Red Eye (page 1)
a new comic exploring both coloring techniques as well as non-standard storytelling. 13 pages drawn in 6 days. whew!
13 June 2008
01 May 2008
civil war 365
another illustration for 365observations.com
for an explanation: obama is winning the south and hillary is winning the north as far as which states they've won. i'm not really sure what dylan plans on writing about on 365observations, but this is what he asked for -- obama and clinton in a standoff with rifles. obama in a confederate uniform and clinton in a union one.
i'm really happy with how the image itself came out, regardless of what it's supposed to be about. I used one of those pigma graphic 1mm pens to draw it instead of my usual brush/ink or rapidographs. I like the chunkiness of the lines and the washed out colors i used. i think i might try some future illustrations with this same method in the future. especially since i can carry this pen with me easier than i can brush/ink.
for an explanation: obama is winning the south and hillary is winning the north as far as which states they've won. i'm not really sure what dylan plans on writing about on 365observations, but this is what he asked for -- obama and clinton in a standoff with rifles. obama in a confederate uniform and clinton in a union one.
i'm really happy with how the image itself came out, regardless of what it's supposed to be about. I used one of those pigma graphic 1mm pens to draw it instead of my usual brush/ink or rapidographs. I like the chunkiness of the lines and the washed out colors i used. i think i might try some future illustrations with this same method in the future. especially since i can carry this pen with me easier than i can brush/ink.
30 April 2008
confessions - helicopters
confessions of a more paranoid sort. i particularly like how the third panel came out.
22 April 2008
dandy lions
oh, those bad puns that just pop into your head while you're walking along.
i penciled this while, no joke, standing in a crowded subway car to and from work today. inked it when i got home.
i penciled this while, no joke, standing in a crowded subway car to and from work today. inked it when i got home.
19 April 2008
15 April 2008
subway confessions
i'm not really malicious... i just have a bad imagination; i'm often imagining horrible things happening.
ink and watercolor wash in my moleskine sketchbook.
ink and watercolor wash in my moleskine sketchbook.
13 April 2008
06 April 2008
02 April 2008
dreams of flying & falling (page 1)
i started comic artist rehab. this is the first page of it. more to come soon.
11 March 2008
10 March 2008
discover!
look around you. there are many things to see!
i used to LOVE david the gnome as a kid. it was truly a toss-up between it and inspector gadget as to which was my favorite. the other night, i realized... the internet is an amazing place... CERTAINLY david the gnome can be found on it somewhere. sure enough!!
i used to LOVE david the gnome as a kid. it was truly a toss-up between it and inspector gadget as to which was my favorite. the other night, i realized... the internet is an amazing place... CERTAINLY david the gnome can be found on it somewhere. sure enough!!
Adventures!!
a silly comic. my wife uses the phrase "willy nilly" a lot, and... well... i guess you can see what i think of when she says that.
06 March 2008
confessions
in my defense, i had no real clue who she was at the time, and I was in the middle of dealing with my parents' divorce, so I was particularly self-centered and shallow minded.
sisyphus at work
ink and watercolor wash in moleskine
new discovery: payne's grey + cadmium orange=same color as ink wash!! AND it doesn't bleed through the page. yay. thanks navan.ghee for the reminder that ink is a solution and water color is more of a suspension. it does indeed work.
this is what i imagine my wife's work to be like. she does imports cost sheet management stuff for Steve&Barry's. A cog in the machine.
new discovery: payne's grey + cadmium orange=same color as ink wash!! AND it doesn't bleed through the page. yay. thanks navan.ghee for the reminder that ink is a solution and water color is more of a suspension. it does indeed work.
this is what i imagine my wife's work to be like. she does imports cost sheet management stuff for Steve&Barry's. A cog in the machine.
27 February 2008
26 February 2008
15 February 2008
More Sad Truth (p. 1 of 2)
A comic I drew in my moleskine. A depiction of a real occurrence. Yet another reason I hate being female-bodied in a technical field. Yet another reason to keep fighting.
More Sad Truth (p. 2 of 2)
A comic I drew in my moleskine. A depiction of a real occurrence. Yet another reason I hate being female-bodied in a technical field. Yet another reason to keep fighting.
12 February 2008
carrie okie band poster
The carrie okie band has a new show coming up! Everyone should go see it if they get the chance (in Boston)
This poster is based on the idea of "candy carcasses" (the name of one of their songs). It's supposed to be like a crime scene.
This poster is based on the idea of "candy carcasses" (the name of one of their songs). It's supposed to be like a crime scene.
06 February 2008
03 February 2008
the sad truth (p. 1 of 2)
Based on an incident last Thursday. True for more people than just myself. Seriously, though, I hate it when stuff like this happens. I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt and say that he wasn't saying it in the "oh, you poor girl" sort of way but more the "it's good to see a girl doing this" but still with a tinge of "what a rare amusement!" It came off rather patronizing. Sigh. I hate feeling like I need to justify doing manual labor or having the ability to actually build things simply because of what's between my legs.
15 January 2008
09 January 2008
08 January 2008
Comic Collaboration Thing (p.7)
The next installment of the collaboration.
I better get my act in gear for p. 8!
I better get my act in gear for p. 8!
13 December 2007
11 December 2007
oh. my.
I just cleaned out the bathroom sink drain. It was possibly one of the most disgusting things I've EVER done. This black/grey mass of goo/hair/who knows what else came out with the stopper. Then I had to poke the drain a bit with the end of a metal knitting needle to pull out the rest of the stuff trapped in there.
But. Totally worth it. The sink drains now!
Comic Collaboration Thing (p.5)
Oh man. Where is this going? I guess it's my turn now!
This lovely page is done by the talented navan.ghee
This lovely page is done by the talented navan.ghee
Voo Doo Cover
Somehow I got convinced to make a cover for Voo Doo (MIT's humor magazine), and this is what came out. The theme of this issue is explaining all the humor behind the jokes, hence "Exposed!" For those who don't know, Phos the cat (the flasher, here) is Voo Doo's mascot.
I think it came out relatively well. I wish I would've spaced and sized the title a bit better, though. I didn't have a ruler, though, and was pressed for time.
I think it came out relatively well. I wish I would've spaced and sized the title a bit better, though. I didn't have a ruler, though, and was pressed for time.
06 December 2007
05 December 2007
04 December 2007
Comic Collaboration Thing (p.3)
Page three is done! Now it's my turn.
I'm super excited about how this is growing.
I'm super excited about how this is growing.
30 November 2007
!!! ALSO !!!
MINI COMIX FOR SALE!
$5 + shipping
gets you:
one, 28 page + covers comic. 8 pages of color on the inside that cost me dearly at kinkos. cover is hand-stenciled, two-color!
Get them HERE
carrie okie band poster
A poster I did for the Carrie Okie Band's upcoming show. I really like how this came out. I think I might actually try to get it framed.
Everyone should go hear their stuff on MySpace
Everyone should go hear their stuff on MySpace
Comics Collaboration Thing (p.1)
So, I've started to do this collaboration with navan.ghee on Flickr. Basically, we're trading off page at a time, each person giving the other person three words as a prompt. No crosshatching. No greyscale. This is page one (him).
18 October 2007
Summer
I really like the last panel of the last page.
Another one with the clown family.
Another one using Pictionary as a start.
the five words:
puppy
bikini
somersault
loud
nuclear
the loud is implied... you get to fill in your own sounds.
12 October 2007
52 comic challenges - Pictionary
a comic for 52 comic challenges
i incorprated 5 words from a pictionary card into one comic.
the five words:
clown
mistletoe
raise
warm
leapfrog
incidentally, this comic is also silent, which was last week's challenge.
01 October 2007
no face
This is one of my favorites as of late. I like how awkward she looks, sitting on something that doesn't exist. I also like that she has no face. I think having the complexity of the face would detract from the complexity of her clothing and posture, which is what I was more interested in, anyway. I drew this when I was somewhat delirious with fever from mono this summer. Inspired by Sadie Scheffer.
30 September 2007
hm.
Well. I guess that Now that I've graduated, that I can use this blog a little more freely and not feel bad about it.
It's a beautiful day in Brooklyn.
04 September 2007
12 August 2007
thesis is a lot of writing
in the middle of thesis throes right now. it's amazing how much writing and editing there is to do. this is by far the longest thing i've ever written. i forget what i wrote by the end of a chapter; how do writers do it?! but trudging along along along. still a bit to go but the end is in sight and i'm convinced that no matter what, i WILL finish.
so far to go
so close.
19 June 2007
I also met with Robbin Chapman
I really enjoyed meeting and talking with Robbin. She's excellent. From this meeting, lots of good ideas and a vague plan.
Things that she wishes could've been implemented with pearls of wisdom
*string of pearls. the ability to visualize a user's pearl activities. i feel like this is a little along the idea of glorianna's path based stuff. but where you can see the path someone took through the pearls instead of creating a path intentionally.
*history of edits. so you can see how people change their work over time. seeing how they learn to explain themselves via this tool
We talked about her pearls of wisdom a lot, and how the questions they asked came out of cognitive science. They're questions that are simple but that lead to rich answers. She suggested having an icebreaker before working with the kids. And also stressed the importance of talking with the people who work with the kids and working with them before working with the kids. Which is something I try for, already.
Vague plan:
1) get something working by end of month. i'm working on this. if all else fails with ruby, there's the wiki.
2) narrow down a population (i'd say 12-16 year olds? narrower?)
3) ask people in MITERS if they'd like to help populate the information space/site. Also get ML'ers and the teachers of the kids feedback before the kids.
4) spend 2-3 weeks in july working with kids and getting feedback.
5) in the meantime, write all i can on my thesis.
6) finalize and turn in.
Anyway. That's the gist of things.
meeting with arthur
i met with arthur ganson a while back (before i was miserably sick for over a week). and here are my thoughts from that.
I think one of the good ideas to come out of this, and something that describes my motivations for wanting to make this website is, in Arthur's words, that "the best ideas are triggered in unlikely ways." I want to help make a tool/application/website that helps trigger ideas -- by seeing other people's ideas, by explaining your own ideas, by being surprised, etc.
Another good idea is that with something like this, the bigger it is, the more valuable it is. The more projects, ideas, experiences to travel between, the more likely you'll find something that triggers an idea in you.
We discussed the fact that neither of us ever really got the whole electronics thing, that "every time [we] try to build electronics [we] just follow a recipe." And that maybe if you could understand, say, resistors, in a more general sense, then see their various uses in specific cases, maybe this would help encourage an understanding.
We talked about how the internet is good for something like this... thinking of it as a network of interconnected nodes. And we discussed features that might help make this more valuable =>
Searching by:
*material
*mechanism
*structure/devices
*location
*themes/tags/content
*function
*basic principles (e.g. ratio/power)
*scale/size
*durability/permanence
*pure ideas/thoughts
*code
*computation/sensing
*eureka moments/learning moments
so, basically, from this, I will try to have three main types of content that can be added.
1) basic wiki. general knowledge. editable by anyone
2) projects (like pearls of wisdom, or instructables). people talk about what they made and how they made it
3) experiences (more like a blog... personal). people talk about their own experiences in the more personal. eureka moments. etc.
IMP updates and stuff.
on imp so far:
implemented
*basic wiki add/edit pages
*basic projects add project
*add user
*basic login
*password authentication
to do in the next few days:
*save/edit projects with user
*save/edit wikis with user
*link login to main page
and the days after that:
*add/save/edit experiences with user
*tagging on all pages
*searching via tags
*image embedding
*video embedding
*sort out the main view
12 June 2007
website/wiki/blog planning
thinking about page flow
so far up and running on rails:
wiki - add pages/edit pages
projects - add projects
to do: a whole bunch more.
11 June 2007
rails-based wiki
http://imp.dirtbetweenmytoes.com/wiki
it doesn't seem like much
but it's a first step, i guess.
(and in the meantime, another more real wiki
http://scripts.mit.edu/~nicholsl/imp/index.php?title=Main_Page )
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