Matt Kindt, Brian Hurtt, & Marie Enger present The HEK TREASURY: a deluxe hardcover collection of ALL NEW sci-fi/fantasy themed stories
Latest Updates from Our Project:
More Stretch Goals?!
over 5 years ago
– Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 11:12:31 AM
We are VERY close to reaching our next stretch goal which will add TEN pages of new story to this book! So now we're scratching our heads about future stretch goals. With only 12 days left in the campaign we may only have room for a few more! We have a few ideas (including more story content) but we wanted to throw it out to you--what would you like to see?
A couple of ideas we are playing with:
1) three new prints, one by each of us, done in the style of a vinyl (45 record) cover. Each would be an homage album cover themed to our individual stories.
2) miniature dioramas--little objet d'arts that you can set on your comic shelves. One by each of us and each, again, themed to our individual stories. Assembly required!
What are your thoughts? Do any of these tickle your fancy? Do you have something else you'd rather see? Put on your thinking caps! We would genuinely love to hear from you!
As always, thanks so much for your support! And have a great Labor Day weekend!
Best,
HEK Studio
Trial and Error
over 5 years ago
– Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 08:17:58 AM
At the core of this project has always been this idea that we would experiment and try different approaches to both art and story. Following this principle means that no matter what the end result is, we come away having learned something new--something we would not have learned had we never pushed ourselves to try new things. Sometimes what we learn is dramatic, but most the time it's a subtle lesson. And all these subtle lessons stack over time and add up to "experience".
To that end, I decided to try a slightly different approach to the art on one of my stories to mixed results. I wanted to try to ink with a sketchbook-like immediacy and then use an ink wash to give the final art a more organic feel. The end result was... fine. But I wasn't happy with the final results. It's an approach that I will definitely take another stab at but it wasn't working for me on this particular story (I'm already applying some lessons learned to another story in the collection). SO, I ended up doing something that is pretty rare for me and that was to redraw the page. Once I made the decision to take another crack at it, I also decided to rethink the layout and pacing. I'm much happier with the newer version but I have no regrets about having gone a different way originally. It was just one page, but I yielded many lessons!
Revised Page 01
Original Page 01
Bigger IS Better!
over 5 years ago
– Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 08:03:47 AM
We're within striking difference of our second stretch goal--an additional 10 more pages of content! As always, any help in boosting the signal would be appreciated! If so inclined, please share the KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ohhek/hek-treasury/ The more successful the campaign is, the more impressive the final book will be!
Also, let me share a time-lapse vid with you! This is a work-in-progress page from a story that Matt and I are collaborating on for this collection. I can't wait to see his watercolors on this!
