Comics!

Unsurprisingly, I changed my mind regarding the story that I am going to try and write for the BAD TSA anthology.  However!  My new idea (actually my first idea, believe it or not!) is pretty well set up, and today I took what I think of as a pretty big step forwards; I thumbnailed out the whole thing.  So far it's coming out to six pages, which is good for me, although I might want to consider stuff like an opening page.... or where to put the title...or if I'm even going to include a title, which I probably should, all things considered.

All that being said... I probably shouldn't have thumbnailed the whole thing with sharpie.  The fumes might be...getting to me...

BAD TSA anthology

I've been thinking pretty hard about this; I really want to put in a story, but I've only got two story ideas and one has no resolution.  I think I'm probably going to go with the short story in my Doctor Oddity universe, considering that I've really wanted to get something out of that universe for a while now, and it'd be good practice.   That being said... it has no resolution, so now I'm stuck with an idea and some character designs.

Pardon the bad cell phone photo.

Two nameless nerds, potential characters for the short comic.

The basic idea would be about Doctor Oddity AKA Audrey, a reformed supervillain who's been kicking around in my head for some years now.  I always figured she'd have a small cult of dedicated fans (you'd have to if your crowning achievement as a supervillain was filling the white house with green jello on a dare) and also figured there would be endless hilarity if she ever had to meet her fans.  That's the springboard for my comic idea; Audrey meeting a couple of her fans.  I just have no idea how I'm going to resolve it.

Well, I've got a little time, at least.  Back to the drawing board...

I am really bad at updating this thing!

I've been doing a whole lot of random stuff, though sadly not much to do with drawing lately.  Most of the drawing I've managed to do has been relegated to doodles in the margins of my history notes.  But the other night I did some doodling; a poster for a story I have in my head, an experimental panel for a comic that I someday should write, and a fan doodle since Legend of Korra came out and has been gently gnawing on my brain since I first saw it.  

 This is the poster - I need to ink it.  I think it'll look significantly better when it's not just reds and pencils, but then again, I'm not super good at inking either.  Ah, well.

 This is the theoretical panel for my theoretical comic - needs work, and lots of it.  Perspective?  Who needs it, amirite?   (artists.  artists need it.  bollocks.)

And of course Admiral Zhao versus Tarrlok.  Borne of the fact that there's something about Tarrlok that makes me think of insidious evil, and Zhao was the first season antagonist that everyone loved to hate.  Admiral Zhao is kind of my favorite, not gonna lie.  He's such a dick.  

That's it for now!  I'm not dead!  Yaaay!

true story.

Emerald City, You Are Wonderful

So for spring break, I've hopped right on up to Seattle.  Just in time for the Emerald City Comicon, in fact!  It's been a fun time; I'm staying with a very good friend and her family.  It's been all cooking and geeking out and talking video games and watching movies, and it's been fantastic.  I made bread animals!

A bread mouse, for your entertainment. 

We did go to the convention later, a couple days after I flew in.  It just so happened that, a little bit before the Comicon, there was a ceramics convention as well!  Exciting for me, having played around quite a bit with ceramics.  We went through a couple of the exhibitions in the convention center and enjoyed some art; and then we went upstairs and enjoyed significantly more nerdy art.  

I'm a little sad, because a couple of exhibitors that I wanted to see only went to Wondercon, but I did get to do some awesome things and I have grabbed some sweet con-swag, so over all I'm pretty happy.  

I met Yuko Ota, of Johnny Wander fame, and she drew me an awesome squid/dragon/eel.  It's magical!

I also got the first volume of their comic, and she drew this for me, which is amazing as well: 

All of my happies, you guys.  Every single happy. 

I also managed to find this;

My aloha girl! I’ve wanted one of these babies since I found out they existed; I’m a little sad cuz they had the red dress version when I first stopped by, but I didn’t have the moolah. So I went on an ATM adventure and by the time I got back, red dress had sold. Later on it was pointed out to me that getting the blue dress was kind of like taking the paragon option (if buying con goodies is like conversation trees in Mass Effect, at least), though, so that’s cool.

And honestly I’ll buy almost anything Chris Sanders, so it’s all good.

My feet are tired, but I am quite happy!  I think I'll make the attempt to hit the ECC again next year, too. 

Photoshop beta!

Adobe has released the photoshop beta for free!  This is awesome for now, because it means I get to muck about with photoshop without paying for it yet.  I'll take that, even with any miscellaneous bugs that might crop up.  Yesss.

I shall now paste the things I've doodled; if anyone has any critique, please send it on over!  I know I need a lot of work.  Adobe's not my medium of choice, so it's kind of like slogging through jam trying to get my art to look good in it.  Any suggestions are welcome.

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite drawing on the blog...

So I've been playing Mass Effect 3, which, for me, means mucking about and painting aliens.  I have more doodles (most of them in my notes for history class...oops) that I've yet to scan in, but here's the first in what I'm sure will be a wave of monstrous and/or stupid creatures.  Yay!