March 10, 2013

Shiro and Rat. 
Sigh. These kids are so hard to draw, and they still don’t look right; their design still isn’t hitting my sweet spot. Designing characters for comics is hard and so important, and often I don’t think people take it as seriously as they should. The way your character looks defines who they are and how the reader responds to them. Designing characters for comics is different from designing them for animation (there are some factors you don’t have to take into consideration), but it amazes me when people don’t take the time to make their characters work visually on the comic page. It’s more than just putting a shirt on a body type, everything we wear says something about who we are and what we want and where we belong as a human being, and comics miss that SO DANG HARD sometimes. Clark Kent’s glasses & suit say just as much about him as a character as his Superman outfit. 

Anyway. Some day I will get these guys right. Or die trying.

9:59am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxfxZsum
(Notes: 144)
  
Filed under: comics artwork Artists on Tumblr character design 
February 17, 2013
A birthday card for my grandmother. Spring is very … slowly … coming to Nova Scotia. 

A birthday card for my grandmother. Spring is very … slowly … coming to Nova Scotia. 

8:33am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxeLNU1Z
(Notes: 98)
  
Filed under: artwork Artists on Tumblr 
January 23, 2013
It has been a poopy day, have a drawing.

It has been a poopy day, have a drawing.

8:42pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxcV4Ttt
(Notes: 179)
  
Filed under: artwork comics drawing girl 
January 4, 2013
Holy cow, actual artwork! It’s been so long! Allison and Sean from my boyfriend Tim’s adorable webcomic, Mush a Mush. I drew this for him for Christmas. 

Holy cow, actual artwork! It’s been so long! Allison and Sean from my boyfriend Tim’s adorable webcomic, Mush a Mush. I drew this for him for Christmas. 

9:53pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxa_vJo1
(Notes: 87)
  
Filed under: webcomics comics artwork fanart mushamush 
October 31, 2012
Digital sketch of the Last of Us:American Dreams girls. Ellie is sick of yo nonsense, yo!

Digital sketch of the Last of Us:American Dreams girls. Ellie is sick of yo nonsense, yo!

9:43pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxWMR5Zy
(Notes: 97)
  
Filed under: Last of Us artwork videogames 
June 3, 2012

Two more pieces of concept art from that reboot of my old webcomic Ice. The one on the top was drawn using reference of Brooklyn (I think, it was a while ago), and I remember it took two freakin’ days to draw. The structure on the left is a winter greenhouse which is where, assumedly, those lacking power and stuck in a environment of constant winter would grow foodstuffs. The bottom illustration is a barricade (modeled on a certain East German barricade, subtle :D) fencing off the powered government section of the city, where the rich folks live in relative normality. There’s also a third section of the city which is kind of a bootleg section; it has some power & heat, but it’s mostly run by criminals.

7:55pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxMiQHsz
(Notes: 136)
  
Filed under: webcomics steampunk science fiction comics artwork 
May 31, 2012
Zombies in love! D’aww. 

Zombies in love! D’aww. 

9:26pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxMWStnZ
(Notes: 91)
  
Filed under: love zombies artwork 
May 26, 2012
Posting from the coffee shop! A doodle of Marceline from Adventure Time I did on my computer just now. I didn’t really care for the first season of that show, but I got through the 2nd season in my frenzy of comic inking (working 12 hour days uuuugh), and I liked it much better. I like the show best when it’s dealing with its cast and how they interact. 

Posting from the coffee shop! A doodle of Marceline from Adventure Time I did on my computer just now. I didn’t really care for the first season of that show, but I got through the 2nd season in my frenzy of comic inking (working 12 hour days uuuugh), and I liked it much better. I like the show best when it’s dealing with its cast and how they interact. 

3:18pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxMBK7v0
(Notes: 73)
  
Filed under: adventure time marceline fanart artwork 
May 25, 2012

Concept art from a reboot of my old webcomic Ice (warning: seriously NSFW). I have more of this which I’ll post another time. If you’re not familiar with Ice, the basic concept is this: England is locked in a 20 year winter and a brutal energy crisis that has ground society to a halt. Sarah (the red-haired girl) finds a lost item which may be the key to the energy crisis. The corrupt government wants it back, willing to kill for it, etc etc. 

I boiled the idea down to its basics and rebooted it set in the US, which was a lot of fun. Originally I thought the story wouldn’t work set in the States, as class hierarchy is a big issue in the original comic, but then the Occupy America stuff (not to mention what’s happening in Montreal right now, or what happened in Toronto for the G-20 summit) made it completely relevant. Scary. :P 

8:32pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxM8TuVu
(Notes: 112)
  
Filed under: ice webcomics artwork science fiction comics 
May 19, 2012

I was sick a little while back, and sick of being sick. I decided I wanted to remain upright and at least sort of productive, but didn’t feel up to actually working. So I drew some Korra fanart. 

SO AMAZING. Haha! I mauled the crap out of the paper so that it was pretty much un-inkable, so decided to use my snazzy lightbox to ink the drawing on to another sheet of paper. However, because I draw with light blue col-erase, I couldn’t see the sketch well enough through the paper to ink it properly. So I made a graphite sketch on top of this one:

I used the graphite sketch to change what I didn’t like about the original sketch (her legs and shoulder angle, mostly). I don’t ever draw with graphite, because … well, see the first sketch? My sketches are crazy messy when I begin, and the blue pencil, which is waxy and doesn’t smudge, works better for me. (I have this weird habit of unconsciously rubbing the side of my hand across the paper as I work, which leaves a large blue patch on the side of my right hand.) So then I put another sheet of paper on top of the graphite sketch, and inked on top of that:

Ta da! The original doesn’t have the blue tint, but y’know, Water Triiiiiibe! :D

Anyway, I don’t normally work this way (I usually go from blue pencil sketch straight to inks, on the same piece of paper), but it was an interesting exercise for a sick day. :)

9:37am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZOSWCxLldta5
(Notes: 145)
  
Filed under: legend of korra korra process artwork fanart 
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