GAH

I swear I will update soon. I have so much to do right now. My family barely sees me, let alone my friends and the internet/blog. I have to finish my final art project tomorrow before 5, then go to photocopy it, and put the mini comic together.

Thursday is the art show, "Freshly Squeezed" (and my birthday) and I have to help set up, grab dinner, then be at the show from 7-9.

Friday, I'll probably skip my morning class to finally get some sleep. Then, go in for my afternoon classes to finish up final projects.

Wednesday is my art exam (from 12:00-2:30). Then, oh THEN, I will be a free woman! No more high school!!

So, I hope you understand.

WANT A FREE SHORT MINI COMIC?!?!?!

I haven’t updated in a while, sorry! I am SWAMPED with final projects. High School is almost over for me, dear readers (if any of you exist—feel free to leave me comments, anonymous are fine too! I welcome constructive criticism!!).
Anyways, I had my friends Steph and Sally come to Canada, to go to TCAF. It was a great time! We got to meet some of our favourite artists! And we passed out some mini comics.

Sally stayed longer (Steph was only there for the weekend), and because of that I slacked on some work, which I am now making up.
Some progress…





I made a very short (6 pages plus cover and info page), and very simple mini-comic for TCAF. I printed a lot because the photocopier I used wasn’t taking money from my copy card, so I took advantage of that…haha… SO, with that in mind, I’d love to send out some of them to you! I have 18 left! If you want one, e-mail your address at drweckaart@hotmail.com
Seriously, it’s no trouble. It would really make my day!
PREVIEW…

Death, Making Comics, SAME THING!

I'm not dead-- just a cartoonist. Pretty similar though! Been working on a REALLY simple comic (the pages are crap!) to shove in people's faces at TCAF, which requires making 2 pages a day. And then back into my page a day for my summative.

P.S. If you're in the GTA, GO TO TCAF!! IT'S FREEEEEEEE!!!!!

My friend's are going to be here so soon! I'm really excited to be able to have them here, and to be surrounded by people who are genuinly interested in my rants about amazing inking and story telling. Haha.

No pictures, sorry!!

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):