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I was invited to Una Volta, the comics festival at Bastia, Corsica, to run a cardboard robot workshop and meet French comic artists. It was great! I met some lovely, brilliant people. Check the link to see who they were - I'll just forget someone if I list them here. They were all great. The work was amazing. I felt honoured to be there, and I laughed my head off because everyone was hilarious. I especially enjoyed making use of some echoing dungeons under the Citadel where the exhibition was held, singing quite dreadfully in harmony.
I was very proud to see my drawings from "Cheese Belongs to You" and "Sleepwalkers" framed up, I've never exhibited pencil drawings before.
The Robot Workshop was a big success, despite my terrible Franglais. I had very good assistants.
I doodled a lot to distract myself from all the socialising. Socialising at Festivals is hard. These are doodles on demand, just people telling me what to draw so they can laugh at how fast it happens.
And some doodles just for my own enjoyment.
We went to the beach looking for treasure.
There was a panel talk. It was brief, so I didn't bring up the one thing that bothered me: how come that half the children in my workshop were girls, many of the organisers were women, there were girls and women all over the festival, taking part... but when I looked through the books on display, pretty much all of them were about men having adventures. Strange.
Otherwise, I absolutely loved the whole event. You wouldn't believe the amount of tasty food we were fed constantly. Look, there even was bacon at the panel talk.
Hello Bacon.
I came back early in the morning of my birthday and fell asleep in a nest of balloons. Yay!
Sleepwalkers are hurtling towards repro. Also there will be a website quite soon.
ALL VERY EXCITING.
Some panels from the graphic novel I pretty much finished now. I'm frightfully proud of it.
I had a meeting with my art director yesterday, and we went through all the tweaks that are needed to finish the grapic novel. I marked out artwork changes in white and lettering changes in orange. SO I just to need to get that done, and I'm finished! YAY!
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| Um.. |
On my way back home I picked some weeds to keep by my bed for cheer. (My orchid has lost all its flowers and is now just a green stick.)
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| Yay. |
And listening to Klaus Nomi on a loop I finished colouring the epilogue of my graphic novel.
Now it's just tidying up, really.
DONE. DONE. DONE!!!!
Right. This is more or less finished and I need to get out of this room before I melt in his heatwave... I'll sit downstairs with the windows open and smell the tomato plants, drink iced lemonade and draw plans and blueprints for a dream-vehicle (that's the last page still missing in this book, dream vehicle plans).
Here's something for you to contemplate while I finish colouring this comic.
This chapter has nice animals in it. I decided to colour them based on Orang-Utans.
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| Enter the monkey! |
...I've been hard at work finalising the linework for "Sleepwalkers". A lot of it needed to move to fit with the text, and some needed tweaking in other ways. Now all that's left for me to do is colour it all up and add the sound effect lettering. HOORAY!
Today, however, I am going to have a party.
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| HOORAY! |
The last scene I have to draw for Sleepwalkers is set in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Which means all sorts of things I could not draw from memory - display cases that need to be at elast vaguely in perspective, impressive architecture... so I got on the train and went there to take pictures.
When I got out the piece of paper that was meant to be a copy of my page layout withthe shots I needed marked in, I found that it was a piece of paper belonging to my boyfriend (so I guess he now has my pencil rough copy somewhere in his files).
I got cross for a moment, then I just went and took 100 pictures, covering every angle I could think of. Of course when I got home I found that I did not have any of the ones I had planned to use. So I changed the roughs to use what I had.
This one actually fitted.
And I remembered to take the pictures from a low height to get the main character's eye line. (I get these things wrong a lot.)
I placed the photos in a grid and used my cintiq to doodle the characters on top.
This should work. I'm glad about the people who were in the museum on the alst photo,e specially the father and son in the background on the stairs. They'll stay right in.
So now I've printed these out and I can start drawing... Let's see how that works out.
This is the second crowd drawing - less faces than the first, but I think I managed to put in everyone who wasn't in
crowd one.
Some people are in both, actually.
Now there are only three pages left - then I'll have finished all the comic drawing part of
Sleepwalkers.
I'm also still working on the fox novel in the mornings, today I drew another illustration - I'm drawing them as small as possible, just to save time, and scanning them in at high res.
Look see, originals are very tiny:
I'll soon be drawing the final crowd scene in Sleepwalkers, and I will need a lot of reference so I don't draw the same child over and over, so if you want to be in the crowd send me a picture of yourself as a child (toddler to young teenager) or of someone else, if they don't mind.
->Here's my contact page<-
Thanks!
:)
The last chapter of SLeepwalkers involves a forest. With scary trees.
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| Amali is Thinking Hard. |
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For some reason I'm extremely pleased with this panel.
Probably because everyone looks confused in synch. |
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| Researching on Hampstead Heath. I had to shrink myself down to squirrel size for this picture. It was worth it. |
Some very quick sketches I made on board game night. This guy features in the Sleepwalkers comic.
(weird eraser holes in drawing due to sketchbook middle crease being rubbed out lazily)
I have some more reference to consider in finalising the design - some pictures of lovely boyfriend acting angry for camera, and some William Blake illustrations of angels. Maybe also some vintage wrestling footage.
I'm drawing the last chapter of Sleepwalkers now (this is the last page before the last chapter).
I've just finished drawing all the panels, now I just need to fill them in... I think that's how I will spend my weekend, that and Pizza.
I got a new bed yesterday and it's so comfortable that I am finding it hard to stay out of it today... I spent a month's rent on it, so it's no surprise.
Hence I'm not drawing, just colouring some easy bits of the comic.
Finished this one!
Good night.
HA HAAA! And I hit my deadline with the sound of dinosaurs smashing through the stratosphere. Or, more accurately, the Super-Sargasso Sea.
No more colouring, this goes off to the Bologna book fair.
WOOT!
By the way, I got to make use of the original cloud drawing I did years ago on a plane while planning this comic. That's what that whize fuzzy stuff is. Yay.
This is what the designer who places my speech bubbles has to put up with. Well, I hope he will put up with it. Umm. This scene is proving a bit difficult to lay out... what can you do if everyone is plummeting at high speed - and still keeps talking?
It's a complete coincidence that this comic features a bear in the clouds, not unlike Eric Orchard's latest work... it's only briefly, they'll land on something rather solid in a second or three.
I coloured some more pages today. It's looking okay. Here's a falling dinosaur for you. He's only very tiny on the page he's on, and he ends up being eaten by a giant metal pterodactyl the next moment, so I felt he deserved a moment in the limelight.
I coloured my favourite panel so far:
Reason I like it so much: I got to use the beastie that I crocheted in the name of research years ago.
Grrr.
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| Much shouting and running and nervous tension in Sleepwalkers this week. |
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| And I've been experimenting with wall paint on paper. |
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| A sad moment in The Sleepwalkers. |
It's Sunday, I'm drawing, I have to stop drawing for a moment because I don't have the correct page grid for the next page... ah well, I'll just leave it out for now.
I took lots of pictures of people on my trip into town today, I more or less just snapped everyone who I noticed for some reason or another, and tomorrow I'll draw them. I feel I've become a bit lazy about observing poses.
I bought a whole load of materials, including an electric eraser with which I can rub stuff out a bit more precisely than before. I also bought a concertina sketchbook to fill with drawings of people, to create one long street scene eventually.
I watched three episodes of The IT Crowd today while drawing, I'm running out fast... what can I watch next... grargh...
...is the motto of the Sleepwalkers, I realised today.
Can't quite believe that the end of drawing this comic is in sight... I'm ten pages behind schedule, due to stupid flueyness, but still! THIS COMIC WILL BE FINISHED SOON!
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Viviane! It looks very cool!!! Can't wait to buy it!! :)
When's this out? It looks like exactly the kind of book that needs to spend half it's time on my bookshelf and the other half being read and passed around.e
Yay! :) Next year, I believe...
Can't wait! Looks awesome. By the way, your cats made my top ten read aloud books.
If you are interested:
http://benclanton.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-best-read-aloud-picture-books-part-1.html
:)
Thank you so much! I feel honoured and happy ^_^ what a review!!
Hey, and I like your work...