Elfin Face

A caricature from some photo I found on the web:

Hourly Comic Day 2008

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Hourly Comic Day was an interesting experiment. I did it on a bunch of coloured cardstock scraps I had lying around. I was going to sew them up into a booklet, but ran out of steam.

Someone elsewhere said it was just like stalking me, but with all the work done for them.

Gone Daddy Gone

Winter Ninja

I had to dig my front steps out from under a snowdrift today.

TAZ

I've been on a fanart kick lately. Here's Reagan from Templar, Arizona.

Rabid Grannies

I wanted to have the ones in the back beating up some criminal with their umbrellas, but couldn't make it work with their short little limbs.

Partly Done...

That Week Wasn't Going Well

Some days I get really, really tired of doing comics.

Contest

I've just discovered a web cartoonist whose work I used to follow before I got busy is having a contest. I usually have plenty of my own work to do without entering contests, but I've liked her work for years and I'm on a fanart kick this week.




I'd like to not tip my hand too early, so I'll link to the comic once the thing is submitted or the deadline is past.

Guitarist

I've been looking for a replacement for my blue mechanical pencil (which draws really nicely, without being too soft or smearing... but the leads are so thin that they snap if I even look at them wrong). I thought I'd try Col-Erase pencils. Alas, they smear like crazy. Completely worthless for my purposes. :(

I'm thinking of buying wads of cheap hairspray now and fixing every sketchbook page.



Still playing Rockband. My husband likes it so much that he went out and got an electric guitar today. So maybe in the future my guitarists will look like they are actually holding guitars.

The Room of Orange Hands

So I went to bed on January 20, but I had a terrible time getting to sleep. Eventually I woke up from a dream, all twisted up in bed and with half a dozen cramps in various limbs, and I couldn't get back to sleep. Rather than wake my husband up with all the rolling around, I collected my covers and went downstairs, where we have an extra bed.

Once down there, I realized rather muzzily that I hadn't done a sketch that day. Disaster! So I sketched out part of my dream:



In it, I was playing a videogame which consisted of a long chain of rooms, which were all ice rinks, and I had to skate my hockey guy away from other hockey guys who wanted to... I don't know. Talk to him sternly. With sticks. Eventually I got tired of the endless succession of rooms and I needed to pee, so I decided to save the game. This game, apparently, saved a file by dropping your little hockey guy through a trap door and into an enormous, bottomless room of giant orange hands.

The quality is not the best because I was half-asleep, but I kind-of like it.

Toy Division

Future fan art for Toy Division.

Window Watching

Did some people-watching out my work window.

The Classics

I was reading the Temple of the Seven Golden Camels blog today and the article on Sempe and Blake caught my eye. I like sketchy, delicate inky styles very much (about the only inking style I don't love is the heavy-lined woodcut style, and even there I can usually find a few pieces where I think it works well).

Not that these have too much to do with either artist, it's just that my original ink style is sketchy and I'm tired of the clean lines I've been doing lately.




These two are just poses of characters taken from my comic and de-bunnified.

Quick, easy fun sketches. There will probably be more of them here soon.

Dancer

School Bus

I saw a post titled "silly dinosaurs", and sketched out my own version before peeking inside.

January 14th

Rockband

My husband is the local Guitar Hero, since he actually plays the guitar and rhythm games. I... am not.

But at least I know all the words to most of the songs! Thhhbffft!

More Comeeks

Uggh. I feel completely unlike myself today, so you get more comic panel art.



I did a quick colouring job, curious to see how the characters would look in colour. Unfortunately, the monitor is still wonky, and I won't be able to see if the colours look really off until Monday, when I get back to work. Not that there's any guarantee that the monitor at work is also right...

Oh, the travails of digital art.

It occurs to me to add that the girl is supposed to be at least somewhat blue-green.

Tan

Just screwing around. I was going to colour this with pencil crayons (hence the suffusion of orange) but started erasing before the ink was completely dry. Then I had to scan and do some touch-up work at low opacity to prevent her from looking like she had black lasers shooting from her eyes.