So I started drawing this piece earlier this morning, after staying up most of the night to finish reading Blue Sky, and apparently yesterday was the author’s birthday! So happy late birthday, Waffles.
I haven’t inked anything in ages, but I think it turned out pretty well! I… also haven’t drawn any makeouts in quite awhile. That turned out very well.
So I stayed up…. pretty much all night to finish reading Blue Sky, and I tried to go to sleep, but with the light coming through my windows and my mind still reeling from how good it was, I want to blabber about it instead.
BLUE SKY WAS AMAZING. I loved it. But now I am torn between ships!
Tenacity is a fan comic by Raintalker on DA, and I had placed myself squarely in the ChellxRattmann camp after I started reading it. UP TILL NOW.
I’m not good at this whole shipping business. WHAT DO.
Here’s the art for the “Don’t Be a Creeper” t-shirts I made awhile back. I ordered two fairly small runs and let them sell out, since I wasn’t sure how long Minecraft would still be in vogue, at the time. It seems like the community is still going strong, and will probably be around for awhile, so I might rework the design a little bit and reprint them sometime.
It warms my little heart when I see someone at a con wearing it. :) Which happens like… very seldomly, since only about 50 of these shirts exist. BUT STILL.
This is the card I’ve been using for the last… oh… year and a half or so. It’s eyecatching, and it makes people laugh when they turn it over to see the second panel of the comic, but since Alex’s Guide isn’t on a regular schedule anymore, I’ll be designing a new one.
I opened up Photoshop to put together a new business card, and I came across this in my files. Hello, Macintosh ad font! I don’t quite remember when I made this business card design, and I never got it printed, but I thought I’d post it.
A commission I did for my mom. :) This is my aunt’s mother and her late husband.
[Image: Webcam photo of Alex holding up several stickers that say ART HARDER! in rainbow text.]
I picked up an Inkpress paper sample pack to try out the various finishes in my new printer, which is awesome. The print quality with some half-decent paper is amazing, and Inkpress is far from just half-decent. :) AND BORDERLESS PRINTING, OMG. My world has opened up wide.
One of the paper samples was “Adhesive Luster”, which is fancytalk for sticker paper, so I made some ART HARDER! stickers to try it out. I think I’m going to get into the sticker game this year.
I’m super excited to announce that preorders are now open for the reprint of the first Trying Human Artbook! Each book is full color, 60 pages, and comes signed in metallic permenant ink.
If you’re a newer fan, you probably haven’t seen much of this art dating from early 2009 to late 2010. Get your hands on a copy to help fuel the first volume of the comic! :D
Depending on the amount of orders we get, I’d like to get a shipment ordered by February 27th, a week from today. If we get more than expected, I’ll order sooner and you’ll get it sooner. Also, this is the first time this book has been printed by my new printer and it’s super gawjus~ >u<
http://tryinghuman.storenvy.com/products/1107958-signed-trying-human-artbook-volume-1
I have one of these! YOU SHOULD BUY ONE TOO. :B
Page 17 is up! http://thehues.alexheberling.com/017
This page took about ten hours to do. @_@ But it’s lookin’ reeeeeal good.
John William Waterhouse, Penelope and the Suitors (1912)
This is my new favorite blog.