gonna be late

esquire, october 1985

auguuuust

 A family vacation interlude, before I start going crazy and drawing everything in Ann Arbor ever. Zingerman's, I'm looking at you.

At the beach house! Dad chilling with his crossword.

Famous people.

General beachery.

Oh, right, Otakon happened! Three people I do not know.

I will be honest: that is not a wand. It is, in fact, a makeshift pestle.

Out and about!

 As moving day draws ever closer (six days? six days?!), we see some people and do some things.

Sitting in line for the midnight showing of Harry Potter! I think just about everyone was dressed up to some degree or another.

Hangin' with some friends. This was the part where I was watching them play video games, so I hope you like VERY INTENSE FACES IN PROFILE.

And... places! Battery Park, Circus Warehouse, and a Mango store (not the fruit, sadly) in Flushing.

na naaa na na na na na na na

NOT THE COW PYLON, NOOOOOOOO

Working on prints for Otakon!

do or do not

merlinnnn

derp a derp derp derp

summer drawin'

 Hey, long time no see - sorry about that!  The latest love of my life (sorry, P) is this gorgeous little brush pen - I've been trying to improve my brushwork lately, and it's great to have the freedom to practice in transit.  So what have we here?

One of my temporary workspaces. It's my favorite place to be a receptionist, even with that intimidatingly huge straight-out-of-some-other-decade phone someone plonked on the desk; there is nothing to do but answer the phone, and they are horrified when I haven't brought in a book or something to do, Gale, you will be so bored!

Friends! I'm pretty happy with the shapes here.

I don't even know?

I don't know how I feel about this 'add caption' thing. Let me know if you needed to break out the old-guy magnifying glass to read that.

poor ken

My sister and I are two years apart, so there was only a short span of time during our childhoods in which we were both interested in playing with Barbies.

The green slime was a recurring, and quite formidable, villain. I believe it was eventually defeated by Ken's pure heart.

...We were weird kids, weren't we?

we flush ourselves in

Deathly Hallows Part One: that movie where Ron was a twit again, but everything turned out okay because he found the little ball of light in his heart.  I honestly feel like the HP movies have gotten better and better, and I'm really excited (and sad!) for the final installment.

By the way, the dude on the bottom right isn't Harry - that's just Patrick.  SAME DIFFERENCE

And now for something completely different!

Lately, I have been dabbling in the squishy mystery that is Sculpey. Clearly not a master by any means, but it's pretty fun! Also I totally did not know that you could mix colors until this week. Whole new worlds have been opened up to me, you guys.

Clearly inspired by Ramona's bag (see: Scott Pilgrim).

Who is this fine fellow?

Or this guy, even?

Together, they are two fabulously sexy television personalities: Stewart and Colbert! Now you, too, can feel the fate of America dangling just above your shoulders.

...and someone (me) has been playing just a little too much Tetris lately.

AAAAAAH

*P would like to note that this was taken before his daily preening session, and as such, is not an accurate representation of his Adonis-like features.

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Wh-when did it become March? And P's birthday, to boot!

I've been working with Flash a lot recently, courtesy awesome internship. While I still have a lot to learn, I've definitely made a lot of progress (anything is a lot of progress when you don't know much to start with!). Symbols are magic. Forgetting to set them to single frame when you want them to be is not magic, it kinda sucks.

But anyway, have some half-baked things!

hourly comics!

(Also, for comparison - 2010, and 2009!)

robot ♥

Sometimes, when coming up with ideas, I try listing things I like. Robots and stars forever!~

Happy New Year!