First 5 pages ready for shading. Appropriate wallpaper is appropriate. #arting #sailormoon
Month: September 2013
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More Andy! #arting
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Sami has run out of can. #arting
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I should really share some of the progress I’m making on these pages. This big monster page took a LONG time to paint the backgrounds, and the whole thing is coming together nicely with the flats done. #arting
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This is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen in a truck stop bathroom.
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Adventures in printing Part 2. It’s really long because there’s no easy way to explain these things. Today we look at some printing terms and how to size your files for print! Part 1 (Colourspace) here.
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Part 1 of my soon to continue series on printing! Today we look at colour and that oft asked question of “Why do my prints looks so different from the screen what happened”. Next time I’ll be covering DPI and file setups. Do you have any printing questions you want answered?
YES I absolutely needed this information a few weeks ago!
THESE PAST COUPLE YEARS.
I did some unexpected reminiscing/remembering and it just kind of struck me all the things I’ve made it through up to this point.
- Worked nights for 13 months, resulting in some pretty bad depression
- Got in a car accident and toughed it out without a car for a couple months, which made the depression worse
- Used my entire savings to buy my mom’s car from her, locking me into my terrible minimum-wage retail hell for some time after while my finances recovered
- Depression got so bad that I couldn’t take it anymore and took a significant pay cut to just be back on days and feel normal again, and so I could actually look for something else
- Managed to get a new job that paid a lot more and was vaguely relevant to my degree (not really) even though it was a 45-minute commute at the time
- …which was somehow even more soul-crushing than the minimum wage retail hell, but at least I was making a livable wage.
- Found an apartment that I could afford on my own that was close to my boyfriend and had a reasonable commute time to said job
- Gradually lost more and more free time for comics, but I eventually made good on plans I’d made in 2011 and started making pages of The Hues, even if it was a year behind schedule
- Was generally kicking ass and taking names, juggling my comics career with a physically demanding full-time grownup job
- And then two days before I was set to launch The Hues, I got laid off
- Survived on a pittance of Unemployment for the better part of this year, as well as kindness from friends and family
- Worked on comics
- Applied for jobs
- Worked on comics
- Cried
- Worked on comics
- Applied for Jobs
- Cried
- Worked on comics
- Cried A LOT
- Launched a Kickstarter
- Did more crying
- And now I’m doing art for a living technically? Maybe?
I feel like I’ve gone over the hill on a really big roller coaster, but the air is foggy and I’m not really sure what the whole track looks like, I can only see the immediate things around me, and I don’t know how long the hill is or the bottom, or when it’s going to twist and turn.
All I know is what’s immediately before me, and that’s The Hues.
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Photos from my Fatty Pilgrimage to Re/Dress! I took photos of everything I tried on, as well. It was great to finally go the store and meet everyone! :DD There were big posters of Natalie Perkins’ art on the walls, and I offered to drop off some of my own fatshion art the next time I’m in Cleveland, so maybe my art will be up in the store in the future!
I bought the brown bubbly-printed dress to wear to a wedding I’m going to this fall. It’s sooooooo cute! Also bought some leggings with comic graphics printed on them because cartoonist. XD