8-Page Mini Comic!

Long time, no post! :)

Finishing up the school year in a couple of days; I know I've been absent all school-year long, and there's not a ton of legitimate reasons for it, other than life distracting me. Last quarter I produced a lot of work that I recognize was pretty good, but I became really resentful that those assignments engulfed my entire life for ten weeks and then just hated everything I'd done. So I will not be posting work from the winter.

 Instead, here's a look at my most recent work; we had to make an 8-page comic for Getting Published. I was super psyched to work with my character Stilts again (he was also the star in the last comic I posted here). I also really, really, REALLY love drawing trees. I'm thinking of quitting these comic shenanigans and just becoming a tree artist. I'm sure those exist.

     

In Sara's-life news, I will be attending AnimeNEXT in Somerset, NJ this year (it's next week!), and this 8-pager, along with with a bunch of awesome prints, will be sold! I'm excited, since it's my first con doing the Artists' Alley. :)

Hopefully I will update soon! Later, folks!

Summer is almost heeeere!

Love,
Sara V.

Visual Storytelling Final: Complete.

After I had already posted my inks last time, I went back and spotted blacks so it could read more clearly. I like the result. IT MAKES ME HAPPY.

Overall, I'm pretty pleased with how the pages came out; but I'm more pleased with how much I've learned this quarter. Hoping to continue improving in future quarters.

And now that I'm on break for a month and a half, I think I will go rest.

Bye for now.

-Sara V.

Visual Storytelling Final, part 2: Ze inks! Ze inks!

Getting ready to color. These are some crowded pages. And dirty; I always get smudges all over my pages, and I'm not really sure if it's ink or dirt or graphite or what.

Until next time (and hopefully next time will include some colored pages)!

-Sara V.

Pencils!

I tend to mash-up different stages when I'm doing comics stuff; mainly when I'm working on pencils, I'll leave some pencils half-finished and start inking, simply for variety's sake (that, and inking's my favorite.) Anyway, so here are the mostly finished pencils for my Visual Storytelling final.

It gets crowded, particularly on page two; it's sort of annoying, because after getting very far in my pencils, it occurred to me how I could've made this whole comic work without dialogue. Which I think would make it read a lot better. But oh well. I know for next time.

Later days!
-Sara V.

24 Page Comic!

For your viewing enjoyment. I wasn't planning on posting this all up here since I'm making it a webcomic, but I sort of want to show off the complete thing; but you can still check out the webcomic to experience it in TECHNICOLOR. The inking gets progressively more special with every page. Yay, late night inking!

 

Until next time, folks!

-Sara V.

Running on very little sleep here.

So for SCAD-Atlanta's Generate this year, I pulled my first all-nighter ever and produced a 24 page comic; I'll be posting it all on smackjeeves.com over the course of the next 12 weeks. The first two pages are up. I added some grays and colors and all that fun stuff. Check it!
  For the other page and future updates, you can go here. 

 I have another webcomic up that I started last December; I still love the concept and the characters, but the finished pages are not things I'm particularly proud of (at least, not anymore. I thought it was hot stuff all those months ago.) Luckily over the course of the year, I've improved, but nevertheless, I'm reluctant to jump back into it. Part of the problem is that I was trying to tackle a larger story without a solid structure; and my last page sort of left it in the middle of a scene anyway.

 So I've been considering restarting it; but posting more self-contained stories, allowing the characters some breathing room. It may be a good chance to flesh things out.

I'm still not pleased with the design for this blog, but I figure in the meantime I'll keep it simple.

Until next time!

-Sara V.

When in doubt, draw yo'self.

  Whenever I'm at a loss of what to draw, I usually end up drawing myself. However, I never depict myself acting remotely serious, so this picture is a little out of the ordinary. For that aspect alone. I have yet to settle on an official layout for this blog. 

 The background is really low quality, thanks to the high quality one being too big for blogger to handle (hoh hoh hoh).

 So anyway, while I'm figuring that nonsense out, this site is still under construction.Once I'm actually pleased with the site's look, I'll hopefully quit hiding in my shame and bother posting more (assuming at that point, I will bug friends and colleagues to take a look). Summer is almost over! And I'm excited to return to school. School makes me not lazy. 

-Sara V.