Told you so

Look at that, another update! This is something like a cover design for StrangeHearted. Enjoy :D

O hai interwebs

Yeah... it's been a while. But look! Pretty sketchbookishness! These two came from an odd desire to draw bird masks... If you can guess what birds they represent, you get bonus points in a game where points don't matter :)

Just a tidbit today. Considering how slow I am at scanning things... I like to spread out the updates I do have as much as possible :)

Fish from sketchbooks past...

Okay so that title isn't necessarily true... but these are drawings from this past winter break, during which I visited a friend in Denver and forced her to go to the aquarium with me. It was pretty fun just loitering and drawing fish all day :) Looking back, I probably should have taken the time to note what species each fish was... but now it can be a fun game for me and for you! If you care to figure it out and send me your findings I'll send you a free sketch :)

More to follow!

So it's been an eternity or two...

Yeah... I know... just... save it.

Anyway... I am officially a grad student now (yay) and I come to the interwebs bearing the gift of sketches (double yay)! I spent six weeks at home with the fam and I've got a ton of sketchbookish stuff to share, but I'm going to stretch it out for a bit yet.... You'll have to content yourselves with two for tonight--two to get us back in the groove (triple yay) so-to-speak.

These are some concepts for yet another story I've been thinking about when I probably should have been thinking other things. Surprise, surprise it's about two people meeting and falling in love (gwaaawww). Also there's seems to be a monster involved in the later pages... buuut I think that's from a different story. It's hard to keep track...

Pencils McPencilton

Finally we're back to my baby, my graphic novel, StrangeHearted. I'm starting to pencil the rest of the original 48-page storyline. The thing you have to remember here is that I pencil small (my finished pencils are only 6x9) and then scan them and blow them up to 10x15. Once they're printed, there is actually a lot of redrawing that happens before I start inking.

Anyway, here are the next five pages of finished pencils that I've done thus far:

Remember, the first ten finished pages can be viewed at my DeviantArt gallery: romanykate.deviantart.com

Avast!

Yarr... here be some sketches of characters from an Oni book by the name of 'Polly and the Pirates.'


The story is about this prim and proper little girl that discovers she's actually the daughter of the pirate queen. She gets kidnapped a couple of times and becomes the new captain of her mum's old ship and has a jolly good adventure saving everyone from certain doom while searching for her mother's treasure trove. Here's a character sheet for Polly in her pirate regalia.

Characters (c) Oni and Ted Naifeh.

Anthology funtimes

Here's the rough thumbnails of my entry for the SCAD Sequential Art anthology. This year's theme being biography, I decided to tell the story of Juan Diego, who saw the first apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico.

Interesting story: Since I was running low on time, I took the thumbnails you see here, blew them up to 10x15, changed them to blue line and inked directly over them. I was definitely a... weird process. But I'd like to think it turned out well in the end. Although, I still don't know whether it got in or not... but I will keep you posted :)

Also, the finished product can be seen in my DeviantArt Gallery here: romanykate.deviantart.com

More fangirlishness

I can't help it. I love Sailor Moon. So here's the Inner Senshi:








Sailor Moon and its characters are (c) Naoko Takeuchi

Back to school

Oi vey it's been a while. There's been a lot going on, so my apologies for the lack updates. Believe you me, I have been working and over the next few days I'll be posting many sketches for your furthered enjoyment. Now, to business!

Sooo my friends music video didn't get selected as a finalist, but I'm still glad that I got a chance to work with her again and the opportunity to add more storyboards to my portfolio. Here are some character and environment sketches from the music video concept: