Well, I'll provide more and more details on this, but here's a first heads up: journalestaloco and I have a plan for a kickass robot comic called Edgewater. _{(If you'll remember, the Christmas Follies of the Half-Jewish Lobster story was a collaboration of ours done a year ago. :))}

Ryan's had the story in his head for awhile. It was originally going to be a mini introductory comic, however the idea has expanded to a more intensive project. So he's set up a kickstarter.com page to get it handled and published. How it works is that we've set a monetary goal and people (YOU) pledge whatever amount they wish. If enough people put the money for it by January 31, then it's set to go! If not, then there is no loss on any side. :)

Now, this isn't simply us asking for money- If you check out the kickstarter page, there's a ton of incentives to fit whatever you're willing to put into it. Most prizes are building upon the next (So if you spend $30, you get all the advantages of the $30, $15, and $1 pledges. :))

If you have $100 to blow, then you're getting a really great deal- Not only are you getting 2 copies of the book and your name in the acknowledgments, you're also getting original art from the story. The comic is going to be black and white, but I'm working mixed media, so each page will have some deliciously rich texture (graphite, ink, watercolor, acrylics, and more. [Anybody who knows my work has seen me go sneaky crazy with string, movie tickets, puzzles, needles, and bugs, so it should be interesting in both subtle and louder ways.])

For people with more money to burn (or who just really love he or I or us), there's even cooler rewards (a couple LIMITED). Honestly though, every dollar helps. :)

So check it out:
EDGEWATER: A dark and sexy comic book by Ryan and Zandria

I just finished a(nother) dorky little personal side project:


Quinn @ devART

My fave character from the Southern Vampire Mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse novels. (The books on which the TV show True Blood is based.) Work is inspired by him, but also just trying to draw some of that energy, drive, and passion into myself to make it through the other plans and projects on my plate. :)



I'll probably be in AZ this weekend with my mom for the funeral of one of her cousins (car accident oct 27th). Happy Halloween.

. . . That I need to take time for myself and then all the other projects would fall in line and I wouldn't be stressed about the work.




I took that to mean, "Study the style of John Singer Sargent by doing a digital painting of Eric Northman and Pam from True Blood. With a corpse flower."

That takes you to devART. Looks better at full view. Actually, I uploaded their faces at 100% cuz they look pretty alright. Check 'em out here: face details.

I did this is less than twenty-four hours, so it's pretty damn quick for me. Like, I haven't done anything this quickly in possibly over a year? Several years?

I'm really proud of how fast that went and how I haven't really lost any rendering skills at all, despite not having done a colored illustration like that in quite awhile.


The main work I was trying to learn from was this: Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron It's super hard to try and mimic such a soft style when I've been so line oriented, heh. And was extra hard cuz I could do the faces all soft and delicate, but then they didn't look anything like who they were supposed to, heh. I think if I spent more time drawing them, I could get a likeness and then do this soft style, but . . . Zzzzzzz . . .

Some of his other portraits were certainly informative. When I think of "pale staring people," I think of him. :)



So. SLEEP. Then wake up. Then see what I click into. :)

Forgive me James Randi, for I have sinned . . . ( fake-cut )

(links to devART)

Okay, this one is my favorite idea . . . But I don't think it's my favorite artwork, heh.



Okay, now I'm starting new documents of the "Valentine Cards That Could Have Been." I'm thinking two landscape-oriented images (one light yellow, one purple again) with four smaller idea sketches on each . . . Here's the part where I'm happy to receive new suggestions. :)

(links to devART)

Final one will be uploaded in a sec. :D

(links to devART)

Here's the second!
I have the third half-done and the fourth already completed . . .

I think after that I'll just have a sketch page of "Valentines that might have been . . ." If I had had enough time (Feel free to give suggestions . . . I'll do any that greatly amuse me. :) )

(links to devART)

You may recognize that this is somewhat regurgitated from a facebook graffiti I did awhile ago- That served as the inspiration for creating some V-Day cards in the first place. So I thought a re-do was fitting for an opening shot.

I've got two others at the very least coming. May have some more, who knows?

Anyway, all these will be capable of being printed at 4.25"x5.5" . . . Click on the image to head to devART and check out the link in the description there.!

I drew her right back!

. . . 2 months late. I'm a little slow. :P




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Do I need to point out that this is fairly lazily done with little planning or pre-concept?

I probably shouldn't point out that her shoulders were bare in the ref pic- so the original flipping over and rejoining of the image totally resulted in the creation of a vagina in that lower portion of the image. Cool idea, but I would have felt like a total pervert leaving that in a picture of someone real. Ha.

As with anything. There's stuff I'd fix. And I'd probably have liked to add a middle focal image. But nothing came to mind that was both easy and simple. :P

To create art or have nightmares, I'm not sure . . .

(alas, myspace graffiti so you have to add the app to see it work. :P)



(link to devart)

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( . . . Obviously I need to focus more on using the full opacity with these. :P)

(devart links [just some sketches, nothing complex. :P ])

I'm not posting fanart here anymore . . .












. . . After this Abe Sapien piece because I'm kinda effin proud and people are slow to add the other one:



That link takes you to my fanart journal which links you to my devART account so that you will learn the correct path. ;)

Man, this art degree is really paying off.

annoyance. I have too many time-taking projects going on. I need a break.
solution. Start a new series of anatomical studies since I've been wanting to do that for awhile.

annoyance. It's already apparent this first exercise is going to be taking quite some time.
solution. Start a different low commitment project.

annoyance. I don't have the time to finish a full portrait- Esp if it's just a sketch that I don't care about.
solution. Makedraw some boxes on the sketch and work those to a satisfactory level.



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I need to work more with backgrounds- I didn't really learn anything from that little time-waster, ha.