One thing I did not foresee is that I am learning cool stuff faster than I can tell you about it! I need to show you a fun little bookbinding thing we learned yesterday, and today we learned all about using a crow quill dip pen... but I think those might need videos - so...
Although our class this year has more women than men, in general, I find myself wondering "where are the women in the comic world?!" The books we read about the history of comics are all about men - "The Men of Tomorrow", "Marvel Men", etc. This reminds me of...
This morning I coated and burned my screen. Crazy? Actually - it was the silkscreen for printing our Facebooks. I showed you my Autobiography piece the other day - now this self-portrait will be on the facing page. Here's the sketch I did and then scanned into Photoshop where I made layers with...
A couple of days before I drove Alex to college, I got an email from the school that the pages for the Summer Anthology were due in a week! Since it wasn't "required" my first instinct was to say - No thanks, I'm way too busy right now! Then...
Let's see if I can catch up the rest of the week... Wednesday, in Cartooning Studio, we learned about the elements of Gag cartoons and have homework to draw three - one autobiographical, one about White River Junction, and one that is classic (ie: desert island). We learned about our teacher, Jason Lutes,...
My Birthday is going well so far! It's the one day a year that I actually LOVE Facebook, too. I found the local Co-op and got brown rice sushi for lunch (it was yummy!) and lots of little cupcakes to bring to class. Years ago, at a different art school - I ate...
