Boston

Have some pieces of Boston.

Sketch Meetup

I had a great time last night - I got together with a couple girls I met during the pre-MoCCA event and we sketched and had chocolate things. I worked on a new character (based on the one in my current banner image) and will be posting some more images of her soon! For now, here's a quick photo of the page I filled in my new sketchbook:

City Pieces

Sketches

Some things from my sketchbook:

New Creations!

I got some pictures back of some recent projects:

First, a Cute!

I also made some hair clips, and pins made of painted bottle caps!

More things to come later, after I get a camera of my own...

Watercolor

I'm going to post some drawings from MoCCA soon, but in the meantime have some cities.

Map Drawings

I'm thinking of doing more map drawings and having them printed as greeting cards/postcards. I think it would be pretty cute.

If I did more screenprinting I could put them on scarves or something, but at the moment I'm limited to paper. What other applications would be good?

MoCCA Comic Con and Renegade Craft Fair

This weekend was busy! Saturday and Sunday we went to the MoCCA comic book convention, which was pretty inspirational. The night before I went to an event for women comic artists held at a bar on Houston Street, so I got to meet some of the artists beforehand. It was a bit silly to be going up to girls and saying "Hey, remember me from last night?" Wink. But it was lots of fun. I met two very talented girls who'd gone to comic book school in Sweden. Åsa Ekström (took me a while to find those special characters!) amazed me by drawing in an incredibly authentic manga style. Who knew that was popular in Sweden? 

I also met a couple other women there whose work I later looked up:

Sophie Goldstein and Jenn Jordan, who write a cute slice-of-unusual-life webcomic with mythical beasts;

and Natalie R, who has an impressive deviantart account and was very supportive of my drawing efforts.

I also ran into women I recognized at the con, like Bree, who has a fun webcomic that sort of takes the same direction I intended for mine. I wish I had a working scanner so I could keep posting! I have a few things from the weekend that I'd really like to put on it. 

We also saw Randall Munroe (surrounded by fans) and I talked to Jeph Jacques for a while about drawing inspiration. That was pretty much a highlight of the con for me. And he gave me a drawing of Hannelore. 

Then we went to the Renegade Craft Fair, which was huge and full of all sorts of things. I found a lot of the crafts to be similar, and even saw some of the same belts and headbands at different stalls. I feel like maybe the fact that everyone reads the same craft blogs and magazines means that they end up making similar things, or maybe buyers just generally want the same products. But there were a lot of cute things. I'll post some links when I find the business cards I took from the event.

I'm waiting on some photos, and then I'll post some of my new projects, including a Cute...

Tech meltdown completed

There will be a break from posts, as all of my methods for turning real objects into images I can post on the internet have all failed. I just don't see a detailed written description cutting it, so posts will have to wait until I'm technologically bailed out somehow.

People on trains