Clockwork Update

Hello everyone! I'm getting some things sorted out today (errands and chores that need to be done) and spending some time with loved ones so to make up for yesterday's lack of a proper update, as well as today and tomorrow I'm going to post a special treat for you! A six page comic! This was the comic I did for an anthology that later got cut from the book. It's a snippet from a story I was working on in early college, a steampunk-horror-scifi involving a scientist who uses his wife as a prototype for a military robot project as well as kidnapping other people. The rest of the story is a rescue mission involving other characters, but this mini comic just concentrates on the scientist.

The comic pages were on 5x8" watercolor paper and were drawn with pencil, inked with pocket Pentel brush pen, and toned with India ink. The color washes, as well as text and speech bubbles, were added in Photoshop. I definitely want to experiment with water-coloring comics in the future and have been looking to comics like Blacksad for inspiration. I hope to have my pages that well painted in the future.

Let me know what you think! Enjoy, and see you in a few days horror fans!

Updates!

I can't believe it's August already. Where has the summer gone? Granted I'm pretty ready for fall :P

I just wanted to let everyone know what's going down as things are changing a lot in the world of Fran.

1. Comics
Right now I have a three page update for OMN waiting to be looked over and hopefully put up tonight. I didn't tone or color it like I had planned to because I was invited to take part in a Steampunk Anthology comic by a friend of mine so I'll be trying my hardest to finish up a few pages of comic for that. I'm really excited about it and did a little coloring test to see what kind of style I'll be doing it in.

I've decided to do the comic on watercolor paper with ink and inkwash, and then color flat colors under it in photoshop. This will allow me to have the black and white versions of the comic that I like doing, while providing the book with colored pages that they require. Long time followers might remember this gentleman as he's a hint to what story I'm adapting for this book :)

2. VA Comicon
The Alencia fan art contest ends on the 4th, and any entries I get will be formatted into the book, and it will be sent off to get printed. I am SUPER excited! Also a bit nervous as the con gets closer and things around me get more hectic. But I'm too excited to let the nervousness last too long :P

3. Side Projects
My media studies for the most part are on hold but in their place I've been doing a "30 day monster girl challenge" on tumblr. I've been using it as a character design/media excercise and it's been going well so far. Click the link there to follow the tag on my art tumblr. It will resume after the comic anthology is done (as that deadline is pretty close).

4. Kale
After sitting down and thinking it over I've decided I'm going to restart my Kale story. The first issue, while being an important early mile stone in my comics career, doesn't allow me to take the story in the directions I'd like to. So I'm working on completely rewriting it, and already I'm seeing a massive improvement. I'll bring more news and behind the scenes look at the story as I work on it.

Okay that's all I have for now. Keep an eye open for an OMN update either late tonight or tomorrow!

Big Sketch Post!

Here it is! I finally sat down and scanned the best of my new sketches. I've been busy lately getting ready for my summer online class (took the online orientation today) and I just set up an LJ blog for our "Or Maybe Not" comics over here. We'll be posting creator and character profiles soon then I'll start posting comic pages! :D


Here's my Clockwork Queen painting that I started at SCAD this time last year. I finally finished it! As I learn about painting I might do a bigger, more elaborate one but that'll be later.


Doodle I did to celebrate Free Comic Book Day. I loved it and I will celebrate it every year from now on!


This was going to be a mother's day card but I didn't get my tablet and computer back in time to color it and get it printed. I think I might turn it into a 'Thinking of you" card.


Ryan and I have been watching Sonic SAT AM so I drew Bunny from it. Which was hard to do because everyone draws her legs differently (the box art for the show is fan art from lots of different people). I've also been enjoying the new Spectacular Spiderman show so I thought it would be great if Dork Mate and Spork Bunny ran into him and got a photo :P I need to do a bigger better version to color now XD And a dancing robot. Because.




My new 'The Slayers' RPG character. No really, it exists! Ryan got it for me at the last VAComicon we went to. She still needs a name...


Speaking of RPGs, here's Kale and Ryan's character Khalid. He's either hitting on her or telling her a dirty joke. Or a combination of both. Most likely both.


Here's the STILL NAMELESS villain of Kale's. Don't worry, I'll name her if it kills me. Soon to be colored.


Dork Mate to the rescue! Soon to be a companion card to the Spork Bunny trading card.


When ever I need to chill or relax, nothing de-stresses me better than drawing georgious, frilly lolita dresses. *sigh* So here is OMN's Loli Fran in the "Party Princess dress" from Angelic Pretty.


So that's all I have for now! Keep an eye out on the Or Maybe Not blog and hopefully we'll have some comics up soon!

Weekend Sketches

After doing some sketches this weekend I realized that I sketch quite a bit, especially after a whole week. So I decided that I should try to post some of my best sketches from the week here, since I post my more finished pieces at Deviantart and Fur Affinity.

Here are a few from this weekend


Here is a little color doodle of Victoria from my comic "Clockwork Queen". I haven't drawn anything from this series in a long time and I barely give Victoria any drawing time outside of the comic so it was quite refreshing to draw this. I was going to have Millie running after her but the page cut her off.


Some brush pen practice and a chibi of Kale with her hair grown out.


Kale looks around 8 or 9 years old with that shoulder length hair. Also her mother makes a debut! I decided her mother and father met on their own adventuring quest. (Her mother is a moon elf and her father is human).
Kale is just insanely fun to draw ;_; She's so pretty.

I love seeing sketches and WIP work of other artists so I'll try my best to keep up these sketch posts!

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Pictures and Plans

Here's a few new 'finished' pieces from Deviantart that I've done recently.
I love markers <3


Super Friends by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART

Here's a new character I'm developing as a villain for my half elf Kale. She still doesn't' have a name yet.

I wanna be evil I wanna be bad by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART

So after this weekend I've got four more weeks at school. It's a little worrying because I wanted to redo a few design projects and touch up some drawing projects so I'm gonna have to manage my time wisely. I've also written up a schedule for when I'm taking what objects home from my dorm. It pays to organize, even though dad says "do it all at once, that's what I got the truck for!" :P

I also got a new sketchbook! (always happy news) It's a bigger hardcover, thicker than I usually get, sketchbook so I'm hoping it lasts a little longer than the micron pen books I've been getting. (They're nice but pretty thin so I go through them quickly).
I also want to decorate it but I'm not sure what to put on it yet. The cover is textured so it might not take stickers so well...

To do this weekend:
+ work on book jacket project
+ prime canvas and do color tests for painting
+ finish Alex's T-shirt design sketches and prepair for scanning
+ tweak previous design poster project (get it printed?)


I've also been thinking about my plans for the summer.
(without job)
+ work on Clayton Chronicles comic
+ do Cubeecraft toys of whole Clayton Chronicles cast
+ finish bookmarks from last summer and do new ones
+ work on layouts for Clockwork Queen
+ research getting web-space/web-page
+ Do downloadable wallpapers for comics
+ save up money for an 11"x17" scanner (almost there!)
+ Start working on pitch packet for Clayton Chronicles
+ Rework Clockwork Queen pitch packet
(with job)
+ work on Clayton Chronicles
+ research getting web-space
+ save up for scanner and other tools
+ CWQ layouts?
+ Start working on pitch packet for Clayton Chronicles

That's the plan

Poictesme Submission #2

Sarah Winters- Poictesme Sub by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART

My second illustration for Poictesme, VCU's literary/art anthology. This time starring the robotic Sarah Winters from my comic Clockwork Queen.
I'm not sure what the next illustration will be, but I gotta work on some figure drawing homework, so I'm off!

Clockwork Queen- Samantha Sketches

CWQ- Samantha Sketches by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART

Here are some sketches I uploaded last night of Samantha Carlouso before she became an airship captain. She's had a hard life.

Clockwork Queen Sticker Design

Here is the sticker design I finished yesterday:



I'd like to put a URL underneath the title but I'm not sure if it should be my DA address or this blog. I'll decide later.

Still no sign of my bristol board. I think I have to wait 10 days so tomorrow will be a week. Not really worth complaining tho, it gives me time to work on this stuff :D

More to come!

A DA facelift, bookmarks and stickers

I decided to make a new ID for my Deviantart page today:



Or see it here with commentary! The colors remind me of Magnito now that's done but that's not a bad thing.

I've got batch 3 of the Clayton Chronicles bookmarks drawn and inked. This is the next four in the series. I think that will be all for now, I don't want to make too many for now. Next I'll be doing about 4 or so Clockwork Queen bookmarks and a sticker. The sticker will be a chibi version of Sarah Winters (as a robot) with a little gear for a halo then it will say "Clockwork Queen" underneath it. I have it drawn and inked already, I just need to scan and color it and put the title underneath it. I'm really excited. I plan on making the stickers through Paper Forest eventually.

Well I better head off now, I can hear a storm coming outside : / I hate summer storms but we do need the rain...

Madonna and Child Painting- WIP

Hello all!
This update is about a painting that I had in my head and have finally started today. It is the robot of Sara Winters, and a robot baby, posing like the many "Madonna and Child" paintings (I've seen so many in my Survey of Western Art II class that they stuck in my head). This will accompany my Clockwork Queen comic, maybe as back cover. One day.



I haven't gotten to do a lot of work on the comic itself so it's nice to be able to work on this. School has been taking over my weekends. But I did get some new comic book paper (manga paper actually) but I really like working with it so I'm hoping to at least get some layout pages done. It's smaller than the usual 11x17 inches, this stuff is A4 sized. I prefer working on a smaller scale. So hopefully I'll have some pages done by the end of the quarter, but I'm not totally counting on it. Unfortunately school comes first then fun art. I'm trying to get all A's this quarter, and the next (I managed to snag all sequential classes! so happy!) so I can get into the honors program at VCU when I transfer next fall. Ugghh *dies*

A picture update

A new Clockwork Queen sketch!


I thought it would be funny to show Mick trying to show Samantha his affections for her. His face looks really sincere, and she looks more angry than she really is. This idea popped into my head when I saw sketch #5 of Brichan's character meme: http://bri-chan.deviantart.com/art/character-meme-reginald-74849226 Check out her DA site while you're there, she does the cutest Alice in Wonderland fan art XD

School has been really busy but I'm trying to squeeze in more work on the comic whenever I can. I love drawing and writing it so I'm not quitting. I'm also cooking up plans for a Samantha cosplay for when I take the mini comics to cons. I can't wait. :D I'll post links for costuming ideas too when I find some.

Stay steamy!

Age of Progress

So today in my spare time I started the first page for the first chapter of Clockwork Queen. It's a few scenes that happen before the mini comic began so I'm not restarting, but I might redo some of the mini comic pages. Especially after my life drawing class. Some of the characters just looked way too flat to me, so with improvements in skill come improvements in work. I'll try to at least post some WIP photos of pages, and a watercolor picture of Millie. I'm also working on watercolor portraits of each of the characters for CWQ. I love my cheap $2 Crayola watercolors <3

More to come soon!

Updates

After a long drought, I bring you some news!
Worry not, the lack of updating on here does not reflect my actual work for Clockwork Queen. Now that the holidays have settled down I have gone on a writing spree and more story has been developed. I am a happy girl :) I've got a few art updates at Deviantart of characters from a steampunk story I'm working on with a dear friend. It takes place in the same world as Clockwork Queen and there might be a cross over some time in the future? We'll see ;) Gotta get these stories done first!

Here are my pictures for the curious at heart:

Christmas at Finnley Mannor
Thank You El Goro

New Doll + school work

I decided to change the doll for this month. I made one of my new steampunk character "Layla Von Gedge". She's a genuis. <3
I'm still working on her so I'll post sketches when she's more developed and fleshed out.

Today I will be working on finishing the pencils for my storyboards (Children of Man), and doing some more pages for the Clockwork Queen mini comic.

off to work...

CWQ update

I drew a quick/rough Clockwork Queen comic of Mick (the airship pilot) and Samantha (his navigator). I'll post a better version when I finally get time to draw it out.
http://spork-bunny.deviantart.com/art/Rough-CWQ-Comic-67977227
I have some more sketchbook doodles and page layouts done too. And two projects to work on this week so I'll be swamped. Hopefully I can squeeze in some CWQ in the meantime.

Clockwork Queen update

Here are some sketchs from my tiny sketchbook (4in X 6in) regarding the clockwork queen story:


Here is Larson, our excentric inventor/researcher.



Here's a little sketch of Millie the Mechanic making her debute at a fancy party. The guy with the monicle is the male twin in the story. He doesn't have a name yet. Ideas for names are welcomed ^^;



Here is the captain and navigator of an airship (still need to design that and name them). They helps the kids out later on their quest to stop the mad scientist.

More to come later. I'm off to St. Paul's Greek Othodox Church for an art history feild trip. I hope the weather stays nice.

Writings and Workshops

I got A LOT of writing done last night for Clockwork Queen. I have the first half or third of the book planned out. I still have to name characters and flesh them out some more. I also came up with this neat female character who is a navigator for an airship (what's a steampunk story without an airship? nothing I tell you!) I also need to flesh out the captain of her ship. I think they will help our 'heros' with their mission. *so excited*

I'm going to a workshop today for "Dynamic Fight Scenes" and they will teach us how to draw them. I'm excited because it's a subject I find chalenging and I believe that being able to draw them will help me improve. I look forward to taking figure drawing class and anatomy. I like how my figures turn out but sometimes I look at them later and it's like "why is that arm so long? Why are those legs so short?" kinda deal. I just look forward to improving ^_^ I dont' want to drastically change anything, I'm really happy with my style, I just want improve it.

I have to start doing homework today so more Clockwork Queen will have to wait for spare time -_-

Personal Projects

I've done some more work for Clockwork Queen today. I'm working with the characters and trying to develope them and their relationships with eachother. I have to make sure to keep stedily working on my homework.
I have to do the pencils (blue non photo pencil) for my animation storyboards (12- 15 of them). I'm doing a little fox lady (in the vien of animal crossing so stubby little legs and big head). It's really cute and my teacher was enthusiastic about it so I'm excited too. We have to have a walk cycle and a "squash and stretch" which is where they jump over something and their body gets all distorted.
For sequential class I have to do 6 comic strips. I'm doing them as a series called "I can do that" where it basically follows a girl as she persues her dream of being a comic book artist. I'm basing them on things that happened to me and things I hope will happen. I'm thinking of splitting it up into sections like the first strip being a short intro into how she started drawing/knew she wanted to be a comic artist, and then a few high school strips, then some convention ones, then waiting to see an editor or graduating from SCAD. fun fun

Here is a sketch of the Clockwork Queen herself:

It's small because I don't want people to steal my ideas but I still want to show it off.

And for fun here are some pictures of my workspace from last night and a few weeks ago:


This one was from the very begining of this month, before I got sick. I haven't had tea since then.

I'm going to post my Halo 3 storyboards here: www.spork-bunny.deviantart.com They are too big to post here ^^;
See you all later!