In the lab

Pond Life

Goals

I started writing a story a number of years ago. It started out about a journey to Camelot, but has slowly metamorphosed into a story about the life of a dragon tamer. This story has been written, rewritten, dropped, and picked back up... You get the picture.

 Sometimes I feel like it will never be finished, and  it seems like the more I want to work on it, the less time I have.

*sigh* *the frustration*

 Lately, however, a lot of the writing and the character development have been falling into place, leaving mainly the artwork to tackle. I've been practicing digital coloring, and have gotten more comfortable with it. Maybe I can tame this dragon after all.

 It looks like it is still a long, long road ahead, but I'm hoping to finish the first part this summer. This is the first goal. The second is to take some of the artwork to the local comic convention this fall.

WHAT?!

But even if I don't, I can still go to the convention and talk to some professional comic artists.

Yay! Professional artists!

This summer should be interesting...

Mysterious Village panel

An interesting surprise/ April 8, 2014

This morning when I was between classes, I decided to look at some Guardians of Ga'Hoole (a lovely book series by Katheryn Lasky) artwork. I came across a page dedicated to the Striga, a blue dragon owl of the mock court in the Middle Kingdom and one of the most despicable villains I have ever read about. Here's the page:

http://guardiansofgahoole.wikia.com/wiki/The_Striga

Now take a closer look at the picture... I stared at it for a moment before shouting at the top of my lungs (or really just thinking it quietly to myself), "HEY! I drew that owl!!!!!" 

Back in 2010, I was sitting in trigonometry class, all excited that the GoG movie was about to be released and drawing scarred owls wearing helmets and battle claws all over my binder. I intended to put a background behind this guy as I uploaded it to my WetCanvas account as a WIP, but never got around to it.

It's been four years since I have scribbled anything in trigonometry class, so you can probably imagine how shocked I was at finding my owl on the Ga'Hoole Wiki page. I am very touched that someone liked it enough to stick it on their web page. It's a pretty cool site, and if you've read the books, you should check it out.

More Herpetology!

The Adventures of Herpetology Class continues!! Today, we drove up to Illinois. So. Many. Reptiles. (and amphibians). It was amazing. We found eleven different species. Here are a few pictures of the wonderfulness:

Music

Iggy and the Salamander