Now Seeking: Hamlet Colorist!
Greetings, culture lovers!
Some of you out there in the audience might remember a little while back when I was workin' on a graphic novelization of Billy Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece, Hamlet. My heart has been breaking in all the time it's been in hibernation, and now I'm ready to pick it up again.
However! I already have a lot on my plate with Dis and The Makeshift Man, and so to realistically get this third major project to happen, I'm gonna need some help. Therefore, I am now seeking to hire a colorist.
What is the project?
You've probably read Hamlet in school. If you haven't, you should do so now. If you have, you should do so again.
We'll be presenting an unabridged version, with every line of Bill's amazing dialogue preserved...but we'll be necessarily embellishing it a bit, visually.
We'll be operating at the rate of one page per week. I'll handle the adaptation from the script, the linework, the lettering, and the general direction. You'll be giving it life in the form of color.
What will be required?
I'm looking to work with a serious-minded upcoming talent. The job will require a blend of technical skill and personal groovitude. Sometimes I'll have very specific instructions, so I'll need to be able to trust that you'll bother to read through them. Sometimes I'll ask you to work with less direction, so I'll need to be able to trust that you can take initiative, ask questions when you need to, but not need me to hold your hand for every line.
Remember that this is Hamlet, and you'll be expected to work on scenes of incredible unpleasantness, so this job might not be for the squeamish. There's sex and violence and all manner of wickedness goin' on.
I'll be contracting by scene, and they'll average a minimum of twenty pages in length. Please be prepared, therefore, to work for at least a period of several months.
For your wonderful talent and time, I am prepared to offer US $20 per page, to be steadily paid weekly or monthly or in-between.
More specific details may be discussed with serious applicants, more privately.
Wanna try out?
If you're interested in coloring for me, please take a shot with a test page! I have this same simple splash page of our title character, both as pencils and with ink, for you to color. I have no particular visual style in mind for the method in which you color; you should work the way you're at your best and most comfortable. You can be sharp or loose; crisp or painterly...whatever! Work on the pencil page and-slash-or the ink one, however you think you'd handle the actual pages.
Hamlet is, of course, set in Denmark...but as a kingdom of crumbling, decaying glamor. The characters should feel more like a family of wealthy crime lords than actual royalty. Outrageous music video fashion and practiced disaffection mask turbulent emotions, sordid deeds, and desperate affairs. Take it for granted that everyone is on cocaine...like, all the time. You should be prepared for funny hairstyles, Gothic architecture, and Modernist furniture.
The overall project color theme is red versus green, on a field of black. There's gonna be dramatic lighting, and some special effects.
Here is a character design concept piece I popped together:
You can also check out the art from the previous comic version. I apologize to your eyes in advance for my wonky old drawings.
Audition pages:
Specific directions:
It's late night, maybe 2am. Hamlet sits underneath a stark overhead light...likely a standard bulb in some kind of hanging Modernist lighting fixture. He is, naturally, wearing his customary suits of solemn black. He's sitting in a fancy designer chair, plastic and chrome. To his left (our right) is an outside window, Gothic paned glass. To his right (our left) is a mirror. (I have no thoughts on the rest of the room that would be seen reflected here; make somethin' up.) On the wall behind him is hanging the Danish flag. I'd like it to be a fight between the red of Old Denmark and the green of Claudius, with one dripping down over the other, like blood or some kind of gross decaying ooze...I'll let you pick which one. Changes the concept of the piece completely, of course, but this is just a test splash, so either one will suit our immediate purposes as well as the other, right?
If you're feelin' particularly ambitious, you can add some special effects and do something with the glowing red ectoplasm of Hammy's ghostly father, as though Ham is or has been having a conversation here with him.
If you have any questions, you are of course more than free to ask me at any time. I will make an announcement when a suitable colorist is chosen. Otherwise, there is no time limit.
Hope to go into business with you soon, O Thou Mine Unknown Partner!
.
Some of you out there in the audience might remember a little while back when I was workin' on a graphic novelization of Billy Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece, Hamlet. My heart has been breaking in all the time it's been in hibernation, and now I'm ready to pick it up again.
However! I already have a lot on my plate with Dis and The Makeshift Man, and so to realistically get this third major project to happen, I'm gonna need some help. Therefore, I am now seeking to hire a colorist.
What is the project?
You've probably read Hamlet in school. If you haven't, you should do so now. If you have, you should do so again.
We'll be presenting an unabridged version, with every line of Bill's amazing dialogue preserved...but we'll be necessarily embellishing it a bit, visually.
We'll be operating at the rate of one page per week. I'll handle the adaptation from the script, the linework, the lettering, and the general direction. You'll be giving it life in the form of color.
What will be required?
I'm looking to work with a serious-minded upcoming talent. The job will require a blend of technical skill and personal groovitude. Sometimes I'll have very specific instructions, so I'll need to be able to trust that you'll bother to read through them. Sometimes I'll ask you to work with less direction, so I'll need to be able to trust that you can take initiative, ask questions when you need to, but not need me to hold your hand for every line.
Remember that this is Hamlet, and you'll be expected to work on scenes of incredible unpleasantness, so this job might not be for the squeamish. There's sex and violence and all manner of wickedness goin' on.
I'll be contracting by scene, and they'll average a minimum of twenty pages in length. Please be prepared, therefore, to work for at least a period of several months.
For your wonderful talent and time, I am prepared to offer US $20 per page, to be steadily paid weekly or monthly or in-between.
More specific details may be discussed with serious applicants, more privately.
Wanna try out?
If you're interested in coloring for me, please take a shot with a test page! I have this same simple splash page of our title character, both as pencils and with ink, for you to color. I have no particular visual style in mind for the method in which you color; you should work the way you're at your best and most comfortable. You can be sharp or loose; crisp or painterly...whatever! Work on the pencil page and-slash-or the ink one, however you think you'd handle the actual pages.
Hamlet is, of course, set in Denmark...but as a kingdom of crumbling, decaying glamor. The characters should feel more like a family of wealthy crime lords than actual royalty. Outrageous music video fashion and practiced disaffection mask turbulent emotions, sordid deeds, and desperate affairs. Take it for granted that everyone is on cocaine...like, all the time. You should be prepared for funny hairstyles, Gothic architecture, and Modernist furniture.
The overall project color theme is red versus green, on a field of black. There's gonna be dramatic lighting, and some special effects.
Here is a character design concept piece I popped together:
You can also check out the art from the previous comic version. I apologize to your eyes in advance for my wonky old drawings.
Audition pages:
Specific directions:
It's late night, maybe 2am. Hamlet sits underneath a stark overhead light...likely a standard bulb in some kind of hanging Modernist lighting fixture. He is, naturally, wearing his customary suits of solemn black. He's sitting in a fancy designer chair, plastic and chrome. To his left (our right) is an outside window, Gothic paned glass. To his right (our left) is a mirror. (I have no thoughts on the rest of the room that would be seen reflected here; make somethin' up.) On the wall behind him is hanging the Danish flag. I'd like it to be a fight between the red of Old Denmark and the green of Claudius, with one dripping down over the other, like blood or some kind of gross decaying ooze...I'll let you pick which one. Changes the concept of the piece completely, of course, but this is just a test splash, so either one will suit our immediate purposes as well as the other, right?
If you're feelin' particularly ambitious, you can add some special effects and do something with the glowing red ectoplasm of Hammy's ghostly father, as though Ham is or has been having a conversation here with him.
If you have any questions, you are of course more than free to ask me at any time. I will make an announcement when a suitable colorist is chosen. Otherwise, there is no time limit.
Hope to go into business with you soon, O Thou Mine Unknown Partner!
.