A brief update:

I apologize for my absence; I've had a lot of life stuff going on, and have been focused on that. I do have some news, though. I got confirmation that I will indeed have a table at the Alternative Press Expo.

Funny story: the original email I received told me I was on a waiting list... which made me really bummed, but I was going to go anyway. I figured I could help out some of the other people I know are going to be there.

Twenty minutes later, I received another email that basically said, "Oops, we sent you the wrong message, this is the correct one! Sorry!" The correct message being that I had a table. Made me laugh.

I got the paper I'm using for the calendar drawings from Dick Blick today... It's a bit rippled, sadly, but it should still work just fine for my purposes. I also found it amusing that they mailed my soft-lead pencil sharpener separately in a box about a thousand times to big. Silly shipping people.

More progress!

Two of my favorite sketches for the calendar thus far: an angry super hero chick and a parody of this Gil Elvgren painting:Except that in my version, the bear's alive and they're brawling. I might also make the bear a grizzly.

I'm starting on the final drawings this weekend. YEAH!

No sketches for now, but more thoughts on the calendar.

I've got a couple more layout sketches done. (Yay!) I'm probably going to start on the final drawings in about a week.

For the last couple of days I've been looking around at printers and prices as well as putting some thought into what scale I'd like this to be. I'm also thinking about postcard prints and buttons.

Just two and a half more months until APE! I'm both excited and stressed out about how fast that time is going to go by.

A couple of sketches and some calendar news.

I worked on some preliminary sketches for the calendar this weekend, and it looks like I have three solid ones so far. As it turns out, my previously posted idea for the theme wasn't working out so well (I'm going to make that the theme for the 2010 calendar so I have more time to spend on it), so I decided to just go with what came to me. I'm pretty happy with the direction it's going. I've also decided to do the illustrations in colored pencil on colored paper, like the devil girl sketch on the title banner at the top of the page.

I didn't want to post any previews of the calendar art yet, though, so here's a quick sketch of the devil girl and an angry chick's head:

Experimenting with facial expressions...

Now drawing tonight, but I have an update on the forthcoming calendar...

I've finally worked out a theme! This makes me happy.

A pinup photo shoot gone wrong. I'm thinking of going with either grayscale (like B&W photos) or sepia toned with a hint of color, and they'll look as if they've been pinned on walls and such.

This will be fun!

Little bunny Fifi...

This didn't turn out exactly how I expected, but I do really like how her feet came out... and I threw in some flat color just for fun.

On the weekend... [cross-posted to my general sketchblog]

I took a little bit of a break this weekend to chill out after Comic Con and being sick pretty much all last week (this nasty cold is almost gone...yay). I do have a couple of drawings to post, but I want to take some time and color them. So they'll go up tomorrow night.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!