Happy Halloween!  National Novel Writing Month begins tomorrow, and even though I'm doing the comic version -- Nanomango -- I've been thinking a lot about writing.  Comics are a narrative medium too, after all.  Art, writing, framing, pacing: there are so many methods of storytelling to consider.  I had a face-palm moment the other day that will ( Read more... )

Unfortunately I've been involved in several funerals over the past week, so the kind of busy I've been keeping hasn't always been my favorite kind.  In my spare time I want to get a head start on NaNoMango for this year, but I messed up the lighting on a chapter title page:
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A few months ago -- back in mid-summer -- my friend's brother was having some trouble with his boat. He left it at the repair shop a couple weeks, then he hitched it up and took it out on the lake a few days later. A passenger noticed newling coming from a compartment somewhere in the vessel, and after rummaging around they uncovered two tiny ( Read more... )

I just realized that I have no idea how to make decent monochromatic art.  I THOUGHT I did, but oh hey -- drawing a bunch of coloring book-y lines with the plan to magically fill them in with shadow isn't a substitute for actual knowledge of tones or lighting.  Whoops.  There's a whole new learning curve I didn't plan on having to make.  http:// ( Read more... )

The plot of my FABULOUS MASTERWORK

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If you enjoyed the Panty and Stockings trailer that's been making its way around the gurren comm, the same musical artist collaborated for this video for Studio 4* and even more awesome.

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Well, on to Plan D.  The past few weeks I'd been trying to pull strings and work myself into a former classmate's research trip to Ecuador, but that just fell through.  There was room for me, but the extra funding dried up, and it's hard to justify paying at least $2000 out of my own pocket so I can work for someone else.  Yes, work for a month and ( Read more... )

 Hi f-list.  Sorry I haven't been commenting much lately; I've been busy (though not with anything post-worthy), but I'm still keeping abreast of what everyone else is doing.

Let's all go on a nostalgia trip through the 90s!

I heard that the series will be reprinted soon.  That's good; more children need to read through the first-person experience ( Read more... )

Could not sleep at all, so I went for a walk in the woods around 4:30 am.  The moon was extremely bright, and I couldn't shake the weird illusion that the sun was always about to rise or something, because my brain was sure there was too much high-contrast light for it to be the middle of the night.

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Leaving today to visit some friends over the weekend, but my immune system has been putting up a pathetic performance.  I've found some syrup that dries me up, but it's ... very strong.  I have to force myself to get any kind of work done.  Or respond to stimuli.


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Sup LJ.  For the last week I've had a bodacious upper respiratory infection that's spread to my right ear.  I used to get sick once a year, but lately I've had one weird respiratory problem after another -- maybe I'm sleeping in an asbestos nest?  Mostly it's annoying because it feels like my head is stuffed with cotton, and it makes me not want to ( Read more... )