Chinese New Year
Click to enlarge. Not only is it now the year of the Dragon, it’s the year of the Water Dragon. I did a little brush drawing in my sketchbook and tried some new things to color it.
Some New Sketches
Not sure what to do with this blog any more, but here are some recent sketches. Trying to get going on a new story, but at least keeping in the habit of drawing every day.
The Summer Is Now
Or, I should say, the summer starts Saturday, when I graduate from the Center for Cartoon Studies! “Good times.” Here are two things you should know now:
Between this blog and The Cartoon Picayune blog, I’m all blogged-out. In two days, I will be “entering the world” and for the first time in many years, not returning to an academic institution in the fall. Because of this “turning point,” I’m putting this blog on hiatus for summer, and replacing it with a weekly email list that you can sign up for here.
I think it’ll be a little more informal, and I hope it’ll allow me to honestly address the changes in my life as they come in a more ephemeral format. And yes, there will pictures. I’m just gonna give it a try this summer, and we’ll see what’s what come fall.
Also, I’m very excited excited to share the Thesis Senior Showcase blog, which will feature the art of the Class of 2011 and hopefully make us more visible. There’s gonna be a lot of excellent work posted on here daily, so I hope you’ll check back often throughout the summer. We’ll already getting some love and I think it’s going to be really good.
So thanks, and have a good summer! If you wanna hear from me, these three options are pretty good, but this blog will be quiet.
A Tour of My CCS Thesis
Here they are! I created 8 packages for the thesis committee, my advisor, the library, etc. But what’s inside? So you turn one over and take out the flap…
…and what do you see as you open the flaps?
Aha! And what books are these, secured inside?
Well, that on the left, of course, is The Cartoon Picayune #1, available for $3 on cartoonpicayune.com. That’s the bulkiest, weighing in at 40 pages. The blue guy is Part two of my ski story, Fly By Night. None of that is on the internet to read, yet. The cheese story with the die-cut is the newly repackaged One Place, One Cheese. Finally, there’s an appendix on how I’ve done my reporting. I’m very pleased with how everything came out, and I think the red, blue, yellow thing came off better than I could have hoped. My year may be nearly done, but there are exciting things to come, sooner than later.
Next Up…Thesis!
Back to business next week with a photographic tour of my Senior Thesis for the Center for Cartoon Studies. ! Next week will be reserved for participating in the critique of the Freshmen mini-thesis projects (my last duty as Teaching Assistant to Mr. Jason Lutes), an end of the year comics reading party, and a wrap-up with Mentor/Advisor/guru Josh Neufeld. The week after that: thesis review committee session and graduation! General revelry will commence. (And hopefully, more bloggin’.)
