Stripdagen Houten 2009: Report

So last Saturday I went to this comic event in the Netherlands and joined the Mangafique group to sell and draw there. I got the impression it was awfully quite around our stand. Did'nt sell much like earlier years, but I guess that's also because I haven't anything new to sell.

All with all, I left with a bitter taste. I will attend these kind of events again when I have more things to sell and to promote. I drew only a couple of sketches there, here they are:

Claire taking a bath and scared waitresses!
A little warming up, two emotionless heads of both genders.
Experimental; a dumb and fruity portrait of Ruan.

Stripdagen Houten: Saturday 26 September 2009

Next week on Saturday I will attending Stripdagen (Comic days) in Houten the Netherlands! However, nothing new to sell. I just want to attend because I was absent last year and I wanted to show I'm NOT dead. As for being a dealer, I like to walk around the area trying to network a bit (I'm really terrible at this!) and perhapes buying some comic books.

Comic Diary: a preview of Witch Cat #3 - Page 1

Comic Diary: WC#3 temporarily on hold

As you read in the title of this post, Witch Cat volume 3 is on hold for a short while. The reason is that I don't have the time and courage to finish it in time next September. I feel terrible for this because I really wanted to finish it around this time of the year. I'm a bit anxious about finishing it and I try to get my drive to finish it back. If you can catch my drift...

College has started and that means I have to concentrate especially the first two months to get used to everything again. I'm now going to an art academy and I'm very excited about it. I think that I will have enough time to work on my own stuff as well, though it's also a lot of homework. I'm looking forward to the following classes: Art history, illustration, comic design and model drawing.

Wish me luck!

Experimenting with magic and succeeding

This illustration gives me the same feeling when I finally finished something after trial and error. I'm just happy even it works a bit.

WIP: Claire Line art

Just something in between.

Comic diary: Back from vacation and back to work

I'm back from my vacation and I have a couple of weeks still free before I'm going to study. I haven't done anything artsy all that time. And I kind of regret it, since I'm annoyingly stiff when I'm drawing. Never tought It would be this serious...

Anyhow, I have inked a couple of pages already and that went alright. At least I don't make horrible mistakes like I did with Witch Cat #2 that I had to edit big time in Photoshop. I will show progress soon, but I'm holding back because or else I'll spoil too much before the product is finished. :)

Comic diary: A sneak preview of the pages #2

So far I have only been drawing pages, pages and pages... I wanted to ink all pages at once when they are all drawn. However, that is just boring. A little bit of something else works better then doing them in stages. I wanted to ink the first five pages and to move on to drawing five pages and repeating that.

Some annoying factors during the progress; my scanner does not really like to listen and scans my pages skewed. I will look in to this matter later, since I got some help from people. Thanks a lot! Second, my new bottles of ink I purchased some while ago give bleeding lines. They are not visible on the page above, but some parts are that are inked with the new ones. I panneled and ballooned with old ink. I just can't understand why it bleeds... (you can only tell the difference when It's scanned, this is a photoshot).

This was the last post before I'm going on holiday! I'm away for about two and a half weeks. When I come back, I'll be working again and update this blog when I can. There are exciting days to come after that as well. I hope I can finish my project before the upcoming madness. Wish me luck and good bye!!

Comic diary: Concepts #1

Comic diary: A sneak preview of the pages #1

Environments... If there is something important to a comic, it's environments. Not only gives it the idea where the story takes place, but it also adds a mood and feeling to describe the surroundings of the action.

Anyway, I am working at the opening shot of a village that Claire's going to enter. But as you might noticed, I have a big time dealing with perspective and vanishing points. Most buildings in the panel have there own VP (vanishing point), so It will give a more chaotic and poor atmosphere. I added extra paper around my panel so that it will show the VP's and I want to get it as believable as possible. It's really tedious work, but it's the end result that counts.