Monthly Archives: March 2011

MoCCA Apathea print

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Here’s a quick mock-up of a print that MK & I will be doing as a promotional thing at MoCCA, which she will be attending. The colors might not be final, but the jist of the image is there.

End of post crazy rambling: While working on this, I thought of something, which I’ve thought of very frequently while I’ve been drawing lately. I’m horribly, incredibly dependent on line. I’m horrible at thinking in terms of shape and form. It’s something that I really, really need to work on. Might be worth it to play around doing some exercises that involve practicing developing that.

Last minute Americus pencils

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So like I mentioned before, I had to do some last minute editing changes for Americus this week. Some of that included drawing new pages. I had to send them pencils to make sure that everything was exactly how they wanted it to save myself some redrawing if it wasn’t. It’s not very often that I document pencils, so I thought I would share them here.

I know, they’re pretty boring and look just like my inks. Ha. I guess there’s a reason I don’t really document them.

[Note: These pages will be added to the end of the climax of Chapter 2. If you want to read the entirety of this scene, you can read it online here.]

In case you were wondering, there was one last change that had to be made, and that’s the portrait in panel 5 on the first page. It needed to be a more natural picture showing the Burns family happy, not a posed family portrait.

Also, if you haven’t gotten the chance, Jason & I played the casting call game with Americus the last two weeks on the Save Apathea blog. We have an both indie and Hollywood versions of the film. He made two really awesome posters for each version. I can’t express how awesome they are. Check them out. They’re good for a laugh.

Mixed Media FTW!

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Still busy writing, though we got some last minute editing requests from :01 regarding Americus, which goes to the printer in three weeks.  Just when I keep thinking it’s all done and done there’s still more to do. Looks like it’s crunch time!

Though I will say that I’m kind of happy because I have been itching to draw some pages, even if they’re for the book I thought I finished, and I think the changes proposed will really, really help the book be better.

Anyhow, got some work for the WW this week. Nice to do some drawing and take a break from writing, and to also break my new brushes in.

And yes, those are real, scanned eraser shavings, found in plenty below my drafting table. Though i had to digitally color them to match the eraser the teacher is driving cause they were originally white. Does that count as mixed media?

Don’t forget that I’m still taking art donations for the upcoming online art auction to benefit the Washington School for the Deaf. Get more details here.