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[Feb. 25th, 2007|03:07 am] |
I feel really excited about drawing the next page.
WOW! |
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| Drag the Lake to keep the Vendetta Alive |
[Feb. 18th, 2007|06:15 am] |
Today I woke up and my roomate burst in with a neighbor, "CHRISTINE IMIFRIGGINGOSH IT'S 36 FREEEEAKING DEGREES OUTSIDE; LET'S PLAY!" So we played tennis and began wandering aimlessly around campus, thrilled one could do so with a t-shirt and not die of hypothermia. (we were getting highs of -16 for a while there) and we ran into a group of gentlemen friends who just happened to be wandering aimlessly the same time as us. Two of them fit in the trunk, I stole shotgun, Mason-my main mace man, drove, and we sang, loudly, on the way to Arby's.
Arby's seriously needs to offer smoothies.
But I was pleasantly surprised by their caliber of Jalepino poppers.
Regular update this Wednesday. I think the reason this page has taken me so long to complete is the fact that I despise how badly the linework turned out. I feel so unmotivated to color it...every time I look at it I'm just like, "Ugh...I should just start over." But that would take longer, so I really just need to get over it. In the meantime I've been considering altering the style a tad...just because the art looks so static to me, and Joanna's character consistency is deplorable.
So, I may be feeling a bit of aggravation toward my current artistic skills.
But the only way to solve that is to keep going, and keep getting better.
Bleh.
I'm all out of apple juice. |
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| And Talkin' In Your Sleep |
[Jan. 25th, 2007|05:05 am] |
Ahah! Done with my History of Western Religion Homework and it's only 5 in the morning! Oh college, how grande thou art...wait a second. I stayed up waaaay later than this in High School; what am I complaining about? Erm, nothing now, I guess.
I went treadmilling with my new WORKOUT BUDDY MASON today. I serenaded him for an entire hour. I ran about half the time, walked another fourth, and danced on the side panels for the rest of it. I sang him all the love songs on my workout mix (chyeah!)... rather audibly I must admit. I think he liked it, especially when he started laughing so hard he almost tripped and burned his face on the rotating black band of burning disaster. |
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| Where am I? |
[Jan. 17th, 2007|02:29 am] |
Hey kids, it's muah reporting from Brigham Young University Idaho. Things are pretty peachy keen up here. Weather's been around -6 during the day. Freaky for me, as I've never been in anything below 20 degrees in my life. I've got a new tank of fish and most of my preferences back in Photoshop. (although my wacom pen won't change it's shape dynamics to be pressure sensitive anymore, any help?) I've gone to brush presets and clicked shape dynamics and all that. It says it's clicked but it doesn't change. Weird.
Page 8 is up, good grief. Hope I didn't dissapoint anyone by not getting the colored version up sooner.
Last night one of my roomates (I share a bedroom with one girl, Ally, and we share an apartment with two other girls, Shea and Abbi. I've actually renamed Shea to Shagster, in honor of Shrub Monkeys, which is also on Girlamatic, if you didn't already know.), couldn't sleep. So we all sang Bohemian Rhapsody to her at three o clock in the morning at the top of our lungs to her. Evidently it was helping the people downstairs sleep too...
But I got it all on video.
There is also one great thing about going to a school in the middle of Nowhere. When I walk to class, I can see mountains in the distance. Mountains with snow, and sunsets in the evening. "Mountains, Gandalf!" |
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| Crazy Busy Good |
[Dec. 14th, 2006|02:14 pm] |
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Last night I dreamed that I was the comics queen. I'm dead serious. I even had an army bent on protecting me from an old woman and her house full of glass figurines. |
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| Diabolical Planning |
[Dec. 7th, 2006|01:38 pm] |
Today feels like a crazy sign-up-for-everything day. I did a bandwagon hop over to comicspace.com, which I hope doesn't turn out to be a flop, because it looks like it could be fun. I also signed up for webcomicsnation.com, and am VERY excited about that. (my username is "phoohoo" on both of those. Hook up with me, yo.) I'm wondering if I should upload all my ancient-relic comics from the days of old on there? I don't know, maybe someone will have fun reading my crap from middle school. And elementary school. Maybe it'll just give them hope that even if they write horribly crappy comics all through childhood they may, in fact, someday, be able to...continue to write...horrible...crappy...comics. LOL. Yes, I should definitely put those on.
What do you think? We're talking notebook-paper-fifth-grade-crush on boy-in-blue-flannel comics. |
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| I need to clean my fish tank. |
[Dec. 6th, 2006|04:50 pm] |
Ack, sorry the page didn't go up until about 2:00 today. The Dance recital/concert/wtcrap was last night. I danced to "Dance at the Gym" from Westside Story, "Around Midnight" by Thelonius Monk, and did a seven minute interpretive dance of Lord of the Rings. You could say it went well. People seem to think I make a rather convincing Gollum.
Hope you enjoy page six. I think the last panel is my favorite. I despise the first panel with a vengeance. I think I redrew it more times than any panel so far, and I still don't like how it turned out.
Yay for straight-irons.
Oh, and those fishyboxers? I actually had a pair of those in high school. They were the best.
And yes, the poster does indeed say "Bowierinth". |
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| I realize that I really don't make sense when I type. |
[Dec. 1st, 2006|08:59 pm] |
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Bazaar stuff still going on, but now it's finals week. Bleh. So, I have filler up this Wednesday, an ancient relic signifying Joanna's two dimensional birth. On a yay-for-comic side, I've registered for my classes at Brigham Young University Idaho (where I am attending this January) and due to my genius and awesome power-planning, I will have Mondays and Fridays completely SCHOOL FREE. That means there will be actual time in which to loaf, do random yoga moves, stare at my pet fish and write bad poetry about boys in my english class. Oh yeah, I might have like, time to do comics or something too. I can't wait until people can actually become familiar with the characters. For goodness sakes, the MAN character hasn't even made his entrance yet. Do you know how BORING it is to write pages with ZILCH romantic tension?! Alas, it will move. I will draw and it will grow and the people will find it and say, "Ho ho! This doth not suck so much as previously ascertained!" And we'll feast on fruit bats and sloths and quote Monty Python with much glee. |
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| Excuses...with Pictures! |
[Nov. 20th, 2006|09:02 pm] |
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Sorry for no Saturday update. I was planning on doing Wednesdays (as my official day) with Saturday updates for the first few months, just to get the ball rolling on the story line. My sister, however, is throwing a holiday bazaar (which, if you live in the Olympia WA area, you are free to inquire about via email-->frankenstiney@yahoo.com) She's trying to earn the money to buy her wedding dress for next May. Here she is, posing with her twins and my younger sister behind her.
( My sister is a stud, I know. )
So I've been making things to sell. Under the cut are the candy trains, a few "wands" for kids (or kids at heart. I know I want one. They all have jingle bells) and an ornament that works as a time capsule, which I thought of myself. Well, I have a plastic one I bought from Hallmark, but I thought of the design to use cardboard toilet paper tubes.
( Magic Wands and Candy Trains ) |
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| The Taste of 13th Hour |
[Nov. 7th, 2006|07:46 pm] |
( It's as real as my skull... )
Dejavous...
( ...and it DOES exist! )
Ah, the sinister eclairs lie in wait. Foreshadowing, children, foreshadowing.
Wagner's Bakery (or Vogner's as le comic illustrates) is actually in walking distance of the Capitol Building in Olympia. My first encounter with their eclairs was the fault of my friend Jill, who talked it up the entire way there and told me that even her boyfriend Paul could hardly finish ONE; they were so rich and big etc. I ate two and a half that day.
Later I did a one-day job-shadow there during high school. I had no interest in baking or anything, I just wanted to get out of class and land some free food. I had a couple artistic friends who signed up to shadow architects and illustrators. No free food, didn't get to touch a single slide-rule=bummed out.
Lesson of the day kids: Career day is not for your future career, or even what you're interested in. It's for being a mooch. Yeah. Okay, so don't quote me on that. |
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| Page 1 and LOTR Ramble |
[Nov. 3rd, 2006|02:13 am] |
Page one is up. I figure I can update more than once a week if I just maintain my buffer instead of dig into it. That's the plan anyway...
Drew page four today, which I like quite a bit. I'm not particularly fond of several panels in two and three.
Working on a page by page summary for myself. Looks like each chapter is going to run about 15 pages. We'll just see how that works out.
Today was mainly comic oriented. I listened to The Fellowship of the Ring on Audiotape. We were in the Mines of Moria during the creation of page four. Just as a note of mild interest, page three was drawn during our visit to The Prancing Pony. It's always funny to me when I draw while listening to something. Years from now I'll spot the dresser on page three and see Strider sitting in the corner smoking a pipe.
And is it just me, or did Sam mostly suck completely until the movies came out. I remember as a kid I thought Sam was just a fatty whinger, but then Sean Aston was my favorite character in the movies. At least it gave me a better mental image than the ugly Sam with the 70's haircut from the animated version, yes, the animated version of the Fellowship. Anyone see that? The Hobbit was amazing, but Warner Bros thought they'd capitalize on a crappy animated trilogy and it was just HORRIBLE.
At least I thought.
Right, I should sleep like normal humans do. |
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| Last stop till Chroniker. |
[Oct. 30th, 2006|03:27 pm] |
Well, The 13th Hour has finally made it to Girlamatic. I need to finish a cover, but it's so hard to decide on some all-enveloping image to put on the front of the story. I did finish Joanna's bio picture though. I'll post bios on Girlamatic for each character as they're introduced.
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