New Year, new sketches

Seth Stanley in some new guises

Hey folks,

I hope you all had a great festive break and a positive New Year, full of promise.

Before Christmas, I made the decision to move away from Think. Write.Ship for my publication branding and concentrate on finishing my Movie Deaths project. I have high hopes for Seth Stanley, and I want to pursue those instead of telling all of you writers out there how to suck eggs and continuing to peddle writing advice that you can probably find elsewhere and isn’t massively helpful anyway.

I do hope that’s not going to change anything between us - I’m still the same person, I’ve just shifted focus slightly. But if you decide this isn’t what you signed up for, that’s ok. We can be grown-ups about this. I’ll still say hi when I see you around.

For anyone planning to stick around, I’m excited to say I can see the finish line of the A-Z of Movie Deaths up ahead. Or certainly the illustrated part anyway.

I’ve left this section alone for the longest time, but I had some really good suggestions of characters to try out with Seth Stanley, and just like that, I have some fresh momentum again.

I’ve been sketching like mad, and knocking a few new ideas out this week. They’re unfinished, rough drafts, but I’d love to know what you think.

You might recognise S and T from my Movie Death advent calendar Notes in December.

All the rest are new. I can’t draw them sequentially, I have to go where the mood takes me, so Z is there, but for now, X and Y are not. Hopefully more on those next time.

S is for Stay Puft

T is for T-1000

U is for Ursula

V is for Vincent

W is for William

Let’s gloss over X and Y for now. I bet you can guess them though?

Z is for Zod

Please, please, please let me know how you think these are shaping up - and on a wider note, let me know if you’re enjoying the whole Movie Deaths thing. I’d love to know what more you’d like to see from the publication in 2025.

Once the A-Z is done, I’ll be focusing on dropping Seth Stanley into a more structured story - but still undecided what the format will be. One thing’s for sure, I know I can’t be the only person who wants to see what Seth Stanley gets up to next!

Til next time.

Johnson