Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Thumbnail/Pencil Dump PART DEUX!

BEHOLD. The result of what I've been doing for the past 5 days. Pages 11-24 of my comic issue in this OH-SO-VERY looong image.


...The first ten pages of this comic issue started as thumbnails, as you can see in my older post.
Because I'm insane and continuously stay awake until 4am, I started getting more and more detailed so these will just.... end up being the pencils. Time to go back and revise on page 1-10 to be as detailed as these. ...sigh.

Monday, July 13, 2009

VOTE!


I've submitted Buried as an iPhone skin design for Infectious!
BUT. It won't be made into a design until I get all you peoples to VOTE! You can do it right here:
http://www.infectious.com/voting/kiwifruitbird/buried/2967

You don't even need to sign up with Infectious if you have Facebook! Soooo easy! Whatcha waitin' for? Go vote! Do it now!

Friday, July 10, 2009

CHOP!

I don't know what it is with me. I either draw origami cranes, or people cutting their hair. It's a recurring theme. I think it's because I've cut my own hair since entering college to save money every year.


I feel like there's nothing greater than a person that's comfortable enough with their own image that they're not attached to their hair. I get frustrated when I hear women say they're terrified a hairdresser will make them 'look like a boy' if they cut their hair short; gain some confidence!

Granted, it's so fascinating that people can hold so much emotional baggage in hair. It becomes a permanently attached security blanket, fastened to the skull. And it can reduce someone to tears to literally separate that connection to these tendrils that were present for all those meaningful milestones in the past. It can take months to grow, but mere seconds to rid yourself of those strands!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Thumbnail dump

No finished/colored stuffs today. I'm finally taking action in getting the 'epic comic' out of my head and down onto paper. It's exhilarating and terrifying all at the same time. Here are some tiny thumbnails of the first 10 pages.

After reading up on Paul Duffield's methods for making comic pages, I'm thinking of printing lightly drawn out pages as well, but instead of penciling over them as he does, I think I might get myself a light-box and go with that method for inking. Experimentation is happening!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Buried v2.0 - & Worn?

Remake of a waaaay older illustration I used to have on my business cards. I think this represents the direction my work's been going in a much better way. Being buried like this properly represents how I feel whenever I freak out about illustration. This MIGHT be the new postcard image...


Oh yeah. Thinner lines!! I think I'm happier about that. More simplistic colors/shadows too.

...Granted I drew a whole bunch of origami cranes again. I really can't get away from them! They're too much fun to draw. I suppose this can go with this week's Illustration Friday! topic of 'Worn' as well. My hands would certainly be worn from folding all those paper cranes.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

bots

...I used to draw a lot more Robots. I haven't done anything like this in a really long time.

Awhile ago, I said I was going to loosen up my drawings. ...and I seem to have gotten all tightened up again. When I was in school, professors said I lost a lot of the beauty that was in my sketches when I would complete illustrations. Since I started working a lot more digitally, it seems that my sketches are severely lacking from what they used to be out of being lazy. I think I'll be sketching a lot more with pens and brushes again. ...and I'm debating on using thinner lines like in this sketch. ...Or changing my usual color palettes. Hm. Seems a lot of changes are in order!

Monday, June 29, 2009

Complete

...Did I ever post the completed version of this? Possibly, possibly not. Anyway, here's the completed version of 'Lil Miss Hood.