My bird, Baby, has gone crazy with the Spring Fever. She is laying eggs, attacking passers by, and generally being insane.
Poor Baby.
Poor, poor baby-less Baby bird.
Posts tagged drawing
Email from my sofa
So…remember when I said I’d be updating all my comics (that’s three + the drawing board, so four technically) once a week? I suppose you noticed that I failed big time on that goal this month. I have been away from my sofa, the place where I do all my drawings, sitting cross legged with a stack of sketchbooks on my lap and NCIS playing on the TV. Instead, I have been spreading the good message of longer resource sharing due dates. And yeah, I know that makes no sense to people not in the business. But I gave 1/3 of a presentation at an international conference! I manned poster session at another conference! I made great improvements to my resume! I’ve been traveling way too much!
But enough excuses! This past weekend I was able to spend some quality time with my sofa. I have finished the first chapter of No Evil. I will scan this and get it running here for your pleasure and then I will concoct the next chapter with the story telling help of doomedmoviethon Richard. I have made great headway on the story of Ramone, Joy, and Gee (that’s Flip Side to you) as well as Levi Levi (which is also winding up a chapter). They will be back in force. And I finished a sketchbook. That means that I’ve got a whole bunch of newly scanned artwork just dying to worm it’s way into your eyeballs. Are you ready for all of this? Well?
Fairytale news
So, did you hear? Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany | Books | guardian.co.uk. And I was only hoping that they’d been found earlier. They haven’t even been translated yet, but if they were, maybe I could’ve used one of them to create my fairy tale comic submission for gurukitty’s ‘Once upon a time anthology.‘ Ah well, I did something else. And if gurukitty doesn’t take it I will post it here for you guys to see. I liked the challenge.
Ocean End
I was flipping through an art book and was inspired to place my little island of Ocean End (from my Penelope Sea story) on turtle’s back. I’m trying to get myself jazzed about editing it. And, illustrating it, since I always wanted it to be heavy with pictures.
Mason and Clarence from Your Name Here
Urgh
originally in the running to be my site mascot. Urgh threw the race so Idge could win. They’re good friends.
New graphics tablet
Actually, my first graphics tablet. I’m really not used to digital painting or anything like that. I like pencils and pens. But I’m trying out new things. So here’s me playing around with a sketched out idea I had while writing Tattoo.
Cat doodle
Random Color
Penelope Sea
The first book I ever took a whack at, Penelope Sea and Ocean End, needs some massive editing. I think I am just getting into the mood for that too. This is Penelope.
Seamless patterns
A little while ago I was playing around with seamless patterns–the manual way. I had a few sketches hanging around in my folders and I finally got around to coloring this one today.
In case you didn’t know, the manual way of seamless patterns is to get yourself a square sheet of paper and draw on it. Fill it up to the edges as much as you can. Now cut your square into four squares and tape them back together so the top right square is on the bottom left, top left – bottom right, bottom right- top left and so on. Then draw again. Now scan.
The only problem I always run into is that I use cheap paper which inevitably warps and expands with the moisture of my hands while I’m drawing. Thus I have no really perfect seamless patterns. Shucks.
Year of the Dragon
Happy Year of the Dragon! I got all year to say it, so its ok that I’m late. 🙂
Doomed Moviethon Girl
Hey! Didja know the Doomed Moviethon girl is mine too? Or, er, mine and Richard’s. Only that I don’t draw her near as much as he would like me too. Yes, that is her with my cat, Sparkles.
If you didn’t know about Doomed Moviethon you should head over there and check it out. It is replete with fabulous reviews of sometimes horrible horror movies. Sometimes good ones too. All fabulous reviews, though.
Planning out the challenges
Dunno if you’ve noticed, but I like to commit to crazy creative challenges. I keep finding out about ones that have just passed without my knowlege (like hourly comics day). So in an attempt to miss as few as possible, I’m planning.
Inktober – an ink drawing a day throughout October: no pencils, no erasers.
24 hour comics day – registration open in June. This was a crazy day to get through the first time I did it, but I ended up drawing a story I probably would never have come up with otherwise.
NaNoWriMo – November writing challenge. I’ve signed up every year since I first heard about it in 2008. I have only won twice. There is something magical about having a quest, a goal, a crusade to throw yourself into the moment you get home from work.
Jason Turner Project or Page 100 – where you make a comic of the 100th page of a favorite book. I was so excited about this I rushed to my book room to grab one of my childhood favorites and realized that I’ll probably have to re-read the thing in order to get it right.
Allison Lehman’s 30 Day drawing challenge – I was looking around for more challenges and I found this. I like the list and the idea of compiling a challenge of one’s own. So the months outside of October and November are prime for this.
Random Sketch
This is an art site you know. I give you: Jackelope.
