Orange

Bought some Tangerines that were on SALE! Woo! Being broke is nothing new, but being broke and on my own is a whole different beast entirely. I'm learning new skills like how to eat when I barely have $100 left over from working to feed myself per month and how to juggle three different credit cards so I can also afford my $1100/month tuition fees. 

Oh well, life goes on. I'm grateful for all I have and am pushing myself harder than ever before just to survive. 

I am still working on the comic about the Balloon at the Carnival, if anyone has ideas for a title leave them in the comments because I have no idea what I will title it as. More on that in future posts, probably next week or this weekend.

I reached 70 characters for my Muni People series! If you have been following me on Instagram you have had a front row seat to the entire thing! I slowed down a bit on them because I started to draw anyone and everyone just to reach 100, but when I did that they turned out to not be as special as the others, so if I'm lagging on those, that is why. Although last night a asian guy made a face at me so I'll post that and more on here either later tonight or tomorrow. 

Thank you so much for your continued support and I hope you are all well and didn't catch that awful flu that was going around! 

Peace!

ADVENTURE TIME!

Our Comic Book Club at AAU has been doing these weekly drawing challenges and I recently decided to take part. This weeks challenge was ADVENTURE TIME!!!

I almost didn't enter into this challenge because I rarely can come up with anything clever for this. Seeing as how I've been a little home sick in this cold weather, that San Francisco names its Summer, I noticed a lot of my work has been resembling warm weather like back home. 

This drawing is special to me because of that reason and I created this Adventure Time piece with my yearning in mind. This piece resembles a certain suntan lotion I grew up using and the illustration on the front is rather iconic. Let me know if you can guess it! 

Cheers!

Our Family

Final

In July Nima and I moved in together and took over my sister and brother-in-laws apartment as they are now in New Zealand for a year or so. We also have been taking care of their bunny named Herman. Together we have become a close family and his mom, my sister, visits once a month from work so he always has a chance to see her. 

This is a quick little illustration I did showing how we all fell asleep together this evening. I am trying a lot of new things here including a new program. It was a fun and useful exercise even if I didn't achieve exactly what I had hoped with this. 

 Here is some of my process if you care to see it. :)

Cheers! 

Cover Image?

I ended up spending some time creating this compilation of sketches I had in my sketchbook and started to play around with them.. Turned out to be a lot of fun, learned that making a multiply layer makes my life easier and faster! 

Thoughts on making this my banner image for my blog? Anyone?

Toned Paper

Please ignore the large donut shaped person!!

The well dressed gentleman in this drawing was a kid I sat next to/near whilst bleeding empathy for how cool he was and deeming myself utterly unworthy of being his *pew mate.  I sadly hav forgotten his name but I shall not forget his sense of style or how my jaw dropped when he told me of his success. Three degrees I believe it was, civil engineering, something else, and now architecture. He new everything there was to know about every car ever created, he knew everything about films from director, to photography managers, to actors/actresses, to the drama that happened on set. I'm pretty sure he was just a walking encyclopedia of suaveness. Another thing- other artists will love this- his profile.. DID NOT MATCH HIS FRONTAL VIEW! It was like a whole other person. (which is kinda why and how we met)

NOTE: *our class was in a church, we sat in pews

This is just a sketch done on toned paper while at work. Was pleased with how the copic marker created a shadow. I'm trying to play with various styles. 

DMV Sketch

So here is a sketch of my friend Daniel, or DMV. (Which are both his initials and precisely fitting for how you feel after dealing with him.)

Didn't want to leave you empty handed as I sort out my enormous work load I am catching up on. I need to take *actualgoodpictures* of some work before I post it up here and I will have possible three or four comics up by Tuesday that will most likely be teaser pages and a link to MY NEW WEBSITE! (finally)

Can't Hardly Wait

Quick sketch of my favorite childhood crush; Seth Green!

The Doctor

Today has been a productive day.. Pretty happy with all that was done today. Have a lot more to catch up on but I'm making great personal progress! :3 Even watched five episodes of Dr Who and re-watched the first season of Bored To Death.

The After Party

Congratulations to Katie Longua on her Isotope award last night for her mini comic "Rok"!

Did this little sketch of a couple with balloons at Isotope during a party. Realized I hadn't seen balloons in quite a long time.

It's been a while..

Here is some stuff to look at.

Layout for a painting that will be done soon. No idea for the medium yet, possibly oil. Feel free to shout ideas!

Playing around with a more angular style.. so far so good?

Guy at the Bar

"One day my prince will come.. "

RoomMate!

That is all for now.