With life getting ahead of me, I’m finally getting through the final push of my current project! I finished page 30 last night, with two more pages to go! I am hoping to be done by June 1, in time to be able to show my artwork at the Olympia Comics Fest.
Here are some photos of my work in progress (pardon the photo booth quality of these):
Page 29, in progress.
Page 30, in progress.
Page 30, close to its final stages.
Hello everyone! I will be tabling for the first time at the Olympia Comics Festival, which is a week from tomorrow (Sat. June 2) I’ll be there with some of my fellow IPRC Comics Program classmates, as well as Breena Wiederhoeft (author of Picket Line). I will have all of the zines i’ve made, along with some new goodies (which will be a surprise!). Here is the flyer for those of you who are interested:
A couple of nights ago I hustled to make a quick zine featuring my most recent work. After four hours at the IPRC, I came up with 50 copies of a teaser.
Why the teaser? Well, I had the privilege table for the IPRC at Stumptown Comics Fest today! I had lots of great conversations with people today. I partially promoted the awesome work the IPRC does and sold/traded teaser zines and Pedagogy as Dissent.
Highlights include:
-Meeting Nate Powell again, having him remember me and my zine from the 2011 MSU Comics Forum, following through MY promise of giving him my zine, and getting his new book The Silence Of Our Friends after seeing it in progress at the comics forum last year.
-The Multnomah County Library (a.k.a. the library in Portland) purchasing six copies of Pedagogy as Dissent, so now you can check it out from the library!
-Meeting some incredible comic artists! (Such as Carrie McNitch, Theo Ellsworth, Melinda Boyce, and the folks from Neoglyphic Media in Bellingham, WA, just to name a few.)
-Being on a panel with John Isaacson, Lisa Mangum, Nicole Georges, Justin Hocking, and Amy Souza. We promoted the IPRC Comics Program.
-Hilarious quotes:
-And last but not least, all of the comics and zines I got via trade and/or splurge!
Comics and zines by Asher Craw, The Missing Sock, Forrest Johnson, Sean Christensen, B.T. Livermore, Nate Powell, Melinda Boyce, Carrie McNitch, John Isaacson, Anna Bongiovanni, Profanity Hill, and Aidan Koch (I hope I’m not forgetting anybody.)
I learned a whole lot today and am really excited to get what I’m working on out into the world (which, by the way, will debut at the Portland Zine Symposium.)
Goodnight world!
On a impromptu zine making note, I realized today with the beautiful weather in Portland and with May creeping up that I finished undergrad almost a year ago. This year, I’ve learned a lot of things through my experiences creatively and as a person that I REALLY wish someone would have forewarned me when I graduated. Therefore, I am making a zine called “Things I wish someone told me when I graduated” (I may come up with a better title, I’m open to suggestions)
The zine will probably be short, simple, and sweet, and fit in a cigarette sized box for the IPRC Zine Machine. If it’s done in time, I’ll be bringing it to the Stumptown Comics Festival next weekend.
This is where I need your help: I need submissions besides my own! What have your post graduate experiences been? What did college/university fail to tell you about real life? What did your post-graduate comrades not tell you about life outside of school that you wish you know?
I’m accepting sentences, drawings, anything you can come up with that will fit in an itty bitty tiny zine! In exchange, I will send you copies of the zine for you to distribute!
Thank you in advance!
Last night, after having a conversation with my comics classmates Alex Churn and Asher Craw about how to be more productive and better at time management as comic artists, I decided to put their suggestions to use. I set two hours aside where all I do is draw (I did give myself a 10 minute snack break in between hours), but besides that, everything I did was drawing related. No procrastinating on the internet, no following every urge to go do something else, I simply focused on drawing. What came of that is I am (almost) done finished penciling page 18 of my comic:
The most recent page of the project I’m working on. I’m currently drawing a traffic jam scene. It’s VERY tedious! Also, cars are really difficult to draw.
Pardon the splice job (I am sans access to a large scanner, so I had to scan this in two parts), but here’s how page 10 (my first non landscape/beach aspect page) is coming along. It will probably be page 1 of the comic, since the it sets up the context of the story and the characters. It still has to be inked, and I’m still tweaking some of the proportions and perspectives on the page itself.
I’m back to my goal of two pages a day so I can catch up and get back on track. Here’s one of two I did for today:
Actually, this is about 3/4 of page 9. This is the first image I have scanned and been able to sort of see what the imagery will look like before going to the printers.
You may be wondering why I am doing these epic landscape drawings instead of doing the standard comic with speech balloons and narration. I am taking a new approach with this project where I am doing all of my images first, and in the end will have all of my images shifted around to create a narrative of sorts. From there, I will include some narration and dialogue to create a narrative. It’s an experiment of sorts!
Tonight I was listening to a bunch of old punk I used to listen to back in the day. It inspired me to pull out one of my old sketchbooks (specifically from when I was in Costa Rica, almost two years ago) I rediscovered sketches I never shared from my early days of drawing. Here they are, enjoy!
Due to visitors, the stomach flu, and time constraints, I am only on page 7 of the 14 I was hoping to have done by, erm, last Wednesday. Anyways, I spent some time on the coast on Friday, and managed to get some excellent snapshots for photo referencing sake. This one, page 7, I started two days ago and was stumped on. Yet now I feel like I am on a roll, and am hoping to start page 8 tonight!
