Wow, we had an awesome art night last night. First, the husband and I showed up and Lynn from http://www.tentative.net and http://girlamatic.com/series.php?name=jupiter had shown up. We had met her at the local Zine fest, and this was the first week she could come join us for comic making fun. I got to watch her hand letter those Sand & Snow pages, she got so much done!

Allie had her next 29 pages thumbnailed out for Kim to go through, Maciek was inking a new page of Byob, Kim finished pencils on another Merylion page and Allie, Kim and I hammered out the layout for my page 15, it’s much more dynamic now. Pete also got a good deal of inking done (illustrator and intuos). Now this is a studio!

Also! I don’t know how he did it, but in just over 2 hours, Carlo wrote 4000words, and finished his 50,000 words in 30 days challenge for http://www.nanowrimo.org !!!! He’s a winner! I’m so proud for him, and so excited about what this means for him going forward. He’s told me he wants to get 5000 words done each week going forward, so he can finish this novel and start some other ones he’s got in mind. I’m so proud of him, and I can’t wait to start reading what he’s done already. Yay!

So yeah, wow, I have no clue how we all managed to pack so much into art night, but I’m very thankful for it.

Wow, we had an awesome art night last night. First, the husband and I showed up and Lynn from http://www.tentative.net and http://girlamatic.com/series.php?name=jupiter had shown up. We had met her at the local Zine fest, and this was the first week she could come join us for comic making fun. I got to watch her hand letter those Sand & Snow pages, she got so much done!

Allie had her next 29 pages thumbnailed out for Kim to go through, Maciek was inking a new page of Byob, Kim finished pencils on another Merylion page and Allie, Kim and I hammered out the layout for my page 15, it’s much more dynamic now. Pete also got a good deal of inking done (illustrator and intuos). Now this is a studio!

Also! I don’t know how he did it, but in just over 2 hours, Carlo wrote 4000words, and finished his 50,000 words in 30 days challenge for http://www.nanowrimo.org !!!! He’s a winner! I’m so proud for him, and so excited about what this means for him going forward. He’s told me he wants to get 5000 words done each week going forward, so he can finish this novel and start some other ones he’s got in mind. I’m so proud of him, and I can’t wait to start reading what he’s done already. Yay!

So yeah, wow, I have no clue how we all managed to pack so much into art night, but I’m very thankful for it.

http://tabloid.studioantithesis.com/

You have to check out our latest page of Tabloid Roulette! I’m really proud of this one, and Kim’s lettering is just awesome.

yay! comics!

also, our xbox360 is awesome! Kameo is so much fun.

http://tabloid.studioantithesis.com/

You have to check out our latest page of Tabloid Roulette! I’m really proud of this one, and Kim’s lettering is just awesome.

yay! comics!

also, our xbox360 is awesome! Kameo is so much fun.

Husband just called to say he picked up our 360 with my bro!

I went to Filmcon ( http://www.filmcon.org ) this weekend, and met lots of great artists and professionals.
It’s a really small convention just over 200 attendees, so you can talk to all the guests and ask questions.
Every year I’m surprised by the quality of the guest and the convention. This year, it seemed especially well organized, color me impressed.

Erik Tiemans( http://watersketch.com/ ) worked on concept art and digital paintings for Star Wars episode II and III
He did a live demo on Sunday where painted two entire scene in painter. Took him about 10 min for each one.
The freaky thing is, his coworker, Ryan Church, apparently works 5 times as fast. His talks make me want to study light design and color theory. woo.
The pictures of thier office at Lucas Ranch were very cool too.

C. Andrew Nelson ( http://www.candrewnelson.com/ )was also there, he works at ILM doing digital matte painting and rotoscoping.
He’s also the guy who plays Vader in all the commercials,when he first started doing charity appearences as vader, they had
him wearing the actual Vader suit from the first movies. He had an amazing talk about ethics in the industry, and some talk about what work is like at ILM.
They apparently lay everyone off after every movie, and can hire them back for the next movie. It’s apparently cyclical, and very few people actually have non-project jobs. He’s worked with ILM for 4 years, project based.

Chris Jones ( http://www.christopherjonesart.com ) is a comic artist currently working on The Batman Strikes for DC. It was really cool to see the process he uses to pencil pages for a license. He’s also working with Kovalic on Dr. Blink, Superhero Shrink.
He also helps run http://www.convergence-con.org/ , and has an awesome sense of humor.

Doug ( http://www.deg3d.com ) is an amazing artist who’s been working on mastering Lightwave. He’s got a super intricate Slave 1 model he’s been working on for the last 9 months. He and his wife are just a blast to talk geek with.
I think I’m going to try to get them to come out to Anime Central. I wonder if people would dig 3d stuff there?

I had promo packs for our Studio with me, and handed them all out. I almost ran out of cards as well. Very few other people had cards on them, so I hope they drop us a line or post in our forums. It was also very cool to see Kim and Maciek there on Saturday.

I really enjoyed myself, I love making new friends. It’s also very awesome to hang out with people and talk about comics, Dr. Who, and other general geekery. As always, I learned a good deal I’ll have to process over the next few weeks.

Had to get myself a new sketchbook as well. My filmcon notes now span 2 sketchbooks.

I need to prepay for next year. This convention is awesome, never runs in the red, very tightly budgeted, and well run. All the guests are donating their time, and all money after con expenses are paid go to charity.

Husband just called to say he picked up our 360 with my bro!

I went to Filmcon ( http://www.filmcon.org ) this weekend, and met lots of great artists and professionals.
It’s a really small convention just over 200 attendees, so you can talk to all the guests and ask questions.
Every year I’m surprised by the quality of the guest and the convention. This year, it seemed especially well organized, color me impressed.

Erik Tiemans( http://watersketch.com/ ) worked on concept art and digital paintings for Star Wars episode II and III
He did a live demo on Sunday where painted two entire scene in painter. Took him about 10 min for each one.
The freaky thing is, his coworker, Ryan Church, apparently works 5 times as fast. His talks make me want to study light design and color theory. woo.
The pictures of thier office at Lucas Ranch were very cool too.

C. Andrew Nelson ( http://www.candrewnelson.com/ )was also there, he works at ILM doing digital matte painting and rotoscoping.
He’s also the guy who plays Vader in all the commercials,when he first started doing charity appearences as vader, they had
him wearing the actual Vader suit from the first movies. He had an amazing talk about ethics in the industry, and some talk about what work is like at ILM.
They apparently lay everyone off after every movie, and can hire them back for the next movie. It’s apparently cyclical, and very few people actually have non-project jobs. He’s worked with ILM for 4 years, project based.

Chris Jones ( http://www.christopherjonesart.com ) is a comic artist currently working on The Batman Strikes for DC. It was really cool to see the process he uses to pencil pages for a license. He’s also working with Kovalic on Dr. Blink, Superhero Shrink.
He also helps run http://www.convergence-con.org/ , and has an awesome sense of humor.

Doug ( http://www.deg3d.com ) is an amazing artist who’s been working on mastering Lightwave. He’s got a super intricate Slave 1 model he’s been working on for the last 9 months. He and his wife are just a blast to talk geek with.
I think I’m going to try to get them to come out to Anime Central. I wonder if people would dig 3d stuff there?

I had promo packs for our Studio with me, and handed them all out. I almost ran out of cards as well. Very few other people had cards on them, so I hope they drop us a line or post in our forums. It was also very cool to see Kim and Maciek there on Saturday.

I really enjoyed myself, I love making new friends. It’s also very awesome to hang out with people and talk about comics, Dr. Who, and other general geekery. As always, I learned a good deal I’ll have to process over the next few weeks.

Had to get myself a new sketchbook as well. My filmcon notes now span 2 sketchbooks.

I need to prepay for next year. This convention is awesome, never runs in the red, very tightly budgeted, and well run. All the guests are donating their time, and all money after con expenses are paid go to charity.

Not in the right mode to finish my comic page tonight. Worked on this instead. woo.

Not in the right mode to finish my comic page tonight. Worked on this instead. woo.