#TCAF 2019

[itswalky]

I'm returning to Toronto this weekend for TCAF!  For the first time since 2019, which was a crazy different time with no worldwide plagues, I'll be boothing up inside the Toronto Reference Library!  On both May 11 and 12th, you can find me on the first floor sharing table 105!  That's in the big round window area on the far street corner.  I'll have books!  I'll have magnets!  I'll be judging your different Smarties!

See you there!

[watercups]

TCAF Report: Shirahama Kamome Live Drawing

1. Her tools and where I'd buy them

2. Art References

3. Process Notes

4. Drawing Technique Notes

5. Further Process Recordings

STAEDTLER 925-25 Silver Series Drafting Pencil - 0.9 mm

https://www.jetpens.com/Staedtler-925-25-Silver-Series-Drafting-Pencil-0.9-mm/pd/5307

Pentel GraphGear 500 Drafting Pencil - 0.9 mm

(not used at live drawing, but in video from 2019)

https://www.dickblick.com/items/pentel-graph-gear-500-pencil-09-mm-gray-barrel/

COPIC Multiliner Pen - B-2 - 9 Pen Set

https://www.jetpens.com/Copic-Multiliner-Pen-B-2-9-Pen-Set/pd/12491

ZEBRA Permanent Marker Hi-Mckee

B-MO-150-MC-BK

https://www.vertekfilms.com/product-page/permanent-marker

Tokyo Slider SL2011 Double-Sided Nib Holder

(not used at live drawing, but in video from 2019/2022)

https://www.jetpens.com/Tokyo-Slider-SL2011-Double-Sided-Nib-Holder/pd/14733

Seisyo(?) Ink

(not used at live drawing, but mentioned)

(brand unidentified)

Pilot Drafting Pen Ink - Black - 30 ml Bottle

(not used at live drawing, but in video from 2022)

https://www.jetpens.com/Pilot-Drafting-Pen-Ink-Black-30-ml-Bottle/pd/6634

Kneaded Eraser

(brand unknown, but in video from 2022)

https://www.jetpens.com/Prismacolor-Kneaded-Rubber-Eraser-Medium/pd/15859

-- Art References

Arthur Rackham

Peeters - Les Cités Obscures

-- Process Notes

1. Blue charcoal sketch (mentioned but skipped for the live drawing)

2. Drafting pencil sketch

3. Ink lining

4. Erasing undersketches

-- Drawing Technique Notes

1. Dynamic quadrupod grip

2. Does not do any stretches in preparation or cooldown for drawing, but right arm is stronger than left arm due to drawing

3. Eraser rubs usually in one direction, not back and forth over the same area

-- Further Process Recordings

2019

1. 白浜鴎「とんがり帽子のアトリエ」作画動画（下描き編）- pencil undersketch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lbp_pe8cJso

2. 白浜鴎「とんがり帽子のアトリエ」作画動画（ペン入れ編①）- inking 1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g3bGQwg8BPk

3. 白浜鴎「とんがり帽子のアトリエ」作画動画（ペン入れ編②）- inking 2: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pA1KKfpnspI

2021

1. Kamome Shirahama draws milet - Grab the air | EGAKU #3: https://youtu.be/n_rSQ-NWiPk?si=OXycZc26mKOlcRAA

2022

1. とんがり帽子のアトリエ1巻カバーイラストメイキング映像/㊗️アニメ化決定！【公式】: https://youtu.be/t1hoyccqYpA?si=isku1rOVT8JIX6TX

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[monster-noises]

Forever thinking about TCAF 2019

Where I Fully sprained my ankles about 2 days before

And proceeded to;

-Not go to a doctor

-Put some ice on it over night then ride the train to Toronto

-Go Immediately to a Furry Dance Party

-Walk on it All Day at TCAF (In heels if i remember correct. Not Tall heels mind, but i was not Flat Footed)

-Be absolutely Mystyfied about why i felt Naseaus all day and proceeded to throw up the next morning before my train home,, for the next Several Years

(the pain, it was the pain, i threw up because of how bad my ankle hurt)

And when i came back I Still didn't take time off work or go to the hospital or anything!! How I still have a perfectly functional ankle is Beyond me!

[toutounegallery]

New Toutoune Gallery Blog's First Post!!!

Hello all : o )

Thank you for joining me here! If you are familiar with Toutoune Gallery, you may have already visited the space at 998 Bathurst St, in Toronto, Canada. If you haven't had the chance yet, maybe you've come across the website www.toutounegallery.com or the instagram account @toutoune.gallery and have been a fan from afar!

Toutoune Gallery first opened to the public on October 8th, 2021! Wow! It's hard for me to believe it sometimes... Time flies as they say.

To introduce myself a bit, my name is Ginette Lapalme and I'm an artist who has been living and working in Toronto since 2005. I graduated from the Illustration program at OCAD in 2009 and have been active in the Toronto independent art scene ever since.

I have always made work in a variety of forms and mediums, including but not limited to: zines, comics, stickers, sculptures, arts & crafts, ceramics, animation, paintings and drawings... For a time I helped curate a portion of TCAF from 2009-2019 called the Woweezonk Browsery with my best friends Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma <3 and I also previously worked for Page & Panel TCAF Shop (2014-2017) and the Beguiling Comic Shop (2017-2021).

Toutoune Gallery is the culmination of my artistic career as well as my passions for collecting, all made possible by my experiences working in comic book retail, almost two decades of self-employment as a art-object maker as well as my time with the Toronto Comic and Arts Festival.

Anyway! All that to say thank you for joining me here. This blog will be a space for me to share some works and images from Toutoune on a more regular basis. I will still keep up with the shop's instagram account too but I needed a place where I could rant a bit more and not be so annoyed by the algorithm lol.

[allistrations]

I don’t think I’ve made an official announcement yet so I’m happy to say my next graphic novel will be released June 18th, of this year and it’s A Pillbug Story!! Millie the pillbug is finally in book form thanks to Andrew and Black Panel Press💜. A Pillbug Story is available for preorder right above. Millie maaay even debut at TCAF 🤞🏻. Thank you for VICE for posting millie comics way back in 2019. I hope to make many more or at least a few more comics abt ole millie 🐞🐛🐜🪲🪳but for now…goodnight

[viobliterator]

5, 20, and 30

5. 3 colours to paint my room

OH HELL YEA uhh

I'd perhaps pick a nice oxblood colour, brown, or just like a warm greige colour??

Whatever would match my current desk setup and make my room feel similar to the Hunter's Workshop

20. 3 (more) adjectives I'd use to describe myself

Creative, attractive, and I guess you want me to say classy so I'll put that in.

30. 3 moments I could never forget

This is a really interesting and tough one and will require some extra thinking on my end.

a) The first thing that comes to my head is the incident that required me to get stitches on my lip when I was a toddler. I was tobogganing for the first and last time down a hill, and when I stood up I slipped and fell on my face right on a sheet of ice

It took about 5 nurses to hold me down once we got to the hospital because it was the scariest shit. I think I even remember the face of the doctor that stitched me up

b) I'll never forget how good it felt to beat the Orphan of Kos for the first time. IYKYK. The adrenaline followed by that sheer euphoria and relief is just indescribable

c) I'll never forget when I went to TCAF 2019 and got to see Junji Ito draw at a panel. It was one of the coolest moments in my life and despite the auditorium being a full house, you could hear a pin drop with how quiet it was because everyone was just watching him draw intently and listening to him and the interpreter answer questions

[junji-info]

Junji Ito’s finished digital illustration from his panel at TCAF earlier this year.

[torontocomics]

DEBUTING AT TCAF 2019: THE HANDMAID'S TALE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND RENEE NAULT

Adapted from the novel by Margaret Atwood

Full Colour, 240 Pages, Published by McClelland & Stewart, CDN$29.95

An instant classic when it was published in 1985, Atwood’s genre-bending, dystopian story comes to life in this new, beautifully illustrated graphic novel. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child. Stripped of her most basic freedoms, (work, property, her own name), Offred remembers a different time, not so long ago, when she was valuable for more than her viable ovaries, when she was mother to a daughter she could keep, and when she and her husband lived and loved as equals. Darkly prescient, scathingly sarcastic, and eminently frightening, The Handmaid’s Tale has only gained relevance since it was originally published, and remains one of the most powerful, widely read stories of our times.

[bigbigtruck]

Gonna be at TCAF in less than two weeks!!  Hope to see you there! I’ll have copies of the TJ&A Omnibus edition, side comics, original stickers, and collections of all my Yuri!!! On Ice doujinshi. 

[maladomani]

I just went to a panel at TCAF hosted by Junji Ito Sensei and he drew this original art while answering our questions. It was amazing! I took this photo with my phone of the original art.

[raysdrawlings]

Hello Friends!

This weekend I will be in Toronto for TCAF! I’m so excited to have the chance to go this year, I’ve even got a new comic about soulmates i’m excited to share with y’all (it’s about gay soulmates)!

If you’re visiting TCAF, come say hello! <3 I’ll be at booth 268 on the second floor!

[bensears]

some pages from my upcoming book HOUSE OF THE BLACK SPOT.

It debuts at @torontocomics next month!

Check out more pages at The AV Club:

https://aux.avclub.com/a-robot-murder-mystery-begins-in-this-house-of-the-blac-1833912311

[mizby]

Any followers going to TCAF?

I have a request if anyone will hear me out! ;o;

At TCAF 2019 Hiromi Takashima, the mangaka behind the wonderful yuri series Kase-san, will be attending! This series is super important to my twin sister @scrawlvitus and her girlfriend @p-curly. Unfortunately, since the con is in May and we have to move that month, none of us would be able to attend... 

Hiromi Takashima is planning on signing copies of Kase-sign though!! It would be a total dream come true to get a signed manga... I know it’s a stretch but I’m hoping someone would possibly go through the trouble of procuring one for them.  We would pay for the book itself, any shipping costs and I would throw in a free drawing to thank you for all the effort! Please hmu via my DM’s if you are interested in helping us- I would be so, so grateful!! ~M

[peppersandcats]

Oops

TCAF hasn't even started yet and I bought three GNs, a comic, and two zines.

[icedtaho]

✨Easy Going ✨

The cover for my first comic zine! This was the most fun I’ve had on an illustration in a while, tbh it was therapeutic lol 

It will be available at TCAF 2019 at the OCADU table and International Fan Fest 2019! More info on that soon!

Click for better quality!

[iratescientist]

TCAF this year ~ Very tired, will post more later on the topic. :) (The book obscured beside the Handmaid’s Tale is Skim by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki). Charichard Nixon I bought specifically for my brother, whose two main interests happen to be vintage American politics and Pokemon.