30th Aug 2012
145588
#comics
#not mine

oldblueeyes:

Neil Armstrong: A giant among men. (x)

Beautiful tribute!
20th Jul 2012
0
#throughtosomethingnew
#comics
#my art
13th Jul 2012
2
#throughtosomethingnew
#comics
#my art

Tumblr ate the original ask, so I had to post this a strange way.

I think this is an excellent way to get to know each other! I also think this is a great way to force comics out of me, so double win :)
20th Jun 2012
94
#darryl ayo
#not mine
#comics
#good advice

darrylayo:

I’m gonna post this old comic because I need to look at it every now and then.

-Ayo!

Good advice.
18th Jun 2012
10
#not mine
#comics
#dana simpson
#heavenly nostrils

websnark:

Back in the day — meaning 2009 — Amazon and Andrew McMeel Universal had a ‘next big thing’ type contest for cartoonists, and the winner was Dana Simpson, for a comic strip named Girl. It included a publishing contract and a Gocomics syndication deal. Which… is a funny way of saying “a webcomic,” but for all intents and purposes that’s what it is. But one that pays and which includes a book compilation so what the heck.

Well, here we are in the halcyon days of 2012… and Simpson is on Gocomics at last.

Just… you know, not with Girl. Apparently, the development process involved a significant rewrite and character redesign, and led not to a young bespectacled girl whose rich inner life has her talking to the animals… but instead to a quite different girl who meets and befriends (via contractual obligation) a unicorn, name of Marigold Heavenly Nostrils.

It’s one of the sweetest things I’ve seen in a while. It’s worth your time. First strip is here, for the record.

I was wondering whatever happened to this project not too long ago! So far, it’s adorbs.
17th Feb 2011
5
#Comics
#drawing
#doodle
#consistency
#my art

Doodling, doodling. Working on drawing the same person consistently from different angles, or with different expressions. Maybe someday I’ll even be able to do it! :P
22nd Jan 2011
0
#comics
Pat Grant - making it black →

“Drawing with a pencil is about finding new ways to see. Inking over a drawing is about convincing yourself that you’ve always seen that way.”

I feel this way a lot, too. That the drawing part of drawing is horrible and tedious and, then getting out the brush makes the whole thing come alive and it’s a great joy (even when the ink goes places you don’t mean it to, and you have to do something clever to salvage)

I love my brush. I had no idea how much I would love it- the prospect of something so soft producing such crisp lines sounded impossibly hard to me, and I tried and tried with nibs for years and just never got comfortable. The brush feels so natural now, and while I’m not the most skilled person at using it, I’m not fighting against its nature to get what I want.

Anyway. Pat Grant is much more eloquent on this point. Go read his.
18th Nov 2010
0
#links
#comics
"A scene that celebrates itself has nothing to celebrate" →

Thank you, John Allison. In one blog post, you managed to put an end to a particular point I was dithering about, and also raise (or at least give focus to) nine other excellent points . No, I’m not sharing which point it was, because I will feel foolish.