DOG ISLAND CHAPTER 1 ZINE
The first chapter of Dog Island is done, and collected in a beautiful printed zine!
I had a six years long hiatus in the middle of drawing it, but returned to it last year thanks to corona and the overwhelming feeling that nothing matters anymore, so I might as well do whatever the hell I want to do.
You can get a copy here in my gumroad store.
After six years of hiatus, Dog Island is back!
With corona, all the comic festivals are cancelled and nothing matters anymore, and so why not do whatever I want and continue drawing Dog Island! Refresh your memory and read from the beginning, or go straight to the new pages.
Style Challenge
Ainur just did an awesomepants style homage, with Goldenbird heroine Mayann drawn in different artists’ styles, and I just had to do one too!
(And I just found out through newwavefeminism that it’s a thing – #stylechallenge was originally started by Autumn @beautifulness87 on Instagram!)
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So I’ve drawn Eva and Willie, trying to imitate the styles of five different artists whose comics have influenced me deeply, three from the US and two from Japan. I think I finally got warmed up by the time I got to the last one …? V^(oo)^;V
Guess which is which! :3 In alphabetical order: Charles Burns, Debbie Drechsler, Jaime Hernandez, Jiro Matsumoto, Ai Yazawa.
Fun facts: I never realised until now that Jaime Hernandez rarely if ever draws earrings on his characters? It’s really interesting what peculiar ways the artists have of drawing certain anatomical details, like ear whorls or hair structure. Debbie Drechsler and Jiro Matsumoto were the most fun to imitate, because their styles are the most different and the most similar to my own, respectively.
Sketchdump!
Recently I finished this sketchbook, with its slightly questionable cover:
Here are some previously unpublished sketches from that book! V^(oo)^V
Dog Island
Yesterday I posted the first new page since March. Maybe now the comic will return to regular updates again …? V^(oo)^;V
