Sea Rover, page 2

Sketchcrawl 13 at UC Berkeley

The 13th Sketchcrawl was on St. Patrick's Day and the group met up at UC Berkeley.

BART heads


Scooters/bikes parked alongside the campus. Can anyone identify the last two for me?



Cal Bears vs. Rhode Island Rams



Dinosaur bones

Sea Rover, page 1

The new short for Raconteur is live on Girlamatic.com: Sea Rover! Go check it out!

In case you missed it, all pages of In the Water are available. Click the Table of Contents and you can read it all in one sitting!

I'll post my drawings from the 13th Sketchcrawl soon.

upcoming Sketchcrawls

The 13th Sketchcrawl is on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th!

The 14th Sketchcrawl is on May 19th and will be a fundraiser for Emergency. From their site: “Emergency is an independent, neutral and non-political Italian organization founded in order to provide free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty.”

Swing by the Sketchcrawl forums for more information!

Sea Rover inks

These are just quick digicam shots of the pages.

In the Water, last page is up!

You can now read all six pages in one sitting! There's a new feature where you can leave comments on the comics page directly.

In the Water, page 5 is up!

In the Water, page 4 is up!

Only two more pages to go!

In the Water, page 3

Check out the third installment from my short In the Water! It's the big splash page (no pun intended) of the story!

Sea Rover

These are rough layouts for a two-page short.

Chinese long sword practice

At the local park, I watched people practice long sword form. It was fun using brushwork to loosen up.

In the Water starts today!

Check out the completed In the Water at Girlamatic.com!

school of hard knocks

Watching guys beat the crap out of each other, round after round, makes for a great gesture exercise.

In the Water desk shot

Here's a quick and dirty shot of my desk of In the Water. There's one more page and then it's time for speech bubbles. I'll have an announcement about it later in January 2007, when the details are settled.

Insomania Workshop drawings

I don't know if I would go to another Concerptart.org workshop. The party-like atmosphere of the first night was distracting from the digital painting demos plastered on huge projection screens. The rest of the workshop was punctuated by some talking demos, most were artists doing their thing on the screen without explaining much, unannounced schedule changes, and traditional painting/drawing free space. I did learn a lot from Dan Milligan's Storyboarding 101 and John Mueller's pointers on MMO/video game concept art portfolio. I also made some new acquaintances, which is always nice.

Here are sketches I did in the traditional free draw area. The models had on the strangest outfits.

Women's Work debut!

Women's Work

Because a woman's work is never done, we are pleased to announce: Women's Work - a brand-new website for a brand-new collective of women who work in and around the visual and literary industries.

Leigh Dragoon
Shaenon Garrity
Rachel Hartman
Lea Hernandez
Lisa Jonté
Karen Krajenbrink
Layla Lawlor
Karen Luk
Carla Speed McNeil
Rachel Nabors
Leia Weathington
Stevie Wilson

We are creators and storytellers. We've banded together and built ourselves a fort in our internet back yard and we invite you to come see. We have a database in which all creative types might take part, and a forum in which anyone might join the conversation. Art before housework. In a hundred years, no one's going to care how clean your floors were.

http://www.never-done.com/

Sketchcrawl 12 SF Zoo

Here are the drawings (a bit of watercolor, ink, and graphite) from that day.

Insomania Workshop by ConceptArt.org

I'm going to the Insomania Workshop this weekend, so I'll post about that and share the Sketchcrawl 12 sketches later next week.

Sketchcrawl 12

The 12th Sketchcrawl is on December 9th! The San Francisco group will be meeting up at the SF Zoo at 11 am. Here’s a handy flyer for the SF group. For more details and sketchcrawling groups around the world, check out the forums for more info.

Shanghai Theater Academy Dancers

On November 17th, I went to a performance of the Shanghai Theater Academy Dancers. The whorls of color and movement were stunning. Lots of traditional costumes and dancing stories from China were showcased. I scribbled down gestures in the dark. The last two drawings feature a set of girls with long feathers for a headdress.