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diananock: I was inspired by the PokeBro post Magnolia made...

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:18:40 -0500

I was inspired by the PokeBro post Magnolia made last week, so as an exercise to get myself back in the drawing groove, I did one with myself and some of my bros. (Sorry if I missed you! Or if I drew you badly! Just sorry in advance for any offense, really.)

That’s me in the middle with Turtwig. Starting from the bottom left and going clockwise are George with Snorunt, Abby with Sentret, Ovens with Jigglypuff, Medibot with Sneasel, Blue with a shiny Zubat, and…

…and then Josh showed up with his cat, and things just got weird.

(For the colors and outfits, I used the game sprites for reference, so some of them look kinda silly, haha!)

AHAHAHA that is exactly me. Me and good ol’ Pocky. Thanks, Diana. B3

littlefroggies: I was a very very irresponsible person and drew...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:52:48 -0500

littlefroggies:

I was a very very irresponsible person and drew Steven Universe fanart and I am okay with that. I think this show is adorable.

SEE WHAT I MEAN.

Paexie’s rendition of Garnet from Steven Universe. The...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:50:22 -0500

Paexie’s rendition of Garnet from Steven Universe.

The pilot only came out this week and the fanart for it is already outstanding.

My contribution to the horror anthology The Sleep of Reason is...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:12:54 -0500

My contribution to the horror anthology The Sleep of Reason is finally coming together! Here is a just-about-finished page. It’s about two female astronauts on a very isolated asteroid base, and needless to say things don’t go so well!

wirallessternenstaub: hi look another art done wooooh only at...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:59:26 -0500

wirallessternenstaub:

hi look another art done wooooh only at the cost of my knees and back

I really love O Human Star right now too uou

Sulla (O Human Star) and Keouna (OC), just two synth beings who’d prolly be super good friends if they ever met

Yellow outlines are such a good idea.

Thank you so much!

neo-rama: sbosma: ianjq: jetgreguar: jinntantei: catsandothe...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:51:33 -0500

neo-rama:

sbosma:

ianjq:

jetgreguar:

jinntantei:

catsandotherdrugs:

Steven gets a hold of a magical time travel device and does what any kid would do - he uses it to make jokes. But toying with magic draws trouble to his sleepy beach town and Steven has to step up and save the day - with more jokes.

Go watch Steven Universe, guys! It’s great!

THIS WAS AWESOME. OMGOODNESS. ALL THE GEM GIRLS. SO AWESOME.

EVERYONE IS JUST DOING SUCH COOL THINGS

hehehehe i worked on this too.

P.S. We are expanding and refining everything from this short for the ongoing series. get hype!!!

I am doing backgrounds for this! None from this first episode, though! I’m mostly drawing *~magical temples~* !! It’s been really cool helping develop and define the look of the world.

oh, hi. i’m boarding on this and i love it. everyone’s working so hard to make this amazing. i can’t wait for everyone to see the episodes we’re working on :D

I literally lost count of how many times this short made me gasp out of sheer joy. It’s exquisitely designed and a lot of fun. It even has the purest staple of a Rebecca Sugar-directed work: a ukulele song!

drawnbymani: Some real quick, colored doodles I did when taking...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:18:01 -0500

drawnbymani:

Some real quick, colored doodles I did when taking a break from homework. The gal on the left is Sulla from O Human Star, and the (curiously shirtless) fellow on the right is Oswald Dytel from Knights Errant.

Someday I will do large, complicated illustrations for both webcomics, but at the moment I have Identity Design stuff and client work to get back to. *slinks away*

aaaaaa look at the cute

And that reminds me to reread Knights Errant, ‘cause Oswald’s a badass.

Welcome back to O Human Star! Aaaand, see you next week, because...

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:24 -0500

Welcome back to O Human Star! Aaaand, see you next week, because I gotta take off one more update day to finish drawing my Sleep of Reason pages and other things. Can’t wait til all that stuff is done! But in the meantime, enjoy this page.

Photographer Gillian Laub’s portraits of punk rocker Laura...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:30:00 -0500

Photographer Gillian Laub’s portraits of punk rocker Laura Jane Grace, her wife Heather, and their daughter Evelyn. These photos and the accompanying Cosmo article marked one year since Grace began her MtF transition after years of performing under the name Tom Gabel.

This family is so cute I could die. Literally the only thing that could make these three cooler would be if they balanced their rock ‘n roll lifestyle with doing some vampire hunting on the side. Moms in black, daughter in a pink tutu.

Designing the characters of O Human Star

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:11:53 -0500

Okay, so in lieu of an update today, I’m going to post some notes on how I designed the main three figures of O Human Star, and some of my thoughts on character design. So let’s start with…

CLOTHES AND SILHOUETTES

Al has a very imposing, masculine silhouette that draws the eye up. Many of the details in his design - broad shoulders, arm hair, a strong nose and chin - imply masculinity. His clothes, however, are another story. Al’s clothes, on their own, are pretty gender neutral. Anyone could wear his simple, utilitarian outfits. But on Al’s body they make him look larger and manlier.

Because a relatively short amount of time has passed for Al between time periods as opposed to Brendan, the changes in his design are minimal. Different style of facial hair, similar gender-neutral outfits. I also decided to make older Al just a tad slimmer, for plot reasons.

The iconic black shirt was also originally a reference to one of the real-life figures who inspired Al’s early design: Steve Jobs. Jobs had not yet died when I was first drafting OHS, and needless to say I was very interested in how the world would react to the death of such a huge tech icon.

BRENDAN

Brendan technically has two silhouettes - his younger body and his more mature one. Brendan’s character is shown through the transformation of one into the other. Youthful Brendan is thin and fit, and wears casual clothes. Older Brendan has been affected by time and gravity, and you see it in his silhouette and posture. He wears more mature, businesslike clothes, and it’s important to note that he’s the only one of the three that wears things that are masculine: loafers, cufflinks, and collared shirts. And, to contrast Al’s Jobs, Brendan’s design is based just a bit on Bill Gates.

SULLA

Sulla personifies the conflict between who she wants to be and who she is expected to be, and this is reflected in her design. She has the same facial features as Al - strong chin, beaky nose - but they’re softened with rounder cheeks and hair over her forehead. Her black undershirt and leggings serve an in-story purpose - to hide her synthetic body parts - but they’re also a reference to Al’s own design.

Her silhouette is very feminine, and you get the idea that this is a teenage girl still learning how to dress for her body type. Her miniskirt and belly shirt are cute and girly, but they also accentuate her height and make her look more gangly, awkward, and immature. I also realized later that the contrast of pastel colors with black made her look like some other superpowered girls with a scientist father figure.

All right, Cedreau and I challenged each other to draw our...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:06:38 -0500

All right, Cedreau and I challenged each other to draw our Pokemon trainer personas, and since she drew herself with a very handsome Ghastly, I thought I’d draw my dream team from one of my old Leaf Green games: a Vileplume, a shiny Golbat named Pocky, and my prized Nidoqueen, Dame Judi Dench.

I’m back from TCAF! I had a great time and hung out with a...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:55:34 -0500

I’m back from TCAF! I had a great time and hung out with a lot of fun people, and met a bunch of really cool Toronto comic fans! Now that I’ve unpacked I can take a picture of my modest TCAF purchases, as well as the stuff I got from Stumptown last month.

I’m gonna have O Human Star stuff at table 238 at the...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:45:00 -0500

I’m gonna have O Human Star stuff at table 238 at the Toronto Comic Arts Fest this weekend! If you can make it, stop by and say hi!

Aw, what’s going on with you, kiddo. O Human Star is...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:07:50 -0500

Aw, what’s going on with you, kiddo.

O Human Star is probably going on another week-long break while I’m traveling/recovering from TCAF. Come see me there?

Thinking about doing some posts about character design next week

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:51:43 -0500

I’ve been talking with people and reading a lot about designing and writing characters, and I thought it might be cool to share some O Human Star character stuff when I got back from TCAF. Maybe even some personal design theory a la Aaron Diaz. If you have any particular questions/thoughts about that kind of stuff, send me an ask message and I’ll try to incorporate it into a post.

And O Human Star is back with a new page! Thanks for bearing...

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:15:59 -0500

And O Human Star is back with a new page! Thanks for bearing with me while I tackled an unexpected load of freelance assignments. In exchange, here are some neeeeew charactersssss.

Your semiannual reminder that Jib Kidder’s cover of...

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:01:05 -0500

Your semiannual reminder that Jib Kidder’s cover of “Pets” is pretty great. (You also gotta listen to “Windowdipper” at least once a month.)

Here’s a page of the sketchbook I used to draw many of my...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:36:33 -0500

Here’s a page of the sketchbook I used to draw many of my booth neighbors this past weekend. These folks are, from left to right / top to bottom: Spike, Diana, Kory, Sfé, Amanda, and Evan.

(It should be noted that in Sfé was wearing a leopard-print jacket spangled with buttons and I told em e looked like the Emperor of Canada.)

Sorry, guys! I had a bunch of projects to finish up once I got...

Thu, 02 May 2013 07:43:07 -0500

Sorry, guys! I had a bunch of projects to finish up once I got back from Stumptown, and that left me exactly no time to finish the O Human Star update as planned. And I really want to take my time with the next few pages. You’ll see why.

But anyway! Stumptown was crazy fun! I got to meet quite a few readers and introduce a lot of new folks to the comic, and I got to hang out with some friends and have dance-offs with the booth across from mine, AND Smut Peddler won the Stumptown award for best anthology! You guys are fantastic - thank you for voting.

Now I gotta play a game of catch-up. Barring any further setbacks, there should be two pages next week before I head off to TCAF and do it all over again.

spikedrewthis: Ho-lee crap we did it. We fuckin’ did it. Folks,...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:01:40 -0500

spikedrewthis:

Ho-lee crap we did it. We fuckin’ did it.

Folks, a couple of weeks ago, I asked you to vote for my two 2012 projects in the Stumptown Comics Arts Awards. Poorcraft was nominated in the Best Small Press category, and Smut Peddler was nominated in the Best Anthology category, beside books put out by the likes of Fantagraphics and Dark Horse. I honestly didn’t think I had a chance. And y’know what? Dark Horse books pretty much swept every category they were nominated in.

Except one. “Best Anthology.” The one with Smut Peddler in it.

Thanks to YOUR VOTES, dirty, filthy porno took home the trophy last Saturday night. And I just couldn’t be more grateful. I owe my little monster awards to every single one of you that took a moment out of your day to give me a quick internet backslap by way of a Stumptown vote. I didn’t win either of these awards alone; not without a lot of amazing artists, and not without a lot of votes.

Thanks, everybody. I’m gonna get back to work.

It was so gratifying watching Spike win these cute little guys live at Stumptown. And it’s so cool to know that I’m in an award-winning anthology! Thanks to everyone who voted for awesome, hot, lady-made comics!