*Kitchen Crew (a working title)

I'm thinking about starting a new series of short, four-panel, cascading comic strips featuring food-based characters (mainly vegetables and fruits.)  I realize that I need to appeal to more viewers who just want to have a quick laugh, and who do not want to necessarily hang around my 'site for too long, easy entertainment as they say, because that seems to be the general trend I am witnessing around here:

People come to my blog, click around a bit, lose interest, then leave.

It is hard to make people want to sit down and read a graphic novel if they have not read some of your more simpler works.  I have decided that this may be the best way to go about making my comic-booking/graphic novel debut.  It is not that I'm giving up on "Nights of Mamus'sa" or anything, it's just that this is what I feel I need to do.

Here is some draft work from "Kitchen Crew" that I know all of you are just dying to see:

URGH!!! (It is so hard trying to make them all fit!) *I SPELLED CARROT WRONG TOO! :O

Lately, I've had a higher interest in digital art.  Not that I want to make my artwork become completely digital (I prefer to work with traditional mediums, myself) but I do see potential in its ability to strengthen a finished product.

Here is an example of how one picture can produce two really different results:

The original image done in pencil

Image completed with India Ink,
Copic Markers and Watercolour Pencils.

Digital Image created using the Pixlr online image editing service. 

I have more digital images saved to my computer that I just haven't come to show you yet... I don't exactly know why?  Maybe it is that I do not feel that I am ready to release them to the world; much of my art is locked-up in that same way.  I feel that these things should be presented properly, in a formal post, but I just don't have time to do that for all of my drawings.  (You guys only ever get to see a fraction of my art!)  It's a shame, really... but that is just the way things are.

I made a crossword... Wanna' See?

Recently, I have undertaken a little art project for my English class.  We were put into groups and asked to come up with a lesson plan to teach the class about a romantic poet of our choice.  My partner and I decided to do our's on William Wordsworth.  The name just seemed to jump off the page when I read it, so I knew we had to pick him!  Plus, we both knew a thing or two about him, or at least remembered reading one of his poems before.

I based them off a couple of portraits I found of him after doing a Google Image search.  He was from a time long before photographs and camera were around.  This is all I had to go by.  Still, I think I have a feel for the kind of man he was.  

There was a list of things we had to do over the two classes allotted for us in teaching the class.  One of the items read...

Arg!  I messed up on Plue's hand!  (That's right, I decided to call him Plue after all.  It's short for Polarious.)
Maybe it is too soon to be saying this, but I am thinking about giving him an appearance in my comic
"Knights of Mamus'sa."  Although, I don't think that he will look like this... You'll just have to wait and see!  

As Polarious said, I thought to myself "I should do this..." and not just do it I also really wanted to do it.  And so, I did.  Here are some pieces of draft work for you to ponder about:

I made a crossword but it is not quite pieced together.  However, I can guarantee that it will posted here as soon as it is!  (Or whenever I feel it's right to... I haven't made up my mind yet.)