I've been working on the "Rip-Off comic" - I have to combine the basic story line of the movie "Maze Runner" with my research on trailer parks. My main characters are Thomas, Brianna, Lucy, and Chuck, the cat. Here are my character sketches for a few of them... I...
What a class we had today!! Wednesday is always a long class (10-4) but we seem to be really packing it in lately. Today we did presentations in the morning about great comics writing - I talked about Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi. I particularly love this book because the main character is not only a...
When we got our homework last week, I saw the assignment and joked, "96-pages??!!! I can have a breakdown in only 4 pages!" Silly girl. When will I learn not to brag. The Breakdown is still going... On the positive side, the rough week has inspired some interesting plot twists. If I could...
I did a post on my Beez In the Belfry blog a bit earlier this week about the Artsy Weekend with the Kid - I realized I wanted to show you folks some more stuff from this weekend. I mentioned in that post that Lilah joined the Cartoon Club for kids that meets once a...
I feel like I've been sick for a month. After the strep and the viral infection... or whatever it was... I'm left with this lingering exhaustion (mono?). That feeling like when you are lying in the tub and let the water out. It feels like you are being sucked down the...
Friday's Life Drawing class was a fun twist. Our model posed while "getting dressed". We had a model before who put on different outfits and then held the same pose - paper doll-like. But this time, the model posed in the act of putting on her undies, then pulling on a...
