Fungi

Before you ask, "Allison, did you just draw a girl who is also a mushroom?", let me just say... yes.



For serious? Is that mycelium hair? Ugggghhhh.

New take on an old favorite

I redesigned one of my old characters, Chantal. That's her on the left. She is frowning because she doesn't know how Lo is able to contort her body like that and still be smiling. Chantal is a scientist. She wants ANSWERS.

Here's an old version of Lo and Chantal, for reference:



I redesigned her because one day I saw this girl at a café who struck me as looking exactly like Chantal would look, if Chantal were, you know, not a fictitious comic character. She had hair kind of like New Chantal. I'm not sure I'm going to go with it, because Old Chantal has been in existence since 10th grade or something?

Lo, meanwhile, remains exactly the same.

This is late because I got distracted playing DDR, so it still counts as Monday's picture. Another one later today! Drawn while listening to Capsule. I've been listening to a lot of Capsule and the Decemberists' "Picaresque" lately. They're great.

Don't smoke

Today's picture!


Her name is Emily, and she hates everything. She also seems to need some sleep.

I am so tired of drawing random, pretty girls. Yet it seems to be all I can produce.

It's 42!

The picture from yesterday, as promised:


She's really excited about answering the teacher's question. She looks kind of Marvel-ish to me, like Power Girl? I dunno. Originally her eyes were ginormous and freaky, so I mellowed them out a bit. Ok a lot.

I will post something later, too!

Webcomics

I did draw something for today, but my scanner decided to be uncooperative, and so it's not here. Maybe tomorrow? For now, here's a picture of a queen I did about two months ago for a poster design that was rejected:


I was channeling Mucha (again) for this. I did get to use the crown, sceptre, and orb in the final poster, so... yay?

Today I went to a webcomics panel featuring Jeph Jacques, Randall Munroe, and Pete Abrams (my sketchbook now has a picture of hat-guy telling generic-guy that he "fails at internet"). It sort of made me want to start up a webcomic again. I'm hesitant, though; much as I loathe to say it, the potential popularity of my maybe-webcomic worries me quite a bit. I'm not very good at writing funny, which, it seems, has the greatest influence on whether your comic is popular or not. All my stories tend to be, hm... Serious? Dramatic? Corny? Always with the end of the world and such (this comes, I suspect, from playing too many RPGs growing up). On the one hand, I want to be DEEP (which I'm rubbish at), but I also want to be fun, and quirky, inspiring and above all, original. I'm sensing a definite lack of these qualities in the stories and characters I come up with. Or at least, that's what I tell myself, and then nothing gets done.

Oh well. We shall see, we shall see. In the meantime, here are some webcomics that I love (LURVE):

Friendly Hostility. Oh, the characterization is so good. SO GOOD. And it's so funny. SO FUNNY. The artist used to do "Boy Meets Boy," which was a joy in itself, but the Friendly Hostility characters are. Well. They are fantastic.

Gunnerkrigg Court. This is everything I want my comic to be. It's well-drawn, it's funny, the storytelling is top notch – but the thing I like most about Gunnerkrigg is how imaginative it is. I sound like Reader's Digest or something.

Dresden Codak. Beautiful. Wonderful. Whimsical. Love.

That's all. I'm feeling rather dull and uncreative. It's a terrible feeling.

Another Macy's Ad

I decided to enter this graphic design contest in the hopes of getting a job (and also moolah, of course). This is my favorite of the three designs I submitted:


My friend says this style looks like a Macy's ad. Can't really disagree, I guess.

Also, I'm thinking of setting up a site to sell commissions? Maybe?

COMIC STUFF SOON.

Edit: Apparently I am ten kinds of stupid and the poster said SPING instead of SPRING, but now it is changed!

Allimation ANIMATION!

So this blog is called Allimation, but thus far has been devoid of animations. Here is the first! Be warned: it's my first animation, it's not very good, and if I had more time I would tweak a lot of it (such as the stills that go on for too looonnnng), but it was due today, and I only have so much energy to give in a two-day period of mad project-finishing.



(It will probably be the last, as well.)

EDIT: The music should be louder! Ah well.