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I'm supposed to be doing comics but I'm having a pretty slow weekend, what with the dinners and the birthday and the friends and the trick or treaters. So I spent an hour listening to Lady Gaga videos and sketching whatever popped out on the page.

Back to comics tomorrow, I guess.

POW Panel

Last page I'm doing for POW.

I'm going to be posting the pages on my DeviantArt account starting today. So by next week sometime you should be able to see the whole thing. It's a story fragment right now, it might get a proper ending sometime between now & then.

Meeting Sketches

Just experimenting with weird people shapes.

Zombie Me

Probably won't get to finish this CHOW on time since I've still got two POW (Panels of the Week) pages to clean up and I'm going out to dinner tomorrow and Saturday, but I'm going to have to finish this one up sometime because hey -- it's not every day you get to be undead.

Aah, I had a great idea for a Hallowe'en costume this year but I don't own quite enough things to pull it off. I was going to go as an anime catgirl, put a big stack of manga on my desk and "desu" at everybody at work all day. But the only anime t-shirt I own is this one and it's not exactly safe for work. And one ridiculous cat hat doesn't a catgirl make. Or hell, maybe it does! Maybe I should do it anyway.

Next year I'm going to get a fake beard and suspenders and go as a Bob. A Sysadmin Bob.

More Montreal People

On our last full day in Montreal we went to Tamtams, the gathering at Mont Royal Park where people play the drums, dance, juggle, conduct mock battles, make out on the grass and have a good time in general. I had a fun time dancing even though the heat and humidity were downright nasty and Neil was inexplicably disgruntled by the whole thing.  I have never had a pair of jeans actually be stuck to my legs before.

Anyway, I sketched a few people while I was there.  Here's a dancer, a juggler and a vendor of hippie equipment.

Montreal People

A lady I saw in a mall in Montreal. It was rather difficult finding a place to sketch that had a decent view of either scenery or people that Neil would not get bored with rather quickly.

Sketchbook Page

Trying to get that commission finished up, then comic strips, then I'll be finishing that POW submission.

In the meantime, have some random sketches!

RPG Character

I started tabletop gaming up again a few months ago. I'm playing a priestess who's very short on charisma.

Zombie Ophelia

Horses

Doing some horse gesture sketches from photos for a commission. It's been a while since I did horses. Edit: drew horses. It's been a while since I drew horses.

Also, I think I ought to inform you about Icelandic Horses. They are hairy and awesome.

Sheep

A quick sheep sketch from a stock photo.

Faces

Goblin Officer

I don't think I posted this guy here before. If I did I apologize.

Page 2 - Panel

I didn't scan anything tonight. Well, nothing that I can show on a blog anyway. So here's a panel from the next POW page.

Hallowe'en Character

First design for Hallowe'en comic character.

Hallowe'en Comic

Thought I'd give POW (Panels of the Week) a try this time around 'cause it's Hallowe'en and it must be time for a Hallowe'en comic!

(I forgot to post this yesterday. Lost a Life Point in Health Month. Bleargh!)

More Office Animals

Birdhouse

An old birdhouse that used to sit in our yard.

Photoshop, about an hour.

Girl

Just a quick sketch. No ref.

Naginata Do

Digital painting from one of my own reference photos, shot at the Heritage Festival last year (I think). A naginata-do demonstration.

Photoshop, about 1 hour.

Parc La Fontaine 2

I got the name of the park wrong in my sketchbook.

Anyway, more life sketching from Montreal.

Influence Meme!

I didn't draw any of this stuff! But it's where my art has come from. :)

Insect Armor

I was working on this for last week's Chow but didn't get it finished up. I'm trying to do more delicate inking digitally. I do a better job inking with pen & ink but I have big problems with skew. The pen version of this looks nicely dynamic but of course as soon as I flip it I see it's completely out of balance. Bleah. This, on the other hand, is reasonably balanced but has other issues.

Anyway, I signed up for Health Month and one of my rules is to post a drawing every day this month! Thank goodness for the "scheduled" feature on blog posts. :P :)

Office Sketches

More office animals!