you told me I could order the moon, babe
Jan. 28th, 2013 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turtlesoup
New Year, new sheepish blog apology! Learning to juggle a regular web presence with the rest of my life and tasks is definitely an unmet goal. Not a resolution, per say … I prefer to make January an occasion for a reaffirmation, of sorts, of more personal aspirations. As you can see. (Also, here. The holiday card that I totally failed to send out to half of my recipient list, again. Fie. Maybe I’ll send a few out at random through the year to surprise people!)
With the start of my final semester, and my thesis deadline looming a terrifying three months and change ahead, I’ve been delving deeply into Ash’s world, which has been sprawling out in all directions. Soon you will have some actual pages to take a gander at, but meanwhile have some doodles and potential secondary character designs …
I think Ash’s visual design is developing nicely into something a little more coherent and unique to herself (rather than looking just like every other one of my characters) … hopefully the others will follow suit! It’s funny how one small decision can make a character explode. Once I decided to make her a reluctant, accidental sort of protagonist, she started having personality all over the place.
Soon enough there will be abandoned architecture and odd happenings. It’s a strange tale, very different from anything I’ve attempted before, and endlessly fascinating to me. I can’t wait to share it.
For the timebeing … that’s all; she’s writing. But here, have a few odd bits of illustration and such to tide you over! The season of giving is just behind us, after all.
A silly portrait of my baby brother, drawn for a holiday gift-mix. I should mention that he woke me up on Christmas morning with a challenge to a cardboard tube sword fight. (I’m almost twenty-nine, but I still fail to see why I should “grow up.” Well, on some levels.) Blue pencil; it didn’t seem to want inks.
Quick birthday present for my wonderful friend Joyana; it’s fanart of Aylin, the protagonist from her intriguing sci-fi epic The Third Dominion. (I highly recommend the first chapter, which is available in minicomic format!)
My class had a Secret Santa art exchange at the end of the year, which was most certainly the best idea ever. I was lucky enough to pull Sasha’s name out of the hat, and so I drew him a comic strip parody about us and our … conservative heteronormative alternate-universe alter-egos (an in-joke from earlier in the semester). My favorite part of this is my third-panel portrayal of his gorgeous drag alter ego, although sadly I don’t think I quite did her justice. (I’ll just have to try again.)
Sasha’s own contribution, a gift for our instructor Jason Lutes, is well worth checking out; our entire class (plus Marlene Dietrich) drawn in the style of Jason’s acclaimed graphic novel series, Berlin! Also, I received a heart-meltingly delightful present of my own from talented classmate Romey Bensen. MERMAIDS IN SPACE. I mean really. I just about died.
Remember this time last year, when my classmates and I embarked on a crazy two-week assembly-line-style blast to the past? It’s time for the Silver Age project again, and I’m eagerly awaiting the current first years’ contribution! Meanwhile, as a second gift for Joyana, I drew fanart of our characters Tatiana and Commander King indulging in a little tango. :) Agents of A.T.O.M. forever!
Lastly, in mid-December I finally launched my own homepage, AllieKleber.com. It’s intended primarily to serve as a point of first contact for my online presence, and a portfolio to show any prospective employers or interested parties … up to date work, process posts and other information will always be posted here! (For more-or-less realtime glimpses at art as I make it, you can always follow my tumblr, although as always, be warned: some material there is pornographic.)
Back to the drawing board! (I wish. Back to scripting. Drawing board soon!) Mwah!
With the start of my final semester, and my thesis deadline looming a terrifying three months and change ahead, I’ve been delving deeply into Ash’s world, which has been sprawling out in all directions. Soon you will have some actual pages to take a gander at, but meanwhile have some doodles and potential secondary character designs …
I think Ash’s visual design is developing nicely into something a little more coherent and unique to herself (rather than looking just like every other one of my characters) … hopefully the others will follow suit! It’s funny how one small decision can make a character explode. Once I decided to make her a reluctant, accidental sort of protagonist, she started having personality all over the place.
Soon enough there will be abandoned architecture and odd happenings. It’s a strange tale, very different from anything I’ve attempted before, and endlessly fascinating to me. I can’t wait to share it.
For the timebeing … that’s all; she’s writing. But here, have a few odd bits of illustration and such to tide you over! The season of giving is just behind us, after all.
A silly portrait of my baby brother, drawn for a holiday gift-mix. I should mention that he woke me up on Christmas morning with a challenge to a cardboard tube sword fight. (I’m almost twenty-nine, but I still fail to see why I should “grow up.” Well, on some levels.) Blue pencil; it didn’t seem to want inks.
Quick birthday present for my wonderful friend Joyana; it’s fanart of Aylin, the protagonist from her intriguing sci-fi epic The Third Dominion. (I highly recommend the first chapter, which is available in minicomic format!)
My class had a Secret Santa art exchange at the end of the year, which was most certainly the best idea ever. I was lucky enough to pull Sasha’s name out of the hat, and so I drew him a comic strip parody about us and our … conservative heteronormative alternate-universe alter-egos (an in-joke from earlier in the semester). My favorite part of this is my third-panel portrayal of his gorgeous drag alter ego, although sadly I don’t think I quite did her justice. (I’ll just have to try again.)
Sasha’s own contribution, a gift for our instructor Jason Lutes, is well worth checking out; our entire class (plus Marlene Dietrich) drawn in the style of Jason’s acclaimed graphic novel series, Berlin! Also, I received a heart-meltingly delightful present of my own from talented classmate Romey Bensen. MERMAIDS IN SPACE. I mean really. I just about died.
Remember this time last year, when my classmates and I embarked on a crazy two-week assembly-line-style blast to the past? It’s time for the Silver Age project again, and I’m eagerly awaiting the current first years’ contribution! Meanwhile, as a second gift for Joyana, I drew fanart of our characters Tatiana and Commander King indulging in a little tango. :) Agents of A.T.O.M. forever!
Lastly, in mid-December I finally launched my own homepage, AllieKleber.com. It’s intended primarily to serve as a point of first contact for my online presence, and a portfolio to show any prospective employers or interested parties … up to date work, process posts and other information will always be posted here! (For more-or-less realtime glimpses at art as I make it, you can always follow my tumblr, although as always, be warned: some material there is pornographic.)
Back to the drawing board! (I wish. Back to scripting. Drawing board soon!) Mwah!