Channeling frustration

I have a job that can be most accurately described as a steaming pile of failure. Frequently, my husband has told me that I should write a book about my job, because no one would believe that the things that happen to me on a daily basis are true.

Well, I don't have the energy for a book, but we'll see how long I can keep up a comic.

I started a blog over here: My So-Called Job.

I've tried to do regular comics before and failed. But hopefully catharsis will be incentive enough to keep up with this.

Marker sketches

I've been working on improving my marker technique recently by going back and coloring mostly-finished sketches in my sketchbook.

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This is actually a concept sketch for the as-yet-unnamed webcomic. This was mostly a color test.

This is my character from our current game of In a Wicked Age, Baila - the war sorceress. IaWA has been all kinds of fun, and I've gotten to do lots of fun things with Baila - including spawning a demon baby! Whee!

I'll probably wind up pirating certain aspects of this design for a character in the webcomic.

The comic I'll some day draw

Whenever I find myself between projects for other people, I drag out one of my own projects. (I think my priorities might be a bit backwards, but oh well.)

One of the ones I've had kicking around the longest is for a webcomic that I will some day actually start producing. I've been planning it for two years, mostly because I know that any artist + writer combination is doomed, since the writer inevitably quits halfway through, the artist has to keep writing, and the comic jumps the shark since they don't know where to go from there.

No thanks. I'd rather do all the prep work up front.

Anyway. Here's something experimental for the comic that I may some day finish. It of course will contain elves, because if I'm going to draw millions of drawings, I want them to be of elves dammit. (I know fantasy comics are a dime a dozen. I don't care. Mine won't suck.)