The Maze Pg. 2

Here's page 2 of The Maze, the comic drawn by me and written by the amazing Kaitlin for our Graphic Novel class.  You can find the first page here or by scrolling down to the earlier post.

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The Maze Pg. 1

This semester one of the classes I'm taking is a graphic novel class.  My half of the class does the art, while the other half writes it.  Luckily for me I got paired up with my friend Kaitlin who is a fantastic writer and we set to work. :)

This comic is a short, 8 page story.  I will be uploading it one page at a time over the course of the next week.  It was drawn in blue pencil on 11x14 inch bristol board and then inked by brush with india ink and (rather disappointing) sharpie pens.  

The Maze Pg. 1

Ferris Wheels and Faraway Places: Adventures at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair

After a too-long absence from the blog-sphere, I return!
And guess what I have news about...

Later today (when I finish cutting and cropping and resizing my huge folder of images) my illustrated children's book will be sent off to Lulu.com for its rough draft printing!

And even more exciting than the draft printing, my book now has a title. "Ferris Wheels and Faraway Places: Adventures at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair"

For months I've been calling it "the book" and "the worlds fair thing" so a title was a much needed addition for this little project.  The title is all in thanks of professors who were able to think of titles less corny (and silly) than my initial idea of "ferris wheels and lightbulbs!"  XD

Blue Doodles and Noodle Arms

Remember that blue sharpie I nabbed from the SEA conference? It got used quite a bit.  :)

So I drew this lady, stealing this kid.  And decided, despite it's similarities to Tangled, it was awesome and there had to be at least two more drawings of them.

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I really enjoyed using this bendy people style.  It was liberating and oodles of fun.  These are going in my "do more with these" pile to develop further.  Along with a whole slew of other doodles... *sigh* 

Character Sketch: Sheena

Surprise! I've got a blog update and it's using real media (what a shocker, I know!) I'm trying to use up the last few pages of my notebook so I have an excuse to buy a new sketchbook. ;)

My friend Kaitlin is working on a young adult novel and let me draw her main character, Sheena.  It's rough and not quite the character, but it's ... close.

I'm going to try and re-work it in Photoshop.  One of the first things I'm going to do is to make that afro bigger!  (It kinda looks like a deflated beach ball... and that's just not right.)  :D

Doodle: Hippo Illustration!

I doodled a hippo last night.  He is pretty flat as far as illustrations go, so I'll probably leave him alone and move on to more exciting drawings.
:)

I'm always looking for prompts to draw, so if you have an idea feel free to blurt it out in the comments section.  I can't promise I'll draw it, but chances are high!