itesser ink: progress, uncensored

Success! And a success I'm incredibly proud of.

These are scans of drawings I did in the first 12 hours of my day. I've got another 6 hours in me, but the sketchbook might not see any more action; the twinges in my drawing arm are telling me to back off.

I added another ingredient to the mix of italian film, mbear, west wing, and a couple random non-referenced people. Near the end of today's tenure at the drawing pad, I grabbed Vol. 1 of Lone Wolf and Cub from my pile of books and referenced random panels. See if you can figure which page it was without reading the text. ;P



Note also color I compulsively tried to add with old crayola pencils. Needs work, but I'm excited to tackle it at some point, maybe sooner, maybe later.





It's been a fun day of playing and working with my husband. I had a few moments that had the potential to escalate into crisis... if I wasn't such a level headed dame.

I know a lot of artists and spend my days working to join their numbers. Sometimes I lose sight of the fact that I've got about four years of artistic germination to progress through before I'll "come of age". This doesn't mean I'm going to hold myself back or believe a magical bell will ring at that time to announce my arrival at Platform Artist, I'm just trying to set a vague projection or deadline on myself. On that magical date in 2011, I'll give myself permission to be more commercially ambitious and start worrying about marketing myself again.

Right now I'm attending the self-school of creative pursuit, and while I'll never stop taking courses, I do want to graduate at some point, and leave the shelter of "just practicing" to work on telling the stories I've got in my head, begging to be sequentially illustrated and shared with people.

I don't believe everything I say here (so no holding me to it over a hot an poky fire), but I have to say the ideas out loud and hold them up to the light to figure out what's diamond, what's coal, and what's just dirt.

And several pairs of eyes connected to their respective brains are better than just one set.

ps (for my own reference): 6.3 pages done today, leaving me with 33.7 to go and 9 days. I can do it!

Labels: italian film, lone wolf and cub, sketches