Self-Portrait 2013

I was nervous yesterday about the job interview I had today, so I started working on a small self-portrait.

Postponed Ghost Entry

I had originally intended for this piece to be a part of a collection of ghost-themed pictures. Unfortunately, time and my procrastination skills (and sudden fixation with my boyfriend's birthday gift) ended up shelving this. I just recently came back to this today so I could get it to a spot where I actually liked it.

I know I said I would get back to updating.

And I've meant to. I really have. But you know how the holidays are. Plus I wanted to show you guys something actually worthwhile. You'll have to stick with this for the time being.

Recently between tutoring and the part-time seasonality, I mentioned working on a comic. At the moment I've got one chapter scripted and thumbed out, so now it's down to actually making the characters on the page. I decided to help myself out with different issues I've had, I'd work on doing a character turnaround. For easy costume reference, and because once I end up getting into newer items, the clothing might change. I've got another piece for this character I haven't even started yet. I'm still trying to figure out the seams.

Anyway, thanks for staying patient, and here's something to (slightly) hold you over in the meantime.

From the Artist, Life Happens.

So yes, it's been a little over a month or so since I updated. I had gotten really good at keeping this posted with a bunch of stuff I've been working on, but a few things have happened in the meantime. Mostly part-time jobs and one hell of a recovery timeframe. I am glad to start updating this once again because of a few ideas that I've come up with, that I hope will work. Sad to say a lot of my self-publishing ideas usually fall through, but I think it's a matter of finding something that sticks.

Lately I've been working in my spare time (re: those boring moments where no customers show up) and writing together a little idea for a comic. I hope to use this as a springboard mostly to try to help my skills expand with completing backgrounds, writing, and composition. Plus I'm a sucker for trying to craft new characters and my brain has suffered a woeful drought as of late.

This is a rare text post among pictures, so I will gather up my mess from the last month and have at it!

I know this'll post the day of my surgery.

Remember the swatches back in April? Yeah, I decided to take my current logo and fix it up.
Hopefully I should be resting right now. If not, you all have every right to tell me t'sleep.

Self Portrait fix-up.

I've got a couple of things I'm putting in the queue that I've fixed up today on account of getting stuff settled for portfolio work. It's also kind of a way to see how far I've gotten in even just a few short months. The next week I'll be out of it, so art-art-art this week.

Dance, boy...

Small weekend doodle before I get ready for surgery next week. I had a bunch to get ouf of my system.