thirty

New York City's having a blizzard right now, so I did the sensible thing and built this snowman on my window air conditioning unit.

twenty-nine

A very tiny Totoro plushie.

twenty-eight

Spent three hours painting these...spheres? Pebbles? Phases of the moon? Ghost eggs?

twenty-seven

Sitting figure from the 2nd week of Watercolor class. Drip drip.

twenty-six

Turned a "draw folds in fabric" assignment into "draw animal-headed people in Neo-Victorian outfits" time.

twenty-five

New year, new semester, new living situation, new start.

Backlong from last semester:

-Comics about bird-people (above), rabbits, and witches.

-Etchings: multiple states, hand-blended colours, aquatint fuck-ups.

-Naked people! So many naked people.

Coming soon this semester:

-Experimental short comix

-Oscar Wilde. So many comics, so many drawings.

-Non-naked people.

-Watercolours.

twenty-four

Happy-day-after Halloween! I made the whimsical monster-hoodie myself, a few years ago.

twenty-three

So many comix! That need to be inked!

twenty-two

Update on the previously mentioned gryphon etching:



After putting the second state in the acid bath, I inked the plate for a test print.



Which turned out rather well, I think.



Then, I covered the plate in hard-ground again again, etched a garland of stars and some other symbols into it, then struck the "negative space" of the oval to create a snow-like texture. Next week I get to see how it looks!

twenty-one

For Principles of Cartooning class, we had to expand one of our four-panel autobio comics (I expanded "Long-Distance Relationship") into 24 loose panels. Then we had to draw two more versions of each of those 24 panels, to end up with 72 panels total. These images show my stack.

In class on Wednesday, we got in groups where we went through and picked "the best" version of each-other's panels to create a comic. Below are scans of the panels chosen by the people I was working with. Now I get to turn this mess into a two-page comic!











P.S. Click on any image, then on "view all sizes" to see it larger and more text-reading-friendly.

twenty

Drawing class stuff from last week. This was the homework, another semi-blind contour drawing.



And random sheet of gesture drawings of the model.

nineteen

Sick-day so no new artwork today, but here's this little cuttlefish (or cuddlefish) plushie I made as a gift earlier, seeing as he recently arrived at his new home in Scotland. Very cuddly, adorable, and cephalopod-esque.

eighteen

Working on a gryphon today in etching class. I had to bite this in acid and re-apply the hardground to finish the image because I had an issue with the first coat flaking, you can see those already-bitten lines in light brown here.

seventeen

Started making my first multi-page comic of the year in Storytelling. We're retelling a Brer Rabbit tale in our own way. I turned them into girls. Never been done, apparently. Watch it grow.



First, made several rough thumbnails to get down the pacing/panel layout. This is the one I mostly used.

Then I made "nice thumbnails" for critique in class:







With some tweaking this is going to be on it's way to becoming a finished comic. PS Also click on any to see it larger.

sixteen

Three raccoons showed up by the pier at Turtle Pond today. Probably because the kids were feeding them. Bad idea, but they were awfully cute!