Today's (warped and glue-infested) portrait!

Sniffing glue all day messes with your head!

So, today I was helping out with our fundraiser and did some pop up cards. This inevitably meant I had to use a lot of glue.

In an unventilated studio.

Which is very small.


...

In the end, I just did some other xmas cards that I don't really think will sell :D
:D :D

I'm 24. I promise.

Today's portrait and some panel progress.

Been very tired today. Spent most of the morning and early afternoon just cleaning.




Aaaaand here's a proof of progress on three panels.

Today's spontaneous portrait.

This took about 5 min of painting and then in total about 15 min to dry.
About.. three layers maximum with no guide sketch.

I normally NEVER work without a guide sketch underneath. Hm. Might try doing this more 'seriously' with some other picture.

My studio space at Uni!

Here's the current look of my studio space!
Pictures on the walls change frequently. Put up photocopies of references and inspiration mixed with my own current work.

BnM: Page5 tester and a splash page tester.

Will need to make the vignettes smaller I think.. They are spilling out of the page.





... Hmm. It's scary how much more saturated the colours appear on the new Mac screens at Uni, compared to here at home. Confuses me.

Today's (quick) portrait!

Playing the Battlestar Galactica Boardgame.

Today's portrait.

Been in Bath today, and also had a personal tutorial at Uni.

Brain is very mushy mush. I'll try to be more creative tomorrow.

Today's portrait.

BnM. Another panel progress.

Here's another version being painted of the first panel of page5. It's so difficult to paint entire scenes with buildings and people.

But fun!

Aaand a sharp learning curve.



Let's see what happens as I continue adding layers.

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BnM. Rugrat panel.

Sneak peak of one panel. :P




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More progress.

BnM. Vignettes.

Been working on page 4 and 5 today. I wasn't happy with the original design of page 4 (the perspective was completely fuggled) and page 5 felt like a mess, paint-wise.

Here's the three little vignettes being worked on for page 5. My tutor taught me the trick of 'working back into the paper' with watercolour. Basically means that you apply colour to an area which you intend to have light/white, then you wet it and rub it with a brush to get the white back... If that makes sense.

It makes it a bit rougher. And I liiike rough.



(very enlarged. These are going to be quite tiny on the actual page)

OMG. I've been stealth-sketched!

I was just casually browsing some blogs when I came across this post by Sarah McIntyre: Click me!

Second picture from the top... Look at the person on the far right with the pony tail and the headband and the hoodie. It's ME. I was gasped loudly IRL when I saw it :D

It's from the comics conference in Cambridge.

Oh how win!