SUCCESS!

I GOT THE NEKOCON AA TABLE! MY COMICS WILL BE COMING TO A CON NEAR YOU!
YYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Glad to know a year of hard work and saving money was worth it :D

New Semester, New Work

Finally got to scan some work. Fall semester has officially started and by Monday evening I will have sampled all of my classes. I'll talk more about them on my VCU blog later. For now, I give you arts!



Macabre themed Lolita illustration. Drawn during a long break between classes and hanging out with friends. Inked with copic mulitiliner 0.1 and Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. I plan to color it and if it turns out well, and follows the AA rules and I get an AA table, then I'll try to make it a print for Nekocon.


Alencia 'Hulking out' with her powers. Started as a doodle to exaggerate her pose.


WIP. Alencia and Theolyn dressed up for Alencia's sister Gertrude's wedding. Gertrude is the older of the two sisters, and Alencia has a bit of an inferiority complex against her. Gertrude is filling out goals that Alencia's parents (mother mainly) want Alencia to reach. She loves her sister but trying to live up to her gets really tiring... I tried to play with what would be considered formal, or at least fancy, clothes in this universe. I originally wanted her to wear something inspired by an Indian Sarees. May color this later.


Did some studies of Male muscle structure and chest/body hair. It can get tedious to do the chest hair but not too bad, and I think it looks quite good by the end of it. Done from photos on Corbis.com and Google search. Finding photos of men with chest hair that isn't super thick is harder than it sounds. Most photos are no hair or waaaay too much. Make searching for refs an adventure :P I think I'll do horse sketches once I get my ref photos back from my dad's camera. I took too many not to use them.

Sketch Dump Go!

Dr. Sketchy's Stuff





Model: Pretty Penny. She was lots of fun to draw. She did such saucy poses!


Other Stuff


This is a page of rough sketches of a new character I am developing named "Mara." She's a monster hunter. She hunts and kills exotic/dangerous monsters that cause problems for people but no one else wants to face. She's like a hardcore exterminator. For a price of course... Still fleshing out her look as well as her personality.


A little sketch of Alencia and Rorketh sharing a drink. Done as a victory sketch after finishing the Snow comic.


Older SCION sketch of Ramla and Saturday. I actually drew this in a McDonald's. Memphis is angry you didn't bring him any ice cream. I need serious practice drawing cats ;_;

I have more inked sketches but they are for the Kale book. I want to be able to put things in the book that haven't been seen online! It's so hard guys ;_; I'm so used to sharing everything. I'm trying to be good.

WIP- 'Ready or Not'

Here's what I've been playing with on and off all day.



I want to color it but I feel like the only way I can get it to how I want it to look in my head is to digitally color it. Now that I've scanned it I may try to marker color the original anyway. You can also see a little play list on the top corner there. I was writing down songs that popped up on Pandora that fit the mood of the picture to me. I've also been looking at a lot of artwork from Ashley Cope recently. I've been following her on DA for a few years but her artwork is just so amazing and her characters are so interesting and fresh. Here's her website and DA page. GO VIEW HER WORK RIGHT NOW AND BE AMAZED. She's also starting up a webcomic that I like too called Unsounded.

Gosh I can't wait to start working on Alencia's comics. At least her stories will have a longer time to cook.

Snow of the Wilds

Here is a mini comic I did partly to get it out of my head and as a gift for a close friend. He inspires me a lot and has always been there for me so here's my little tribute for him and his character Rorketh.



I think I will do a title page to go with these. I'm planning on putting this comic in the back of the Kale book but it'll be grey scale so none of the colors will show; which bums me out a little bit so I decided to post this version here in all its glory. I really wanted to play with a super limited color pallet and composition. The first page is my favorite because I love how cinimatic it feels. The wide panels really help with the feeling of isolation, at least that was my intention. I also really had to push myself to keep things simple. I kept over crowding and adding too many unnecessary details that hindered the panels instead of helping tell the story. This was a great learning experience and I'm really glad I did it.

Art Post Binge

I got a lot of non comic art work done today.


Family Ties by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Gift for my old room mate and her mom.


Blue Bellydancer Cat by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Older drawing from a few weeks ago that I left at my parent's house and didn't get to scan until now.


Bellydance Birthday by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Birthday gift for a friend.


Those Weird Kids by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
For fun drawing I did for myself last night. The guy is the new human form of Theolyn, Alencia's un-dead cat companion. More will be revealed about these two when I do Alencia's own comics. Which won't be fore a while since I want/need to finish Kale's story first.

Books, books, books!

Hi Everyone!

I'm back in Richmond, finishing up my Summer semester. I'm busy at work finishing things off for class. I also managed to register for Nekocon's Artist Alley today, but I have to wait 30 days to find out if I've been approved, so fingers crossed!

I'm also working on finishing Chapter 2 of Kale so I can have the first issue finished. The book will also include a 5 page mini comic staring Alencia, along with drawings and concept art for the book, and some fan art by talented artists I know. I'm really excited about it and I can't wait to hold the printed books in my hands. I also need to go through all the files for 'Or Maybe Not' and redo the lettering for some of the pages and get them ready for their own book.

I have some artwork to scan. Not a lot, and even less that I can share right now, but I will have something up soon. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!

Busy Bee

I'm home from visiting family, but still busy with school work. I have some things to scan but most of them will be going into the Kale book. I'll post something soon.. hopefully. It may have to be at the weekend. I'm almost done with my summer class tho! Then its' on to Nekocon stuff and finishing up comics!

ALMOST THERE!

Then I will explode with art to share.