Felix Felis!

After a loooooong absence of comics, some new ones! What I call Felix Felis. I have a few ideas where it's going, but no idea how it's going to end! I'm excited to be writing and drawing comics again.

New Sketches

Happy New Year! THE very first post of the year!

Some New Larry Bear

Things is getting beary exciting.

Gingerbread Boy

More drawings

Computertizing

I will admit that I am a computer-phobe. I grew up with computers since I was 5 or 6, and use them everyday, but when it comes to drawing and painting, I avoid it like the plague.

However, as I am trying to expand my range, particularly focusing on making my color illustrations pop, I have been learning as much as I can about the printing process, color separation, and what makes the translations from final art piece(ie. watercolors) to finished product work. When I look at a Sunday comic, what makes the colors work? How did it go from watercolor to print? I especially look at Patrick McDonnell's work, but I have also been looking at Dr. Seuss's work in it's very simplified color palette (DID he just use markers to indicate where color goes?)

Photoshop in it's amazingly versatile universe makes coloring something 10 times easier. I just finished an example of Larry Bear and Mary drawn by hand, but then colored in the computer. The color palette I started off with is something Mo Willems would use, but then made some brighter, pop colors. I am intrigued with what came out, but it still seems off for me. I wish that it was warmer. Something I hate about computer colors is that they lose the warmth of the color right away. If that makes sense.

Pencil Work

I think a lot of New Yorker cartoonists do this. I don't know how I feel about it.

Lazybones

New Illustration

I've been drawing cats for a good while now. I suppose it's my way of thinking that I own one (which I still want to do). This particular cat with the triangular head interests me a lot though. When I first drew him, he was going to act like an Existential French philosopher cat. Be all deep and serious. Now that idea never panned out, but this moody, disconnected cat had a story. He was a character. Now here he is.

Mitt Romney and Giraffes

So Michelle is all a-twitter now about going to South Africa this March and invited me. I never pictured myself going to Africa, but it would be cool to see a giraffe and ride an elephant. I don't know whether to go or not.