I did draw at Comic Con. A lot. I also passed out only one of my books, because I didn't think it was enough up to par... and I kinda regret having given that one out.

But at least I have a starting point now!

Unfortunately, I have scanned pretty much nothing from my Comic Con sketchbook yet. So I will leave you with a doodle of Super Monkey.

Comic Con shirts

And now to try and get a portfolio together in time! Huzzah!

Sour Cheetah

Continuing to familiarize myself with Flash. This fella looks pretty grumpy.

Kung Fu Panda update: I LOVE drawing Tai Lung. The end.

Otters Abound!

Just some style playing with a favorite subject.

I'm rereading The Taggerung. Otters are so great.

More from the Bean!

Having acquired the Art of Kung Fu Panda book, I am also working on copying Nicolas Marlet's drawings, to get a feel for why they rock so hard. Po is easy and fun to draw, but Tigress is unexpectedly difficult (mainly the head, where I run into my usual difficulties with drawing females... and also trying to fit all the stripes on her face and still have it resemble the character). That makes it all the more fun, of course... yay challenge.

Fiery Fangs of Justice!!!

We're coming up with superhero versions of ourselves at work, and I was having the hardest time coming up with anything.

Until I threw rationality out the window and stopped avoiding the Obvious as far as the type of power I'd have. And stopped being afraid to be totally ridiculous.

And then I threw some random Latinish things together into a name.

So I give you:

And then I decided that I need to learn to paint better in Photoshop. Oh well.

EDIT: Oh yes! Stats!

*Strengths: Long attack range, high damage factor (imagine being bitten by FIRE), bonus damage vs. Grass types :P
*Weaknesses: Attacks ineffective underwater or in rainstorms. Costume subject to ridicule from the unenlightened.

Only Mostly Dead

My laptop has been randomly working every so often during the past week. Last night I was bummed because my family went back home, so (Rippy being cooperative and all) I drowned my sorrows in Photoshop.

This was what happened. I was trying to recreate an awesome lighting scheme I saw a few weeks ago, but exaggerated everything. Not sure if the exaggeration worked, but it felt so good.

This monstrosity was a warm-up drawing at work. I tried to come up with the most disgustingly cute thing possible. Anthony said it put Lisa Frank to shame, so maybe it was a bit successful.

I also have some new sketchbook fun, but that will have to wait until I get to a scanner.

Tales from the Bean

Leaping Leopard! This fella is awesome! I clearly have stayed away from the Bean too long! Mounts with... gesture?!

Leopards vs. Jaguars

If only I'd been able to fit the whole thing on the page. This fella rocks. And he was fun to shade.

I just love the motion and realism in that stupid stuffed lion!

And afterward I applied what I learned to a "leopard" I drew last week.

As a final, unrelated note... I've had the Kung Fu Panda score on loop on imeem for the past couple hours and am still loving it. 8)

And some dragony fun

Colored my favorite doodle of Hiro after dailies this week. Photoshop withdrawal is harsh.

And after work today I doodled out a little animation of the awesome dragon.

Bears 'n' stuff

This is a caricature of one of my coworkers. He actually has a very interesting face that'd I'd love to caricature for real... but this had to come first because one of the girls we work with commented that he looks like a polar bear. The resulting bear looks more like a brown bear than a polar bear, but everyone thought the likeness was pretty great.

And here's the whole sketch page. I was playing with leopards and other random animals. Oh, and Kobb thinks he can do kung fu too. Just brain drool I did while eating lunch the past couple days.

Watercolor + some other fun stuff

He's green. And blue. 8|

Boringest coloring job ever. I miss being able to use my tablet. :(

In Which I Sketched At The Duck Pond

Them baby ducks are cute.

Next time: my progress on trying not to suck at watercolors!

ZOOOOOO!

Huzzah for zoo trips! Here are the sketch pages that resulted, in the order they were drawn. Only a couple truly horrible failures were Photoshopped out; the rest remains intact.

My favorite part of the learning experience was finally not failing really hard at the elephants and rhinos. Their facial structures have always eluded me... I also learned something very significant about elephant body shapes that I somehow have missed up to this point. :P

And without further stalling, the drawings!

Doodlin's!

Some stuff happened in my sketchbook this week!

I got a job! So after my first day (Thursday) I doodled this up. 'Cos I felt like it, I guess. Commentary is always fun for me.

And church the following Sunday. I always hate it when I do a page in a sketchbook and the very first things I draw are the best.

The only bad thing about work is I get home tired... I haven't worked on my griffin comic in over a week, and I have only made slight progress on the other comic I'm working on.

Too bad days can't magically be 36 hours long.

The first 6!

Pages of my griffin comic, that is. That's a full half of 'em!
I think I'm going to try to do it the traditional way - ink and paper all the way - mostly due to the fact that my computer is acting old and sick. Or something like that. So these are just the pencils... and in real life they're red. :P

My first colored picture after my laptop's first Great Crash in April, and posted by request of some of my Avatarded friends.

Also, I kinda like how the water turned out. Colors look sorta wonky on this monitor (because Rippy's acting kinda dead again) though.

Also also, she actually looks kinda female. That's always an exciting accomplishment for me.

And thus began Spring

As the process of moving often churns old things to the surface, I ended up flipping through my sketchbook from last winter semester this morning. I've been pretty discouraged about my abilities and progress as of late, to the point where I don't really believe people anymore when they compliment me on something I've done.

But at the very least, I know I draw a lot less clumsily than I did a year ago. And that makes me feel pretty good. I'm still moving forward.

(Moving forward, heh heh. *shot*)

And I don't know how much of this I should show, but this is some concept work from the "other comic" I've been working on. The one where someone way cooler than me is doing the actual writing. Just as a "Rachel has in fact been working lately" proof.

A dusty old feline scholar. I love his face but his outfit looks way too Redwally for our purposes.

A little character lineup - the three main heroes from the beginning, and the villain. We were able to fit my otter dude into the script - he's second from the left. Go Dakkan!


I do need to light a fire under my griffin pages though. Just to put into whatever portfolio I decide to take to Comic-Con. They'll be awesome, once I get started actually drawing them.