Post Halloween and The Sketchbook Project 2012

The undead are interested in current events, right?

I seriously meant to post this closer to Halloween – BUT I can say I posted the last two zombie Squires just in time!

Head over and see what an undead Squire Thorn prefers over coconut and how being undead doesn’t stop Squire D from keeping up with current news.

Speaking of Halloween – I actually made my costume this year! Wanna see? If you brave the additional posts, it’s pretty easy to see why I picked that fandom to base my costume (or rather, accessory) on. This was probably the first time I took a lot of time to make something I was proud to show off for Halloween. And it was definitely a ton of fun to make!

In additional creative news – I finally got the ball rolling on my Sketchbook Project 2012! My theme is “Sandwich”. Anything that has to do with edibles gets my attention. Any of you doing the project too?

Uh…so as a NIN fangirl, I’m REALLY behind on what Mr. Reznor is doing. But I did catch some teaser. And after cleaning up around my place I remembered an empty Moleskine notebook, and remembering Harriet’s diary gave me a brilliantly silly idea to create diary entries for our dear Squires. If they had anything interesting to write about. Welp, let’s see how that goes!

Squires of Undeadness

Protect your brain or your ice cream?

Halloween’s almost here! Though, I like celebrating Halloween throughout the entire month of October. So I had a tough choice – SoD comic or SoD doodles with each Squire in a costume.

Since I’ve done the costume thing (though, very badly), I went the zombie route. I was never really much into the zombie craze until now, or at least until I realized how else I can use some of these markers sitting around – particularly the light blues and purples.

So head over to the SoD Archive and see the first two of the SoD Zombie apocalypse! The next two will be posted throughout the month. Hide your brains, and don’t tick off any undead Italians!

Must see blog: My Milk Toof

If there’s one blog I will bug everyone I know to look at, it’s My Milk Toof. I can’t even explain the absolute awesome adorableness of this photo story blog. While many of the creative story-telling visuals are done digitally, My Milk Toof involves a lot of handcrafting. The work that goes into every photo never ceases to amaze.

Over the past weekend at APE 2011, I was lucky enough to meet Inhae, creator of Lardee and ickle! Though, I felt slightly awkward, only because before me were a group of kids conversing with her, taking photos, and gushing – like I was – over the Milk Toof merch. And there I was, an adult squealing over cute buttons and prints and slightly star-struck.

But, despite the awkwardness, I got to snap a photo of Sir Lardee from the “Sick Lardee” story, buy a few Toofy goodies (and get a few more of my pals hooked on these guys), and (awkwardly) ask Inhae to sign my sketchbook!

So you like cute, short stories accompanied by equally cute photos too? Go see My Milk Toof!

Angry Italians, Digitized Sketchbooks, and More!

Wh-what's this skin tone?

*blows dust off blog*

I’m not even going to count how many months it’s been since I’ve touched this blog. But I am going to barrage it with a big juicy update! So here goes…

A while ago, new pal – Allen Passalaqua offered to color some doodles of mine. How could I refuse? The hard part was drawing something halfway decent enough to be worthy of coloring. So here it is! It sure gives the SoD archives some class, don’t you think? I recommend checking out his work on his blog, and Battlepug (seriously check out this webcomic).

Hey remember that Sketchbook Project I was babbling about? Well, hopefully you checked out the tour when it hit your town. Embarrassingly enough, I missed out on the tour when it hit my part of town. BUT, guess what? It’s finally digitized! I’m super excited – head over here to check it out! It’s like seeing an old friend.

Speaking of the Sketchbook Project, I’m participating in the 2012 tour too! This time, with a tasty theme – “Sandwich”. There’s definitely time to take part. If you’ve got a hankerin’ for doodling, I highly recommend taking part!

Ah…my muses have been gone during most of summer. At least the ones that get me to doodle. The baking muses have been sticking around, however. And why not? So many delicious summer treats to bake! One of my favorite summer baking accomplishments involves strawberries.

Last, but not least, I just finished up a quick, 2-panel SoD comic featuring Squire Whyte in what looks like a UN Spacy uniform. Is he really off fighting Zentradi fighters? Kind of a shabby coloring job, but I didn’t buy those markers for nothing, so I had to give them some use. The idea came from a much messier doodle in a sketchbook after looking through old Macross books I dug up.

Phew! And that’s what’s going on in my creative universe!

Squire Thorn vs. Hygiene and Bento Noms

Whyte considers investing in a gas mask

The markers I keep acquiring needed some love – so I put them to work in this single-panel Squires of Dimness comic.

Markers – let alone color definitely isn’t my forte, so it was challenging, but fun to try to get three different types of skin tones from just one pen.

Well…at least it looked like three different skin tones before I scanned it…

Anyhoo – please do check it out!

While you’re on Tumblr, check out my bento/faux bento lunches on my Lunch is Resistance blogs. Lately I’ve been using bento boxes to create compact yummy and healthy lunches. It’s definitely an delectable art (most of the time)!