Postcards: Goliath Beetle

Barista Powers: Hallelujah

Postcards: Actually Drawings First

Postcards: While My Internet Connection Is Intermittent

Postcards: Fugitive Ink

Barista Powers: Demon Days

Context, yo.  Lucy Bellwood "started exploring a series of illustrated dialogues between" herself and "a small, obnoxious character who had a lot of big ideas about everything" Lucy "was supposedly doing wrong" in her life. 

"Sharing these illustrations induced a particular kind of catharsis: it turned out most everyone I knew was struggling with feelings of imposter syndrome and anxiety. Externalizing these conversations and giving them a humorous twist often enabled me to overcome my self-doubt and get on with the exciting business of Making Good Art—and it seemed to help other people do the same."

I am one of those people!  My own characters give me a hard time about my art, but now I also have someone else's character to give me a hard time!  Who doesn't love options?  I immediately imagined being interviewed by Lucy's demon.

Lucy liked my comic, which is intensely satisfying.  Nothing kicks that impostor anxiety into gear like using elements from another artist. 

Postcards: A Whale

Hello!  I scheduled this one long enough ago I forgot that I never added text.  Adaptability is a good theme for this post.

I only taped three sides because I had intended not to color in above the waves.  Things went sideways pretty quickly.

You can see the waves are pink in the early shots, but eventually turn a cool grey; they are made with Matthias's mulberry ink.

I was unsure what to do here to cover up my borders going weird.  Jen suggested taped borders.

The silver ink I used on the whale stamp did not turn out at all how I wanted, so I cam back in with markers to recreate the details I wanted.  The linework popped the whale out from the water in an unfortunate manner; I had to add more linework to even things out.

Barista Powers: This Does Not Auger Well

Postcards: Robin House Dogfish

 You remember the previous post and that other previous post about Robin House?  Well I was at it again.  I was in my arting groove; I forgot all about process photos.