Walt Disney Museum

Breena, her friend Yvette and I when to the Walt Disney Museum! I took some time to draw some amazing stuff! Working directly in inks is really fucking hard!

Rottweilers on ICE!

Inspired by Brittney Lee, I have decided to do my own papercraft work! It's really a pain in the ass, but I'm grateful for stores like flax that are diseased with colored and textured papers. It's going to make for a really wonderful winter project.

The head was probably the most complicated part, but now I have pieces that I can use as stencils for the real thing!

The body was also really fun to do, since it is fat and delightful. Rottie coloring also allows for the placement of heart shapes, which I think makes it especially endearing.

The feeties are going to be very fun as well, but very detailed and a HUGE pain in the ass.

The Millar Family has always had rottweilers as the breed of choice, so I wanted to do a tribute to them, and to my Grandpa Gordon, who began said tradition. His wonderful photography spurred my interest in this incredibly awesome (SUPER TIME CONSUMING) undertaking.

I will dedicate it to him, and Hilda, the first Rottweiler.

COMICS COMICS COMICS COMICS

Well, my comic book shelf is slowly getting overrun with amazing reads, but these titles are the ones I feel the need to share, as they are AMAZING.

1. Erstwhile all fur written by Gina Biggs and illustrated by Elle Skinner
2. Dar! Volume 2 by Erika Moen
3. Green Monk by Brandon Dayton (A new artist I met this year at APE! He is especially wonderful!)
4. Sketches of Brandon Dayton
5. Koko Be Good by Jen Wang
6. Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks
7. Movies R Fun! By Josh Cooley
8. The Hunter written by Richard Stark and adapted/illustrated by Darwyn Cooke
9. Funny Misshapen Body by Jeffrey Brown
10. Little Things by Jeffrey Brown
11. The Anthology Project put together by Joy Ang and Nick Thornborrow
12. Prophecy Failed Volume 1 by Sara CcCardle-Blunk
13. Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz
14. Hey Derby Girl written by Jeanne Beacom and illustrated by Elle Skinner

As I work through these next few days of drawing, I will use any or all of these titles to procrastinate! WOO!

6th circle art and business

I met some awesome local artists at this year's APE that stop by my job quite a bit! The world of indie comics is a small one! I'm very excited to be doing fanart for local peeps! Anyway, I have taken a liking to 6th Circle's character, Reina "Rayne" Rodriguez! I did one fanart of her that I never did scan, but that's all good! I've done a pin up that I am posting her unfinished, until I get her tattoo information! woo!

I really enjoy doing beachy pin-ups! This was a challenge because Rayne is a tomboy all the way. I put nail polish on her because it's my right at a girl and artist. Her token hoodie is still there, but cuter, and rolled up, and her awesome red streaked hair is windswept and fun! "She like fire. A lot." is the last sentence in her bio, so I decided to adapt her bathing suit into an awesome amazing FIREKini.

I'm super excited to color it!

Also, XtraLargeGal pages are in the works for this month, as well as my written story, and a few other things. A dear friend has lost a leading man in her life, and I am proud to say that Paperlinks will honor his memory by accepting a piece he had written. Father of a kind, wonderful person, I sure the excerpt submitted in his honor will be extraordinary.

"Good night, sweet prince. May choirs of angels sing thee to thy rest."

LADIES AND GENTS. It was such an incredible weekend of mayhem and madness! The gang and I went to the Alternative Press Expo two days in a row, to really get the feel of everything! I am positive I still managed to miss some really cool stuff, but there is always next year!

I did a really cool project with a pair of sneakers, but I am going to wait until they are completely finished before I share that cool post!

For now, I'm drowning in comics and inspiration from other artists. I'm way more interested in working on my own story, and working on my stuff with others! Breena is coming over tonight after I get off of work, so hopefully we'll be able to have ENTIRELY too much fun drawing and watching the HILARIOUS 30Rock.


The art post for today is Carina, and her character expressions sheet. Crysta's story and character, my interpretation. I had ALOT of fun with my Winsor & Newton watercolors here.

I drew her once before, a while back. She is actually a werewolf that can shift at will, so her clothing choice is pretty practical. Her nails are like dogs nails. slightly dulled and black. She often ends up dirty or muddy, as this older art of her would suggest.

The next up is Cory, who is the main character. The drawing is red penciled and inked, but I still need a splash of color! Hopefully I'll have it up in the next few days!

Having fun with the Cintiq some more!

I drew some pretty crazy stuff in my day, but getting jazzed up for APE, I decided that I wanted to makes some sexy creepy pin ups! Orangina is one of them!

Jfish's show Monsterbation really inspired me to create this little darling! Hopefully I will be able to use her in a story!

MORE Kith and Kin progress!

This is Clayton's post tragedy look! Much scruffier than his more mild mannered curly mustache look. He will have to serve time with a guerilla outfit. They may actually BE gorillas, lole. But in this time he will become alot more serious about fighting. Early on, he really only knows how to fight with a foil or saber. THIS young man you see above knows a bit more about fighting. His scholarly backgrounds makes the understanding of basic warfare much easier, and when the battles are won, he will head back to his home, in hopes of finding Carlotta. Not to mention finally getting her to say yes to marrying him. Procreation be damned, he loves her!

Kith and Kin progress!

So, I'm continuing to work on my story for Kith and Kin. It is going slowly, but that also means I'm going to try to have...GASP, legit backgrounds instead of just white or black colors. I'm working on more breakdown information for my characters.

I've settled on the names Carlotta and Clayton.
I'm working on a Clayton post-tragedy portrait, but for now, here is Carlotta's.

She will have lost an eye protecting her band of 10 misfit children.

Right now, the short version is, Carlotta comes from a family with money, wants to be with Clay, but doesn't wanna marry cuz they can't have children, (HUGE PLOT SPOILER TRAGEDY INSERTED HERE) they get separated for a long period of time...like a yearish. She lives in the forest with this group of city children whose parents were lost in (HUGE TRAGEDY)and becames a mother to them all. Very much like Wendy from Peter Pan, but I assure everyone that it won't be so cheesy as all that.

Yes. I know, you're thinking "FURRIES, COME ON." Well, I tell YOU to come on. It's time that they are made a little less creepy, and WAY less about people who WISH to be animals. Anthromorphic creatures date back to ancient Egypt. THEY ARE COOL. DEAL with it.

Back to writing once again.

I haven’t had a chance to work on much due to the fact that my mother has been having some health issues, but it’s true that having a creative outlet can save you. I have rediscovered myself as a tentative writer, and jotted this down in hospital.

***
Mom is going in for an angiogram tomorrow, but she has one more night at the hospital before then. Her new roommate is here now, and she is a sad story indeed. She cries out for help, begs the nurses to get off of her, and calls out to a God that just doesn’t hear her. My observation is more about Don, her faithful husband. The nurses ask him many things, and he answers with a sweet little story for each question.

"How are you affiliated to the patient? "

He smiles softly and looks at the shriveled woman in bed. "She's my wife. We're separated, not divorced." As the nurse continued to fill out the paperwork, he continued, "We drove each other crazy, so we separated to get our own places, but still only saw each other exclusively. It really saved us."

With callous, the nurse continued down her list on the medical form. "She doesn’t have earrings? They need to be removed for Chemo, but she is not wearing them."

"No, I took them out for her at the last hospital when she threatened to just throw them away. They were my 10th anniversary gift to her. We went to Hawaii, and I got her some genuine pearls." He slowly looks down, as if he can go back 15 years, but to when she was happy, and healthy.

"Any other things we should know about?"

"Oh, she has upper and lower dentures. Her teeth were knocked out in a car accident when she was 11."

Small things like that don't seem like much, but he says them like each one is held close to his heart. In the silence of the room, he turned to me sadly, asking me about mom. I told him the details and he nodded, smiling.

"I'm glad for you. That’s not too bleak. I'm going to lose my wife of 25 years in a month." No judgement. No hard glances. No anger or hatred in his voice. Just stating a fact. He looked genuinely happy that I would not experience the same daunting situation he was in. I didn't tell him about Dad.

He told me that she had that huge tumor, and that she was here because she broke her hip tripping over her oxygen tank. She had been feeling better, dispite the debilitating chemo. She insisted that they go to church. She fell hard onto the concrete, and Don brought her right to the emergency room.

In 4 nights, he had gotten 6 hours of sleep. With his wife situated, he came over to me and whispered, "I'm going to go home and get some rest. I'm sorry if she makes alot of noise. I promise once she's asleep, she will sleep through the night."

As he gathered his things, he turned to her and whispered again, his voice thick with emotion.
"I love you." He wiped his eyes on his jacket's faded sleeve, and walked out the door.

And she will continue to cry out for help, or for Don, or for god's help. And I will hear her, and be ready to call the nurse is she needs me. I can do that for you, Don.
***

I think that I will make this a comic, since it is such a powerful story, and almost fits with the PL theme for this month. We will see. If I do, I'm going to have to take my time, and make a tribute to anyone who has ever lost a great love.

Vidja games

I had fun during one of my all nighters making this little comic about the games I play most on the Wii.
It is definitely still in progress, as I play several other games. I may actually try to make the next one more epic,and not small panel comics. ANYWAY. Life has been coming at me fast! Paperlinks is getting harder and harder to get out, but that's ok, because it is a challenge as an artist to get my work done by the deadline, or at least close to it. The bummer is that I was totally unable to finish my theme comic for this month. I got as far as page 2! Oh well, this is it. I may still try to finish it, but not soon.
I not going to beat myself up over it too severely, due to the fact that I finally made a comic that went longer than 10 pages!! YAY Xtra Large Gal!