Home stretch towards fall.

I’ve been meaning to update in the past week, but I’ve been in and out of it since I got back.  Maybe it’s because I still have a paper due for my Prague classes tomorrow.  Eh heh.  Heh.

I’ve been doing a lot of drawing still; there hasn’t been a day where I haven’t doodled up something significant since July.  For the first time in my life too, I picked up a 9×12-inch sketchbook.  The first page I drew on has a prototype page for an Impression comic submission I’m doing for the Imprint Frosh Issue, although it’s more than one panel.  I might not even use it ‘cos it’s a whole page, so I’m planning to make a one-panel comic for it just in case.

I really like where Impression’s going; I’ve been a big fan of drawing Jim and Lan ever since I created them.  Originally, they had no names.  They were just two random characters I drew for one of Shayna’s articles (WARNING: NSFW) in the paper during the Winter term.  After that, I tried drawing them again for the whole term for her articles ‘cos I found it to be fun.  After realizing that Impression at the time was just a random guest comic, I started thinking about making it a series using the two characters.  It’s taught me a lot about writing in confined canvases and showing a relationship between characters, while still keeping it funny.  So far, this is my favourite work and I’m hoping to continue it in the paper.

I’ll be going to a Toronto devMeet (mostly because my friend Mandi asked me to) this Saturday.  It’ll be kinda weird though if devART actually becomes a topic of discussion at this get-together though, since I’ve been fairly scarce from the site.  I’ll also be going to TCAF the weekend after, which I’m really excited for.  Danielle Corsetto has been one of my favourite comic artists as of late, so it’ll be cool to see her there again.  It’ll be the first time I’ll get to see this many “indie” comic artists and writers too.  Hope I don’t explode from it!

Well, that’s what’s going on right now among some other things.   Till then, I’ll be seeing ya!