Pizza Pinup!

So yeah, I finally finished one of my food pinups I've been planning to do for like...6 months. I found this penciled, underneath a MOUNTAIN of discarded sketches and other papers. The Prismacolor Markers are truly showing their worth, and for this I am very grateful.

Later I will post more Kith and Kin stuff I did with Breena the other day. We had alot of fun, and crossed over some of our characters!

Until then, Nerds!

Rages, Pages, and Stages.

Rages: The girls and I wanted to make a trip to the Oakland Museum's Pixar Exhibit. Nowhere on the site does it say that this event is a possible Sell Out kind of thing. Most museums design an exhibit to be circulated through so that it can get the maximum amount of traffic possible. Well. HA. We get down there, 10:40...only to find that we can't get into the exhibit. It's sold out. Nothing online warns about this, and we were not the only people in line who ONLY came to see it. SO. RAGES. MANY. MANY RAGES.

Pages: Thanks to people adhering to my wishlist, I've gotten alot of great reading material. Concept books, comics, the like. It actually made me want to pick up a book, or work on my written story. I did do some drawing for my written story to get the garb of the characters together. Since Misael is my main character, the focus is on him right now.
Pyrea gets some attention, because I'm still figuring out her personality and hair.


Stages: I enjoyed my few days off, regardless of my best friend's awful ills, and my own mucus filled body. I've never been that big about buying into the while New Year's Resolution. I realize now that they are really just statements you make to test your self control. I'm going to really make that attempt this year. No red meat is one. This will kill me, but hell, I just DON'T need it. It always makes me ill now. The other is an art resolution. A comic page a week. Doesn't matter for what, and if I do 2 or more in a week, that doesn't count for the next week or weeks. I'm only gonna get better doing it. How can I tell people to just start drawing if I forget that I have to do that too?
And now, for your entertainment, Zombie One Panel comics.

Princesssssss.

Amy and I saw Tangled AGAIN today. This totals me at 3 times. MOMSAIDSHEWANTEDTOSEEITTOOSOTHATMIGHTHAVETOHAPPENTOO. EEEE!!!!! But anyway, it has inspired me to take this time while PL is down and pick one of my comics to redo. The Keanes *Both Claire and Glenn*, have provided amazing character design and storyboarding. Enough that it makes me want to refine my storytelling in panels. The Ass' Skin is easily one of the worst comics I've done. As a test to see if I could handle retelling my favorite Grimm fairy tale, it was a failure. I have an opportunity to do it again, better, and with the aid of the Cintiq. So fair I've begun reworking the princess, giving it more time and attention. This first panel is from the one that I have already done.

While I do love the facial expression of the princess, I see that I was lazy, and in a mad rush to complete it. I used paintbucket, and of the 4 panels on each page, only ONE was colored. I know...COME ON RACHIE.

Even just the sketching I did in photoshoppe today has more heart and depth, with only an hour of time. Properly planned, and completed entirely digital, I may be able to prepare myself for The Man in the Bear's Skin. When Nick Jr. was amazing, they had an animated MitBS. If you wanna watch.....!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2HOV1GnX2M

More Cintiq doots!

For some reason, I was on the theme of Disney and/or Witches. Lina Inverse is technically a sorceress, but I honestly never knew the difference. And Shego, well, shoots green toxic burning shit from her hands, so that's witchery.

From that image I did, I fell in love with my doodle of me and Rapunzel. It is currently my facebook profile picture.

I really enjoy how adorably it came out! Hopefully my sketchtimes later!

Paperlinks Cover!

Normally, I don't post the covers anywhere else, but! I really really really like this one! Alix was in charge of coming up for a theme this month, which was Imaginauts. I have to admit, it was certainly challenging to come up with an idea for that. Thankfully I went to the planetarium recently, so that helped me figure out a background! AstroNAUT, imagiNAUT, close enough. The rest was just interesting thoughts. Ru suggested a fish, and we had been watching the Mimic Octopus videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygh1-ul6E94

If you want to be AMAZED, check that shit out! My friend Chris was also telling me that they can solve mathematic equations, and are very smart. Due to their short lifespan, it doesn't really work in their favor.

The princess drinking tea just seemed fun, but the Giraffe is still my favorite. We noticed at APE last year, Amy and I, that Giraffes were very in. Giraffe pattern bags, fine art paintings, prints, comics...it was so crazy! So, since it is the year of the Giraffe, I give you a December Giraffe.

Kith and Kin Character concepts and Page ONE!!

I've been drawing pretty hard lately, for a change! Usually the winter season doesn't allow for much of that, mostly because it's so damn cold in the apartment that my hands frost over.
Thankfully, that hasn't stopped me from producing work, and I owe alot of that to Disney's Tangled, which has provided me with mad inspiration and thoughts of strong success. This first set is a bunch of doots with Carlotta. Mostly expressions, and all drawn directly in brush pen. (Alix introduced me to this pen over a year ago, and I'm just now getting back into it hardcore.) The Wolf is Breena's character, who is nameless for the time being. He's a bit of a chickenshit but Lotta is setting him straight. "Get ready, because things will change." Oh sage cat woman.

This next set is a character concept sheet I did in like, H pencil, then markered and inked directly over it, which is my new process for coloring concept work, as long as my markers decide to hold out. Clay and Carlotta are making similar faces here. I enjoy his mustachio.

I may also have to make some more watercolor work for this story and ink it after it's dry like the marker work. It's turning out beautifully, like this tiny willow concept wash I did.

I didn't think they would scan well at all, but it seems I have been proven wrong. The scans are really fun and full of great texture. This pleases me greatly!
AND FINALLY, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, THE WORK FOR THE FIRST PAGE. This took alot longer to complete than originally thought, but honestly, it turned out really well, and I am very proud. Papercraft has taught me that hours put into something really pay off. I usually bust out work very quickly, so I'm super proud of the time I took here.

Good lord, I'm tired just looking at this steaming pile.