Archive for September, 2008

A narrative assignment; a 3-page comic with a very strict and rigid structure (no weird panel sizes here) based on a conversation between 2 people, and the idea of “do as I say, not as I do”. It had to be in colour; I’d much rather have done it in grey inks like I did the F Train images, but eh. Really ran out of time on this one; I think it worked out okay but cleaner inking and more careful colours/shades could have really pushed it to the next level. Not to mention reducing the type size by 2 or 3 points.

For the record, I had a security blanket book like that in highschool (a comic, actually – Bryan O’Malley’s Lost at Sea) but he’s definitely still working and my encounter with him at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival was quite positive – he signed my copy and drew a little cat in it. I, of course, was a bit of a terrified mess. “I… uh… you… book?” Never meet your heroes.

Migration over to WordPress is complete. This has been a long time coming; I’d always been annoyed with a few things with Blogger and decided to just go ahead and finally make the move. The layout may still be tweaked a bit; it’s this rather pretty theme, but widened a bit and with some custom graphics. Still might play with the CSS a bit to get the text styles a little closer to what I had before, and at some point I’m going to get some art in the header, but for now, it ain’t bad.

Aaaand just so this isn’t a completely artless post, here’s the lines for a class assignment I should be finishing sometime this week.

It’s supposed to be a reflection (well, “reflection”) in a swimming pool; not too clear in the inks, but colour should make it a wee bit more obvious that water is involved.

First Interpretive assignment of the year… mostly, Interpretive will just be a thesis thing, but this one was a (vague) assignment, about the topic of Good & Bad. So I decided to play with the idea of good and bad dreams, and a dreamcatcher, which is meant to trap nightmares and allow only good dreams through.

First finished assignment of the year! A thing for narrative class, where we took a trip and then somehow retold it in a series of 3 postcards. Mine was a walk down Trafalgar road.

This thing was a major experiment, and my feelings about it are mixed, to say the least. Overall I think it tips slightly in the direction of not quite working, but isn’t a total failure. So that’s something.

Also, on the off chance anybody reads this blog who doesn’t actually know me (not likely…) the girl on the cards is me. Haven’t done a self-portrait in ages…

So I was looking through Dani’s sketchbook and was inspired and uh…

Yeah, I don’t know either.

So, uh, that whole weekly challenge went down in flames, didn’t it? Since then, it’s just been happy children and animals for Junior Jetsetters all day, every day – and it still is, more or less, but now I’m back to school! A couple of small things…

Painted this with my (AWESOME) new portable watercolour set at a friends’ cottage. (I had a portable watercolour set before, but this one is far superior. It has a mixing tray! Sponges! Eeee.) One of my friends’ young cousins dubbed this the Queen of Roses, and it’s as good a title than any, I suppose. Mostly, it embodies the need to draw something uncute. Like seriously. I am going to break out in unicorns any day now. It may be contagious.

And this is even less meaningful. Doodled today between classes, with pencil, ballpoint pen, and a bit of black watercolour. Some colour slapped on in Photoshop to see how it would look, and I approve. It’s nice, I think. I mean, for a doodle.

Since I can’t show any of my Jetsetters work until the books are published, and time for personal work is still rare, hopefully I’ll have some schoolwork to slap up here soon enough. Time shall tell.