Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
Oh yeah! Look at those mess-ups will ya!
Another night I was at a loss for what to draw (but feeling compelled to draw something). This time I was on the phone to my dad who suggested dogs and lawn mowers – with heavy references to his own dogs. His doberman does not have a tail. Don’t know what I was thinking.
I was having some trouble thinking of what I was going to draw for inktober. I mean, a theme isn’t required, but it’s nice, right? I’m not sure if I have a theme yet, but a month full of houses would be very useful later on.
Remember? I write At the Expense of the Listener too.
Hey, have ya heard about Jason Turner’s Page 100 Project, where in he, and other comic artists, illustrated page 100 of whatever book they liked/were reading? Sounds like something I’d like huh? So I did it too. Only my reading either wasn’t a story – like Mark Twain’s Christian Science, or it was junk food. I’ll keep these up as I go…..The Hundredth page 001.
Inktober is coming.
Flip Side is ending.
Levi Levi chapter one is ending.
Levi Levi and the Time Machine is coming.
24 hour comics day is coming.
Yes!
Hey, this is the first time I ever used the gallery feature. I’ve been drawing houses recently. I’m practicing on adding more backgrounds and got to thinking of creating my own file of clip art that I could mash together to make street locations and what not. Houses.
Inktober is coming – a month long celebration of artists drawing in ink. I’ve happily watched through a couple years of Jake Parker’s Inktobers and seen other artists I follow fall in line with brush and pen. This will be the first year I give it a try. No pencils, no erasers, just ink on paper, a drawing a day, all October long. Even on 24 hour comics Day October 20th. So keep your fingers crossed for me and check back. Check back everyday. 🙂
It must be all those Halloween decoration stores going up around town. The Drawing Board is Thinking of Halloween | The LeEMS Bean.
Have you ever noticed the hive-mind? You know, when you were just talking about some celebrity who’d been out of the news or some fictional character and suddenly the same name is mentioned on a talk show. When five different movies are released based on the same premise of a long dead volcano bringing catastrophe to the country as we know it. When your friends have just been saying that you should consider having a book made of your comics and then you read a news article about Print On Demand: Major Announcement Could Change How You Buy Books.
So instead of hiring a printing service where you are restricted to a batch no smaller than 50 at the cost of $200, there will be machines that you can take your print ready PDF to, or select a book from a list of available titles, and the machine will make a book for you. This is some cool news. I imagine it will be much easier than trying to exacto and glue bind your pages!
I said it was going to happen and now it is! My comic version of Grimm’s Wolf and 7 Kids, originally drawn as a submission to a fairy tale anthology, is posting on my site. Go read it!
I didn’t know what to draw one night so I asked my husband for advice. We were watching Keeping Up Appearances at the time during one of Onslo and Daisy’s morning in bed scenes, so he suggested I draw them young. This is it.
I have been officially silently unaccepted for the fairytale anthology. Maybe it was because I tried computer aided lettering for the first time, but I’m only guessing. But good for ya’ll ’cause now I’ll post the thing here. Starting with the art I submitted for the anthology cover.
