I finished my one-page comic for Tugboat Press’ Free Comic Book Day book for 2012 this week. Here’s a little teaser:
Have a good weekend!
FCBD 2012 Teaser
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Author Archives: Jonathan Hill
Me + OCAC
I have some great news to share!
I’m teaching a comics class at the Oregon College of Arts and Craft here in Portland this spring! It’s called Crafting Comics: Narrative & Technique.
It’s basically an intro to comics.
Anyhow, I’m super-stoked. I have always wanted to teach comics, but I thought that it would be important to have some actual experience under my belt. Now that Americus is out, and I’ve been freelancing here and there the last couple years, I feel like I have a lot of experience and knowledge to share anyone willing to learn.
Here’s the link to the Continuing Education page of their website: https://cms.ocac.edu/
And here’s a link specifically for the drawing & painting classes: https://cms.ocac.edu/taxonomy/term/3
Please help spread the word! I need at least 5 people or the class doesn’t happen!
Also, if you have any questions about the class, you can e-mail me at jonathan@oneofthejohns.com or leave a comment here on the site and I’ll get back to you!
Thank You Cards & Other Stuff
A tiny thing that stresses me out: Thank you cards. I always feel like I should make a new one every time I want to send one out, but it’s always a much longer project than I think it will be, or I just get lazy and don’t make it and then don’t send it out. I always feel super-lame buying them, because I’m picky and it feels impersonal and then I always think to myself, ‘Why would I pay for that crap when I could just make them!’
Can you see my dilemma?
Year after year, I think to myself – I should just design a thank you card and then print them up so I always have them on hand. It’s the best of both worlds – it’s more personal than buying them, but without the hassle of having to make a new one each time.
Anyhow, I did a set of four for the great people at First Second to wish them a happy holidays and thanks for all of the work they put into making Americus. They’re all Apathea based.
Here are the other three:
I decided that I’ll print the Liskot one at the top of this post and use that for my thank you cards for the coming year. I love that lizard man!
And if you haven’t noticed, things have been really quiet – no posts, no Diary of a Space Marine, etc. There’s a couple of reasons for that. If you like reading about excuses, read more after the cut!
Diary of A Space Marine 3
Sorry this is a couple of days late. Things were pretty hectic last week [and I slacked a bit].
Later!
Who Sherlock commission
Here’s a commission I did for someone that was reading the Americus blog. She wanted some image that had both Doctor Who and the new Sherlock in it.
As always, I struggle with spotting blacks and giving things a sense of form. I think this is a good example of how even just doing the simple shapes of color in Diary of a Space Marine help out with that. I wish I didn’t have to rely on the computer. Oh, well. There’s always something to be working on, right?
Also: If you live in Portland and are interested, I am teaching a cartooning class this Sunday at the Woodstock Library on SE 49th Ave from 2-3! You can click on the link in the sidebar to the right to register or get more info.
Diary of A Space Marine 2
Here’s the latest installment:
Have a good weekend and a Happy Halloween!
Occupy Portland
I did an illustration for the Willamette Week this week to accompany an article on Occupy Portland. It’s a map of where things are in the camp. Anyhow, here’s a picture from the paper, because it looks better in print, even though some of the textures and details got lost a bit, than just posting the image.
You can read the article here.
I also have some pretty big news to share that I don’t think I’ve mentioned here, but I’ll wait until next week. There should be another Diary of a Space Marine on Friday, too!
Diary of A Space Marine 1
So I’ve been dying to draw some comics, and since my next big project is still in the writing/thumbnails stage and will be for awhile, I thought that I would do a side project. It’s called Diary of A Space Marine. Here’s the first one:
I know, I know. It’s pretty dumb. I felt a little crazy working on because the whole time I was thinking to myself, ‘You should be working on something important! Promotional stuff! Looking for an agent! Writing and thumbnailing! Etc!’. Then I figured it’s better to be drawing something dumb than not drawing anything at all.
I’m hoping to get one of these done every week, so don’t forget to check back!
Happy Autumn!
I love autumn. You get to wear sweaters and hats, the leaves change, and best off all: pumpkin milkshakes at Burgerville! Anyhow, one of my goals this week was to sit down and do a postcard image to do some self-promotion, but I ended up doing this illustration to celebrate autumn instead.
Next week: Postcard! For real!
Americus events recap!
Ah! Things have been really quiet here the last month or so, but not because I haven’t been busy! A bunch of Americus events have been going on back to back and I haven’t really had a lot of downtime in between. So I’m going to take some time now to catch everyone up and let you know how the events went.
Note: Since I’m catching up on like a month of stuff, the post is pretty long.