Added 2 new A* pages:Hey lookit that, two days of two pages each, haven't done that in...I don't know how long. Maybe this pace is burning me out already though because MAN I had some art block on that second one--ended up filling four pages, front and back, with various attempts at it--finished off an ink bottle, used the last of my hand-cut paper, and may have just about killed my brush in the process, too. :P Just as well I ordered some more art supplies earlier today! (And a real paper trimmer, with one of them big swing-arm blades and everything! Dang that's gonna be sweet.)
Here are a couple of the more successful practice attempts:
I kinda liked the one on the left for the page, but it was just drawn in the blank area on the right side of a page whose center I had already ruined, so I couldn't use it. :P
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Hey here's something neat: a drawing I did is gonna be in a book! Then I can call myself a published artist. :D The authors of the modern romance webcomic "And To Be Loved" seem to like A*, and it happens that they're putting a book of their own comic together now, and their artist very politely asked me if I'd be willing to do a portrait of one of their characters as an extra for the book. I was procrastinating from some A* thing on a recent weekend and went ahead and made them a little ink wash painting--I picked their character whose hairstyle happens to be pretty much identical to Selenis' current 'do. ;). They've released a tiny and somewhat blurry sneak peak at a tiny part of it in a recent blog on their comic, specifically right here, but I guess to see the whole thing you'd have to buy their book. ;) BUT in exchange their artist did a really neat full-color portrait of Selenis, using a very interesting combination traditional/digital technique and...it hasn't been posted on their site yet. I'll let you know when it's there!
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