A little bit of progress...

On my mini comic. Just a tiny bit. Of progress. >_>

Mini comic - half inked

As the title proclaims, the inking is about 1/2 of the way done. The first panel is entirely done, but the others are still pretty rough and the last one is non-existent. ^_^;

Here is the link to the ROUGH rough. Woof. (-_-)

Mini comic

This is the beginnings of a mini comic that I'm working on. It's using two of my old, old characters, re-vamped a bit. This is pretty much what I had planned for them, so really I'm just taking a story that I wrote a while ago and drawing it now. It's very interesting. It almost feels like I'm doing a commission for someone, like it's not actually my own.

In any case, the main idea behind this one page mini comic is just a magical girl parody.

Using lilac, I sketched out the panels and the basic things that would happen inside of them. Then on a new layer, I drew out the borders in black. This is my lines layer. Back on the rough sketch layer, I used a darker purple to draw out the details of all the panels. I've just started inking the top panel in black (on the lines layer) - this will be what it finally looks like. The text and word balloons are in different colors, so I can read them better. I'll probably end up using the type tool to write out the words.

Snow Day

It snowed a centimeter at Cottey, and it was the end of the world. Classes were even canceled that day.

Gawd's Gift to Da World

My character on a web comic we're collaborating on: Marigold.

Making Up Stories

We all like to make up stories sometimes...

Look At Me! I'm Surrounded by Guys!

Lots of girls like to show off their popularity amongst the boys, like it makes them powerful or something. Am I supposed to be impressed? Jealous? What the HECK??? It's the Cleopatra complex...

...And why put power into the hands of males like that? Like your worth is measured by the men you're with...

Most the time these girls aren't even DOING anything with their guy friends. Just sitting around doing nothing. WOW. Yes, very special.

Crazy Animal Day

This comic turned out sorta crappy... True story though. I was attacked by animals on all sides!

Shoot the Girl

What a gun luvin' country... -_-;;;

Women-hating women?

The Paper Towel Scandal

AH, college... Oh, the scandal...

College

Ah... The slow, steady degradation....

Dinosaur in the Museum

Little comic I did about the Natural History Museum in NYC.

Cat Legend

Ta da! I've made two comic pages for the wonderful Moss of the Cat legend web comic. Above are three panels from the final copy of the pages. Check out her site to see the whole thing.

I've never made something from someone else's script and with someone else's characters before, so it was a very interesting experience. I also never colored pages on the computer before, so I used water colors instead. Though this was slightly dangerous, because a careless stroke could ruin the page, it was really fun. I tried to incorporate some of Moss' drawing style into mine, so this looks a bit different from my normal stuff. Still, I think it turned out really well! (^_^)

For those interested in the process of making comic pages, the following is basically what transpired.

First, after I received the script, I roughed the layout of the panels and what would happen inside them. This took many pieces of paper and curses, but I got it eventually.

After that was the penciling, which was time consuming because I wanted to get all the people perfect. When I do pencils, I tend to focus on the people and leave the backgrounds to the inking process. I do scribble in trees and horizon lines, though.

Then, I inked. I use paintbrushes in various sizes to do this instead of felt tips or inking pens. I like the organic lines and the variety of widths that I can achieve with a paintbrush. Of course, this tends to lead to several mishaps, because that's just how it goes. And that is why I have the marvelous and life-saving white ink.

Once the black lines were down, I erased the pencil and began to color. Now I said watercolors, but really I used watered down acrylic paints. I find that I can get a better color out of them. Because of the amount of paint I brushed on, I had to regularly press the pages in-between some really heavy books, to get out all the wrinkles.

So once that was all done, I scanned the pages and tweaked them a bit in photoshop. I also added the text. And that was it! (>_>) I didn't really mean to write that much, but oh well.

Vera

This is a character that I'm working on. Demonicyouth and I are talking about a webcomic, and Vera would be one of the main characters. The style is different from the one I normally use.

Ignore the weird figure at the bottom left of the picture below. (>_>)'




(2007)

Woo... Perspective!

Well I have to admit, I have trouble with perspective when it comes to people. Buildings are okay, landscapes are okay, but people... well, lets just say I normally end up with a giant hole in my paper from the eraser. (-_-) I dared to try it once more on this page, and though it turned out alright, it's not perfect. (._.) Oh well, I'll just have to try some more... Some other time. (>_>)

(2007)

Those Evil Trees

This is a full page that I roughed out, first page of a chapter somewhere in the middle. It shouldn't make much sense to you, so don't worry about it. I just like how the panels turned out. (^_^)

(2007)

Rock Camp Comic

Comic I did for applying to an all-girl rock 'n roll camp in NYC in 2006.

Their website: CHECK IT OUT IT IS SO FREEAKING AWESOME!!!!!
http://www.williemaerockcamp.org/

The Rules of a Game

Comic done for a psychology course assignment. 2004??

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