Art, mostly

First, thanks everyone for humoring me with that 30-second drawing thing a while back. I had fun, did you? Maybe we could do it again. All the pictures are up in the comments if you want to see them, they're pretty awful.

I've been working super hard on things-I-can't-show the past couple weeks, so I'm going take a quick break to show you some of the small showable arts I've been done lately.


It's all very important art, you see.

( Some fanart, a Floxy design, some really stupid drawings )

OKAY, back to inking and listening to Dune!

First, I want to thank everyone for giving feedback on the last entry. :D You guys are great! I feel bad that I can't reply to everyone, but your voice was heard!

So HAY GUYS! The preorder for the Maw ends on OCTOBER 25TH! After that they'll go into production, and Patch Together will only have a finite number of figurines.

( The final colors! )

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( And then there were more arts. Lots of Cecilia and Death/JW stuff. )

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I think Miss Monster linked this site on twitter yesterday: Hilda pinups by Duane Bryers. Gorgeous 60's pinups of an adorable buxom lady, lots and lots of character and energy. Her mouth just makes the best shapes!

I made a Byzantine Eagle Maw design this weekend! It was fun! If it's okay with you, I'd like to talk about it some. Can we talk about it? That'd be real nice.

( Can you answer a few questions? It's okay if you don't want to. )

So, y-yeah, this was technically today's comic at Johnny Wander. But it's like three pages long! And I worked really hard on it! So you can read a higher-res version of it here too, if you don't read Johnny Wander. (and it's cool if you don't, I don't mind.)

( long image is long! )

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( and a maw update! )

Hello there are lots of arts let me show them to you! You might have seen some of these on the internets before, and for that I apologize.

( THE MAW PROTOTYPE SCULPT IS DOONNEE! )

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( Mostly doodles, mostly stupid original characters doing things )

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( some teeny paintings )

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( the promised high-res Girl With The Skeleton Hand pages! )

WHEW! That was fun, we should do it again soon!
awh man now I want new socks

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

The preliminary Patch Together sculpt for the Maw came through! There's a bunch of edits, I'll post more views once the second pass goes through. But I'm SUPER EXCITED to get a maw! I'm going to request some blanks, I want to try my hand at some crazy custom jobs. :D

The figurine is now in the PT Store! They're $30 until they get produced-- then they'll go up to $35!

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Here, I'll bulk this up with some other art. Th--there's not much that I can really show off right now--! I've been doing more of those small paintings in my free time, but they're all either unfinished or unscanned right now.

( a small bit of orts )

OH SO, Ananth and I are doing an Actual Fiction Story over at Johnny Wander. I've been enjoying myself immensely, but it's been stupidly time consuming. I miss the days when I can sit down for 6 hours and start and finish a comic. =_= The last page is going up on Tuesday, then I'll share the high res images here.

Hey, so we finally have internet and my Patchtogether design is up! 8D


Feel free to look/vote/promote if you want!


Also, I've been bit by the painting bug again and have been doing a few small paintings in my spare time. If I put original paintings on Ebay, do you think anyone would be interested..?

( three small paintings )

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Yesterday, Ananth, Conrad, John, Mike, Steve, and myself all went to goraina and yaytime's release party for their new book! It was lovely! There are a lot of cartoonists in Brooklyn, it's kind of overwhemling! Also nice! Everyone is so welcoming! I really like my profession! And the people in it!

Two/three-ish weeks after moving to the new apartment, we still don't have internet. Cablevision was supposed to arrive today, but then in an exciting turn of events they didn't! How lovely of them.

The lot of us will continue to be largely unreachable until this internet crap is resolved. In the meantime, I drew up a Maw turnaround for Patch Together. He'll be submitted after we get regular internet access. (hopefully this will not be never.)

( maw maw maw maw maw maw maw )

Awh hell yeah! New icons! armaina did this for me out of the blue after we hung out at CTcon! Thank you so much! I also have a new default icon, from a drawing Conrad did for me while he was watching the table for me also-at-CTcon.

I just got back to my parents place from the new apartment Brooklyn-- John and I spent the whole dang day cleaning (again) to prep for Saturday. Finally, finally, finally we're going to be finishing this move. I miss everyone terribly and can't wait for us all to be back together again. Additionally, we did get a pretty sweet place.

Hope you like dumb art, because I scanned in a bunch of dumb art!

( photos of scads of package doodles, mostly some terrible sketches )

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So can I ask you guys a hypothetical question? If I put in a pitch for a figurine to Patch Together, would anyone be interested in purchasing it? It'd need 50 preorders to be made, and will probably cost $30-$50 per order. I'd probably do a Maw to start off with.

I got missmonstermel's Foo Dog a bit back, and it is excellent quality. These guys do excellent work. Also: I want a maw figurine.

Hello! Man, I totally haven't posted publicly since before I left for Japan. D: H-how about that. H-hey guys.

I mostly have a slew of Terrible Images to share, so I will go ahead and share them. Prepare yourselves! (some are pretty large! Also stupid!)

( Oh, so there was a Questionable Content guest comic-- )

( And I painted a skate deck--! )

( And finally, that 'ten meaningful images from your HD' whatever )

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Oh-and-finally--! I've mentioned this on Twitter and Johnny Wander, but Ananth and myself WILL be at San Diego Comic Con.

Ananth I know has a bit of a heavier schedule with his DH stuff, but we'll be mostly freely walking around. Unless the Oni dudes put us to work (they might.) We'll probably be dicking around with Miss Monster or bothering the Topatoco dudes or something. We're playing it by ear, I've never been to SDCC before. I do want to go to the Mythbusters panel, though. Badly.

There WILL be a Johnny Wander meetup, though! On Sunday, from 1-2 PM in front of the convention center, between the the Fedex and the Starbucks. Maybe I will see some of you there..? :D

FAREWELL, INTERNET-AS-ACCESSED-IN-THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA.

I'LL BE SEEING YOU IN NIHON

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No-but-seriously, I'm headed to Japan until the 15th. I'm going to be out of the loop except for occasional sporadic e-mail. I left Ananth with as many J*W comics as my little hands could turn out between Other Very Important Things.

I have to wake up in about three hours, so I'll be off now.

( I'll leave you with some art to remind me by )

I have not been diligent about LiveJournal. I should probably update on some current events, so here are some things that have happened/will happen soon!

• The Library of Congress thing went well! Thank you again to the people who showed up to show support, you are all wonderful. I hear there is going to be a webcast of the thing going online some time, but I haven't heard any news of it. Maybe that is for the best!

• I am going to be in Japan from June 4th to June 15th! I'm probably going to have sporadic internet access, so apologies in advance if I'm super slow to reply during that time. There will be Johnny Wander updates as usual. I'm sorry, but this is going to be an extremely tightly-scheduled trip (I'm mostly visiting family), and I won't be able to go out of my way to meet up with anyone.

• We're moving right after I come back from Japan. This summer is going to be so hectic... I've realized, I haven't lived any place for longer than a year since high school. And my book collection is now significantly larger than it was while I was in high school. =_=

• I keep on forgetting, so I'll do it now. My pal (and yours) sheepyrai is doing an excellent recap blog of the Twilight series. As a person who has been trying to keep the series at an arm's length, it is both hilarious and mystifying.

I do not have so much art scanned, but I'll share a bit! I'll try to scan in more things before I leave!

( Pictures and variations of a girl and cats. Stupid Star Trek fanart. What have I become. )

Oh goodness, let me post some art. I've been sitting on most of this for somewhere between months and weeks. 8O

( a few artist trading cards, some gift art, beasts, nerdity, tegaki things. There is one half-naked lady. )

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SO, RECAP:
Draw a girl for harveyjames.

Read rufftoon's Water Tribe.

Oh gosh, there's so much more art that I left out. I need to share this stuff more often, I just have a bad tendency of getting all nervous and jittery about posting. :/

One final thing: It looks like I'm going to be following Ananth to do a Free Comicbook Day shindig at J&M Comics in Eldersburg, MD this upcoming weekend. (I'm 100% not important, I'm just going as moral support. If you stop by, we can hang out or whatever.) Also, I'll be at TCAF the weekend after that-- I don't have a table, but I hear I'm halfway recognizable in a crowd! If you see me, say hello!

I'm alive! And I'm doin' some stuff!

( a few photos and things, mostly sellin' stuff )

( and one other thing )

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One last thing, it looks like I'm going to be doing a panel at the Library of Congress on different generations of Asian-American Illustrators. It's kinda terrifying, but the people seem to be very nice and not mistaken over how completely not important I am. I guess if you're in the DC area on May 12 from 12 to 1, you can see me fidget in front of a crowd of librarians. >_@

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I promise, I'll have real-er, better art in the near future! I just hate using my scanner, it barely communicates with the scan drivers these days. =_=

Hey fellas! If you read Johnny Wander at all, you might've noticed the news posts mentioning that my computer is dead. We're pretty certain the motherboard is fried, it's hanging out with Applecare until (hopefully) some time next week. I've been listening to CD's on the walkman I still have from middle school. It's a strange experience.

In the meantime, I'm probably going to be mostly silent on e-mail, livejournal, twitter, replying to J*W comments. I've basically only been commandeering Ananth's computer when I need to scan and color a comic.

There will be some cool stuff when I get back, I promise.

I'd forgotten, I posted that useless robot design over at Threadless! Feel free to vote on it if you are compelled, it's only up for two more days.



To buffer the post: ( have a finished picture and a totally stupid meme )

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It is strange that I am freaked out about posting too much on LiveJournal and having people hate me, but do not have that problem so much on twitter. Sometimes I post WIPs over there, but it is mostly my roommates and I yelling at each other.

GOD THIS IS SUCH A MISTAKE. I promise I will never put a twitter feed on LJ, that's just irritating I know.

Something like ten people have friended this journal in the past two or three days! Where are all you guys coming from! Did someone link me or do I just have a permeating presence? I am curious!

I am boring, so I will get on to the art.

( Art x6, OCs and dicking around with brushes. One thing is kinda NSFW. )

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I've been trying to teach myself how to use ink with a brush. I used a brush to do the latest J*W and I think it came out pretty okay? +1 TO INDIE CRED!

[EDIT:]

FRONT PAGE OF TODAY'S NEW YORK TIMES

( [EDIT 2] )

Me: Hello?
My Dad: I NEED YOUR FAVOR.
Me: You need a favor from me?
My Dad: I NEED YOU TO DRAW A PICTURE.
Me: Okay, I can do that.
My Dad: OF A MONKEY.
Me: Okay.
My Dad: RIDING A DEER.
Me: Sure.
My Dad: CARRYING A JAPANESE FLAG.
Me: Okay..
My Dad: ... BEING CHASED BY A BAD MONKEY -- YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT REALLY BAD
Me: Uh-- okay
My Dad: AND IT HAS TO BE CARRYING A BASEBALL BAT
Me: A monkey carrying a Japanese flag, riding a deer, being chased by a bad monkey, carrying a baseball bat.
My Dad: YES.

( There's actually an explanation for it, but it's not nearly as funny as the initial phone conversation. )

I should preface this by saying that today in the New York Times Dining section, there's a lengthy article about eating squirrels. *THUMBS UP*

I started writing this entry last night when I heard a huge crack and suddenly all the power went down in the building-- a large branch had dropped on the power line. Haha, if it's not the water going out in this place, it's the electricity.

Goodness, it's been a while. Sorry, I'm still doing that if-it-doesn't-have-pictures-don't-post-it-publicly thing. Hope your respective New Years went well! My family did its usual traditional feast shindig, and it was wonderful. I feel odd, it seems like I'm doing art constantly but don't have anything to publicly show for it. There's J*W, I did some stuff for the Applegeeks DarkHorse book that I can't show, there's other comic work stuff that I can't show, O-OH I didn't mention that I'm subbing for Hawk at AG for the month... I, ah, I'm not really all that familiar with the characters so I'm going off Ananth's original descriptions of his characters which isn't really how Hawk draws them. A few fans are complaining that they can't recognize people. What can I do, I guess. ._. no-but-seriously it's not a big thing.

( OH RIGHT A BIT OF ART-- if it can be called that. )

BEFORE I GO ON, THIS NEEDS TO BE SHARED. The lot of us went to the mall yesterday primarily so we could go into Hot Topic and look for it so I could give it to Megan for Christmas and ensure she never speaks to me again. (thank you iatro XD )

( art, tegaki crap, ace attorney stuff I'd forgotten about )

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CLOSING REMARKS: While we were at the mall, I had to leave the Under Armour store because I was laughing so hard I started crying.

[EDIT] Today's Johnny Wander is super Yotsuba. I can't say I'm not proud.