To the Sketchpad!

It seems appropriate to get rougher around the edges with simpler sketches as it all starts to wind down...

Oh, Right... There's Stuff Happening Away from the Cities...

Have a raging cold / allergy making the busy start of semester even worse. I don't know when I'll have another one - early next week?

Early Winter 2010, shortly thereafter

Early Winter 2010

(To be continued...)

Life Goes On

Well, I finally get to draw Candace's little Sophia.

A blog note ... it might be because I'm a bit busy this summer, although I mostly think it's because I see the Foob's Paradise characters as well on their way to achieving something other than the wrap-up mess of the "strip of destiny", but I see threads as coming together, not as expanding into more stories for much longer. Foob's Paradise isn't over yet, but I don't see an indefinite future in front of it.

July 2010, Mtigwaki II

July 2010, Mtigwaki I

More From Africa IV

End of school year, June 2010: pretty much a wall of text from some e-mail

Hawk Creek Interlude III

Interestingly, nobody who commented connected Liz' "Susan said WHAT?" with Paul's "someone else" yelling at him about doing his job.

Anyhow, the continuation...

Hawk creek Interlude II

Hawk Creek Interlude

Springtime for Foobville IX

Yes, Elly should be improving with treatment, but sometimes the snark is just too obvious

Springtime for Foobville VIII

Yeah, you'll have to click to see the text well; the font's not super-big.

Springtime for Foobville VI

Yeah, yeah, I'm just being silly with that whole "stitch & bitch" quilting thing ...

Springtime for Foobville III

If you're wondering why I didn't have time to draw a little bit like this, well, you really don't want to know what my week's been like.

New year's Eve 2009

End of Dec 2009

Shortly thereafter...

End of Dec 2009

Yeah, I'm going to skip over the wall of text (with copious "um, well"s) of Liz talking about staying. Instead I'll skip to the end:(pencils plus grey liner for this - I just can't seem to draw anything like Liz' Panel 1&2 expressions in non-photo-blue + pen)

End of Dec 2009

... and I did find a .005 liner pen in the 4 aisles of scrapbooking items. I'll see if this brand is more durable.

26 Dec 2009: may I just say arrgh

No, not about the story, about my liner pens. Blobs of ink out the side - wipe them, try using them. Kaput. &*^^%. The last panel was painful to get some use out of one pen.

Brush pens aren't steady enough and the main local craft store only stocks the liner pen brand that just went bad on me (and only down to size 0.01, not 0.005, but I digress). There's one more craft store to try, but I have a busy weekend ahead of me, so I may be back to pencils for a while. Or "pencils-plus": in panel 2, I used a non-photo blue to get the picture blocked out, then went heavy on a regular pencil, then used a light gray brush-pen (where the unsteady thickness isn't as much of an issue as a black one). It's better contrast than the pencils only, but I was getting used to the pens' job.