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These towels are MINE (dibs!)

I enthusiastically called dibs (pre-ordered) some of Laura Fry's towels-in-progress.

I was having Zoom-based tea with my friend Laura Fry recently. (One of my current goals is to reach out and reconnect with friends.) While we were talking we got to sharing what each of us is working on at the moment. She hit me with these: And I started throwing cash at the screen, which doesn’t work as well as I’d hoped. Seriously though. I fell in love. My kitchen has an orange theme, and I…

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Dating a Vampire

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Here Kitty Kitty

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The Wall

Ever hit a point in your artistic endeavor where something that used to be effortless… you can’t do it anymore? A comics colleague recently expressed this frustration to me. Here was my reply, I thought it might be of interest to other creators. Do you have any thoughts / advice on this subject? I am a new-ish artist, so don’t have much advice on that front. I am a long-time creator of things,…

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Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 14 - 19

Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 14 – 19

Here’s the next part of the story, after Gladdy (a werewolf) has caught Vlad cheating, and thrown him out a window (he’s a vampire; he’s fine). If you’ve got a moment and want to give feedback, here are some questions I have about this. Does the flashback montage on page 15 work? Was the shift in time clear, or confusing? Do pages 18 & 19 work? Do you know what’s happening here? I’m especially…

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Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 20-23

Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 20-23

Previously on VEB: Gladdy (a werewolf) returns home on Valentine’s Day to find her boyfriend (a vampire) cheating on her. They broke up and she threw him (bodily) out of the apartment. Questions: Was Gladdy’s break-up snack clear? Do you have a clue what Jules in doing on page 2, panel 2? Was it clear or confusing when you first ran across it? Any other thoughts or feedback? Bonus Extra Help?…

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Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Outline

As I’m working on cranking out roughs for VEB, I thought it was a good idea to tighten up the outline. My latest version is below.  SPOILERS: It’s, you know, an outline of the whole story. 🙂 Setting A modern-day city, much like Seattle. The existence of supernatural creatures (vampires, werewolves, witches, etc.) is unknown to the general (human) populace. Characters Gladiola (Gladdy) — a…

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Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 10-13

Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 10-13

The confrontation continues.

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Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 3-9

Vampire Ex-Boyfriend Roughs: pages 3-9

The main thing I’m going to be working on between now and December is cranking out roughs for Vampire Ex-Boyfriend, and getting feedback from the folks at Sequential Artist Workshop and, should you feel so inclined, you! Roughs are exactly that, a very rough sketch of how the art might be positioned in the panel. It focuses on the action, how the panel is composed, camera angle, text…

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2021 Anthologies

Hello, just a quick note to say that I haven’t forgotten about the 2021 anthologies. They got pushed out due to the final project of the SAW year-long program. I’m working on them again and plan to have them formatted and submitted to Mixam (the printing house) by the end of June. Thank you for your patience and your support! Syne

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Monthly Zoom Chats?

I’m contemplating putting together a monthly zoom for us to get together and chat about comics. Would you be interested in that?

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Inspiring Underdrawing

One of the things I’ve been doing in order to learn how to draw people better is called underdrawing. This means drawing the bones and muscles first, and then laying the figure drawing on top of these. It helps with proportion and placement of features.  This is an amazing underdrawing done by Aytaç Armağan that I find inspiring (edited so Patreon won’t fuss me.) You can see more of Aytac’s…

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Learning to draw cats

Learning to draw cats

In order to draw my comic about the vampire cat, I first needed to learn how to draw cats. A great way to learn how to draw a person or animal is to start with their skeletal form, so I went online and found images of articulated cat skeletons. I’m part of a student-led group that’s studying human anatomy. The regular leader was on vacation, so I offered to teach a session on cats. The hour long…

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I played with barbies...

I played with barbies…

The flash-mob comics anthology, Dune, that I’m a part of happened tonight, and this is the comic I created for it.  My goals for this comic were: 1) See how few lines I could draw and still get a pose across2) Keep the lines loose and full of energy3) Learn how to do digital watercoloring (first steps, anyway) This was the Clip Studio Paint tutorial I followed:…

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Barbies (Bonus Content)

The comic from the previous post looks interesting without the lines. That last panel especially. Thought you appreciated this “behind the lines” peek.

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Discord & Rhyme

Discord & Rhyme

In my SAW classes, we’re looking at ways to combine images and text in different ways. Sometimes even in ways that don’t completely connect. This exercise was to write a childhood memory, then look at dozens of silent Nancy comic panels (they gave us a link to them), and match up panels to your story. It was oddly easy to find panels that would fit. (Nancy comics are pretty iconic, the folks at…

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SAW Final Project: "Here Kitty Kitty..."

SAW Final Project: “Here Kitty Kitty…”

As my year-long program with the Sequential Artist Workshop winds down to the end, I had to do a final six-page project. I’ve been heads down the past couple of months working on it, which is why things have been kinda quiet around here. 🙂 My final project is a bonus comic set in the world of Vampire Ex-Boyfriend, it features the origin story of Mr. Whiskers. This is the first half, the second…