Did this today for a charity event coming up at MoCCA, which I am not attending. It was a good reason to come back to the otter as well as use some of my cel vinyls. Cel vinyl, ink and watercolor.

Lucco is still my boy. Once in awhile, I get an itch to draw him and of course, now that the comic is long done, he's easier to draw. I use him to try and learn more expressiveness and to figure out how to add it to my other comics.

After finishing the portrait series yesterday, I still felt like painting so threw together this quickie self portrait today. I was out of masonite so tossed some brown paper up on the wall. It's still 16x20 or so, acrylic on paper. And I think it even looks like me, which is a nice bonus.

Now that the portraits are done, I can concentrate on Tamino. This is the recent finished quartet. I hoped to add a sense of movement to things with this one which necessitated some editing after individual pages were done. Because I work the way I do, I can move single characters around, remove them or add them without having to redraw. Love me some Illustrator.

This is the whole group of ten portraits I was doing shown in two photos. They're too big to be shown all at once and I had to stand on a chair to do even these lousy photos. Still, they're done. Now to get them in a show...

Each is 16x20 on masonite, done in ink and acrylic.

Next one in the quartet.

Next one. More to come.


The next page. More to come.

New year, old comic. I'm still working on Tamino though slowly. My aim is to complete the comic in the first half of '10. I'm well on my way there but I have to step up the frequency as it's sat waiting too long. Also, I won't let myself move on to another project until it's done.

So as my first post of the new year, here's the first page done this week. Three more to come.