Sadly, the time has come to shut down this livejournal, which will be up till the end of May and afterwards, I will be deleting it. Things will slowly start disappearing as I tidy things up and tie up lose ends.

I've enjoyed having it, but all the different sites that I have to update have been piling up and if I'm honest, I get more views on places like Blogger, Deviant Art and Tumblr, than I do here. I've had this journal for 6 years and started it not long after I got my internship at Nickelodeon, my first real start in animation and working in the arts. This journal has served to be my portfolio, my place of encouragement, and my place of keeping myself diligent about my artwork. I've worked hard and I've come very far, and now it's time to just move forward. :)

I'm still on the internets though and I can be found on these places:
Portfolio Website/Blogger
Deviant Art
Tumblr
Twitter
LinkedIn

SO MANY PLACES, ALL THE PLACES EVER. Anyway, Jean is out, PEACE!

Okay, this is probably just preaching to the choir, but LEGEND OF KORRA IS AWESOME AND ALL SHOULD WATCH IT. Also, drawing these two brothers were pretty fun but man, I am so rusty when it comes to painting. I've been so focused on trying to improve my drawing skills that my painting skills have taken a backseat. I should do more paintings. XD

Also, I did a ginormous post about Wonder Con 2012 and C2E2 2012. Honestly, I sort of hate cross posting so I don't always do it but I guess I should put in more of an effort. XD

Starting today, Womanthology will be available in stores!! Please go to your local comic book store or book store to pick up a copy! I'm so excited to see it, this book is a labor of love for everyone involved and we're so grateful for the feedback and support we've gotten. Hopefully there will be more books like this to come!

I will be at Wonder Con THIS WEEK! Womanthology will be out there in full force! We have a panel on Saturday morning, an Artist Alley table next to our leader Renae De Liz, and IDW is throwing us a party for the release on Saturday at their booth at 5PM! Everyone is welcome to come and say hello! I won't be able to put any shifts onto the Womanthology table, but I will have my own table in the Small Press section at table SP-103.



As well as my usual fare of prints and a few of my t-shirts (they're going FAST, get them while you can!), I will have some more resin necklaces, some original work for sake (including some of the pages for Womanthology!), copies of Ranunculus, and a new book featuring my Quickie Comics!



This book has a lot of the quick comics I drew about Doctor Who, comics, and general nerdiness. Some of these have been posted on the web, but I've gone through all the comics and really polished them up and re-lettered them!

Please come to the convention and stop by and say hello! :D


Also, I forgot to post this year, but this is a new storyboard I did recently. This one was done in Storyboard Pro, I'm getting a lot more used to using it. :)

Fire Emblem was my favorite character on Tiger and Bunny due to sheer scene stealing ability and flamboyance. But he often gets pushed off to the side in favor of the leads or Blue Rose, waaah! I hope he gets more screen time in the next season of Tiger and Bunny, whenever that comes out.

Due to a change in her lease, my best friend is being forced to give up her beautiful hedgehogs: Sherlock and Watson. Hedgehogs are not illegal in the state of Indiana but for some strange reason, her building management is now categorizing them as ‘wild animals’. However, not only are they forcing her to give up her pets immediately, they are also punishing her for having them. Despite letting them know she owned them (she owned Sherlock before she moved in and got Watson shortly after), they are claiming to have ‘discovered’ these pets in her apartment and slapped a $300 penalty fee for her to pay. This is NOT right.

So I am asking, if ANYONE has any information that can help her or if anyone in the Indianapolis, IN area who has experience caring for hedgehogs can take in Watson and Sherlock, at least temporarily, please comment here: http://never-ender.livejournal.com/708722.html

The Timmverse Justice League will always be my favorite superhero team, but damn... drawing all these heroes takes so much time. I've been working on and off on this drawing for over a week! I finally made myself finish it last night, and even then I kept tweaking it this morning. Bah. It's done, I'm not touching it anymore.

I often have dreams with Morpheus in them but he hasn't show up lately. Maybe it's because he knows he'd have to answer my question if he did.

I just wanted a place to put down all of my thoughts about Storyboard Pro as I'm learning how to use it. After hearing all of the praises sung of it, I pretty much had unrealistic expectations of the program and I am a bit disappointed. However, it's not really like a HUGE disappointment, there are quite a number of things it does well and honestly, I can't see a better modern program for storyboarding.

The main source of my disappointment is that it's not easy to animate using SB Pro and the timeline isn't the most useful thing in the world. While it's very good for getting the general idea of the sequence across, it's not good for the minutia that's sometimes essential especially for boards being sent overseas. For instance, I wouldn't have been able to do the complicated running sections in my Chase boards on this, at least not in the detail I was able to do in Flash. And I don't really like the default settings for timing out the sequence, each panel starts off at 5 seconds long which can be adjusted to a min of 0 seconds, and then has to be adjusted to number of frames per second. However, the number in that section won't go higher than 24, so to get say a 1 and a half second panel, it has to be adjusted to 1 second and 12 frames, which is confusing.

There are a lot of other nitpicky details I can go into, but this part is mostly covered by how it doesn't use the same hotkeys or anything resembling the intuitive set up of Adobe products that I'm used to. SB Pro has their own default hotkeys for zooming in, changing tools, etc. Their buttons and layout are a bit scattered and the set up isn't the most intuitive thing I have ever seen. If it wasn't for Sherm Cohen's informative video tutorials, then I probably would've been lost.

The perks of Storyboard Pro is that the drawing tools are definitely better than Flash. They are still vector instead of pixel and their brushes are a bit odd, but I'm slowly getting used to them and finding brushes that I like. There are good organizational options in SB Pro and the export settings are fantastic, boards can be exported into movies, image sequences and PDFs with loads of useful options for each one. There are okay audio tools for adjusting the audio but still not in the detail that I would like (i.e. be able to delete background sounds for one thing). The camera tool is GREAT, animating, adjusting and moving the camera, it's all very easy and intuitive to do and it's my favorite part of this program.

Overall, my review is hoorah camera tool and variety of export settings, meh on everything else. I'm sure with time, I'll get used to using this program, but I'll probably be having a lot of wishful longings for the simplicity of Flash's brilliant timeline. I can see why that even with a program like Storyboard Pro, a lot of people and studios still choose to draw out their boards in other programs like Flash and Photoshop.

Last night was my first Figure Invention for Animation class and I had a LOT of fun just drawing, and I like enough of the drawings to scan and post them! XD


We had to choose a character that we were comfortable with drawing, and since I've been working on a Great Mouse Detective storyboard, I drew Dr. Dawson. He's a fun character but he's HARD to draw in motion since he's pretty much all belly and with itty bitty little legs and arms that don't really bend well.


After awhile, I got tired of drawing him in 'Dawson-y' poses and tried doing some kung fu poses with him. Victorian mouse kung fu! Hya!


Dawson doing a kamehameha. Dawson doing a flying kick.


Tired of kung fu, Dawson decides to take up figure skating. He finds that he has a knack for it!


Then I got tired of drawing Dawson and drew some men in sexy pin up poses. :P

It's Hourly Comics Day again! I'll be posting them here throughout the day then I'll post them to various places like Deviant Art, Blogger, etc. XD Edit: Sorry for panel seven in part one, I just drew how I was feeling at the time and I was just feeling a little sad. But I felt better afterwards, drawing makes me happy so more drawing means more happy for me! :)

Part One


Part Two