Elf Detectives Mini's

Holy poop, I'm stressing out for finals, but here is a cute cover.

Covers

Just some covers I'm working on for Vis 2. The elf one is going to end up as a poster for my mini comics class I think.

Metal King

1¢ comic, oooh yeah. 

More mini comics...

 

The next few posts are going to be mainly mini comic posts, since two of my projects, well three, if I have time for it, are all minis. Guess who's excited?! Haha, anyhow, the top on is a mock up of a silkscreen cover I'm going to do for my Alt/Exp class, and the bottom is the fold out poster that will be safely tucked away inside of it. So exciting, I know. 

Mini Comics Expo

I'm going to be there. 

New Mini Comics & Superhero Comics Can Suck It

We handed out our third mini comics today in class, and they were all pretty funny not to mention just plain weird. But, that is what you have to love about independent comics, they are going to be some of the weirdest things you'll ever lay your hands on.

1/8th minis from last week

Unusal size minis from today, well now yesterday

Okay, so superhero comics. I don't mind them, but honestly I could care less about them, unlike most of my fellow nerds. Don't get me wrong they are beautiful, but a lot of the times I find that the stories are a bit week and strung out. So, yesterday I rediscovered the Graphic Novel section at the school library and decided to read as many of them as I can. Graphic novels and alternative comics seem to go almost totally unnoticed that any outsider who hears you draw comics will automatically think of Batman, and I'm sick tired of it. I guess with all these Alternative style classes I've been taking I've taken on a great appreciation of these kinds of comics and want to get my hands on as many as I can. Also, to try and help out in giving these hidden gems more of a voice I am going to write up a little bit about each of the artists or comics that I've read over on my Tumblr. Hopefully my small little voice will help add to the small din of noise.

Super egos, selective hearing & death.

So, in my last post I put up an image of Sopapilla, my crazy alter ego. Now here is plane jane old me, in all my frumpy glory. I've been playing around with how I use color, not much has changed, but I've been trying to make things look much softer while still keeping it simple as well as using my fair share of pastels (honestly, in my opinion, you can never use too many pastels) I tried to use the same color palette I used for Sopapilla, just making it more realistic, and after completing it I want to go in and change the color of my id's hair, not to mention that weird fox flying off into some weird direction. Now I can only hope that my daily journal will be interesting enough to contain such characters.

Also, it seems that I have acquired the most peculiar selective hearing. Now, normally selective hearing usually means you hear what you want to hear or you just pick up on the most absurd part of a conversation (well, at least that is what I have come to define it as), but I, somehow, have been hearing the craziest deadlines. Perhaps it is because I am not used to be fully functioning by 11 o'clock, but every time I have been given a deadline for a project in my Visual Storytelling 2 class I have heard it was due a class before it should be, now I even tried writing it down in my journal/planner/idea book, and even there it is written wrong. What is wrong with me? Who knows, I mean it isn't an entirely negative kind of problem, but it can start to get troublesome, especially when you have two other studio classes with projects all due around the same time. I'm almost positive that the amount of stress I have dealt with attending this school will shave at least 20 years off my life, at least it's worth it. 

A lot of work in the....works.

Sopapilla, Warrior Princess

So I have a ton of work and haven't spent the time to scan or download the image files to my computer so this will be a relatively short post. About this crazy thing you see above the text is my interpretation of my alter ego. If you talk with me you've probably heard me tell some crazy story, then recant that I never actually did what I'd said previously, but wish I had. So, for our mini comics class we are going to be do a daily journal comic for two weeks and I couldn't think of a way to represent myself in that in a way that I'd enjoy drawing or wasn't too mundane. This is what I came up with, Sopapilla Warrior Princess. She basically can and does everything that my id usually tells me to do, but my 'super ego' ( can't seem to find if that is the right term for that or not ) stops me from doing. Hopefully this will turn out alright, also, hopefully it doesn't make me look like a complete jerk. ha ha.......ha

Now, this, was an in class assignment that we took home and colored. Being that, as I am told, I am a crazy person, I redrew the entire assignment into this masterpiece, haha. It's going to be a 1/8th page comic that takes a little bit of folding to turn into a mini comic. Hopefully my classmates will enjoy this silly little comic, plus I've got it done early so I can mess up the printing process and still have it ready for the due date! I've just become so efficient with the passing of years, of course I'm saying this while procrastinating on one of my numerous projects. 

Here is a tutorial on how to put this damn thing together, and how to make one if you are daring enough to try on your own.

Some finished work.

Just some stuff that is done, it really isn't much or very impressive but I thought it was fun at least. Zeus, Ladies Man, was an in class assignment for making a circular comic that can be read from any point and the story should be understandable, I don't really think I achieved that, but I liked the subject so I don't really care, plus it was just an exercise. The two images at the bottom are of my classes first mini comic for mini comics class as well as mine. It wasn't very impressive, but then it was just a bunch of collected works with a nice paper cover, but I am a little too excited about being in the mini comics class so I thought I'd share. Below is a plot layout and character design for my next assignment in Alternative/Experimental comics, it's in cut paper and is already killing my hand, but, it is totally worth all the pain.