Walking up the hill tonight

Line art for a new piece:


EDIT: And the finished illustration:

London by ~Tallychyck on deviantART

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. :)

The most evident utensil is none other than a pencil

Got a lot further on those chibis last night--now they are all inked and waiting for watercolor:


I hope that adding color adds to rather than subtracts from them. I kind of like them as is, but I'm going to color them anyway. Onward! Manifest color destiny!

I am also working on character designs for a very exciting project I'll announce soon. It's challenging, but I do enjoy a good challenge. :P

Aachgh, Evident Utensil by Chairlift is SO GOOD!! Don't get the music video at all, but the song has been on repeat on my laptop for about a week 8D;

Housing for next year drama continues; school is also wringing out the last stress it can from me in these final days before moving home. Emily is throwing a party tonight in our apartment, and I would be a horrible person to skip it, but I'm starting to feel a little claustrophobic in my evasive/stressed-out state. I'll try not to think about the library as I'm playing Pass The Pigs, haha.

Snowdrift

Snowdrift
Originally uploaded by tallychyck

I started joking around with haiku and haikai poetry after studying it in Japanese literature this term, but it's too fun to stop there! I've been sporadically working on an experimental project (no real goals for it except to learn and explore) mixing poetry and illustration/sequential art. I plan to go back to this piece with a wet paint brush and make the felt tip marker lines bleed a bit to soften it. I'll do other examples as I feel like it, and maybe put out a collection of them for the Portland Zine Symposium in July.

Blog Every Day April: 24

Lineart Practice 07
Originally uploaded by tallychyck

New scans of practice sketches from around town up today! Check it out: