Have Some Old Comics While I Work On New Mini-notebooks For London MCM. This Happened... About 8 Months

Have some old comics while I work on new mini-notebooks for London MCM. This happened... about 8 months ago I think?

Some miniature paintings I doodled up to include with two recent orders from my etsy shop, to apologise for a shipping delay.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/sammyborras

I finished printing the Gorillaz Fanzine today, so it’s now available to order through Etsy. I’ll try and take some photos and get them online tonight or tomorrow. Thanks again to all the contributors!

I’ll also be launching the zine at Manchester MCM Comic Con next weekend. You can find our table in the Comic Village section and it should be listed on the map as Sammy Borras & Sarah Fogg. See you there!

$4.18 = £2.50 (approximately) $2.50 = £1.50 (approximately) International Shipping: $7 Gorillaz Fanzine includes illustration, cosplay, articles, comics, gig sketches and puzzles! Contributors A-Z: 1000014, Abi Le Guilcher, Arthur Goodman, Chyphens, CJ Barrett, David Tolu Graham, Foxeye, Giuseppa Barresi, Gray Porter, Homiboo, Jules Valera, Kodi Kat, Laura Watton/PinkAppleJam, Morti, Rebecca Horner, Saffron-jay, Sammy Borras, Sarah Fogg & Toria McCallum A5 20 pages Black & white Blue card cover

Recently my co-worker paid me to make her some custom books. She wanted two in the same dimensions as a lined notebook she already had, but one which had plain paper so she could write in it horizontally, and one which opened at the short edge to form a very long, thin double page spread. That one also needed heavy paper, so she could paint in it if she wanted. It was a lot of fun making something different to my usual A6 notebooks, but cutting the pages to a custom size left me with a lot of off-cuts. So, naturally, I made those into books too. I got four mini notebooks out of them, in two different sizes. (I photographed them with an A6 book for comparison.) I'll have the minis to sell at Manchester MCM later this month.

Maybe something for later in the year...

Only I can't tell which ones are supposed to be easy or hard?

WOW YOU GUYS So many people expressed interest in doing a daily draw group thing, made me totally excited, and when I get excited I blow things way out of proportion and therefore I have designed a new one hahahaha.

So the way this works is, each day will have 2 opposing prompts.  You can choose the one that is harder for a challenge, or the one that is easier if you don’t have a lot of time or it’s an off day.  I fully expect to be doing like half easy.  Also this is 20 days because 20 days is as far into the future as I can think without having an anxiety attack also April will happen.

Here are the prompts!

Portrait / Action Pose Interior / Exterior Black&White / Color Machinery / Nature Saturated Palette / Muted Palette           70 / 30 Rule  (Explained at about 5:35- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oO2J2ponho) Suit / Dress Full Page / Vignette Gruesome / Saccharine Industrial / Pastoral Little Kid / Old Person Open Space / Enclosed Space Love / Hate Pretty / Ugly Pattern / Random Form / Function Modern / Vintage Cluttered / Clean Monstrous / Cute Badass / Innocent

Odds and Ends:

- About once a week I’ll cross off the ones that we’ve done and reblog.

- Feel free to jump in AT ANY TIME! 

- Tag your sketches “Easy and Hard Challenge,” so we all know where to look!!!

- NEVER FEEL BAD about skipping a day!  Just jump on the next one you can fit in.  You can catch up if you want, but momentum is more important, that’s why it’s going to be so great to do this in a group.

OKAY WE START TOMORROW WITH PORTRAIT OR ACTION POSE!

A preview of the new free mini-comic I'll be taking to Manchester MCM with Sammy this weekend. If you want free mini-comics from me and Sammy, the secret password is 'do you have a business card?'

  I'll also have the new Summer issue of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf? and some new hardback notebooks, while Sammy will be launching issue 2 of Giant Rhinos In Space, so I hope you can come and see us there!