Karine Makes Comics and Stuff
Doodles, pictures, clips and such as Karine thinks about them. Maybe at some point there will be a better idea behind this.
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Sunset Val Work In Progress!
I got so much to do in the next little while that I’m going a little bonkers. I really do have to prepare a to-do list to place everything down in order of priority. Mostly I’ve got to get stuff ready for What The Fur? which is the first weekend of June (Come to the con! In Montreal! I’m Guest of Honour!) but I also have to clean my house, get commissions done, and do all sorts of home-related things like buy a shed and get my deck done and install my gazebo and prep my garden and and AAAAHHHHHHHGH
But back to that picture. Just wanted to post a WIP for Rob St.Martin’s book series Sunset Val, a great Steampunk adventure of a girl sucked into a parallel earth where Vampiri, Animen, Patchworks and Automatons work together on steam-powered airships and piracy reigns! Rob will be at Chapters in Pointe-Claire this Sunday (Boulevard St-Jean and highway 40, the Toys R Us mall). Come and meet the man, get his books, have him sign them, and enjoy some truly great fiction with engaging, fun female characters!
Okay, back to work and the crazy for me. O_o
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My cat Peanut is 16 years old and overweight, and arthritic due to both these factors. She’s otherwise healthy, but she just came to see me and I saw that she has weird twitchy, shaky tremors at the head. I called the vet and have an appointment for this afternoon, but I’m worried, and in case she’s no longer twitchy later, I decided to shoot a video of her to show the vet. The technician on the phone was totally baffled. Have any of you every witnessed something like this in your pets? Do you know what it is? Can you help, please?
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Free Comic Book Day was on May 5th and I was at The 4th Wall, drawing sketches for comic fans young and old with Kelly Tindall, Ariel Marsh and Lar de Souza. It was a blast! I took photos of some of my sketches, and finally got to posting them here. All of them took between 10 and 20 minutes to draw. Enjoy!
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Video reblogged from Organized Chaos
I’m with the above posters on this.YOUNG MERIDA AND ELINOR AND OH MY FREAKING GOD IM GOING TOCRY!
fsalkdjlsaOH MY GOSH
DSJKDJSADA
DSAKJDAS
FREAKING OUT
FKSADJDAS
SO MUCH
FREAKING OUT FJKSADKLSADSA
SOBBING
PIXAR YOU HAVE CREATED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING ONCE AGAIN
I’M CRYING SO HARD
Now this I like.
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Photo reblogged from Haus of Meta
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lesstitsnass:
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Anyways, onto other news.
You know how we often look at the weird costumes and wonder how the heck they stay on? My husband was reading some news stuff on his computer the other day and found something rather disturbing. To me, at least, as I despise thongs with a passion as I find them incredibly uncomfortable, the idea of wearing this… abomination to feminity just repulsed me. And then I decided I needed to share this gem with you, dear readers.
Behold: The C-string.
I have no words. It’s like wearing an earmuff up your buttcrack. I guess it might make some particularly shameless cosplayers happy, though…
Anyways. I hurt my hand a few days ago so drawing for longer than an hour at a time is a bit painful, but I’ve got a stack of comics to go through so I hope to have some new redraws to show soon. Just wanted to share the above with you.
Enjoy… or something!
Whoa whoa whoa. Disturbing? Abomination to femininity? Dang, this is dripping with judgement in just a couple of paragraphs. I just lost a bunch of respect for you and this blog. There are plenty of uses for a c-string. In cosplay, I know Slave Leias who wear it, for instance. And what about dancers or strippers who may not want to take it all off?
I’m really surprised at the offhandedly disgusted way you’re talking about a perfectly useful article of clothing. There is nothing wrong with showing skin, and you’ve sure alienenated this “shameless cosplayer.” Unfollowed.
You know what? You’re totally right. This WAS dripping with judgement, and it was totally wrong of me to jump on this the way I did. Just because it disturbs me doesn’t mean I should be preaching it as something that’s awful to everyone.
Consider me humbled and apologetic.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rr85QP3D1rnbeuro1_500.jpg)
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Anyways, onto other news.
You know how we often look at the weird costumes and wonder how the heck they stay on? My husband was reading some news stuff on his computer the other day and found something rather disturbing. To me, at least, as I despise thongs with a passion as I find them incredibly uncomfortable, the idea of wearing this… abomination to feminity just repulsed me. And then I decided I needed to share this gem with you, dear readers.
Behold: The C-string.
I have no words. It’s like wearing an earmuff up your buttcrack. I guess it might make some particularly shameless cosplayers happy, though…
Anyways. I hurt my hand a few days ago so drawing for longer than an hour at a time is a bit painful, but I’ve got a stack of comics to go through so I hope to have some new redraws to show soon. Just wanted to share the above with you.
Enjoy… or something!
Whoa whoa whoa. Disturbing? Abomination to femininity? Dang, this is dripping with judgement in just a couple of paragraphs. I just lost a bunch of respect for you and this blog. There are plenty of uses for a c-string. In cosplay, I know Slave Leias who wear it, for instance. And what about dancers or strippers who may not want to take it all off?
I’m really surprised at the offhandedly disgusted way you’re talking about a perfectly useful article of clothing. There is nothing wrong with showing skin, and you’ve sure alienenated this “shameless cosplayer.” Unfollowed.
You know what? You’re totally right. This WAS dripping with judgement, and it was totally wrong of me to jump on this the way I did. Just because it disturbs me doesn’t mean I should be preaching it as something that’s awful to everyone.
Consider me humbled and apologetic.
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Hello! I just found your work through your "Less Tits n' Ass, More Kickin' Ass" blog. I LOVE it! You're very talented! I checked out your portfolio website and discovered you were a storyboard artist. I am in my last year of animation school and would love to be a storyboard artist. I was wondering if you had any advice for someone fresh into the industry? Any books/websites you use as reference? =)
Asked by jillfog
Hi!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you like my work!
Well, I learned most of what I know in animation by first working on cleanup for a storyboard artist, and later working in studios on storyboard corrections. My experience has been a very formative one because of those contracts doing storyboard revisions, and if you can get your start in the industry doing that task, it will be incredibly instructional for you, provided you’re not shy about talking to the director and asking why they’re calling for the changes they’re calling because you really want to learn and eventually do storyboards yourself.
Books: I like looking at “art of movie” books, especially the ones with storyboard sequences. Unfortunately, there aren’t many of those around. I know there are books on sequential art, too.
Websites: I’ve come across Sherm Cohen, storyboard artist and supervisor at Disney, worked for ages on Spongebob Squarepants. He has designed a whole storyboard class online called Storyboard Secrets, and I’ve watched a couple of his instructional videos which are must-know-information for sequential artists (and personally, reassurance that I’m doing it right and good revision every once in a while). He is actually hosting a free online video session this Saturday, and will post the video for people to watch later on, so check out the blog to register for the online session if you have time for it. His actual classes are a paid course, but he’s really good at what he does and teaches well, from the videos I’ve seen. You can follow this on twitter at @Storyboard_Tips. There’s also a DeviantArt group for storyboard artists, might be interesting for you.
Hope this helps you!
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Photo reblogged from Karine's April Drawing Challenge
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Photo reblogged from Karine's April Drawing Challenge
In itty bitty drawing space: I fit in a whole bunch of roleplaying game characters throughout the years of gaming I’ve had onto a 2”x7” remainder of Bristol I had from cutting my 14”x17” sheets into 5”x7” cards. I haven’t counted how many characters I drew, but I did cheat on three characters in the bookmark, as they are characters I’ve never actually played.
And I still need to scan my craptastic thumbnails from trying to redraw an old picture… ugh. Can I just say I did it and they’re too crappy to post?
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no, didn’t think so. The challenge IS to post what I’ve drawn every day. Okay, will post later.
Sometimes the challenges are a ton of fun. I know this was yesterday’s and today’s was self portrait, but I began the month with a self portrait so there.
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Photo reblogged from Karine's April Drawing Challenge
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[…] I spent a big part of yesterday and today scanning, cleaning up and re-lettering an old comic I used to do with a couple of friends, to finish up the book. There were 13 pages left to take care of. This alien girl up there (very WIP) is Trriten, one of my characters in this comic called Space Pirates. In case you’re interested in seeing this silly thing. :)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m39ww01Ynn1rqlawao1_500.jpg)
[…] I spent a big part of yesterday and today scanning, cleaning up and re-lettering an old comic I used to do with a couple of friends, to finish up the book. There were 13 pages left to take care of. This alien girl up there (very WIP) is Trriten, one of my characters in this comic called Space Pirates. In case you’re interested in seeing this silly thing. :)
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I am actually really happy with this one. I’m also happy that Nickelodeon didn’t close the web videos to people outside of the US so I can actually watch the show!
Korra is an awesome character. I can’t wait to see more!
