And now…on to 24 Hour Comics Day. You know, late. After chores.
But I have an idea now, thanks to my Friday lunchtime friend.
Inktober 04
Still, so not ready for 24 Hour Comics Day…
Inktober 03
web site updates
I’ve been letting some of my more labor intensive artworks get lost in Bean history. I’ve pulled out a selection of art that I want to make sure has a permanent home and I gave them it. A permanent home that is, on theLeEMSmachine.com. And I did a fancy uniform crop thumbnail arrangement. Not ground breaking…but a first for me. 🙂
24 hour comics day 2013
Hello there! So, just like last year, 24 Hour Comics Day happens smack dab in the middle of Inktober. Or maybe, smack dab at the beginning.
Anyway, the good just keeps on coming.
I have no idea what I’ll be drawing up for 24 Hour Comics Day, so it will be a surprise for you and me.
Inktober day 2
And, the set of grey markers might just be my theme…
Inktober 01
You didn’t think I’d leave you with a title page doodle I did early in the morning did you?
So, I got this mix pack of grey chartpack markers, which is ink, right. I’m not sure if this is the beginning of a theme or no, but I liked working on this one. No penciling at all, I am happy to say.
All ink, baby.
Happy Inktober.
Happy October/Inktober
Hello! I have no theme in mind yet for this year’s Inktober, but I’m going to try and get you 31 ink drawings this month. Jake Parker has a great description/instruction post on Inktober.
I like the, perhaps erroneous, idea that drawings should be only ink on paper, thus upping the difficulty level and increasing the possibilities for errors and/or happy accidents when an artist cannot pencil in a drawing first. I’m going to attempt as little pre-pencil as possible. But other artists do it other ways and it all ends up for some fabulous drawings.
Some other 2013 Intober artists (in my initial search): The Keeper’s Notes, Vanessa Ramirez, Jillian Lambert Art, Drawing the Sword, Sixandsevens, Partial distortion of grape udders, on Tumblr and on Twitter.
playing with markers
…trying out shading without lining first. this might need a little more experimentation.
Quarterly Co.™
“Quarterly Co.™ is a subscription service that enables people to receive physical items in the mail from influential contributors of their choice.” I am kind of falling for the idea of receiving a package with fantastical items that I never would have come into contact with otherwise, but I am also in a place with my home where I do not need anything more. Except perhaps shoes. I will come back to this, I know, when I am making things again and looking for inspiration.
Ghost
This turned out mostly like I wanted it to.
The Webcomic List or where to find webcomics
I ran into this a while ago, when I was searching for webcomics and webcomic social areas online. I must admit, at the time I did not give it the attention it deserved.
The Webcomic List is an index of webcomics, but its more than that. It automatically scrapes the web for updates on all the comics people have added to the index. And, the best part…which I really didn’t know until I returned to it just recently…if you create an account and mark some favorites it will recommend more comics for you. See:
This is especially important if, like me, you find yourself kickin around the interweb looking for something new to gawk at.
But lets not fool ourselves by thinking that the Webcomic list is the only such engine out there.
Belfry webcomics index isn’t just a list and recommendation machine, it is also a forum and has an area where members can share reviews of comics.
Komix! also indexes webcomics and provides a way for users to bookmark their place in each comic they are reading.
Comic Rocket also offers bookmarking by importing the entire site of a webcomic within a frame that keeps track of the last page read and any pages the reader has saved.
And let us not forget webcomic hosting sites like smackjeeves, where webcomickers without sites of their own, or perhaps to tap into the community, can post. Webcomic hosting platforms often come with a rating mechanism, track most popular comics, and include forums for discussion. I mention only one here; be aware, there are many. So go forth and read comics.
Valentin & The Widow
Do you like Ms. Marple? Detective stories? Old time radio shows? I haven’t given Valentin & The Widow as much attention as it deserves, yet, but even the tiniest listen shows it is something special. In addition to buying the books in various formats you can listen to them read to you: Valentin & The Widow – Paris Pas De Deux: The Complete Audio Collection.
URBANCE
Dystopian future animated movie: URBANCE looks fabulous. Go look! Go look!
printing addiction
I never knew how much I needed to have physical volumes of my comics until I made a print order. They are so much more real now…I can put them on my shelves and begin filling a library full of me! I realized after Levi Levi Chapter One and the Monster Girl’s School Zine came in the mail that I have many more finished chapters and comics living ethereal lives in digital form.
I printed up the short comics of the lot myself: Lighthousemen of Eilean Mor, Death Goes to Octoberfest, Grimm’s The Wolf and 7 Kids, and Flip Side. These are really just mock ups, but don’t they look pretty with Levi Levi and the Monster Girls? Ooh, and my Levi Levi stickers came yesterday.
Tattoo is my choose your own adventure story, also a mock up. I sew bound it with some glue support but then cheated and used duct tape to cover the spine.
Perhaps I will take my short comic mock ups to the copy store. I am starting work on making the first chapters of No Evil and Unlikely Bedfellows print ready as well. Soon I will have an entire table’s worth of comics for sale.