Art Month Challenge Day 30: WONDER WOMAN

WOO WOO! Here it is! The last image of the challenge! The Title card for this months article, which is up right now at SlugLady's Sketch-Log: What I want from a Wonder Woman TV Show!

I did it! I conquered the 30 day art challenge! And what about NaNoWriMo? How'd I do on that?

No comment... But I don't care because it's OVER! I WON! YAHOOO!

So what's next? Uhhhh... Well, with Christmas work hours beginning, allong with all the other holiday choirs, the sites are going to be on hiatus until the new year. Maaaabye I'll post a christmas picture, but I doubt it.

But, as long as the apocolypse doesn't happen, I've got a lot planned for the new year, thanks to all the writting, drawings, and unscene projects I've been working on this month. Seeya guys in January!

Seeya,
 Tegan Dumpleton aka SlugLady28

Golden Age of Canadian Comics

My Celebration of Canada Day continues as I look at the Golden Age of Canadian Comics! Check it out at SlugLady's Sketch-Log.

There are alot of images this time. They originated from a short comic assignment I had from school. Unfortunatly, I wanted to say so much that there just wasn't enough space in the panels. So I remade it into a Sketch-Log article.

Here's all the image!

Seeya Guys later this week for the colored version of my Canada Day crowd scene!

Seeya,
 Tegan Dumpleton aka SlugLady28

Happy Canada Day! Lineart

Happy (Early) Canada Day!

Here's the uncolored version of the large piece I've been working on. Due to matters IRL, I was unable to color it in time for today. So it's gonna be a double update week! Colored version will be up later this week, before Canada Day! And the week after I'm going to get back to updating the sites with a few new pages.

Oh, and don't worry if you can't figure out who everyone is. I'll be posting a list with the colored version.

Oh, and check out SlugLady's Sketch-Log tomorrow for a Canadian themed post!

Seeya,
 Tegan Dumpleton aka SlugLady28

Arrow Advertising Pamphlet

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And now for something completely different.

This is an older piece from my last year of school: Make a visual report based on a job you observe. I chose Arrow Advertising, a job I actually had... almost two years ago, now. Yes, that's right. skin-and-bone Tegan had a job consisting of 90% physical activity. You can check their website here: Arrow Advertising.

The pamphlet is designed to be printed double sided, and cut along the red line at the top, so as to make the arrow shape.

After the assignment was finished, I wasn't completely happy with it, so I put it on the back burner with other assignment that I planned to fix up once school was up. I found it a few weeks ago, decided I still liked it, and fixed it up.

What?

Okay, so technically nothing else "new" per-say, except from sketches from last weeks sketch-log. In my continuation of trying to redo the site with my excellent HTML skill (Har-dee-har), and social and job related things this week, I'm doing a bit of filler. There will be multiple posts this week, as I add some things here that are only on DA, and vise versa, and set up some pages to make it easier to move about the site.

I DO however, have something special planned for next week on both sites. Till then!

Seeya,
 Tegan Dumpleton aka SlugLady28

Resolutions, explanations and a peek of things to come

Merry Christmas, Happy ecetera-and-so-forth and a happy new year, peoples! 

I’m looking forward to the new year like you cannot believe. Yes, it has been a... interesting year for me. And heck, i actually have some new art tonight! So lets get started:

I wanted to give a shout out to Deirdre Foster of Chat de BLA/Swiss Tales who used some of my images for Haroun and the Sea of Stories, for flyers for their telling of the book. The play was a few months ago and she told me that it went great! Congrats to Ms. Foster and the whole Chat de BLA/Swiss Tales gang! And thank you so much for letting me be a part of it!

Next, for those that were paying attention to SOPA related news, they you’ll know that the final decision has been postponed... making my “THERE’S NO TIME LEFT” comment seem like a bit of an over reaction. But I got to say, this is the first time I've actually been happy about a bill taking it’s time in parliament.

The reason I was all “HURRY! HURRY NOW!” is because this is a pretty scary bill. And I’m not gonna apologize for posting info on my sites about it. This bill affects anyone who uses the internet, especially for work and art purposes, weather it’s for posting you’re videos, streaming to friends, and networking. Honestly, the scope of this thing is pretty broad, just because of how ridiculously vague it is. So I hope that any one interested will at least take a look at the sites and videos, and not shrug is off as propaganda, or shrug it off as “another day in American politics”, especially since the bill is free to read for yourselves. If you’re still kinda iffy, find a news site you trust, mainly a nerd or art site. I’m sure some of ya have heard of That Guy With The Glasses, which have been posting news like crazy about SOPA

Oh, and I never mentioned how NANOWRIMO went! I didn’t make it to the 50 000 words, but I did manage to get a lot of writing done and it was alot of fun! Hope everyone else who participated had a great time!

Now, on to the main stuff: I know I have been promising and promising for the last several months that new things would be showing up here, including sketches for my webcomic... but it’s just not gonna happen, at least right now. I know, I know, we have danced this dance before and I am more of a little sick of it. As I said in the last couple of months, it can’t be helped with how the last couple of months have been. I honestly kinda wish that I started a big hiatus back in October, but I couldn’t have foreseen all these things involving work, my health, my family and my... general, uh, Tegan-ness.

So, next week or two will be a hiatus, but I will put up a x-mas picture tonight, since, heck, I do that every year and I love doing it! (last year was new years, so it didn’t count) and this month’s articles should be done next week (cross. Fingers.), but other then that, the things I've been planning for so long will not be starting this month.

BUT It’s gonna be a new year, work will cut down after boxing day stuff is done, and I will (hopefully) get back to a schedule that doesn’t take up my time. My health needs work (understatement) but I am working on it Things look good. 1212 feels like a good year... y’know, except that last part about the apocalypse.

See ya all next year, when I may actually have both time and energy to concentrate on what I actually want to do with my life: Drawing and writing whatever I want, and bringing joy to those that partake in it. I guess you could call it my new years resolution.

Huh. This reminds me of something...

Perhaps, in the New Year, I will tell you about it ;)

Seeya,

 SlugLady28 aka Tegan Dumpleton

SlugLady's Sketch-Log set 3

No, this is not my first attempt of photoshop. I've been really busy with SlugLady's Sketch-Log in the past weeks. And even more so now that i've got a theme going: SUPER SEPTEMBER MONTH. The rest of the month will be Super hero themed articles. Come by and check it out! And here is the articles so far posted:

From An Ode to Print

From The Dreaded TF3 Review

From my Reaction to the Reaction of the DC Reboot and my Reaction to the Reaction of Wonder Woman's Pants

My avatar all dressed up in Super duds and a banner for SUPER SEPTEMBER MONTH 

From Ways to Help Wonder Woman: DC edition

Seeya Next time,

 Tegan Dumpleton aka SlugLady28

Zanni Drago: Comic

Okay, here's something i've been meaning to put up for a while now. A fourth year comic project. Idea is simple enough: Make a short comic with no words.

For mine, I created a small scene from one of my stories. Yes, another story idea. Shush (You'll see what I have planned for many of them soon enough).

 I'll let you look at the story before I go on...

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Ready? Okay. 

The story is a fantasy story taking place in a world of humans and dragons. I won't get into the politics just yet, but needless to say, they don't get along. On the human region, Dragons are either slaves or outlaws. The main character here, Zanni, is an entertainer, looking for her missing father. Downside is that Zanni has dragon blood in her, and those horns on her head ain't the easiest to hide, even with her costume. She also has two young dragons as her companions (names withheld due to my decision that i wanted to change them)

The comic depicts an average day for Zanni: Put on a performance, earn some breakfast money, have a small run-in with the local officers, escape in the most flashiest way possible!

Now for the part I hate. The critique.

Okay, since this one is kinda old, I'm gonna just give it a quick run down of things I like and things i'd do differently. 

First up, I love some of my drawing in this. True, the anatomy isn't the best, but many of the poses and expressions I wouldn't change, the linework looks really nice (this was an early attempt at pencil only lineart), and despite being one of my earlier attempts at photoshop, I still really like some of the coloring jobs I did. Okay, I would definitely redo the blank backgrounds. It was an experiment and it didn't work. Moving on....

This is probably one of the first comics in a long time where I used extreme perspective. Like a said, not the best. But I'll blame it partly on my novice-ness. And partly on that SLAGGING, BLOOMIN' SKIRT. I don't know if it was the colors, or the design but it was like staring at one of those "fine the hidden picture" images for TEN HOURS. My eyes are turning sand dry from the memory *shudders*. I think next time i'll try a live model of the dress, and see if that will get my head straight.

But the most important thing is wether or not the story translates to someone who knows nothing of the story. Most people understood it, though there are a few things that need work, such as the scenes between Zanni and her dragons. 

Overall, ya, I still like it.

The NEXT post on the other hand... i'll be showing early character sketches of Zanni and... some of them were my first attempt at photoshop.

Ya. This is gonna hurt.

Art featured in Chat de BLA theater poster

Hey all! Got an announcement for ya! The Swedish storyteller company, Chat de BLA is using a piece of my work in their theater poster! It's a performance of Haroun and the Sea of Stories performed by a single actor, Deirdre Foster! The performance will be in Geneva in September!

Heres a copy of the flyer. Please note that though the illustration is from my cover image for Haroun and the Sea of Stories, I did not put together the actual flyer:

You can check out the their site here: Chat de BLA

edit: fixed broken link ^_^

The White Ash Forest

Okay, this technically isn't a new. It's a small excerpt from a chapter of Sanctuary: World of Nomads.  Blip and April, two children from Sanctuary, enter the White Ash Forest, in search of the witch who lives in it's center. Done with pencil crayon, white paint and photoshop.

Cover

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Now, you may have noticed that I have a.... lot of story ideas. Some are half written, others have characters all drawned out and others have a few comic pages laid out. Mostly because, over the last 5 years of school, I wanted to try as many new things as I could. Different genres, ratings, character types etc. I would be working hard on one story, and then step away from it so I could try a new genre or character design for an assignment. And then return to an older idea with fresh eyes. On the one hand, it gave me a lot of new experience and great characters that I love so much! On the other hand...

I have at least 20 different ideas now... all different lengths, genres, formats, ratings and completion rates.

But out of all those idea, S: WON is probably the one I've worked longest on because it's such a long story and i started working on it when i had near to no experience in writing. I stepped away from it for the last couple of years, but it pops back up when I had an assignment that really fit the something from the story.

Now that I'm out of school, I can start working on some final drafts. Can't say which one I'll be working first. I'll probably bounce between a few, but I do want to focus on the shorter ones first, and work on the longer ones on the side. Soon, Sanctuary. Soon.

More from the Sketch-Log

More from SlugLady's Sketch-Log! 

From my latest entry where I talk about future schedules

The header for The Review Garden

And a few more random ones from different entries

Buttons! Or stickers. Something I'm planning to make (and perhaps sell) in the future. A few of them have been used on the site in entries and as headers. Some will be used later ;)

That's it for the Sketch-Log for a bit. Or a least until the next entry. I won't be posting the older images here, but you can see them at the actual blog

Seeya,

 Tegan Dumpleton aka SlugLady28