Teenage mini comics

Busybusybusy!
Somehow, there are only about three weeks left in the quarter. Time flies!
Since I havent shared this yet, my first mini comic in my minicomics class was designed to be part of an anthology- around the theme "teenagers"
Here are my original pages (prior to being cleaned up in photoshop, with the exception of adjusting levels)

 

After this, I of course had to set it up in photoshop and print it.  The set up looked like this, and photoshop ate some of my pixels. Sigh.

 Definitely a learning experience- and loving every minute of it! (Aside from the printing/pixel problems)
Next time, Gonna be showing my character designs and some other school work!
Thanks for stopping by <3

not-so-lazy sunday

Aaaaaaand we're back!
I have a thematic sketchbook assignment coming up for my mini comics class, and my idea for that is branching off of this series of pinups I want to do in the future- but for now, I'm looking forward to this sketchbook.

Ideas for titles include: Gender playground, Studies in androgyny, True Androgyny, Male? Female? Both?, Gender Queers, ..... I had some other ones but they seem to escape me now. The pinups would include some kind of clever caption- but I can't decide if I want to include those in the sketchbook. So there's that idea, aaaaand.... sketchbook page!! 

Hoping to be able to post some more sketches next time....and by then I may also have a tumblr dedicated to my more casual/ silly art and I want to start trying to do daily comics. I attempted the hourly comic day- and didn't get all the way through the day, but I will try and post that on that tumblr.
Thanks for stopping by! <3 

"I'll post again soon": famous last words

I've gotten myself back on track and have lots of new stuff scanned in a lined up for you! Sorry, of course, about the delay. I seem to always been completely wrapped up in something, whether I'm here at school and trying to keep up with work, or I'm at home and working 2 jobs.
Blah blah blah. ANYWAY!
In this entry I wanted to show my thumbnailing process.
I did this one back around thanksgiving, and showed it to Jesse Mead while hanging out one day a few weeks later- and got some really good feedback :) (which I took notes on and plan to make changes accordingly when I do this comic for real)

Revenge of the Turkeys (based on a true story)

This other page of thumbnails is for a comic about when I had to take out my eyebrow ring. Its gonna need some real cleaning up, but I'm liking the feel of it so  far.

Eyebrow drama- real life event

Any feedback/suggestions are always welcome- it's good to be back!
Next time: sketchbook pages and ideas for pinups!!
Thanks for stopping by! <3 <3 <3

THREE PAGE ORIGINAL COMIC!!!

You may be able to tell from the grey speckled walls behind me (vlogbrothers reference) that I am in an airport. On my way back to school! SO- obviously TIME TO SHOW YOU THE THREE PAGE COMIC I DID! Written, penciled, inked, colored, and lettered by me! I am SO excited to be able to share this- I'm happy with how it turned out, and I hope you enjoy it. I have a cover in the works but don't want to post until it's done. Special thanks to Jon Chad for helping me free the images from their PDF prison! Also, to see the full size pages, just click on the image! :D
Without furthur ado:

Hypocrite

2012! Resolutions, a new thing, and cover ideas

a big FN sammich.

I despise not having full access to a scanner. I have been drawing a LOT!
So as not to fall off the face of the blogearth, here is a comic that I drew today (at work before there were customers in the store...) because my brain was buzzing about a comment from some silly stuff on FB.

When I'm back at school, maybe I will put it on real paper (not receipt paper) and ink it, etc. I can't wait to be able to get back to my work. I've thankfully been able to save a lot this quarter (per the plan, which is why I have been working so much) so it will be less of a worry and I can really focus.
Thanks for sticking with me these slacky last six weeks. I'll be back in business before you know it!

SCHOOL WORK!! (etc) Part III: nearing the end

My three page assignment for digital coloring and lettering was to color pages from the comic Mask War (art by Doug Mahnke? I think? :x It's not by me. I know that.)

I ended up redoing these, so what you're seeing is the FINAL product- which I am a lot happier with. Im glad I made changes!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!

I really really wanted to be able to show my three page original comic- HOWEVER, I still can't figure out how to post a PDF on this blog. And if I can't, how to extract the files from PDF to just have them on their own.

ONCE I FIGURE THAT OUT I PROMISE I'LL POST!! :( 

So, instead, Ive been drawing a lot over the break and I'll show you a few doodles <3

sorry it's crappy photo quality. I will do a giant sketchbook post when I have access to a scanner again! That'll be at school. IN LIKE, 2 WEEKS! SWEET!!! <3

Thanks for stopping in :D

SD to the rescue!

We interrupt the posting of school work for something I promised the people who watched LGBTV. A look at some oooold comics that I did, one from high school, and the other from my freshman year of college. Even looking back at this stuff, I feel good about how I have progressed. HOWEVER...I still have to show this stuff.
ENJOY! <3
 First, the ORIGINAL super dyke (from high school, 2005ish) first titled "say what?" based on something I overheard in pottery class, and let my mind take it from there.

Years later, circa 2009/2009, we were given the assignment in my intro to seqa class to draw a comic about the day in the life of us as a superhero.

TADAAAAAAAA!!! Maybe for funsies Ill RE re draw it. Hm.
This concludes the intermission. See you next time!!

SCHOOL WORK! Part II: Life in the dreamscape

It's that time again! CLICK "READ MORE" TO SEE MORE OF MY SCHOOL WORK!!!

That was close: SCHOOL WORK! pt. 1

Thank goodness all of my school work ISN'T deleted- but that the browser I was using wouldn't access it!
MOVING RIGHT ALONG- I will start with the earliest work that I did in the quarter, and my last school work post will be my most recent!
~~READ MORE TO SEE THE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC~~

of CCS and having Cpt. Stiletto as a sidekick!

My last post was TWO WEEKS AGO??? Slackerific! :( Augh, not a fan.
 The good news is, I am back at my oooooolllld (notsomuch) roots! <3 Only days after my arrival back home, I trudged up to The lovely CCS!

pics or it didn't happen? HERE I AM!

AND it is my goal today to get all of my school work onto a flashdrive and ready to upload on to this blog. I haven't done any real creative work since finals has been over (a side effect) but here are some doodles to try and make up for it!
FIRST, my favorite. Sometimes I like to pretend that Eddie Izzard is my sidekick in an awesome superhero team. So I drew it.

Mr.FancyLad and Capt. Stiletto! Pen and ink

 Such is my reality <3
Also, I did these pages of doodles.

 

Gonna make a school work post happen this week and waaaaay more updates than I have been doing!!!

Thanks for stopping in <3 <3 <3

down with all of the sicknesses

So. I have been endlessly ill. You might even say I am...

 

And then we had a surprise! visitor at our house, and we all were coughing- A LOT, if not actually sick with something. So I made this sign for our door:

With the original idea just being that we could call our place the "coughee house"... but I think this works just as well if not better. :)
AND, I had promised my roommate that I would draw her a picture of her and snoop dogg walking down the street together, because of the conversation we had about if I was Snoop Dogg, then he would be her roommate and no one would believe her XD

AND! then I though I had an ear infection. And couldn't sleep because my ear had stopped hurting and started ringing. And then the next day I got hives. Which is where all of these doodles came from:

Despite all of my sicknesses, I have been continuing the art (as you can see) and will continue to do so. School will let out for break in A WEEK. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Ima go get work done now.
THANK YOU for stopping by!! <3

concept and doodleduty

I decided I am going to post my best/favorite school work at the very end of the quarter, so I have the full range of things to pick and choose from. In the meantime, here are some sketch book pages. This one is a random concept I came up with that I like:

"wait" -- pen

and these two are a collection of sketches over a week or so. Just keeping up the drawing habit, etc.

Thanks for stopping by!
<3 Til next time

sketchbook madness

Hi, hello!
School has calmed down a LITTLE bit- but I am using my free time to get homework done ahead of time. And when I'm not doing that I'm sleeping(!?!?!) or doodling in my sketchbook. I've been trying to play around with style a bit- see what comes most naturally and comfortably to me, cause I can always recognize when I have drawn something, but there are so many different ways to draw that really interest me, so sometimes I try and adapt a little bit.

"apathy" pen and ink

 sometimes when trying to draw from life, I notice certain looks about people...like this guy in my noir lit class. So I drew him. (No, I'm not creepy at all...!)

"across the room" pen

I PROMISE I will put more school work up soon, but there's some stuff I want to revise first, so I can make it the best it can be. I also dedicated a sketch page mostly to WORKING ON LIGHTING. Cause I need to. Also I drew someone's dad cause I liked his vibe.

sketch page- form, volume, lighting

That's all for now, thank you for stopping by! <3 <3
Til next time~

SO MUCH PRODUCTIVITY

Bad news: "Another Saturday night cause I ain't got nobody"
(which I suppose is just as well because I really don't have any money...)
Better news: I was really productive! YES!

I spent most of my day resting up from midterms, but that included editing and posting THIS VIDEO, making this (and sticking it on my bedroom door):

I took break for a little while, but wouldn't you know it- I did some work after! :D I'm really excited about the 3 page comic I'm doing for Nolan's class. Looking forward to getting more done on it tomorrow. When it's done, I'll post it up here. But it's not due for another month. I might make a cover too... so far, I've just got these panels:

Yay! And if they look messy, it's because they're supposed to. I need to make them a bit more exaggerated but first I wanted to make sure they all fit in the space, so I'll just go over it in brush pen again. I was also considering putting some ink splatter on there to give it a more imperfect, homemade look, but didn't know how to make it look unintentional. And then, some inky water spilled a bit and got on my new panels. Well, they're unintentional alright! ;) perfect timing, ink gods. Thank you.
I can definitely work with them. Hopefully the mild mess will come across as more personal. We'll see how it goes! But, worse comes to worse, I redraw them. 

Sorry about the poor quality of the photos. I don't have access to a scanner at the moment, and then after the first picture my camera died. So I was left with the webcam. I just just really pumped up about the work I did, so I wanted to share asap! 

the satisfied artist

Til next time :) Thanks for stopping in! <3

                                         

Hisssss! (and midterms and sickness)

Midterms are still happening, and I am also getting re-sick after having had recovered. :/
Next post, I think I will put up a few of the projects I have done for school- just to show something other than sketchbook work.
For now though, Have a comic based off of this conversation:

 the comic:

 it provided many lolz for the people involved.
In case you don't find that lolzy, here's another art.

"E" -- inked

 Thank you for stopping by <3
Til next time!

....

It's midterms. I'm sick.
Have some art.

"Face off" pen and ink

"lady sketches" pen and ink

 Thanks for stopping by~ *sniffle, cough*