Sketchbook

Goodness, what a long week!

The bad news is that I made nothing worthy of showing in terms of finished pieces, but, the good news is I can finally sleep! Next week, too, seems like it'll be slightly more relaxed, which will give me time to recharge and make work I'm proud of!

In the mean time, have some sketchbook pages!



I started a new sktchbook sometime last week, and I'm been having a lot of fun so far! I'm really taking this time to loosen up and stop being so obsessive compulsive with detail. Brush pens and drawing fencers (who have this awesome hardcore grace about them) have really helped in this respect.

What's Your Story?

Do the colors make sense? Probably not. Does this need more contrast tweaking? Yes.



Illustration for Grimm Fairy Tale "Six Swans". The empty space in the sky is meant for text (which will be another challenge in itself). Still learning!

And a preview of what's to come for next week (oh man double page spread!):




(Also, making book illustrations makes me miss comics.)

Comic (Con!)

So, Comic Con this weekend: ABSOLUTELY CRAZY (and quite wonderful)!

So big! So many people! And, most importantly, so many comics! I spend quite a lot of time at the awesome bande dessinée booth, and it's pretty safe to say the guys there made a little bit too much money off of me -- might have to lay off buying books (or things in general) for a little while. Looks like those Kazuo Oga books will have to wait too, alas.

Until then I have the wonderful, wonderful "Alim le tanneur" comics by Virginie Augustin (Goeblins graduate, employee of Disney France, and draftsman/colorist extraordinaire) to keep me gawking. Plus, the comics are in French, so I may be spending quality time with google translate (and maybe, hopefully, pick up a word or two in French). I've been able to get through a few pages via text, but the general gist of the story is understandable through visuals alone.

Having fallen madly in love with her colors, I pretty much just yanked them from a page and implemented them into my assignment for Friday:

Learning!

This week's assignment: Create a 6 panel comic in vertical or horizontal format depicting a historical moment or event.

It was hard thinking of something for this one, especially since my professor decided it would be a good idea to tell us his favorite piece from the past. While this idea was REALLY good, it completely threw me off because I kept thinking back to it, and comparing ideas to that example. Slightly frustrating, but, it is done!

It's far from perfect, but I'm learning!