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Another commission! Someone asked me to draw Finn and the "young" version of Princess Bubble gum adventuring. So here it is. I think maybe it's because people keep asking me to draw things linked to youth that I feel drawn to kid's books right now? Not to mention our store is specialized in comics and youth books, so my coworkers from the kid's corner keep showing me these extremly badass books.

I discovered one of my coworkers might be my French (from France) clone. Because she's a fairy tale and Oz fan, and Slayers is the first anime she ever saw, and she adores Escaflowne. No, really. I gave her my email (secondlina) and she guessed right away that it was related to Lina Inverse. Oh my. MIND BLOWN. I,m actually making a lot of friends at work, which is cool. A few people seem to think i,m pretty hard on myself at work. Hey, maybe my self-esteem will grow :D

I was thinking today about those secret places people go to to think (or escape their horrible significant others if they are in that unfortunate situation). In the past, Several of my landlords seemed to have one of those secret places in the apartment that was being rented. In Toronto, the wife of the landlord often crossed our apartment to go to the room for rent (that weren't rented out) that were only accessible thru our apartment (which is probably why they weren't rented).  I guess she went there to clean or something, but she went often, and sometimes it smelled like cooked food up there... In Ottawa, my landlord would often come by to "check on the cellar" that was accessible thru a door in my bedroom. He stayed there for about an hour every visit. And there's nothing up there. A bookcase with a few boxes and a chair. I checked. So I could not help but wonder why the hell did he come here to sit for an hour? Next to my bedroom. It was a little creepy. Then again, this is the same guy that came in announced while I was in the shower. Brrrrr. Our current concierge here often seems to sit by himself in the "boiler room" next to the laundry room, listening to the radio. 

Food for creepy thought?

- Isa
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What's that? It's a comic cover for Jabberwocky. With the help of friends, I managed to unblock on the story and i'm currently drawing it. My goal is for it to be available at the TCAF (I'm going to be at the "Trip Collection" editor table, for those who might want to find me). I'm going to post the page here as I get them done, so you guys will be able to read the full 20 page story. A few pages will be under LJ-cut for violence or bloodiness (this IS the story of a girl that goes to gut a monster, after all). I hope you'll all enjoy it! I even took some days off from work to work on these all over the month of March. Isa, thy name is motivation!

I'm really happy with the cover. I love how it turned out I tried using a limited palette or reds and plums. My inking style seems to work with limited palette coloring. If I recall correctly, one of the Namesake reviewers had underlined that fact. Well, I guess it's true.

I tried to base the Jabberwock off the original "Alice through the looking glass" illustration. I love the big buck-tooth teeth. A lot of other artists make the Jabberwock look less... ridiculous. He's suppose to be a feared beast, so they make him look less grotesque and more scary and dangerous (pointy?).

I really like white, immaculate swords...

In non-drawing news... Is my apartment gonna fall on my head. I swear the pipes are plotting to kill us. They tap in the walls. There's barely any hot water. They make noises that sound like they are about to explode when the upstairs neighbor takes a shower. The whole heating in the building is done with pipes too (hot-water-based heating). So I dunno. I feel like the building has a giant, rusty pipe snake in the walls.

Is...is it going to eat me?

 - Isa
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 A friend of mine, Valerie, dared me to draw a comic involving a sock puppet and a straw. It gave this. I am either really crazy, or some kind of god of memes. This is also a bit of a musing on a fact I learned when I started living with Link. Boys and Girls really don't have the same levels of stinky. Boy stinky creates zombie!socks.

Valerie also reminded me of this cool video. University of Montréal students did a giant 100 people sip sync of "I Gotta Feeling" that crosses a whole university building and involves various costumes (keep a lookout for Sakespear and Waldo). It's quite the thing to behold. It was so popular on youtube, CNN aired it. It's hilarious. The last little bit in french is a translation of the song.



That's all for today. Enjoy the crazy randomness.

- Isa

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