the end of 2010

So, this year is coming to an end. Honestly, I am glad. 2010 was a terrible year. It started off pretty cool, but on a whole, it's a year I am more than ready to put behind me. I've got a lot of huge changes happening in January that I won't get into here just yet- only to say that I am putting a chapter of my life behind me. So enough of that talk. On to the art.

I've been kind of stalling on finishing the last few things to be done with Chapter 1 of Ravenstar. I'm pushing myself to get it all done this month. It'll be satisfying to have that one project finally complete. I'm also pushing to finish up the Sketchbook Project. It needs to be postmarked by Jan. 15th, so I've got some work to do! Unfortunately, I'm really really liking how this is coming out. I'm gonna be a little torn sending it away forever. But I'm sure the Brooklyn Art Library will take good care of it. And it is exciting that (hopefully) a lot of people will get to see my work.







I'm going to take this new year as a time to re-evaluate where I am and where I want to be heading. It feels like a good time to set some new goals, find things that will work for me, and reinvest in myself and my art. I'm excited for 2011.

Ravenstar Chapter 1

These are the thumbnails for the first chapter of the new comic story I'm working on- "Ravenstar". It's a fantasy comic about sky pirates and witches. I really just wanted an excuse to draw goggles on a bunch of characters, and viola! I've started sketching and inking the first few pages (page 10 still doesn't exist, I have no idea how to lay it out... details, details...)

I want to have this first chapter done and printed and ready for the Maine Comics Arts Festival in May. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to have it done, just have to stick to my schedule. I also have all of chapter two thumbnailed, and half of chapter three. Thumbnailing is probably my favorite part of the comic making process. I need to stop doing that and actually get into the process of making the finished product.

I also commissioned a deviantArt artist, deathofrats to do a small watercolor of one of my characters- Princess. She made her look so much prettier than when I draw her, lol! I am very happy with it! You should all check out her work, amazing stuff!

brushing up

I've recently ditched my dip pen and started to work more with my brush for linework. Partly because I was going through a ton of pen nibs, and partly because the pen was starting to feel really restricting. I was finding I kept getting the same lines over and over. There was no excitement or movement.

Now that I'm using my brush, I'm getting into a lot of accidents, and that's awesome! This piece for example has so much more life in it than if I had inked it with my pen. I've been using the brush on sketches, finished work, and even my comics. I can't wait to keep going with it!

love

first piece I completed start to finish in the new studio. YAY!

some pirates

these are a few character sheets of some pirates. I've been working on this story in my head for a while, and I'm now finally getting somewhere solid with it. It's kind of an action/adventure/romance/fantasy. Kind of expanding on the little four page short I did for the recently deceased AniMECA project. I'm pretty excited about the whole idea- and the characters are just so much fun to draw!