Wednesday, July 20, 2011
RESTLESS HURF
Friday, February 25, 2011
Vixen: I hate everything
You can download it if you wish. It looks a little janky as display or document type, but as far as readable Victorian comic type I'm pretty satisfied. Especially since there were 900 kerning pairs and oh god the kerning. Dreadful.
Here it is in context of the comic (also backgrounds why).
This is the last time I write a comic in a historical setting (no it's not). Stupid buildings.
Anyway. I may start posting pages online somewhere as I finish them. Not sure though. Still mulling over how this whole printing thing is going to happen and how I have to time it with putting it on the web.
I also may do a more detailed look into how I make pages with these. From like, thumbnails to inks. I've been meaning to do it for awhile for when people ask, but have never gotten around to it.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Vixen: Typographic Quandaries
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Vixen: Character Sketches
So here we go. This is Lorna Forester, the protagonist. She has extreme self-consciousness issues and becomes rather susceptible to the lure of the Vixen clan.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
MCAD Senior Project: "Vixen"
THE PROJECT: Create at least 14 full realized, professionally produced comic pages by the end of the semester.
MY PROJECT: Do some crazy shit, make it at least 40 pages long, carry out to print, lesbians.
In a town in nineteenth century England, girls are going missing. Some say it's a mad man; others say it's a pack of wolves. No one knows but Lorna, who accidentally finds the criminals behind the abductions--the Vixen clan of the forest. The clan gives her a choice: be ruthlessly cannibalized, or join them and become one of the beautiful, bloodthirsty Vixen. Can Lorna make the transformation into the clan, or will she be too repulsed by the true nature of the Vixen?Character designs and other process work to come! I hope everyone looks forward to this story as much as I do. c:
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Sketches. Sketches, forever.
I drew people I saw from the last hour of my second shift at the aquarium last night on a feeding schedule.
Salome from my webcomic, GHOST! From my comic sketchbook/notebook from school. The discussion had tangent-ed into Harry Potter debate at that point haha.
Grave from GHOST! again trying to be a badass but failing.
Grave in Halloween garb because I don't know.
Uhm. :D
Lol character design of a superhero/boyslove comic I've been concepting. HE CONTROLS THE POWER OF THE STARSSSHURP. *sogay*
Rough sketch for a repeating pattern project for school. Of course I'm going overboard as usual. :I
Anddd that's it for now. I have literally an asston of sketches and process pages that just sit here, so if you like seeing this stuff and want to see more of it, let me know. c:
Friday, August 27, 2010
The best way to become a better comic artist is to make comics.
BUT.
The one thing I absolutely can't STAND about starting a new year is introductions. You'd think as juniors, this kind of thing would be unnecessary. WRONG. And the thing that happens EVERY. YEAR. is that I get asked:
"So what was the last comic you read that totally like, BLEW YER MIND?"
MOTHERFUCKER.
I NEVER have an answer for this because HEY I DON'T READ COMICS I MAKE THEM. I usually have to fumble for an excuse and say, "Well I'm more of a novel reader I guess," and then I have to poorly pronounce the last Russian novel I read. :I It just makes me sound like an asshole/retard.
I am taking a screenwriting class as well. Before the teacher told us the story of how he stole the original script of Last Action Hero, he said "The best way to become a better writer is to write. The second best way to become a writer is to read."
So, you'd think this would apply to comics. Reading comics certainly can teach you a thing or two, but it is nowhere near as effective as making them and learning from personal mistakes and triumphs. I hardly read comics on my own time. It's not that I dislike them, but I would chose the chance to make a comic over reading a comic any day.
I mean, this is why I was the only person in my comic publishing class that had actually published any of their work. (Another awkward introduction where I sound like a pretentious asshole.)
Why settle for a secondary learning method when you can have a first hand experience that actually moves you forward?