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I completely forgot that I hadn’t blogged about CanZine yet. But it was good!

(From The Torontoist – Myself, Karen, and Yien at our tables.)

I sold copies of the 24 Hour Comic, as well as my bad movie zine, which went over pretty well! For you, dear readers, here’s some of the bad movie art.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible

The Room

Troll 2

Future Cops

Yes, these are all actual movies. Even the Siegfried and Roy one.

CHECK OUT THE COMIC

This past weekend, I participated in 24 Hour Comics Day at the fabulous Kingston comic store 4 Colour 8 Bit. I was down there anyhow, for my very own art show at this very same store – it was great fun, and thanks a ton to Kevin for putting it together, and Nick for allowing me to spend entirely too much time in his store despite the fact I don’t think I bought anything but Pac Man power pellet candy.

I forgot my camera for the opening, but look, art!

24 Hour Comic Day BEGINS

I suppose it was something of a cheat, since my comic was a collaboration with m’dear friend Aggy. The story came from both of us – we couldn’t decide what on earth to do a comic about, so we just decided to do EVERYTHING, and base it on our stupid conversations. She did the lettering, erasing pencils, and filling in large black areas, not to mention writing the old-man rants, which was a task in itself. (And the Cleavager is her fault. I will take no credit for that one.) So while the art is basically all mine, I couldn’t have done it without her, not to mention having somebody to yell at me to stay awake. When she was awake.

A sleepy Aggy sometime in the last few hours

Other adventures included drawing at Denny’s in the middle of the night, being interviewed for the Queen’s University TV channel… all in all, a crazy weekend! God, I love Kingston.

Like so many awesome things in my life, this is Karen’s fault.

Not my real Project Rooftop entry (just a stupid sketchbook thing, really) but it may end up submitted anyhow because it’s… just… oh god what did I spend my evening doing. D:

Besides, what other Canadian superheroes have we GOT? Northstar? Pfft.

(Click the thumbnail and lookit the big one… pretty please?)

Final project of the semester, for Visual Dialogue. The theme is Heaven and Hell. Probably still not weird enough for Rick, but c’mon, he’s pretty damn weird. (And I mean that in a nice way, of course.)

I haven’t done a really serious digital painting in ages, and doing one basically all in one day probably wasn’t the way to start again, but poor perspective, iffy lighting, and the ominous-smoke-of-I’m-running-out-of-time aside, that is by far the best hand I have ever painted and may ever paint again.

…And now I sleep.

Here be the final of that sketch I posted. (For those who missed it, the rather strange title is a palindrome – the phrase is the same backwards as forwards.) I’m still unable to decide whether I like it or not; got a few suggestions in class that I may try to implement when I have more time, but I’ve got a busy weekend ahead of me. For now, have the dapper, dapper Mr Owl and the clockwork bird. It’s real 3 AM logic here. (What’d eat a metal worm? I KNOW! A METAL BIRD!)

A T-shirt design submission.  Our year is printing up some shirts to sell to raise money for our Grad Show at the end of the year; I just finished this and sent it in so no idea if it’ll actually be printed or not.  Either way, it was fun to do something so different from my normal stuff.

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

Yeah, I don’t know either.