I wanna publish zines and rage against machines

More sketch-dumpery, y'all:
Another little preview from my Oni Press talent search pages.

Trying to nail down a style for Delilah.

Connor, Delilah, and Baruccus from Second Witch of Wilheim. The brush pen is a dream for sketching Baruccus, who is just a black silhouette. There's no way to tell what the finished ink will look like when I sketch him with a pencil, but with the brush pen, I can fill in the lines in 10 seconds and see!Sketch shit. The anatomy that St. Tail taught me vs. an actual face, and then more sketches of Connor from SWW.

Just for me, the church bells rang

Here's a preview of the cover for my senior thesis comic, tentatively titled The Second Witch of Wilheim. If all goes according to plan, this will be a self-contained 100-150 comic to accompany a research paper on comics' societal influence, and cover my thesis requirement to graduate from the UO honors college (due this coming May). I am very excited about the story and some of the things I'll get to draw. Action, magic, animals, old houses, and environments, ganbarimasu!
I've been using brushes more and more to ink this year, and think I'm finally ready to try a serious, full-length story like SWW with them. It'll be challenging for sure, but I really like the feel of brush lineart opposed to nibs or pens.
A nice alternative to using a brush is the brush pen, which Emi swears by and encouraged me to try. I finally bought a Pentel brush pen and tested it out by branding a new sketchbook:
I really like it! I want to try drawing more with it. :)

Talent search pages inked! Let's tone these fools!

The written pitch for my senior thesis is also done, so on to art for chapter 1.

Freelance art job still trucking! Thumbnails are a go.

Watched some Flight of the Conchords last night. I loved that show season 1, but season 2 was soooo much better. Favorite episodes were Unnatural Love and Love is a Weapon of Choice. SOOOO FUNNY.

Too many dicks on the dance floor
Too many dicks on the dance floor
Too many dicks
Too many dicks on the dance floor
Too many dicks
Too many dicks on the dance floor
Too many dicks

Going to the party
Sippin' on Bacardi
Wanna meet a hottie
But there's Adam, Steve and Marty
There's Billy, Todd and Tommy
They're on leave from the army
The only boobs I'll see tonight will be made of origami

Tell the players, make it understood
It ain't no good if there's too much wood
Make sure you know before you go
The dance floor bro-hoe ratio
Five to one is a brodeo
Tell Steve and Mike it's time to go
Wait outside all night to find
Twenty dudes in a conga line

Too many dicks on the dance floor
Easy to fix
Too many dicks on the dance floor
Spread out the dicks

Too many dudes
With too many dicks
Too close to my shit
Too hard to meet chicks
I need better odds
More broads, less rods
I came to do battle
Scadaddle with the cattle prods

Too many men
Too many boys
Too many misters
Not enough sisters
Too much time on, too many hands
Not enough ladies, too many mans

Too many dicks
Too many dongs
Too many schlongs
Now sing this song

And I thought it was just a Soup joke, but Joel McHale really is going to to be on an NBC show called Community this fall! It's early Christmas! 8-D I perused his wiki page, and was sad to find that he is about ten years older than I'd guessed, with about one more wife and two more children xD; But I will still be an avid fan.

Your brain helps you make decisions, and your colon pushes out--

AHHH I LOVE 30 ROCKKKKKK. Best episode yet. "Nuh-uh! I've changed, Ken, into a badass adult. I have a wolfdog, I have 2 bad knees, and a gun. That I lost."

The Oni Press talent search pages are coming along. A little more inking and a lot more toning, and we'll have a complete submission. :)

Not just my happiness, but everyone's happiness

I'm on vacation with the family this week, and going just a little bit crazy being away from art projects. They left me alone today while they went out on a boat trip, and good God, I've been playing board games with myself virtually the whole time. @__@

I have my computer though, so I've done some work on the two eligible scripts for my senior thesis comic, and 90% chosen the shorter, more commercial of the two. Hopefully I can finish some art before SDCC and take it with me.

You know the stripes on a tiger are hard to change

LOVE this song right now:

And I like the music video! The lead singer's style, the silhouette dancing, and the part where he drives off the car are all cool elements.

Still inking (le sigh!). It's been so long since I used nibs! April at least. Very strange, after inking with them for...oh wow, 6 years? I was worried I would lose that skill if I took a break and learned to brush ink, but it seems to have come right back. :)

Buttons now available in my store!!! Check 'em out! :)

So...Miyazaki is coming to Comic-Con. And this is all that I will be talking about for the next month. *A* I wonder if there will be any way to give him presents...probably not, huh? Meh, I'll be happy if I see him with my own eyes. :)

Can't Stop the Serenity was last night, and I had a blast with my friends Mary and Christina! We got to The Gypsy too late for most of the festivities, but it looked like it was a good time. The trivia questions were HARD, though! They asked things like "What quadrant is Miranda in?" O___o;
The movie was awesome. It was my first time watching it, so maybe not the best idea to go to a showing where people are encouraged to yell at the screen and say "look out!" before everybody dies, but still, I really really enjoyed it! I couldn't even tell who was going to die, because all I could hear around me was "AHHHHHHHHHHH" right before it happened, and there were so many camera cuts leading up to it that I just knew death was coming to someone. :P They asked who was watching it for the first time before it started, and I was one of like 2 people, so once in a while someone would shout things like, "Who didn't see that coming?" and someone else would reply, "The girl in the middle!!!" xD; Definitely going next year and making preemptive jokes with everyone else. I liked the speakers and the message from Joss Whedon before the film--I love his characters and his portrayal of women, and it was cool to see an entire event inspired by that. Very cool indeed.