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Here's a space chick. I've been doodling a lot of spacey stuff recently, trying to work though this concept I have for a comic. I kinda liked the way this sketch turned out so I decided to ink it and color it in Photoshop. Her uniform is sort of a throwback to this illustration I did a few years ago. Enjoy!

Inked.

Final colored.

Bonus! I had a lot of fun at last week's NYC Comic Jam. Here are two fun pages that came out of that. NSFW.

I drew the third panel on this one. It's not great; I totally forgot what kermit's feet look like. Fortunately Cheese was able to take my blunder and come up with an awesome punchline. Good stuff.

I drew the last panel on this page. I'm slightly more proud of this one. Good times.

Post MoCCA

So MoCCA Fest has come and gone. It was my first time tabling and I got to share it with one of my best friends, Garibaldi. We didn't sell a lot, but we had an awesome weekend. We met a lot of people and learned a lot. This experience will allow me to go into next year better and stronger. I'm already excited. Anyways, here's a quick recap of the weekend.

Friday night we pre gamed it at Drink and Draw Like a Lady.

Needless to say, we drank and we drew.

After about two hours of that we were starting to feel a little overwhelmed by the amount of ladies, the size of the venue and the lack of ventilation. So, we moseyed on over to Jack Dempsey's Pub for the NYC Comics Jam and drew some more.

Warning: Penis (too late)

Got to bed in time to get some rest before the big show!

Table "Pearson vs Garibaldi"

So, the fact of the matter is that neither of us were %100 happy with how our books turned out; it sucks but that's how it is. I didn't sell as much as I would have liked, but I'd be lying if I said I did it for the money. We had a good time. I got to meet tons of people and share experiences and learned so much. And hopefully I got a couple more people to take a look at my work (that'd be nice).

Here's our setup. I'm pretty sure I sold more "Batgirl" stickers than anything else.

Probably my favorite part of MoCCA is getting the chance to discover new artists I like and read a lot of new cool comics.

Here's my haul. Some books I bought and other I traded.

I also love collecting business cards and free postcards. I go to all the websites and blogs and look for new artists to follow. Also, the ones with really cool designs I hang up on my wall. 

All in all it was an awesome weekend. 

P.S. I think I forgot to mention that I have a twitter account now. I started twittering a few weeks ago, so, if you want to follow me I'm @Saturn2169.

Bonus!

Here's my favorite page from my kid's comic Mito and Me!

So What Have I Been Up To?

The thank you cards are in the mail and I am now officially done with everything wedding. The past two months have been quite busy and fun. Unfortunately I didn't take the time to update my blog and I apologize. So to answer the title question. Wedding stuff mostly.

So, a month ago yesterday, my husband and I had our "wedding ceremony/reception". I wrote that with quotations, because we have technically been married for two years, but we just now had our ceremony. A lot of planning and work over the past year went into the whole shebang-a-bang. 

Here is a picture from when we originally got married in Chicago on August 29, 2011.

The event was held in the loft space at Kitchen Chicago. It's a beautiful space, but brought about some challenges: planning the whole thing from NYC and doing all of the planning, decorating, etc ourselves. So there was a lot of DIY that went into the planning of this wedding.

Kitchen Chicago

I designed the invitations...

...and these cool labels for the favors.

I dyed doilies.

I spray painted an easel.

I put together a collage

We made the candle holders and table dealies with the names of Chicago neighborhoods and NYC boroughs.

We had to set everything up ourselves the day of. Here's what the table settings looked like. Garrett Popcorn ftw!

On top of all this, I also designed and my mom sewed my dress for the wedding! I got a hand crafted one of a kind dress made with love. It was awesome. Thanks mom!

Here is the original drawing I made for my mom to make the pattern out of.

Here is the final dress (front).

You can sort of see the back in this picture.

Lastly I want to thank all of the vendors who made this night awesome! We started it out with heartfelt vows officiated by Erika Sowell of Sowell Mates, We had some great music courtesy of DJ Donnie. Delicious, delicious food from La Villa Restaurant in Chicago. And maybe most importantly, we had some amazing pictures taken courtesy of our good buddy Dave Gall.

Awesome photo by David Joesph Gall.

Check out Dave's website. If you like what you see give him a call or like his facebook page.

Anyways, enough of all that stuff. Here are a few other things I've been up to.

After missing the last two months, I finally got the chance to catch back up with the people at The House of Twelve for another NYC Comics Jam. Here is a link to some pictures that Darryl Ayo Brathwaite posted of the event: http://darrylayo.tumblr.com/post/65745935438/house-of-twelve-nycity-comic-jam-first-friday.
Here's a couple panels I drew.

I drew this last panel of dad tossing his son to exile on Staten Island.

I drew the third panel on here of the ant submitting to the furious noogies of some stranger.

Oh, and another thing. I just finished working on an illustration for my aunt to put on her business cards for her jewelry making business (Just so you know, she made my awesome earrings for the wedding. Go ahead, scroll back up and take a look. They were pretty nice!). Here are some pics of the process.

Original sketch of her character.

Final sketch of the image of her and her cat.

Inked version.

Colored in Photoshop.

Alright. That's it for now.

TL;DR: I got married and stuff.

Two snakebites and three solo cups of white wine later...

Not going to lie, still a little tipsy.

Eating: one egg over easy and a half of avocado.
Drinking: Tea: French Vervain from Alice's Tea Cup.

I'm currently running off about 2 hours of sleep in the last 36 hours. After little sleep and a long days work I decided to go out to two events I was really looking forward to: NYC Comic jam and Drink and Draw Like a Lady.

While at the NYC comics Jam I had a couple drinks, chatted with the regulars and drew a couple panels.

 The first panel belongs to Cheese! I drew the second panel.

After about two hours I decided to walk over to the Drink and Draw Like a Lady event. Since I got there late I felt a little uncomfortable. I didn't know anyone there and I tend to be a little socially defective. I sat around and drank and scribbled some pathetic comics before I was drunk enough to talk to people on my own.

Luckily I did, cause I got to meet this awesome person: CalypsoTea. Turns out we have a lot in common and got to talk for a little bit about comics and tea.

Drawing by CalypsoTea: I think she insisted this wasn't actually a drawing of me, but I think she captured my level of drunkenness perfectly.

 MoCCA Fest tomorrow! The end. Good night.

The Last of the Snapshots

Below are the last of the Snapshots, single panel comics I made as part of my daily routine last year. As you may know, I no longer draw a daily comic, but I have about 3-4 months worth (2-6 panels each) from last year that I never posted. Hopefully I'll get around to scanning those eventually. At least before another year passes. Anyways, enjoy.

Also, here is a link to the House of Twelve Comics Collective Tumblr site. They posted a couple pictures from the comics jam I attended last week. I'm the one with the puffy hair.

2 1/2 Months Later And 3 Beers In....

So... It's been a while hasn't it. What have I been doing the past two months you may ask? Well, the animation project I was working on has been postponed temporarily. I should be able to get back to work on that pending the filming of the last couple scenes for this music video. So while that is on hiatus, I have been splitting my time between work, doing tutorials on Lynda.com, doodling in my sketchbook, drinking tea, watching Star Trek TNG and playing Black Ops 2. I'm certainly not proud of some of the decisions I've made over the past two months, but I'm hoping the shame of the hours logged in on XBox Live are behind me. I intend to spend more time at my desk or in my sketchbook, rather than on the couch or on Reddit. 

So that brings me to the whole reason for this post! This week marks the first solid productive drawing week in two months. I started the week off right by attending Draw Mania! I've mentioned Draw Mania! a couple times before on my blog. It's basically a loose figure drawing workshop in the backroom of a tiki bar in East Village. Then I capped the week with an awesome new drawing experience, NYC Comic Jam. NYC Comic Jam is a cool little event where comics artists of all levels get together and create comics together feeding off each other's creativity. I had a lot of fun and got the chance to meet and hang out with some really cool people. The spirit of the event is collaborative and each month seems to build off the previous month and so on. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pics of my own drawings from the event, but you can check out this cool little sketch one of the other artists drew of the whole group on the group creator's twitter account. I'm the one in the back with the curly hair.

Well, I'm betting everyone has stopped reading by now. So without further ado, here are a couple sketches, the reason anyone ever looks at this blog to begin with.

A couple figure sketches from Draw Mania!

Below is a little preview of my Holiday Card for 2012 for those who haven't seen it yet. I'll be posting the final version soon, once I finally mail my sister's Christmas present... sorry Erica :/

Rough sketches of John and I for the holiday card.