Corpses and Cupcakes update

Wow, I can't believe I'm almost done with my first full length comic book. I should have it ready to send off to print next month. I just have editing, lettering and all the graphic design work left to do. But I'm confident that It'll be done soon. To be this close to having accomplished something like this gives me goosebumps...... well I shouldn't get too worked up just yet there's still a lot of work left to do.  Monday is our monthly meeting of the Brattleboro Comix Lab, and there I will be spending my time scanning the nearly inch high stack of loose pages which make up my story. ahhhh speaking of which I need to redraw a page and a few panels before then.  So I guess it's a short post for today:)

oh so long week and winters still hanging on

I still have not gotten used to not working at the restaurant on weekends. I just feel like I should be grumpily cooking, perhaps setting my kitchen rag on fire or something like that. It has been good for me tho, one of my co-workers commented last night that I seem happier not working so much.  The burnt-out feeling is ever so slowing going away. Perhaps someday I will enjoy cooking again. But for now its just away to pay the bills. Tho work did inspire a little mini comic, hop over to the Project List and check it out(you like it I'm sure of it). I brought some copies into work to share with my co-works, they loved it. I love watching people read my comics. It's satisfying to watch them smile and laugh at the right places.

On the subject of comics, I'm a little stalled with Corpse and Cupcakes. I need the first issue to be longer and I have a bit of writers block. I have an idea of where I want to go i just cant seem to get there so I sit at my desk every morning and write, even if I do just end up scribbling it out. I guess thats all part of the process. I'm still hopeful that I will be able to have it finished soon. I only really need about 15 more pages and need to introduce another character and add some violence.

I've been working on a new painting which is coming a long quite well i think. Also my TV tray was boring so I started a painting on that as well. Painting on wood is a lot different than painting on canvas, its smoother, I kinda like it.

I wonder how many projects i can have going at one time :) hehehe

I think thats why I don't mind the winter so much this year. I'm doing so much that nice weather would just be a distraction. But I am getting a little bit of cabin fever. I've been having this strong desire to go hiking, to spend time in the woods. I'm working on getting myself in better shape so that I can do more hiking and camping this summer. There's something wonderful about hiking a mountain... and its not all about getting to the top either. I don't know its an indescribable feeling, it makes me happy on the same level that my art does. I wish more people in  my life shared that same love with me. Its hard to find people who love to hike.  I'd love to do a multiple day camping/hiking trip this year, THAT would be a great vacation. *sigh*  

Well, on that note I am going to make myself some popcorn and sit down to a movie!

Back on the interwebz

Well, Well it sure has been a while since I draged myself away from my work and to the computer. It's been quite a winter so far. But this year I really don't mind all the snow and the cold. It's mostly because with all this "lovely" winter weather I dont feel the urge to go out side away from my art.

I'm still slogging away at 3 jobs, the restaurant, the coffee shop, and MY business. I'm defiantly feeling it. That awful burnt out feeling, and my art production is starting to slow. Hopefully that'll change soon since I dropped a shift at both the restaurant and the coffee shop.  In fact this weekend will be the first time in oh, 4 years that I'll be having weekends off. As someone who's working in restaurants so long that seems strange to me. But you know, I think I'll manage ;)

So back towards the end of december I started an ambitious project which has been taking up a LOT of my time. I began to write and draw my first full length comic book; Corpses and Cupcakes. A story about Aurora, a baker who can make sweets so tasty even the gods drool. But baking isn't the only thing she does well, Aurora is also a powerful Mambo(a voodoo priestess) and things get a little out of control when she starts making zombies to work in her bakery. Issue one should be between 35 and 40 pages, I'm currently drawing page 21. I had hoped to have issue 1 done today but I over estimated the time I'd have to spend on this project. So the deadline is now pushed back a month. I was hoping to have an issue out every two months... but now I see that is a bit too much. Lets see if I can do it in 3!

Hop over to my Project List for a little peek at the art work as well as the other project I've been distracting myself with lately.

OH another thing you'll see on the Project List is my newest hoddies, 86ed.

24hr comics and still drawing

augh I think I'm getting sick. No i am sick but have yet to succumb to the beastly army attacking my body. FIGHT! I cant afford to be sick! Not with deadlines coming up and a 16hr shift tomorrow...... but enough of that.



Last weekend was 24hour comic book weekend. For those of you who don't know it's a challenge to create a 24 page comic book in 24 hours. Myself and a few other Brattleboro artist went to Montpelier . The folks at the Kellogg-Hubbard library  hosted the event(and Trees and Hills). This was my first 24hr comic and not my last. I'm even thinking of doing a 12hr one on  my own as soon as I can carve out the time. I manage to finish mine in 18hrs. Next time I'm going to take a nap and dinner brake. Things got a little silly towards the end. I dozed off a bit with pen in hand somewhere around hr16 too. It was great to be around all those other artist seeing what they were drawing, commiserating over drawing 2 left hands , taking too long on a panel or suddenly not being able to think of what happens next. What fun! I tell ya what drawing for 18 hr straight did nothing to quell my desire to draw, Sunday evening I did a mini painting.

 This panel was drawn some where around hour 16.

I think i can blame my current poor heath to beiing awake for over 24hours. It was worth it 'cause I did it!

raining cats and dogs

Well back in Vermont after a long over due but way too short visit to Boston. I miss the days when I could walk down the street to spend time with my best friend. Now its a 2 hour drive. But it was worth it, recharged my batteries and got my ego boosted a little. Which was nice considering my current frame of mind.... AnyhOo... We talked had fancy cupcakes at CherryBomb (no I did not have the bacon ones,but I will next time), lunched and went to Mt Auburn cemetery. Which was beautiful. We saw black squirrel there and a creepy dog under glass! I'm already planning my next little escape as I stand here at the counter of the coffee shop on the first half of my 16 hour work day. Slinging coffee in the AM and pasta in the PM. Making more screens tomorrow ordering tees and doing a few more test runs on my newest design. And a 24 hour comicbook challenge this weekend. Ahh so much to do! But its the only way to get things done.

The rain is coming down in sheets which make bussness slow. I don't mind if it stays like this I maybe able to go home and take a nap before doing my time at the restaurant. Tomorrow mayhap I'll post some pictures of what I've been working on.

happy equanox

Ahh I hope this works. I'm setting it up so I can blog from my phone. Today's the first day of fall. I'm not sure I'm ready for Fall just yet. Ah well you can stop to passage of time now can you.
So tomorrow I'll be back working at the coffee shop a day or two a week. My screen printing endeavour is eating up all my moneys so back to the coffee shop to earn some cash for my bussness which will some day better pay ME!
So on that note I have messenger bags printed and soon to be for sale on etsy, as well as another print. Well I have much to do before I head off to the restaurant at 1. Cheers!

still alive

I was in a rut of sorts for a while. So I took a blog brake. I didn't want this blog to turn in to how crappy and frustrated I feel about my life blablabla... but I'm pulling my self out of it and producing more art then ever. I finished two acrylics already this month and I'm working on a 3rd right now( I'm blogging between layers, I hope to finish today). Monday I'm ordering more screen printing supplies and raw shirts, hoodies and bags. So ready or not here I go!