I've been really busy working on various comics stuff (coming to this blog... soon) but here are the few dailies I managed to squirt out, some concept scribbles for another comic, and a piece of Community fanart.

More of the same! Enjoy.









The full flickr set is here.

Finally, finally settling down after my reintroduction to the USA, I've got some stuff to post! While in Chicago I've been doing some daily strips. Not my forte but I hope they're not too boring? Feedback is appreciated!









The full flickr set is here.

Today I sat down a wrote out a couple lists (I LOVE lists) of the artists/writers whose art/writing I am particularly excited about right now. 

Inspiration, Visual:

-Egon Schiele
-Jillian Tamaki
-Sam Bosma
-Gustav Klimt
-Katie Turner
-Jordan Crane
-Jesse Moynihan
-Richard Haines


Inspiration, Written:

-David Foster Wallace
-Cat & Girl
-Pictures for Sad Children
-Jason
-Jesse Moynihan (again)


Inspiration, DCiGTH:

-Lucy Knisley
-Johnny Wander
-Octopus Pie


I guess some people, knowing only my work on Darwin Carmichael might think I spend my time reading cute comics about cute stuff but really left entirely to my own devices I tend to gravitate towards the weird/fucked-up end of the spectrum.  Someday, time permitting, I am really looking forward to making some disturbing comics.

This tickled me too much not to post; my newest sketchpad/notebook, purchased in a stationary store in the lonesome city of Taebaek, South Korea.



Aside from the joy I got in finding this bit of NYC-love in my little town across the world, and how much I love the inaccurate rendering/location of a certain famous building, my absolute favorite aspect of this notebook is the block of text at the bottom of the page, which since it's a little hard to read in the photo I'll re-paste here:

Well, I can't get the 6th volume in Korea, but I can at least draw some fanart and look forward to the day I get my hands on it.  No spoilers, please.



Oh Stephen Stills. I would have such mad make-outs with you!

I try to avoid delving too much into my artistic process on public forums because I feel like those sorts of things are only useful and interesting from people who know what they're doing, but in terms of my experience as a developing artist the above kind of covers it.  Minus the stress-tears and hair-pulling.  The gap between where my art is and where I want it to be is so vast that any development is just a momentary reprieve from the inner pressure.  I wonder if it's like that for other artists out there.  Guys?

For some reason I still drew myself with glasses even though I got LASIK two weeks ago and no longer wear them.  I think drawing myself with eyes would be weird.

I will conclude this post with some drawings of a deranged cupid. I really enjoyed playing around with his squishy face:

This counts as "research", I think.

This took FOREVER and it still doesn't feel finished.

So instead of drawing a strip today I drew a lot more images of the girl in the overlarge sweater from my last post. 



If you'd like to see more, you can view the Flickr Set, or check them out here: ( under the cut. )

Note: NSFW!

More sketches:

I don't have much experience drawing horses so I'm pleased at how this turned out. I hope to use this character some day:




I got the idea for this from dearoldlove.tumblr.com. This is my contribution to their annals:





I am no good at caricatures which is why I practice:





Is it just me, or does he look a little like Cassidy from "Preacher"?:

I can see why Lucy Knisley likes to draw these Derby girls so much!    It was nice to do some more active poses as well.

I don't get a lot of time to draw things not directly related to DCiGTH (which are of course all spoiler-heavy and unpostable) but recently I had the inclination and time to draw a couple pretty girls.  Or, at least, that was the intention.







Okay, well, Medusa isn't that pretty but she is mad stylish. The large dark glasses are to avoid turning bystanders to stone, of course.

Yessssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See it here!

I love Johnny Wander, and the excellent people who write, draw and star in it: Ananth and Yuko. They are an adorable beacon of light for the rest of us and I am so so honored to have my art up on their site. If your not already familiar with Johnny Wander then CHECK IT OUT, or you will be MISSING OUT (see what I did there?).

Once again:

http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/149

Hey people, I did some hourlies for February 3, 4, and part of 5. To avoid confusion, I should clarify that I currently live in South Korea and work full-time as an English teacher. School is currently not in session, so right now that involves a lot of desk warming. There, you have been briefed:

Wednesday, February 3rd



( See the rest under the cut. )

I had a lot of fun working on these. Autobiographical comics have always made me nervous to it was good to jump into it full-throttle instead of the tentative attempts I've been making in my notebooks. Feedback, questions and general commentary is encouraged and appreciated!

 Hey guys!  It's been awhile, but I wanted to post these character studies I did for infant Ella for an upcoming storyline.  They were really fun to draw.  If you aren't already you can read my webcomic here.

Cheers,
S

(Cross-posted from kittnapocalypse )

I don't even know where to start with this one. When this showed up in my reader at first I was pretty sure it was a joke until I did a little research on the author. The "journalist" (or would that be "journalista"?), writes:

Yes, because switching the gender of a main character is as simple as swapping names, and men's interests can be boiled down to football, beer, and heavy machinery.

WTF Guardian.

The writer, one Jean Hannah Edelstein's, personal website states that Ms. Edelstein "is a London-based journalist with a signature style that combines New York sass and British wit." The sassy/witty journalista's first book, Himglish and Femalese: Why women don't get why men don't get them, sold wherever shit (I'm sorry, "shite") is sold, looks pretty amazing. Although the title alone would have been hearty enough fuel for the glowing coal of hate that now dwells in my chest the book description is really just the absolute end. I'll refrain from quoting it in its entirety but here is a choice excerpt:

they're just so hilarious

Hey everyone, my co-writer on Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell and myself have set up a little community LJ for the two of us to post to at kittnapocalypse . My posts appear on there as coming from estrangingsea, but I will not be cross-posting them here on my regular LJ.

Topics that will still be covered here on good 'ol estrangingsea: personal crap, biking, work (as in my job that pays me).

Topics that will be covered on kittnapocalypse : comics news, sketches, Jenn's kitties.

Please please add our new blog since right now we have like, two followers and it just makes me terribly terribly sad. I promise to only post really cool interesting stuff.

Also, guys who do this sort of thing, we are on Twitter!

Tell all your friends; but only the cool ones.

Are you reading my webcomic, Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell?

Better yet, read it from the beginning.

Today a student called with certain pressing financial concerns so I tried to contact financial aid on her behalf. While on hold for 20 minutes I tried to find an e-mail address. Instead of an e-mail address, they had a form that you could fill out with your complaint.

In the pull-down menu where you can enter your occupation one of the occupations is "financial aid staff."

I am not making this shit up.