Homework, Week 4 - 3+-panel Strips

I also turned in a printed version of Lost Girl 001 (her leaving Virginia to come to Alaska) so my total of turned in pieces was 5 (instead of 4) - there were almost 6, but the fish strip refused to cooperate.

here it is again, 'cus the moose makes me giggle!


the one that is penciled here got inked right before class; I will have to wait to scan in the finished one ;)


(Lost Girl, episode 002) --- pretty self-explanatory.






(LG - Random 002) (here, i took one of the 6-word "stories" in one of our handouts and had fun with it. There's a few of these in here like that.)

(LG - Random 003) -- ok, i did have one person ask me what I was trying to do here (another reason I did extra for the assignment, I'm not particularly fond of this one, either) - basically, she cooked... she set table... she called for dinner and before she could finish calling her family to the table it seems dinner has been eaten and the people scattered, leaving her with the mess.



Last one:

No Name 001. I couldn't make this into a Lost Girl episode, as it doesn't fit her story-line. I was inspired by another of those 6-word stories, this one by, I do believe, Earnest Hemingway. Simple... effective... devastating.

(Miss) Adventures of Lost Girl; Random 001, 002

Occasionally, I will deviate from the story line I am currently working on, and introduce a "Random Moment". Ok, it might happen a lot more.

Meanwhile, here are two such Random Moments. There should be at least one more... I'm working on another one, but I'm having difficulty with parts of it.

Again, forgive my mediocre drawing skills (notice i upgraded myself from crappy to mediocre??) LOL.


Ok... Random Moment # 001:

Please note, these are sketches, and may change... the X's in the background of some areas indicate where I intend on solid black to be put (aka spot black).



Can't say much about this one... if you look too close at the humor, it bursts like a soap bubble in a room full of crystal points. I also love to throw my "favorite" coffee shop - The Fix - in there... BTW - as far as I know, "The Fix" as a coffee place/kiosk is available - please feel free to use it (it rocks!), just let me know (and send a pic!!!) so I can grin.

look close at the newspaper.... i'll add actual "articles" - such as Local Cartoonist and Beaver Battle; Ends In Draw. - well, whatever will fit. ;)


Random Moment # 002:


What can I say about this one? LOL. The middle panel will have the black background with white lettering - all the "negative" things in life. The "bursts" will remain white and have black lettering - all the "positives" in life.... sort of Lost Girl's memoirs.

I also like the open panel thing, and it can really mark a contrast with the more formal straight edges, and I seem to be growing fond of poking items out of frame edges & borders.

Anyways, gonna spend this afternoon "inking" on the computer, but will likely ink these by hand for the actual assignment.

(edit: first one!)

The (Miss) Adventures of Lost Girl, 001

We're working on 3-panel strips now... so you're gonna be tortured a bit more with my horrid hand-drawing skills ;)

anyways, ignore the crappy scan, i had to combine two different ones together to get it to fit, and lets just say it wasnt the best job in the world. just wait til i finish this bad boy up... its amazing the transformation. Anyways, this was scanned, blended, cropped, and saved for web (resized then, too)

Wish i knew how Jamie got his images in and cleaned up like he does. he even inks his first. something about turning the whole thing into vectors, too. *sighs* sometimes, i feel so damned lost.

and that brings me to....

The (Miss) Adventures of Lost Girl

The premise: A young lady leaves all she's ever known to move to not only a new place, but one that broke ALL the molds... Alaska. The strip is to be a series depicting the hilarity of a new(hahahahaha!!!) Chichako (new-comer) trying to fit in and learn the ways, hoping one day to finally be called a Sourdough.

yeah, based rather loosely on me. hey, he DID say some of the best ones draw heavily from personal experience.

here is a sketch of what is to be the very first (Miss) Adventure of Lost Girl.