workplace glimpses

Happy Holidays! This blog has been still since Christmas crept up and I threw aside all projects to make a dozen gifts on time. I'm still working on one more IOU before I get back to work on Celestial, but in the mean time here are some photos of my workplace :)

While I'm at it, here's my hand-stitched dolls of RB and Eban.

They're about 9''. I tried to stitch their faces in that cute, silly style I always see on chrochet amigurumi dolls X) X) I suppose I never got around to making the other characters (though I do have button eyes for them.)

CC - Begin!

I got the look I wanted in this comic at last - bold and sharp. But the experimenting is not over...I want to try and ink an outline and digitally color it next. If it can look just as good, fantastic - really I'd just like to not be 100% computer. But..:)
Here's an official "beginning" kind of comic, regardless!

mediums

While expiermenting with making the first few comics, I tried a lot of different things. In my head there was a lot of "looks good" vs "takes long"...because the "takes long" bit makes something fun into a chore to do again. Starting off, the first one had space and was very pale/pastel.

I messed with sharper cross-hatched looking things, raw looking stuff in ink (ameatur looking on the computer I think ): )

Making a comic so quick and feestyle with markers like this was not something to continue...:C

The next few were all experiments to get a feel. I only really messed with RB and Eban, since they require little introduction. Thus came the next three little tests, which are of the two going back on forth on a game of interrupting each other.

The first one I happened to save un-colored too, mostly because I was tentatively making a dark background (right after that pastel thing - I was nervous!)

These few were done on my tablet again, of course.

well well well!

Looks love we have some serious buisiness here. And by that I mean I sat down to make a blog for the circus. Yesterday I bought new inking pens and extra paper, and you better believe I have ideas, mother muchachos.

Anyway, I'll be posting the comic strips here, as well as some of the bits and pieces leading up, behind the scenes stuff, bios and all that goodness. What I'm hoping to do once I get posting for a bit is get this comic circulating and have some fun with it! C= about time, too.

peace,
Kristen C.