2014 Convention Circuit

Just for your edification, here's where I'm going to be when I attack the West Coast this spring/summer!

SakuraCon (Seattle, WA) April 18th-20th
NorthWest Fanfest (Vancouver, BC) June 27th-29th
Anime Expo (Los Angeles, CA) July 3rd-6th
SFU Summer Festival (Burnaby, BC) July 12th
MiniComi (Vancouver, BC) July 19th
Anime Revolution (Vancouver, BC) August 22nd-24th

Comic Update: Archepelago Preview

Yeah, been away for a little while, but not without a purpose!

Apart from a couple of conventions (names Tsukinocon and Anime Evolution J-Fest), I've been working on a comic zine. It's something of a childish pulp adventure story taking place in a sort of subtropic oceanic area I've title Archaepelago.  The reason for this portmanteau shall become clearer as we go on.

She's a most refined lady, and this is just getting started XD

Comicking on Boards! Weeklies on Hiatus!

AHHHHHHHH

Taking a break from the weeklies to concentrate on hashing out this little story.

Well, story is kind of loose, this is more of a goofy adventure about nothing.

Expect some updates on this project soon!

Tsukino-Con 2014

Hamon!

I just came back from Tsukino-Con at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island. I gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised that under a rather unassuming venue, there was a group of folks subsisting on good will and hype.  It was also nice to explore a different scene, close enough but all the same different from the Vancouver crowd.

Heichou got no sleep

At my table I was doing the usual illustrating, even got a few commissions. Before they disappeared, I snapped a few pictures. 

Unfortunately I could only do pencils, since I brought my inks but no white or correctional tape!

All in all, a good first run in the con circuit. All fired up to get some more stuff done, but first I gotta stretch the hands and make some time.

2014 Weeklies 4

Mosasaurus loves crab

Nothing much to say here.

I hate drawing long hair.

2014 Weeklies 3

Mosasaurus Pitfall!

Still working on action and stuff, drawing inspiration from the pulpy classics.

I can't draw water worth a damn. In colour, it's as simple as tweaking values on the surface with transparencies (I'm underselling it, it's a value puzzle), but in b/w monochrome ink, it's kinda rough.

Swing on, kiddo.

2014 Weeklies 2

Allosaurus Chase!

Still trying to iron out a proof of concept for my comic project. Hopefully I will have something more substantial than an idea soon.

This is basically a plot summary. Girl in jungle runs afoul of an allosaurus, hijinks ensue!

I'm having an issue with conveying motion. Why do George Morikawa, Yukito Kishiro and Paul Pelletier gotta be such a high benchmark, man... but I'm slowly getting the hang of it I think!

2014 Weeklies 1

It's a new year. I'm going to try again to push my skills to the limit; in drawing I find I only improve as I make myself force it. So look forward to a lot of dumb stuff on the weekend from here on out!

OM NOM NOM

I had a craving for spot prawns...which at the time of posting has yet to be sated -_-;

This is a character I'm going to be doing some work on as she's relatively easy to draw and has been stewing in my brain for a little while for a comic project. More as this develops