Ostensibly because I'm their friend; because I'm the friend of one of their friends; because I did them a favor once, and now I should apparently always do things for free; or because it's for their particular pet cause....But it was when the writer said, 'Well, I'm having this design contest for all the interested artists, where they draw the couple, and then send me the drawing, and whichever one I like best, I'll pick for the comic,' that I excused myself and said goodbye, and wished the writer luck.
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Not to mention hard on one's ego, when you usually can paint like this: But the painting of friends-as-pimp&ho-zombies was tragically overdue, so it had to be done.
The artists drew and painted so much, that the booth couldn't hold them all, so they had to go upstairs for their panel.
Comic-con
As regular readers of my blog have guessed by the sudden decline in posts, it's that wonderful time of year known as Nerd Prom, aka San Diego Comic-Con.
Every year, I battle through a massive anxiety attack to get my work together enough to show and get feedback on. This year's anxiety is compounded by the stress of having had my day job at Saltmine U. be in peril. I have less staff, and slightly more work than I did last year. I've been so busy spending the last few months proving I was useful, that all my spare time (such as it is) was spoken for. That doesn't leave much for doing illustrations. Being an art director has had to be my primary focus; being a student came second; and any socializing, either online or in person, was rare. I worked Faire to fulfill a commitment I'd made to help two good friends, and while I don't regret it, it meant I spent two months with no days off at all.
Not surprisingly, my immune system pitched an armed revolt a month ago, and I succumbed to the plague that's been sweeping the West Side. Only in the last two weeks have I been able to get through an hour without coughing, or had anything resembling energy.
Which is all to say: I'm not as prepared as I'd prefer to be for the major industry event of the year. I've done a lot of good work, and I'm proud of it. I just wish I were further along with my current projects, so that I could show them. But hey, I'll bring them down to Comic-Con!
This year will be my very first as an exhibitor, and I'm beyond thrilled to have this chance. I'm going to be with the studio I'm at every Saturday: Studio 2nd Street. We're booth #5361. I'll be doing painting demos in the booth all four days, and will also be part of this panel:
Thursday, July 23
4:30-5:30 Drawing Upon Reference— Ron Lemen (ImagineFX magazine) and Studio 2nd Street Group will cover the subject of photo reference and how to use it when you have to use it. This lecture will briefly cover the do's and dont's of copying photos for your illustration work and some basic guidelines for drawing an effective image. Room 30CDE
Yeah, guess who's going to be showing you all how not to use photo reference.
As if that weren't enough, I'll also be modeling corsets for Alter Ego while I'm there. Hopefully that will generate a lot of business for Alter Ego. It'll be a challenge to not get upstaged by the corsets, but I think I can manage.
If you're going to be at Comic-Con, please come by and say hello!
the closing of tabs
One to change the lightbulb, and thirty-nine to stand around at Mullah's coffeehouse and talk about how much better the lightbulbs were at Agoura. From Rands in Repose, a post on jargon-as-fashion , with this gem: " Future Proofing -- Architecting a product so that it accounts for things that don't yet exist and can't be predicted."
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I seem to have been flattened by last month's bout of tonsilitis returning. This time, it has a grudge.
At the moment, I'm not particularly entertaining, unless you perversely enjoy listening to hacking coughs. One thing i've discovered is that my sore throat pain is miraculously cured by beer, which has just enough alcohol to kill the pain, but not too much. This came to light after spending Sunday at a party; who knew?
To entertain you in my absence, I have photos taken over the last few weeks. Feel free to come up with your own story to link them all together, and post it in the
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