Done!

Done done done done.  There are things I could go back and change, if I was so inclined, but right now classes are clamoring for attention and I need to wade my way through chapter 1 in my nutrition textbook and write an essay due on Tuesday.  So even though there are improvements that could be made (there's always improvements that could be made), I'm happy to call this good enough.

Adventures in lefthandedness!

I'm fortunate enough to be friends with Mauvais, a great artist, fantastic model and an all-around lovely person.  I've attended a couple of her life drawing sessions recently, which was pretty awesome.  Unfortunately, as I'm having wrist problems, I spent approximately 50% of the time drawing with my left hand.  I did better than expected, but there's still no question that my right hand draws better.  

I think all of the below are labeled.  So, laugh away!  XD 

Welp I'm in the endgame with my comic pages for the BASA anthology (phew, finally!).  Everything's going pretty well, so I'm temporarily focusing on my writing.  However I did take a short break to make an ineptly dancing bean.

Go bean go!

A little video for y'all

Still working on my comics (it's super exciting and somewhat exhausting) but I figured I'd throw this out there because I am loving both this music and the animation in this video.  Keeps cracking me up.  Go go Goldfish!

plodding away

well, despite some wrist troubles I am still hammering away at the comic anthology story I've got.  Page by page.

(The aforementioned wrist troubles!  My wrist brace, which I've also taken to calling my exoskeleton...) 

My pages!  They're taking up the entirety of the coffee table (alack and alas I've no studio to work in, nor desk to sit at.  My poor roommates have to deal with art crap everywhere)  

Below are some rough pencils for a few panels, trying to get things blocked in and ready to be inked.

Having this comic anthology thing going on has also given me the proverbial kick in the ass to actually work on the comic that's been lurking in my brain since 2009.  I've been mucking about in my sketchbook trying to nail down character designs for other people in the comic, but I've also blocked out a page spread for the main character, a kind of vaguely propaganda-poster-ish piece of work.  

It's now currently inked, but I have no idea how I'm going to color it (aside from her lenses, which happen to be sharpie).  

I still feel like I've got a long ways to go before I'm really happy with my work, but at least stuff is getting worked on!  Better than my usual summer malaise where I do nothing. Work!  Enjoyable work!  What is this?!  

Thumbnails? Progress? What?

So I scanned in my thumbnailed comics and I'mma post them here because I'd love some advice...from anyone, really.  I wanted to see if the basic thumbnailed panels actually are somewhat legible.  They probably won't be, because of my sharpie-addled scribbles, but... oh well!

The skull creature is Tim the Monster, a character I've doodled around a few times.  Here's what he looks like when he's not a sharpie scribble, so you've got an idea of what he's supposed to look like...

and now, for the thumbnails!  Please, any critique would be rad amazing.  

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...