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Chapter 4 starts October 5th! And, general catch-up stuff. :)
🕑 Added 2020-09-26 19:09:19 +0000 UTCHey gang! Miranda's chapter is coming up next, and I decided to give myself an extra week to work on it. So, no update this Monday; we'll start Chapter 4 on October 5th.
Originally I pictured Miranda's chapters being 100% traditional, painted in watercolor and gouache, but I know that a) would take me way too long (fewer pages each week) and b) would feel out of place with the rest of the comic. So I'm playing with other approaches that meet halfway between painting and digitally coloring, and will work on her first few pages next week.
This past week I've been busy with a spectacle of other little things. As you know, I like lists, so, here's a list!
- re-painting the seat of that bench I painted last month (below!)
- making a little comic about how not to draw caricatures of middle-aged women, for an upcoming iSCA project (I'll share soon!)
- working on a dedicated website for Elephant Town (AAAAA!!!)
- welcoming my soul sister Laura Mae to the house as my new housemate (<3)
I'll share the caricature comic with all paying patrons (gotta keep that one behind a paywall!) and maybe some sneak peeks of the ET website with my $5 patrons, if I have anything worth sharing!
As for the bench, here's what happened:
Remember the cool glow-in-the-dark paint I used? Well, it never dried, so it started bubbling up IMMEDIATELY when it was put in the sun. Adios, glow-in-the-dark paint, you were cool in concept!
I decided to swap it out for an equally "cool" concept: a ghost coming from an elephant's mouth.
So now I have an elephant that looks like it's smoking drugs, not a ghost-breathing elephant. Woops!
I added a cute lil elephant ghost, peepin' over the trees at the ghost tour group, to get the idea across that maaaaaybe it's a ghost instead of drugs:
This bench got weird.
Anyway, it's done, and I learned a lot about acrylic! For example: that I prefer watercolor.
I also learned that elephants are hard to draw!! Give me a horse any day of the week.
I'm up at my parents' house in Deep Creek with Luke for a working weekend. This was his idea, and probably the only way to get me to leave Shepherdstown: by calling it a "working weekend."
Binders full of reference for Elephant Town that I need to update and organize... my iPad with those sketches of crocuses and an alleyway so I can practice coloring methods... and this very update that I'm about to post.
You'll see more soon. :) Logging off from the wifi now. Have a good weekend, patrons!
Comments
Akire Bubar
I love this! And...I'm so sorry the paint was frustrating, I so get that. If it helps any, it's comforting to know I'm not the only one for whom creative projects sometimes go a little sideways. I mean, I *know* I'm not, but it's not always easy to remember! That said, I LOVE the results! So cool! And the ghost elephant peeping over the trees is so, so wonderful. I love details like that. Well done! <3 <3 <3
Danielle Corsetto
ME TOOOO because someone talented (i.e. NOT ME) is making it for meeeee!!!
Danielle Corsetto
Oh my mother will be happy to hear that, thank you!
Danielle Corsetto
I mean to be honest, I'm expecting a dick SOMEWHERE at SOME point. My opinion of public art is that once you release it into the wild, it kinda belongs to everybody. Looking forward to seeing if it at least attracts something creative versus a boring scrawled nickname!
Cab
Ooooh, a dedicated site! Can't wait to see :D
Michael Jantze
One word: Acrylic
NJGR
It's a pipe dream, but we're currently dreaming of just buying a cabin somewhere on a lake in the woods. We rent our main residence (and always will), but since I can't trust anyone in my own state or nearby states, we haven't been able to go anywhere for far too long. I miss being able to relax in the woods and hear the whispering leaves at night. :( If we bought something, we could get away whenever we wanted. One colleague suggested buying one for a retirement home, and now I'm dreaming away...
Ruth Merriam
WTF is it with some paints? On the rare occasion that I've tried to do something other than walls, it's always ended in tears because things Do Not Play Well With Other Coefficients. So sorry you had grief. I'm seriously aching with love over the view from your parents' windows. The city is absolutely suffocating me. Enjoy the vacation and gorgeous views. Those are some sweet crocuses. Crocii?
Please inform your parents I give high marks for the coordination of their placemats, runner, and tabletop decor.
Minzoku Bokumetsu
aww, RIP first iteration of ghostly elephant
Andy Ihnatko
*phew!* When I saw "repainting the bench" my first thought was that someone came along with a paint marker later and thought "this piece of handmade public art is lovely, but it seems incomplete without a leaky dong drawn crudely across the whole thing."
Hugh Eckert
Smokin' ;-)
