Poison Watcher

I'm trying desperately to get myself out of a rut. The Starwatcher Meme over at the Moebius blog is helping me. I think I need to just do a slew of fanart, because I don't do enough of it (other than the xena doodles). Here's my submission:

I like the the line art much better than the colored version, but I'm also really picky and inexperienced in the digital coloring department. So who knows. I also suck at backgrounds. buuuut I'm working on it. So this is a double fan art, first after Moebius' Starwatcher, but done as Bowie from James Stokoe's Orc Stain. I've been wanting to do a Bowie fan art for a while. (as an aside, I've been wanting to do a David Bowie fan art as well, but I haven't done it yet. someday....) Anyways, I may go back and play with digital colors since I have the line art all ready to go on this one.

sketchs and stuff...

getting ready for a battle over at void I've been doing warm up sketches and stuff. Trying, for once, to do things right and not rush things like an idiot. anyways, I want part of the story to be with watercolors, so I thought I would do some sketches first before committing to that.

I'm still not so sure, but I guess I'll just have to practice.

next is some marker drawings I did. I got one of those larger sketchbooks to see if the larger format would help with drawing. It does. I've been using tiny sketchbooks for years and I'm kicking myself now for not branching out sooner. it makes marker work so much easier.


more things later. It's a work day, so I'm frantically trying to get as much sketching done before then as possible.

Warrior Princess Up-do

I think these xena doodles are going to have to become a zine. or a series of prints. I made another last night for the produce cooler at work, but I haven't gotten around to scanning it yet. Also still plugging away at my comic, got four pages inked and ready to go. Hopefully I can get a large amount done over the next few days, since I'm going to get incredibly busy over the next month. More things later, I'm going to go bathe and eat something.

time to draw!

Remember how I said I replanted a bunch of plants the other day? here they are, looking all cool with some fancy filters from my fancy phone thing. The future is now.

Also, I spent all of today drawing. WOO! got two whole pages inked and ready to go for Tip Top.

now, from that image you might assume this is a sea-faring, piratey ordeal. You would be wrong. There are a lot of cats.a ratio of about one thousand cats to every ass hole killed in this comic. it will make sense later, I promise.

Also, I like to pretend I'm Xena. You can tell it's me because I'm wearing glasses. Xena does not wear glasses.

Anyways, short update. Killing time waiting for the boyfriend so we can go get food and then go play Rockband at Ground Kontrol. I thought we were going to a concert tonight but it's not for another 2 weeks. I am a silly person.

I'm also a very hungry lady, so I might go down and forage for something in my scary fridge. send a search party if I'm not back in a week or so.

Seeing Hands

First off there's Jersey shore gone Wilde which is delightful.

also, I've been printing! here's what I'm working on for littlest print exchange. It's been a bit of an adventure, since I was trying to get it done quickly. The semester is almost over so I'm not sure if I'm going to have studio access over the summer. so I'm getting my print stuff done now.

here's printing with ketchup and mustard. not really tho.

and then the first two runs:

and the completed print, as of noon today:


next week I'll be doing some more printing, but now it's off to work with me. I haven't pulled a large multi-color edition in a while. Also I think I will never print paper this small again. it's very hard to register, annoying to callendar, etc etc. next time I will use larger paper and cut it down, or do multiple-up or something like that. ok, enough print-speak. here's some random sketches with marker, trying to emulate an artist I enjoy:


also slowly working out plot details of that comic I'll get around to drawing sometime in the near future hopefully.as usual, it has transformed greatly since I first started working on it a month ago.

ok, time for work now...I leave you with Dengue Fever(who I saw last friday. THEY ARE THE BEST.)

making headway

So I've got a fairly large portion of the plot to my comic figured out, not it's just breaking it down and writing it and doing all the design, but at least I feel a little more focused instead of just shooting in the dark and hoping things work out as I go along. I have a plot! Also I finally figured out what all the commotion was about the other day with the shooting by my house. I guess someone in a car opened fire on another car and then drove off. They closed off the street to find shell casings. No one was wounded or killed, which is good, and they have no idea who did it.

Also, Stumptown Comic Fest is in like TWO DAYS!!!!!! I am tres excited. I've been trying to do daily sketches, here's yesterday's:


just some Void stuff. two of my own characters and one fan art. more soon I hope. Now it's time for me to eat some food!

and now this is happening...

So today has been a little odd. the sun came out, which is a rare thing indeed in the land of magic and whim. So I spent the first part of my day basking in the sunlight. then my housemate and I prepared for an adventure of chocolate gathering and trader joes. However, as we were getting ready we heard gunshots outside and a car speed away. my housemate thought it was someone hammering a roof or something. Anyways, we forgot about t until we went out and half teh street was shut down. We have no idea what happened or if anyone got hurt/dead.

After our adventure, I've been doodling and trying to figure out illustrator. I still can' quite figure the damn thing out, so I gave up for a minute and decided to doodle in photoshop instead. here's what I did:

cat woman, and a few other random ladies. I also drew a quick comic to this tune:

I'm learning how to play that one on the accordion, and it's been stuck in my head. I think I need to draw something a little more majestic and fitting, I'm not sure how the cats have anything to do with russian folk songs...

and now I'm off to karaoke. Because I'm awesome like that and I need my day to be more random.

doodles and nonsense.

Here's a test on that new shiny comic board nonsense. Pluggin away at the comic, as usual, but here's a quick sketch of the main character lady, stuck in the middle of the desert, wanting some cheese fries. I wish I could spend all day at it, but I have to go to work shortly, which means food time needs to happen. Oh, and I just finished reading Planetary. Have I mentioned how much I love Warren Ellis? Because I do.

Lady sketches

well, still no comic today. I almost quit, but the boyfriend effectively counteracted my ADD tendencies and challenged me to 100 installments of that comic. I'm incredibly stubborn and I never back down on a challenge, so I'll probably get it done. Above is a sketch of a lady, I'm trying to get up on my character design skillz. click on the image for the full layout. I have to run to work, so more on all this later.

Lady Knuckles Sketch

Sorry for being so scattered lately. I've been wanting to show more drawings and less silly videos, but I've had some serious blockage. Nothing a heavy dosage of Warren Ellis comics straight into the nervous system couldn't fix, I guess. i've been knee deep in The Authority and Planetary(as well as my weekly fix of Freakangels) as well as having plenty of brain time at work to think about comics and other things that I could be doing with my free time. Anyways, I decided to revisit an old idea, a sort of street fighter-esque tournament between super hero teams. I guess there are too many super humans around with nothing to do, so to keep them from fighting eachother and making a mess out of all the architecture, the world governments set up a mandatory tournament thing. Below is Lady Knuckles, who is unfortunately paired with Captain Apathy(who I drew, but is not ready for show and tell just yet) Threw some basic colors on Lady Knuckles. More supers to come, perhaps. If I can stay focused on one comic book project long enough to actually get something done.