| Still a nerd, but once you leave high school it becomes okay. |
[May. 3rd, 2008|11:49 pm] |
It's a meme. Everybody's doing it.
I'm glad Al Gore hadn't invented webcomics yet in 1995. You would not like to see the travesties I would have thrust upon you in those days. Or blogging, for that matter. Nobody wants to hear me whine about my crummy art teacher or being the only grade 12 student who went on the band trip to Disneyland.
No doubt in another 13 years I will hate everything I am writing today. Oh the horror! |
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| I can haez arrt? |
[Mar. 30th, 2008|07:29 pm] |
How is it that I have failed to mention that the Cloudscape anthology is now available to buy online? Go to this site, check it out, and then buy one if you like. Marvel at the quality of artists in our rainy little town (P.S. I coloured the cover).
There's no update for LODAL today. The last page is nearly done, though. I think I'll post it as soon as it is rather than make you wait a whole 'nother week for it. I don't want to send you home empty-handed though! Here's some art I've had hanging around that I haven't got around to posting yet.
( Psst- look under here! )
I really need to build myself a new portfolio so I have somewhere to put all this stuff. |
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| Now THAT'S an art week. |
[Dec. 16th, 2007|04:53 pm] |
As previously threatened, there is no new page this week. I spent too much time doing other artsy things.
( Click here to see the cool art I made! ) |
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| City of Illusions |
[Nov. 19th, 2007|06:22 pm] |
Well my "art week" never panned out because I spent all my time working on this one image. It's a mock-up cover of a real book by my hero Ursula LeGuin, called City of Illusions. I was going to put the title on but I decided not to spoil my pretty-good picture with my sub-standard typography.
I would love to do book covers for a living, especially for books I love. So many sci-fi covers are bland and kitschy and all look the same regardless of what's inside. Oh, look! Space-ships! Zoom! Pow! And hot babes in space suits! I mean I know illustrators have crazy deadlines for these things, but surely if one claims to be a sci-fi cover artist, one must be able to use a bit of ingenuity and imagination, right? You can make a unique cover without giving away too much info on the story. I'm sure I could.
The only trouble is, my style is not remotely painterly. It looks (as I have been told in portfolio interviews) like a comic book. And I don't know any other way to draw. Which is why no one is ever likely to ask me to do a book cover for real. *sigh*
This is actually a two-page wraparound. ( Click under the cut to see the full image. )
This may also explain why I have markers on my mind. I used up like four of them on this. |
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| Tria!!!!!!!! |
[Nov. 19th, 2007|10:37 am] |
I locked my last anti-Tria rant but I'm not locking this one. I want to make my displeasure public.
As you probably know, I use markers to colour my stuff. I have markers from four different lines- Letraset Tria, Copic, Prismacolor, and Letraset "Promarker." All the lines have slightly different colours available and they all mix well with each other. Recently Letraset overhauled its Tria markers. The old line were probably the best of the ones I had- the ink was just the right consistency, they lasted forever, there were more colours to choose from, and they were easier to find in art stores. The new Tria markers are just terrible. The new line follows an entirely different palette- I've spent hours testing markers in art stores trying to match up colours. But it doesn't end there. The new markers run out of ink much faster than the old ones. Near the end of their lives the ink no longer has the same consistency. And worst of all- as I've just discovered- if you leave a marker unused for a few months it may well dry out completely- regardless of how much ink is left in it. None of my other markers do this. I have some old Tria markers that I've had for years and they work just as well as they ever did. They will likely keep working for as long as I need them, at least until the ink runs out. Ironically, Letraset's less-fancy less-professional marker line, the Promarkers, are a slimmed down version of the old Trias and are now far better than the more expensive more "professional" Trias.
Do not buy the new Tria markers. They are poorly made and a waste of money. I plan on phasing them out of my palette completely, assuming I can actually find the colours I need in other lines. There's only one store in the Lower Mainland that sells Prismacolors and one that sells Copics. I pray they keep doing so.
P.S. I know I missed my update yesterday. I should have something up by the end of the day. |
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| Tukil |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|11:10 am] |
I want to make this an "art week" or something. Basically, I've got my portfolio on my mind, particularly in the sense that I haven't updated it in years and it needs some new stuff in it. Also I just want to post a bunch of art this week. Let's start, though, with something from Cloud-Leapers. Specifically the main character- which I posted on a forum once but haven't posted here.
This is Tukil. She is from the Blue Pine Tribe who live on the appropriately-named Blue Pine Mountain. But so far that's all you get to know about her. This was the character sheet I relied on for drawing my comic. |
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| Maida |
[Apr. 29th, 2007|09:14 pm] |
Wait, what's this? Is it? Could it be? A comic featuring the ongoing adventures of Martian drama queen Maida Kilwa???
Yup, Maida is back. At least until Mol can get off his butt and stop moping around in Xibalba. Oh, oh! Also! That poster I was working on? Now you can buy it and stuff. |
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| Mol has "entered the road." |
[Apr. 15th, 2007|11:37 pm] |
So much news. First off, the next page of Lords of Death and Life is up. The poster I was working on last week is done too. It can be seen here. For anyone who hasn't heard, I won't be able to go to APE this year. But I will definitely be going to the Toronto Comic Con on June 8-10, so if you are at all nearby, come and say hello.
A Mad Tea-Party is still at the proof stage but later this month I hope to have a storefront set up on my site so you can buy either or both of the first two books.
Now I'm going to bed. |
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| Not quite daily, apparently. |
[Apr. 12th, 2007|10:25 pm] |
It's done! Well, nearly. I want to leave it til tomorrow to see if I want to change anything. I'm still concerned by some of the colours. And then it's on to another page of Lords of Death and Life and then this other story I'm supposedly writing.
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| A bit of colour |
[Apr. 10th, 2007|10:17 pm] |
Here's an idea to help motivate me- daily progress updates! Here's the poster as it stands now. I'm getting there.
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| Work in progress. Lots of it. |
[Apr. 9th, 2007|10:59 pm] |
Instead of an actual update I've put up some art. But even that's only a work in progress. I am so far behind schedule it's scary. It's going to be a busy week. I'm going to try to cut back on my internet usage to compensate.
Yeah, like that'll work. |
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