Sketchavember 2012 - Part 2!

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!

SO EXCITED.

OKAY GUYS, HUGE NEWS! My upcoming graphic novel (based on a YA novel by Prudence Shen) NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG, will be serialized online from now until its publication in May 2013! 

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong is a graphic novel about two guys, Nate and Charlie, one’s a nerd, one’s a jock, but they still manage to have this weird, kind of combative friendship. Until they both get tangled up in a highly competitive school election that spirals out of control and then … well, you’ll have to read it to see. ;) This book contains ninja cheerleaders, over the top comedy and SO MANY BATTLE ROBOTS. Seriously, I was reading through it the other day and I had to draw like 50 pages of robots fighting and it is insane.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE COMIC! I would really, really appreciate it! The comic is going online with the permission of my publisher, First Second, and I’m very grateful to them for letting me share it with the internet. So, internet, please tell everyone you know of its existance! 

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong will be updating with a page every weekday, and Prudence and I will be blogging along with the updates, giving readers insight into our creative processes and other nonsense.

Yay!!!!

These are the other five postcards I made for Thought Bubble, in my 'dolly' style. These are all my own characters as well, but they're not all as well developed. I was still aiming for a limited colour palette with these, and I think I was fairly successful. I definitely like my own work more with fewer and duller colours.

There's Coda, a young princess who suffers from an arranged marriage and is moved from her home in the mountains to her husband's kingdom, which is largely forested. Then there's those two creepy edwardian children from the Danse Macabre postcard, perhaps this is where they found their skeleton friend. Then Lena, sister of Lucas and possessor of the gift of prophesy, following a ghost lantern. A little witch in a field of eyes. Lastly, young Nettle and Spider, enjoying a psychic tea party (the best kind). Possibly Spider will read their tea leaves when Nettle puts the cups down.

In other news, I'm incredibly tired and I don't know why. The weather? Not wanting to go to work? My house being really cold? Tis a mystery.

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.

What's the Time, Mrs Woolf is once again looking for submissions! The deadline for the Jan/Feb issue is provisionally set at January 31st, so you have lots of time! We don't have a theme for this issue, but as it's the January/February issue if you want to do something related to New Year or Valentine's Day then that's fine. As usual we're looking for articles, illustrations, comics and questions for Poppet. (Especially articles! We also accept short stories, poetry and reviews.) However we're NOT looking for a cover this month, as Meg Guindon has already volunteered one. submission guidelines are as follows:

the zine is printed A5, black and white

all files should be 300dpi, preferably jpegs or tiffs

we recommend leaving a 5mm safety margin within the A5 page

WTTMW is currently by women, for women

please email submissions to whatsthetimemrswoolf@gmail.com, or to myself or Lilywoolf directly.

P.S. Lilywoolf and I assess suitability on a case-by-case basis, but in general try to keep it PG-13 as far as violence or nudity goes.