Autobio comic!  Wooo!

I finally caved and got a MySpace page!  Woo!  I also made a cute banner to go in my profile on my other websites.



I haven't put anything up yet.  It took me a really long time to figure out how to design it, and I still don't know what I'm doing.  Ha ha ha.

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I finished my cover last night.  Wooo.  Now I just have to put it together and get all my files in order.



And because I have nothing better to do, here's a step-by-step!

I'm coloring the new Wasted Minds cover, and my computer decided to give me problems aplenty last night.  First, my keyboard was being a bitch.  Every now and then, my keyboard will randomly stop working.  I'm not sure if it's because of the battery or if it just sucks.  My problems last night were only with the left ctrl and space bar, which are the keys I use the most.  I tried using the right ctrl key, but it just felt weird.  There were several times where I wound up trying to undo something, and I would switch to the scissor tool.  

On top of that, Painter doesn't seem to recognize white as a color.  I tried selecting a white area with the magic wand that was next to a transparent area, and it selected the white and the transparent.  Painter doesn't have a polygonal lasso tool, and when I use the regular lasso tool my hand always winds up slipping and selecting something I didn't want to.  After I got the whole area selected, I wound up deselcting it somehow.  At that point, I just brought it into Photoshop so I could make another layer of that area in a different color.  Fun times.

On the bright side, my keyboard seems to be working now.  So yay.  And here's a WIP of the cover.  Woo!



On a completely different note, my work schedule is light for the first time in months.  Thank god for late editors.  =D

Also, because I always thought Prince of Tennis was seriously lacking in luchadors, my prayers have been answered:



I've been doing nothing but work for like the past two weeks. D=

So it's the end of the year, and I finally updated Wasted Minds!  I'll be updating Mondays only for the next few weeks, since I still have a ton of other stuff to do, but it's a start.

A couple months ago, I was out buying bristol boards, and they didn't have my regular brand (Strathmore, smooth, 100 lb.), so I figured I would just buy Canson instead.  Big mistake (probably a worse mistake than when I bought vellum finish instead of smooth).  The paper doesn't hold ink for shit.  After erasing, my inks were faded so bad that I had to re-ink some of it.  Ugh.



It's kind of hard to tell how bad it was from the scan.  :/  At first I thought it was just with my brush pens and Microns, but then it was fading pretty bad with india ink as well.  So don't buy Canson paper.  That is my sage advice.  =D

Have a happy New Year everybody.

I was reading Time's 10 Best Graphic Novels list the other day, and it made me angry.  How could an aricle on comics make me angry?  Maybe because they included a couple webcomics on the list.  They even admit that the first entry isn't a graphic novel.  In the very least, a graphic novel is a printed comic with a spine (there's more to it than that, especially since I don't consider collections like Peanuts to be graphic novels either, but I don't feel like splitting hairs).  Now I have nothing wrong with webcomics (I have my own, dur hur hur), but they shouldn't be on a list of graphic novels.  But of course, I wouldn't have this problem if they just called the article the 10 Best Comics.  All graphic novels are comics, but not all comics are graphic novels.

Maybe I'm just over-thinking this.  I get worked up over this kind of thing.  I read an article on Heroes awhile ago where they referred to manga as a genre and I flipped out.  Ha ha ha.

Also, I haven't read any of the books on that list.  >_<

Meryy Christmas everybody!  Here's a non-holiday specific wintry type picture!

 

It's not part of the series I was doing.  I just thought I would rip myself off (and it would make a cute design for a really late Christmas card).

Have a good holiday!  <3

I've been in a drawing slump ever since I finished my last comic, so I figured I should take a break and do some illustrations.  Because if I'm not drawing comics, I might as well be drawing something.  Been wasting far too much time on the internet the past couple weeks.  >_<




I was looking through my Ragnar art book the other day, and I wanted to try something new.  I've got a third one I'm working on, but I'll just post it later.  I need another excuse to update my blog.  Ha ha.

My work schedule has lightened up a bit (finally), and I might actually get out to see a movie.  Hooray.  Too bad it won't last.

One comic down, too much other stuff left to count left.  XD

I set it in a park because every other comic I do takes place in a city or in a building, so I'm always drawing perspective.  It was a nice break.  Now I have to go back to background city.  (There were actually going to be buildings in the background in this comic, but I'm lazy.)

Today was one of those days where I couldn't get any work done.  I only retouched 11 pages, none of which were exceptionally difficult (time-consuming, but not really hard), and I haven't drawn anything yet.  I did buy hangers, though.  Real hangers, made out of metal and wood.  There's my excitement for the day.