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 But not linked to the holidays!



I finished coloring the cover for Namesake's 3rd chapter that should start during the holidays. I kinda wish I had more free time to draw during the holidays, but I just have 2 days off :( So i'll be working while many of the people I know party. Party for my, you guys!

Cover's lineart can be seen here. THIS took 3 hours to ink.

This cover Shows the princess of Oz, Ozma and the Wicked Warlock of the West, Warrick. There's also skulls. The skulls are there because the upcoming Oz storyline kinda plays with how inconsistent death was in the Oz books. Sometimes people died, sometimes not, sometimes you had to literally obliterate someone for them to be considered dead. In the later Oz books, no one can die. One of the books assures us that while you are in the Land of Oz, you can not die. Unfortunately, this information comes after characters in the books have been chopped into pieces, beheaded, melted, and so forth and it is mentioned that you could be transformed into an inanimate object, turned into sand, and buried. Even so, you would still be alive and presumably conscious.

Baum puts it this way in the third chapter of The Emerald City of Oz: "No disease of any sort was ever known among the Ozites, and so no one ever died unless he met with an accident that prevented him from living." It's also mentionned that what keeps the people alive and not aging is a spell. So we are going to play with that in the story. 

Really, I just want an excuse to draw skulls :D

Oh, man, I am so broke right now.

I went to the eye-doctor. Turns out, my glasses were not giving me a headache because my eyesight went down. No, it improved. The lens' were TOO STRONG. Thus causing constant headaches. So, since I needed to change the lenses anyways, I bought a new frame to replace the frame I hate. That poked a nice hole in my savings, lemme tell you that. I think i'm going to cut back on spending for a bit, you know, so I can pay for glasses/doctor bills/dentist/christmas stuff. Oh well. I never though not having insurances would be so expensive, but I guess it is! *laughs*

- Isa

To continue on yesterday's post about how my free time most be divided between working my art and anything social or cultural I need to be doing... I feel like my cultural knowledge is going down lately. I used to read books for classes, and even in class (I was bored). I learned so many fun things. I used to keep up with newspapers too. Nowadays? Not so much. The more I seem to work to make books, the less I seem to actually read them. I have a pile of novels and comic books wanting to be read in my living room.

Really Cool Book # 1 - Read me Isa! I will teach you about German expressionism!
Isa - ....grmbl....not now. Busy.
Awesome Book #5 - No, read me! I'll teach you about Lewis Carroll and his life!
Isa - .....Guys, c'mon...
Random comic #3 - What about me? I take traditional characters in a new compelling direction with strange spooky art!
Isa - I...what.....?
Dvd I just bought #6 - DOGPILE!
Isa - Aaaaaauuuuugh! *is dogpiled*

I used to read a lot of books on the way to work. You know, back in Ottawa when it took me about an hour to get there. Nowadays, it takes 30 minutes, and that's including 10 minutes of walking and a switch between the subway and a bus. It's just harder to read.

So I decided to use technology some more. I watch movie when I draw thanks to the computers in the studio and i'm finally trying out Audio Books. Hopefully this will bring my cultural levels up. Or something. I'm beginning to feel pretty stupid when I talk to people. *laughs*

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Aside from that, here's a little peek at "Psychopompes", the printed comic i'm working on. This book is basically based on a story by Sartre called "The chips are down". It's about a couple who awakens in a (highly texturized) version of the underworld and are told they weren't suppose to die. They are sent back for 24 hours to fall in love and fill out their roles has soulmates. I focus greatly on the character travelling thru the underworld to reach the door that leads back to the surface. The characters meet odd and terrifying creatures of all kinds and, of course, death, who doesn't really like seeing her good work being sent back up.

Hopefully this will be good. I have high hopes for this comic.

First page, when the male lead called Lucien wakes up in the underworld, not remembering who he is, or his own death. he'll remember gradually later. That knife he wakes up next to? Yeah, that's how he died. Of course, there was someone holding that knife at the time. XD



( More Psychopompes sketches below cut )

This comic is in french, but i'm going to try to get some english prints too. :)

- Isa