Character sketch!!!!!

While Kim is busy pounding out a shiny and new storyline, I have been working on character sketches.

One of the girls is a Cambodian-American chick who lives in an RV truck and has a dog named Banjo.

(I HATE the fact that I am without a scanner and have to resort to taking pictures of them on my digital camera--hence the fuzziness. I will be reunited with my scanner after this weekend, so hopefully more clear pictures will be posted shortly.)





Some little glimpses!!!

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This one actually has nothing to do with Asian Girl Posse, but an individual project I've been working on. But like Asian Girl Posse, storyline has drastically changed so the setting and the characters in the above image no longer apply.

Change, change, change.

Love requires persistence, patience and strength.

Don't give up on us yet; we are still here.

After much consensual soul-searching, AGP is evolving into something more complex, nuanced and most importantly--more us.

TO BE CONTINUED....

In the last month, I have read The Watchmen, Fray, Making Comics (Scott McCloud), and Perspective! For Comic Book Artists (David Chelsea). In the meantime, my voice has gotten lower, I've grown man-boobs and my Evangelion anime figurine collection has exponentially grown.

Quick, someone resuscitate me with a Paris Hilton CD.

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My solo side project, which is also in a graphic novel format, focuses on a relationship between two people. It also involves a big blob. The story is far more forgiving in the visual realism that it demands because it's less about creating a believable environment and more about conveying a certain feeling. It plays well in my favor because my undeveloped technical skills are less conspicuous.

I'm frustrated with making sketches for Asian Girl Posse because AGP obviously cannot propel itself on expressionistic interior-shots of people's talking faces. AGP is an action comic that will demand a lot of awesome, dramatic, three-point perspective shots and people getting punched. And machinery. And other bad-ass shit. And as of right now, I AM NOT GOOD AT DRAWING THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. I think my current biggest frustration is seeing internal glimpses of the visual world that the storyline of AGP demands (this usually happens while I'm running or walking alone), but not quite having the drawing skills necessary to render it in its physical, glorious manifestation.

This is why AGP is happening at a snail's pace. AGP is completely out of my visual element. AGP is pointing a gun at my head every minute of my life reminding me that I am not drawing enough and I am not good enough.

But I'm not giving up just yet. I am not giving up on those brief glimpses that I can see in my mind's eye.

I am temporarily without a scanner so I've been using my digital camera to take pictures of my drawings because I am ghetto fabulous.

They're super-rough--certainly intended more for private practice than for public viewing. Once I buy tracing paper, I just might make a cleaner version.



Drawing's hard when you've been doing large-scale abstract paintings for the last year.

Just keep doing it. Just keep doing it. They're just crappy test dummy drawings for now. But girlfriend's got to start somewhere, right?





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Note to self:
Practice strip much better without dialogue. May make cleaned-up version over the weekend for more practice.