You and me are the same

Some watercolor impressions of my own:

Ava watercolor by ~Tallychyck on deviantART
New character for thesis script. We’ll see how it develops.

Character watercolor by ~Tallychyck on deviantART
Trying to decide whether I like ink or pencil better for this type of art. Sadly, I think I have ruled out watercoloring the thesis comic…it is too many new elements in an already short time period.

Cause when the seaweed sinks and the sun gets low, when the waves retire to the darkness below, I know Ruby sees all

I posted a preview of my Emerald City Comicon ‘Monsters and Dames’ piece earlier on Twitter, but I thought I would post some proper previews here:


Lineart


Flatted digital image

I like it so far! I’m a little nervous to finish the color, since I’ve lost confidence in my digital art skills lately, but…I THINK I CAN!!!!!

Pictures came and broke your heart

Previews from a current project:


I am finally ready to ink this story after an embarrassingly long pencil stage. The author is as yet unpublished in comics, and I think that he will really blow people away with this story.

Your tongue is twisted, your eyes are slit, you need a guardian

It’s the end of a very long art day. I drew animals and characters from The Second Witch of Wilheim ALL. DAY. This is just a fraction of what I got done. It was a much-needed productive day:






I’m very happy with this project right now! Wish me more productive days~~~

These were all drawn with my new Pentel Pocket Brush Pen, recommended by Angie! I LOVE it!

When she was 22 the future looked bright


This is how I feel today. Despite having jury duty this morning at 8:00, blowing out a tire on the way, being there for ten hours, and taking the wrong bus home (I ended up in Tigard. Street cred FAIL), I had lots of time to think, and I set art goals for the school year that I’m really excited about. Goals are just goals unless you work toward them, but it feels good to pick a direction in which to move.

Have some jury duty sketch dump, y’all:




Lilly Allen’s 22 is great, and I like the music video as well.

I don’t have a simple answer

Here’s a test page (read: no rulers) from The Second Witch of Wilheim:

It is a slow, steady march toward inking with a brush comfortably.

I could stay forever leave right now it’s your call either way


Progress photo for my Wonder Woman Day 4 piece (If you’re an artist, consider contributing a piece!!). Overall, I like it so far despite some little quibbles. I have to touch up the inking, make the lines bold and crisp, and add some weight in certain areas, then it’s on to color (plus, you know, backgrounds are a good thing). :P
I made one big mistake, though: Art Media was out of hotpress watercolor paper in the weight I wanted, so I went with coldpress. AGH. Too much texture!! My linework looks broken and fuzzy…I can’t get the brush to move along without a drybrush effect.

Look at me oh look at me, is this the way I’ll always be? Oh no!


Got some previews for you from what I did today. The above image is from something I’ll link you to in just a couple of weeks (secrets secrets, I know). And below is a page of thumbnails from my big freelance job this summer. If you’re curious how my pages start, this is it! Small, rough, and chock full of errors! :P But I have to start somewhere, you know. And this way, it can only get better.

Drawing all day/not leaving the house takes its toll on your appearance. I had my hair in a bun and was wearing a dress, cardigan, slippers, glasses, and no bra all day. @____@ I got a glimpse today of what Crazy Grandma Nourigat will look like!!!

My my time flies

One last postponement to the Comic-Con post: new art post!

Sketches of Delilah I did on the trip with my new brushpen:
Sadly, the ol’ brushpen was not a good flier. It spewed all of it’s ink on the first drawing (ugh, and dripped, which bled through 2 pages), then promptly ran out of ink. Must go buy a new cartridge today. :-/ Lesson learned.

I wanna publish zines and rage against machines

More sketch-dumpery, y’all:
Another little preview from my Oni Press talent search pages.

Trying to nail down a style for Delilah.

Connor, Delilah, and Baruccus from Second Witch of Wilheim. The brush pen is a dream for sketching Baruccus, who is just a black silhouette. There’s no way to tell what the finished ink will look like when I sketch him with a pencil, but with the brush pen, I can fill in the lines in 10 seconds and see!Sketch shit. The anatomy that St. Tail taught me vs. an actual face, and then more sketches of Connor from SWW.

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