Dirty pencil pictures

A couple nights ago I sketched some girls out of dirty 60's magazines while watching "The Tudors" with Luke. I don't draw with pencil very often because I'm less confident with how my lines look. These are more practice drawings than fun drawings, but I'll post them anyhow cause I liked how some of them turned out.


The cheap color job on that one above is just Photoshop. These are drawn on watercolor paper though, so maybe sometime I'll use these for paint practice!

The drawing of the lady with scary eyes is super wonky, but the model was so cool!!

I liked these yesterday but tonight I'm not so sure.

I like these though. :)

I'm taking a mini-vacation this weekend- Christine (she's in the comic I posted below) and I are going to Tahoe for our high school reunion. I hope some weird events will happen so I can do a comic about it.

I'm getting up at 5:30 so maybe it would be smart to sleep. Goodnight!

Petting Zoo Comic

I finished it early! That means I do studio work all day tomorrow. AND I learned that it takes about 5 times longer for me to color in Photoshop than it does in Flash or with marker. No more Photoshop coloring until I learn how to do it the easy way.

Anyway this comic is a true story!




Em swears she didn't say "I'm not responsible for this!!!" but I totally remember hearing it, and since it's funny to me I kept it in. I'm sure she'll chew me out later.

If you enjoyed my insipid story, I have older posts with my high school friends as well!
Meet them here!

And here are some drawings I did right after the petting zoo incident took place.

And here’s a comic about a dream I had with some of my HS buddies.


Some more fun: here is the photo taken of Em, 6 seconds before she got yelled at and fell off of the poo barrel. I wish I'd taken one of the aftermath, but I was pretty flustered.



Don't kill me, highschool friends!!



I'm tired...goodnight!
U__U ~~~~~ z z z z

COMING SOON

***UPDATE***

The last of my inks from 2003 are up for sale on Etsy! See below for thumbnails! Check it out please!

I roughed out a comic a few months ago, I'm gonna see if I can get it cleaned up over the weekend.




Also, I'm gonna go ahead and put all the inks I've been able to scrounge up on Etsy next week! Here they are, the last batch:



See ya later! Please come back and see my comic when it's done! (>u<)=b

How I yearn for fun!

*** UPDATE!!!! MORE INKS FOR SALE AT ETSY!!!***

Also, I am shipping stuff out as fast as I can. There has been some issues with finding proper shipping supplies, and enough of them (Burbank has really been failing in this area). HOWEVER the majority of items have already been shipped, and the ones that aren't will be soon. So far everyone's been really patient, and I appreciate it! Also, I ran out of the free sketchbooks...so no more of those... U__U

OK back to the old post...


I think I'm gonna do more prints soon. The Skadi ones are nearly gone, and I think I'd like to try some smaller, more personal prints. What do you guys think of these two ideas?



This is kind of weird, but I like how it turned out! It's post-it doodles of France Gal, Sylvie Vartan, and Francoise Hardy, set up against the texture of the lamp in my living room. Those girls had a lot of different looks, so if you're curious as to who's who, it's like this:

Francoise France Sylvie Francoise
France France Francoise Sylvie
Francoise Sylvie Sylvie France
France Sylvie France Francoise

I can't decide which girl is most beautiful. I used to think France Gall, but now I think it's Francoise Hardy.

Here's another:



Sorry, I think this is maybe the 3rd time I've posted this drawing on my blog! >__<;
This time though, I've scanned a dress I loved in highschool and put it as a weird background. If I make this into a print to sell, I'd probably make it small...postcard size, or maybe 8 x 10. What do you guys think?


OH HEY!! Nearly all the Etsy orders have been shipped out now, and people have begun writing me to let me know that they've arrived. Some of the stuff might get moved about while shipping (especially the prints in the tubes), so don't forget that each one comes with an extra drawing, like these!



ALSO!!

Here are the inks that are for sale now...except for the Elf girls, I decided to keep them for sentimental reasons!



Another thing...tomorrow marks a whole year that Dumm Comics has been around, and is also the debut of our newest Dumm artist, David Gemmill!

A whole year of making comics seems pretty crazy to me. It's been difficult and fun and I get more motivated to continue every day. The only problem is that I want to do new comics besides Skadi, but with work there's no time. Ah well...if you like Skadi, then check it out this Wednesday, which starts our new 6 parter story. Exciting! Also, I'm working on a post about me and Luke's process that will go on the Skadi blog soon.

My hideous rough, and the end product!

It feels crappy not having new or fun stuff to post, but eventually I'll be less swamped and I'll go back to normal. I'm looking forward to it. T__T

more stuuuuuuuuufffffff

This isn't a new drawing, but it IS an old drawing that I did new things to!




I'm really happy with how this turned out...It's up for grabs at Etsy. This thing was fun to make. It has real screentone and everything!




I put up some other stuff on Etsy, too. I like this drawing, even though it's got funny wonky stuff going on.



This weird experimental drawing is there too:



The inks I put up are gone now, but there are more on the way! I think I'm gonna have two more batches, then I'll have run out of my older inks.

I know all this business crap is getting boring. But I'm gonna post fun stuff soon, I promise!! Also, some people asked questions on my last post, and I will respond tomorrow, when I'm less tired!

Thanks eveyrone!!
>u<;

More drawings for sale!

***UPDATE!***

More inks are up on my Etsy store!!- I hope you'll check it out!

Also- I'm not crazy about posting these here, but since Luke already let the cat out of the bag in the Dumm Comics news section, I might as well. Anytime I sell something, I do a little "thank you" sort of drawing to go along with it. I've done a bunch of them, but here are some examples.



Oh yeah, inks and drawings get a girl doodle, and if you buy a print you get a Skadi doodle.

(I used to personalize these 'thank you' drawings, until I realized that some people buy stuff under their spouse's or parents' names...oops...)

Nothing too special, but I like them ok (I wouldn't send someone a drawing I didn't like myself)...although it kind of takes the fun out of getting a secret surprise by announcing it here. >__<;

OH I suppose I ought to post the inks that are up for sale...here they are:

(See more detailed scans/photos of these on the Etsy store)

ALSO!! If you are someone who was kind enough to get something from my Etsy store, and are reading this now, thank you!! I just started shipping drawings and prints out on Saturday. There was a little bit of a delay, because the first tubes I bought for shipping the prints were terrible. Then I had some tard moments trying to figure out how to combine certain items to be shipped. Finally I started to figure it out, but the world's most boring parade HAD to be doing it's thing in Burbank that day, blocking my way to the shipping supply store.

CURSES

Anyhow, I just want to let you know that I'm trying hard to get everything shipped out safely, and I'm sending them out as fast as I can. Thanks for your patience!

P.S. I hope you guys like the doodles ok- I am actually pretty out of practice right now when it comes to just drawing girls out of my head. :)

Updates!

I'm really excited! Two weeks from now, May 6th, the first of me and Luke's new 6-part Skadi story goes up on Dumm Comics. Here's a quick sneak-peek:



The reason I'm excited is because while our last longer Skadi story (The Red Menace) was almost entirely Luke's idea, this new one is one of mine. I tried a lot of new things that I'm not very used to, but I hope you guys will enjoy it all the same! I'll be back in May to talk more about it!

ALSO!!!

Skadi prints are selling fast! Click here to see!



I was really sort of surprised to see how nice the prints came out, and how they were recieved...so I'm going to do a couple non-Skadi ones, and see if they sell.

SO!!! I need some opinions from people on what kind of things they would like to see printed up all purdy. I grabbed a few that I thought might look nice as prints, but I dunno really yet. What would you guys want to see made into prints?




P.S. I'm working on one print idea that is coming out pretty cool...I got the idea from Jesse, who suggested selling some post-it doodles a couple posts ago! I'll put it up when its done and see what other people think!