red and silver marker, all ready for illustrator and the final decoration phase (starting monday).

Fairly rough, I'll be more careful when I start to lay out the shapes to make it more graceful, trying to make it look like it was done with a sword brush.

Three days left.

I'm setting myself a fairly relaxed workload for the weekend, because I'm burned out. Anyway, this weekend is the Turkish Grand Prix, which I'm hugely looking forward to since its the first race back after F1's summer break.

I've already marked out the flames and pinstripes on a new small scale print of the book taken from a near final pdf I generated yesterday. I'll scan this in today and tomorrow and be ready to go on Monday morning with the final stage of decoration.

I've been having a blast with this project, its got everything I love. Racing cars and hell and the devil and flames and crashes, oh my.

More later, I'll post some of the scans to show you what I have in mind for the decoration.

Okay, thats all she wrote for now. Tonight I'll start to workout the flames etc, decoration and all that. The second and second last pages are a simulated dustjacket, which I like to do. Anything possible to make it seem as real as possible.

My girlfriend is going to help me edit over the weekend so hopefully everything will be finished on time early next week. Kind of happy, kicking back for a while, play some rounds of poker.

Okay, so thats it then. I have four days left to decorate, of which I'll take one day off. I'm working on the pinstriping now using pencil and markers on a small black and white print of the spreads.

Four days left.

I'm going through the final few tweeks on the images. Nearly everything is drawn. Now its time to decorate. Theres so much of this to do that I'm not sure how long this might take.

Anyway, thats neither here nor there. I'll be posting small images of all the unadorned pages later on.

More later...

Hopefully the last scan I'll have to do, I know I've just cursed myself on that btw.

Okay, with five days to go I'm starting later than I'd like today. Real work kind of got in the way.

I made a new list of everything that still needs to be drawn last night and its a lot shorter than the list I made on Monday, so progress is being made.

I'll post every page sans verses as soon as the last few are corrected, that should be the last step before the pinstriping begins.

More later.

Five days left.

I was so down on Monday when I put together my first list of corrections, it was huge and it seemed like it might take days. Long story short, its almost done, maybe about a day left adding one or two elements that I've consistantly forgotten throughout the process.

Once the major stuff is drawn I'll start to build myself a pinstripe library that I can place as I like on the pages.

I spent last evening going over a very small print out of the book with a red marker to indicate where the pinstripe is going to end up, I'm really looking forward to getting started on that as soon as I can.

More later, I hope.

This is a scan of a portion of a work sheet, one of my large scale prints. I just wanted to get the decoration kind of sketched in, so I used a silver marker to just do a quick sketch. The drawing at the bottom is my revised composition. This is the last page that hasn't in some way been locked down yet, its still very much in flux.

I'm trying to finish all the cars today along with all the devil's poses. I'll do Jimmy Boy tomorrow...fingers crossed.

Its coming up on 3 o'clock. I'm working on the charactar poses, just trying to knock some stuff off my list.

This is a pose thats been worked out on its own sheet.

More on that later.

Getting lots done. Its coming up on 1 o'clock and I'm just scanning and fixing.

The image is just a simple three step look at how I put together the charactar stuff. The only thing not included is the scan of the ink rough that was done.

This is my first attempt at pinstriping, its for the inside cover of the book.

Things are going better today, getting a lot done and its only 11am.

Six days left.

I had a really bad day yesterday. I made lists of corrections, finishes etc. It was horrible, theres just too much to do. I barely posted anything yesterday, there just wasn't much point. It was a couple of lines here and a fix there all day long. I gave up at about 5pm and went for a few games of Full Tilt, where I had about as much luck.

Anyway, I feel better today and have just decided to forget about the pinstriping for now. I need to get the book illustrated and then worry about the final layer of decoration.

So thats it, I have six days left, and then I'll start to work on pinstriping. Its just too delicate to learn in 28 days, and its kind of stuipid for me to believe that I could pick it up so quickly.

I'll post some of the early attempts at pinstriping later, but for now I have a few more corrections and additions to do.

More later.