More Tome

Lots of fonts and junk. Still my wonderful paper textures... I wish I recalled where they came from!

TOME

In Abracadabra, Tome is a character who plays an immense part in the storylines. Just... not for a while. And he is a character who is a book. A Grimoire if you will. I wanted to see if I can try and make pages out of him using some of the amazing paperstock images I have... I just wish I knew where I got them so I could credit the awesome people who scanned them. If you know or if it's you please let me know!

More Bobbies!

Isn't he just cute? Young Mr. Murder. He always had gnarled up knees and bruises. Awwww. <3

Look experiment. I know how I want to do the people and lines mostly but coloring I dunno... I like the look of  the china marker but I dunno... Not like I have anything but time until I get the whole wordpress thing working... Curtis! Reply to my email! *sob*

Don't you like my new signature? I like my new signature! I am so glad BurningPenguin was telling me to try even harder. Delicious fruits of my labor!!!  I know it is hard to believe but this drawing is actually really small irl. i had to put a dot on their cheeks and nose to rosy them up!! A DOT! It delights me... Night Patrol!

Wow....

BAIDIR
by slimTUGG

NEW COMIC IDEA

Victorian cops and murderers and such. So cute. I watched an awesome show on Jack the Ripper and the one thing that really stuck with me was how cute the illustrations of the cops in their capes were. So cute....

Please ignore the class doodles and the victorian spaceman...

Mr. Murder's got a crush on Constable Ellis. Awwww... Look out Ellis!!! And look out anyone Ellis talks to.... C___C;;;

This may or may not become a web comic.

probably not.

More Homage to Nancy Drew

Ok so it continues. And it is all still in pen with pencil shading. The Old Clock was one of my favorite covers of all time. Seriously. I loved it. She was out in the swamp workin on a clock making it seem like a serial killer was behind her. It's fantastic.

This is not Nancy Drew.... This is Circus!!! I love circus imagery, and yet...I don't like going to the circus... Unless it's like Cirque...

Whenever I get around to it...

There just might be a comic... I am still working on my sumi skills to get the look I want right...

Brushes!!! BRUSHESSSSSSSSSSS......

In Process

October in process.... Only very slightly started here on step 3 (step 1 was the original rough, step 2 was enlarging it onto the illo board) and this step 3 is doing all the value shading.

Step 4 is going to be scary... I'll have a photo for it. Damnit why am I doing all my old techniques??? I'm so scared.... D8

More pen and pencil

I'm still really enjoying playing with the look of Nancy Drew covers. They are so bizarre and fun.

Lots of fun with this one. What an improbable place!!

Nancy on every cover looks sort of stunned or determined yet stunned. Nony just looks like someone asked her to lend them money.

Clearly my own invention. Nony's not too scared of snakes but I gave her my arachnophobia. I love the old film noir lighting that goes across the eyes and I wanted to play with light as a shape over the shadow as a shape that was used so well in films like Nosferatu.

I love Nosferatu. That silent movie is creepy as shit.

So I like things

Things like.... Nancy Drew. Ok, I know but I'm a girl and something about those painted covers really jazzed me up. It still jazzes me up. I think back on Nancy Drew mysteries and I still feel kinda thrilled. I know 90% of that is me remembering how I felt then but that's ok. It is good to feel like that. Of course I still love the covers. So much so I have stationary and my address book is Nancy Drew. :| What can I say it was full of the covers!!

Here is Nony in The Secret in the Old Attic. Drawn in ballpoint and then shaded with pencil.

And here is Zick from Monster Allergy. I love him. I love reading it in French even though my French is so laughable now. I still occasionally dream about math too and it is always in French. Isn't that odd?

 

 

Also... I love the new blogger upload. Seriously. I love that it doesn't stick everything up at the top of the post. Love.