Everything's Gonna Be Hunky Dory

Doing a mini-comic for my art summative/senior project (worth close to 40% of my final mark). It's two stories about the most important women in my life: my best friend, Krissy, and my mom, Elizabeth. This is the first page of the story about Krissy. It's called "Everything's Gonna Be Hunk Dory" We're both Bowie fans, haha.
I have to pencil a page a day (totaling 20), and then ink 2 pages a day afterwards. While silk-screening covers to be able to sell mini-comics of this at the art show (june 11th, my birthday!)
Started inking early because I really wanted to ink



Page two pencils



The cover which will be silk-screened, and this will actually be put sideways (I just have it this way right now so it’s easier to view). It’s supposed to be Krissy, my mom and I (though it didn’t really end up looking like me).


On a non-art note: Jeff Buckley’s music is AMAZING, no doubt, but when I saw this jacket it was love at first sight. Anything out there is mucha $$$, so I’m going to kill my hands and try to make something similar myself. Hell yes. I’ll be best dressed at the art show, haha.

Long Time No Post!

I realize I haven’t posted in quite awhile. I’ve been catching up in my art class (finally), and today we just wrapped up with our installation piece. I have a lot to post today though!!


I wanted to do something about the conditions my mom, an immigrant, would have lived with arriving to a new country. I really enjoy the idea of exploring my roots. I used a used mattress, a cardboard box to hold up a T.V, and a new stuffed animal (it would have been my sister’s birthday gift—the first new thing she received, not something fished from trash). Added some family photos (no stand on the back, so we taped paper cups to them). And had the projection of my sister curled up in the corner (who would come home crying because the kids picked on her in school because of the language barrier). It’s titled “FREEDOM”. The reason for calling it "Freedom" is because so many people run from countries under a communist rule (my family), or a dictatorship, but end up living in squalor, and in poverty. This is the “freedom” they get.


Here’s something a classmate did (Styrofoam cups)…


Here’s a Jeff Buckley drawing I’m doing with pencil crayons.

Speaking of Jeff Buckley, I do this thing for fun sometimes, called “Adventures with Jeff Buckley”. It’s just basically me hanging around with Jeff Buckley’s…ghost?


And here are a bunch of sketches I’ve done recently:






If you want to see the photos larger, click them to go to the flickr page where they have that option. That’s all for now! I leave you with a photo of my super cute dog, Luc!

Quick Update...

Quick post because my mom needs the laptop for work.

The great comics race is over, but Sally and I are trying to make a page a week. Except for right now because we’re very busy with school and other priorities. I’m behind on some projects for art class, so that’s what I’m focusing on. Figured I’d post some doodles though…

Current “muse”: the Greek Goddess, Artemis (or Roman Diana).





I’ll talk more later. Au revoir!

--Kate.

So...

The next page for the Great Comics Race...


And here's some doodles, where I wanted to go straight to ink (I used the pentel brush pen):

So, I wanted to mention this in my last post

But I didn’t want it to get lost within a jungle of text.

I’ve talked about one of my inspirations in comics, and I wanted to ask you readers a couple of questions (particularly cartoonists, but feel free to apply this to whatever it is you do). Don’t worry about writing too much. I love long comments! And I love short comments.

1.Which artist(s) influences your work the most? Feel free to talk about comic artists, comic writers, fine artists, authors, poets, musicians, etc.

2.Why do you want to make comics, or are currently making comics? And at what point in your life did you come to this realization?

3.What is your favourite thing about comics (storytelling, the accessibility of it, the sense of community among artists, etc.)?

These are all questions easily applicable to any field, so feel free to talk about whatever it is you do! Post anonymously, or under your name, and share your own art, writing, etc.

More art...

Hmm. So, I still have about a page to do today to catch up with yesterday’s slacking off (it was so nice outside and my little dog was just begging to play with him in the backyard).

Here’s another page:


I should mention, that I end up cleaning up my pages a bit later on. Right now, I’m just set on getting a page a day done for “the Great Comics Race”.

I have a lot more I could share, but I figured that I would just spread it out. That’s all for now!

--Kate D.

The Great Comics Race!!

So—it’s been awhile since I updated.

News: I got the Silas H. Rhode scholarship for SVA, which means I will be able to attend the cartooning program! I’m really excited to go and see some of my friends and just to be in the city again.

Speaking of friends, my friend Steph and Sally are visiting me in Toronto mid-May for TCAF (click on names for links to art or TCAF info). I’m unbelieavably excited.

It’s spring break for me right now. And, as it turned out, for Sally as well. We decided to start (as I call it) The Great Comics Race. Basically, we’re penciling a page a day and posting the progress for the other one to see.
Here are my first two pages (a lot of the picture will be inked black, so it might look a little weird right now):





Ah, and I got my entry for the MCR Venganza contest done today. Although, all my acrylic ink kept on tipping over, so my carpet is horribly stained (even more so than before). The price of progress.


Photos of my room/studio (although there’s only photos of the workspace part of my room) on my flickr, HERE


Waiting for Sally's post now. She's sent me some sketches and I'm super excited to see this project of hers unfold!

--Kate D.