These Are Five Of The Ten New Postcards I Made To Take To Thought Bubble. I'm Really Pleased With Them,

These are five of the ten new postcards I made to take to Thought Bubble. I'm really pleased with them, I think they show improvement from the last batch, which is always encouraging. Part of it might be because I really tried to limit my colour palette for all the new postcards.

They're all my own characters this time. There's Meilee and Lin, who have fallen asleep in the rain because they can't find any shelter, Shasta contemplating a remnant of the Old World, Jessie looking out over the castle town in her Patchworker uniform (it's a sort of messenger and general dogsbody, if you're curious), Louise being led into the woods by some fairies (they're still after that key), and the Crowboy giving Lottie a little gift.

These are four more art cards I whipped up for the farmer's market. If you got the Eat Me! anthology, you may recognise these as the leaders of the various Broth Sea tribes in my comic, The Mysterious Land of Under-Noodle. Going clockwise, these are the Wise Woman of the Noodle People, the Prime Minister of the Wonton Isles, the mightiest warrior from the Cliffs of Pork, and the Chieftain of the Lettuce Hunters.

You can tell they're the leaders because they wear the most clothes, haha.

Sooo... Rupert Everett came to the tea room on Monday. He had an earl grey and some coffee cake.

In other news, I'll be doing commissions at London MCM this weekend! We've started offering sketches and inked pictures at a couple of conventions, but this time I think it's just me, as Sammy's been very busy and wants to relax behind the table.

Still, we're loosely using Sammy's normal prices:

A5 sketch - £6

A5 inked - £8

A6 sketch - £4

A6 inked - £5

mini card sketch - £2 

mini card inked - £3

Behold, what I've been doing for the past few weeks! I kind of burned myself out making new postcards for Thought Bubble (I'll post those later, for now there's a photo of them on the stand), so once they'd been sent to print I decided to do something entirely different. I transformed my computer desk into a sewing desk and set about making a dress from Josceline Fenton's lovely webcomic, Hemlock! It's the first one we see Lumi wearing. Eventually I'd like to make all of these four, but I think I've done enough dressmaking for the time being. There's also a picture of the finished dress! Also of me awkwardly standing with Josceline trying not to seem creepy, which is hard when you just spent three weeks slavishly recreating someone's work in cotton form. She said it was very accurate, which makes me happy.

There's the Inspired table, with Sammy behind it because we used my camera this time, my postcards, 5 issues of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf, my art cards hanging out with some new ones by Sammy and Shaz, a shot of my side of the table, complete with Patience, miniprints, Bad Fairy Bakery etc., and a portrait commission I did! If you look really closely in the back you can see a little drawing of Patience that Sammy gave me. It's so cute! I seemed to do pretty well at Thought Bubble, and we certainly did well as a table. I also bought about £80 of comics, and John Allison said some very nice things about our work, so I'm very pleased with how it went. There'll be a write-up of Thought Bubble on the Inspired blog soon as well, now that I've got round to sending the photos to Sammy.

Sketchavember 2012 - Part 2!

11 - Chiihon, also known as 'Plant Girl' because she is a plant. A carnivorous one.

12 - Hephzibah! Finally on model! A witch from the North of England.

13 - Mirin, still not quite right. I'm trying to redesign him and I have one sketch that I like, which I'm constantly trying to replicate.

14 - Lucas again, as I was having another go at his scars. Still not right!

15 - And then I drew an alien! This is Kunin Ame (surname first) and I goofed up slightly while drawing him. His species don't quite fit into earth-based animal kingdoms, but he's loosely some kind of monotreme, so he shouldn't have a belly button.

16 - Patience! Sammy drew me a super-cute picture of her and I tried to use the same character model. It... didn't go so well.

17 - More Patience! This time I drew her in Carl's jumper.

18 - Patience once more, this time in a skirt that I want to make for myself. Oh Patience, I dress you in all the clothes I would like to have.

19 - This is BetaS15, also known as Bubbles or Bubblegum. He's a bio-android, who spent a lot of his life up to this point asleep in a vat.

20 - ...and Lillip, who has accidentally found him and woken him up. For these last two I was trying to work without guidelines.

Part 3, next week!