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Something Old: part 2

2009-08-30T21:01:00.002-04:00

The second of the art I did in May for a contest in which the theme was to draw the web-admins of the site, basing their "portraits" on their screen names.

In other news, I've been very distracted this past month by a project. A friend and I are self-publishing a book. She's the writer and I'm the illustrator. I'm quite pleased with what I've gotten done so far. That's all I have to say for now, later.

Something Old: part 1

2009-07-15T16:52:00.005-04:00

Here something I did in May for a silly little contest, as a sort of Mother's Day present for my mom. There are two more, which I shall post shortly.

The point of the contest was to draw pictures based on the screen names of different web-admins for the site.

Postage Stamp Gardening

2009-04-29T12:59:00.002-04:00

I went to a lecture yesterday on "Postage Stamp Gardening," which is about tiny gardens. Since all the space I have for gardening is a tiny balcony that applied to me. Since it was at the local library (that I once worked at) I picked up a pen and piece of scrap paper to doodle while I listened. (I always grabbed scrap paper and doodle while I worked there, so when I go there now the urge is strong). Here's what I did (usually leave the doodles with them now, but I kept this one):

The words are something the lecturer said more than once.

In other news, most of the art I've been doing the past couple months has been fanart, which means I've been posting more frequently to my deviant art account than here. Otherwise I've been trying to get a job still.

Door Zombie

2009-04-02T15:07:00.003-04:00

A week ago Monday I doodled the following:

on a little piece of scrap paper, and on my daily walk, I stopped by my friend's place and taped it to her door. Later I had the feeling she never got it, that someone else took it. I asked today, and I was right, that she never got it. There was a piece of tape on each corner, so I don't think it blew away.

I'd left a doodle on her door before, but it wasn't anything "cool" like a zombie, so it managed to stay put till the proper recipient came home.

Happy March to You!

2009-03-19T20:08:00.004-04:00

I've been busy, and still am, but have decided to post an old doodle here to keep this blog from getting stale.

From my notes from when I was at the Shivananda Yoga Ranch last June. She was right at the very edge of the page.

Hope you all had a good St. Patrick's Day. I forgot to wear green, but the day was lovely and no one tried to pinch me green-less self.

Happy V-day y'all

2009-02-14T17:02:00.004-05:00

Happy Valentines Day to you!

A this time of year I usually go nuts and do a lot of sugary-sweet v-day related art that is drowning in pink and hearts. Not this year. Just couldn't work myself up into the mood.

But today I managed to squeeze out a little love.

In water color! This is quite rare for me. So rare in fact that I only just bought me some watercolors last weekend. (I probably have some around here already, it's just been years since I touched them).

I dislike working with watercolor, really. Though this one wasn't so bad. Maybe I'll get used to them the way I eventually learned to love using ink and nibs. Love what some people can do with this medium.

This lil' thing was made on a little watercolor postcard I was given a pack of years ago. Finally used one. Good for me. Second watercolor I've done in as many days.

Ninja Thing #2

2009-02-07T22:57:00.005-05:00

Made another installment of "Ninja Thing," which is what I call Challenge Week 4's entry in my mind.

Here it is:

It was fun to do.

Website Update, and old updates

2009-02-05T16:17:00.002-05:00

Website has been updated again. This time under Links.

I am also removing the old updates from the main page on my website, and replacing it with a general intro. For purposes of memory and such they shall live on in this post:

01-19-09: Added a new illustration to Art. In other news, soon I'll only be reporting updates to this website on the Art Blog.

01-03-09: Added information to About.

01-01-09: Happy New Year! Kicking it off with a new look for the site. Now starring Medusa. Also, new link added to the link bar, called blog, which will lead you to non other than my Art Blog.

12-14-08: New illustration added to Art.

12-10-08: Removed a comic and some sketches from Art. Eliminated the splash page, as it was unnecessary.

12-06-08: Added illustrations to Art.

11-05-08: Added sketches to Art.

10-13-08: A comic and some sketches have been added to Art.

10-12-08: Tweeking done in About.

09-17-08: Illustrations have been added in Art.

09-12-08: Sketches have been added in Art.

09-11-08: Comics have been added in Art.

09-09-08: This is the official site of Caroline Christian, cartoonist. Things are still under construction, but please have a look around anyways.

FIA: Comic Exhibits

2009-02-05T15:11:00.005-05:00

Saturday I went to the Flint Institute of Arts (FIA) with good friend Desmond to see one of their current exhibits, "Comics, Heroes and American Visual Culture." It was soooo good. It was great to see so many old and new ORIGINAL comic pages on display. There was some Winsor McCay (no Little Nemo or anything fancy like that, but still), an old Thimble Theatre starring Popeye, some stuff by Jack Kirby, some Krazy Kat, Blondie, Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy, and a whole lot of other stuff. If I'd been thinking I would have brought a pad and pencil to take names/notes.

It was fantastic to get up close to those old originals and see how something was done. How neat or messy the original was.

Right next to that gallery was another great exhibit, "Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists." It had a lot of fantastic art as well, but not as many originals. Mostly digital prints of the original inked pages, or art that was digitally colored. Some originals though, including little rough thumbnails. Some of these artists are graduates of SVA (hooray).

Someone who worked there came up to me and Desmond, and started telling us the history of comics and stuff. We let her. It was fun. I chortled once she went off to see other museum goers. I learned all that already, and more! <--- That's what I was thinking. It was cute though. I wonder if she has to memorize that sort of thing every time they get a new exhibit there. She seemed really enthusiastic.

The survey guys at the entrance to the exhibits tended to ignore me and favor Desmond. I have theories as to why... but no proof. Like I'm a girl and therefor not as interested or knowledgeable about comics? Or... other reasons? Maybe I'm scary and unapproachable? (haha, that'd be a fun reason).

All in all. Excellent. I recommend anybody close enough to Flint, MI, to see this while it's there. Both will be around till April 26. Saturdays are free.

Challenge Week 4: Cliffhanger

2009-02-02T19:46:00.006-05:00

The last one.

There it is. Doesn't have everything Desmond requested in it. It would if it were to continue into a real daily comic. He asked for this: "A three panel serial. Weekly. Pulp era comics-esque cliffhangers. With ninjas, zombies, pirates and cyborgs." If it were to continue, I know how the pirates would fit in and where. Same with the cyborgs. I know what happens next. Haha. You don't.

Later!

Website Update

2009-01-27T12:28:00.003-05:00

Gonna start posting updates to my website here instead of on the home page there. So here is the first one:

Added challenge week 3 to Art under Illustration.

Also, removed ugly border from all the illustration thumbnails. Now just gotta get around to removing it from the comics and sketches sections.

Soon, probably after challenge week 4 is finished, I'll remove old updates from the main page (maybe lump them all in one post here for memories sake?) and put something else there, like a happy intro.

Alright. Later!

Challenge Week 3: Post Apocalyptic Space Love

2009-01-26T23:35:00.009-05:00

It's done! This is the one I thought would be the easiest, and it was the most difficult so far! Most of the time was spent on the coloring. Arg. Ah well. If I have time I'd like to scan the "roughs" of the couple, especially the guy (their roughs are on separate papers), I like how they came out, and I enjoy seeing the pencil stages of other peoples art. *shrug* We'll see.

Here it is:

Ah... post apocalyptic space love. Makes ya feel all gooey, yeah? Requested by Kelly. Hope you like it Kelly!

Finished at 11:20 pm Monday. This one was more complex than the other two, which means I kinda cut down on time, right?

Till next time...

Challenge Week 2: Magda

2009-01-19T18:29:00.004-05:00

Hello! Here it is, Magda from the tv show Dark Shadows:

Hope you like it Steve!

This one is also on my website, in the art section under illustrations.

I'll say this about it: Grayson Hall (the actress who played Magda) is one hard woman to draw. For me anyways. A lot of time was spent this past week just trying to "get" her. Also, it is very hard to find any pictures of her as Magda for reference. I wonder why there isn't more of her online? There's enough Dark Shadows fans out there.

Alright, see you next week!

Challenge Week 1: Franky vs. Michael Bay

2009-01-12T23:22:00.006-05:00

It is done! Just a note, this is a one page comic done in the style of "One Piece," as requested by my brother.

It reads right to left like a Japanese comic! Try reading it from left to right like a western comic and it wont make sense.

Just click on the thumbnail above to see the comic!

See you next week!

Challenge Week 1: Update

2009-01-12T00:01:00.005-05:00

It's all penciled and ready to ink! Inking is the easy part. If the rest of the world doesn't get in the way tomorrow it will be up.

So expect number 1 tomorrow (Monday) after which I'll merrily begin on number 2.

Time to Draw!

2009-01-04T01:06:00.003-05:00

Alright, there were 4 people to respond to the challenge, with a total of 7 requests. How this will be is that, since there are 4 separate people, what the random draw will be is to determine what order I'll do the drawings, and those who had multiples will have a random draw to see which of theirs will be done. Good? Good.

Here it goes:

1st: Brian, his second request.

2nd: Steve, his first request.

3rd: Kelly, her only request.

4th: Desmond, his only request.

And there it is. Until next. Ta!

Art Challenge!

2008-12-31T10:54:00.002-05:00

Hello! I am going to be challenging myself in the jolly ol' month of January, 2009. And I'm gonna be helped by viewers like you!

How you ask? By responding to this post. Yep. Just make a request of something you'd like me to draw for you, and Saturday (if I have enough requests) I'll pick four at random, and each following Saturday I'll post one. I'll be treating them as if they are from clients. If I'm pleased enough with how I did I'll put it in my portfolio on my website instead of posting it here.

A few rules, nothing rated R, or anything like that. You know me (theoretically) so I'm not gonna be drawing crazy things of a adult-bedroom nature or have swearing all over, or other vulgarities. Don't wanna do them, and if I did I'd have to put this journal on the adult content warning thing, and that's annoying too.

First Image

2008-12-29T15:58:00.005-05:00

Alright, I believe I am now happy with the way this blog looks. I'm just sad it looks better than my website *sob* ah well, the website is a work in progress, yeah?

Onwards to the first image!

It's a drawing of Lord Krishna I did while at the Shivananda Yoga Ranch in the Catskill Mountains for the month of June, getting certified to teach yoga (I was really there just to learn, I love being a student). Did this during the Bhagavad Gita classes, the book had a picture of Krishna in this pose, though I think mine is prettier. I always did prefer the pretty-boy Krishna art.

Hello

2008-12-29T14:47:00.000-05:00

Let me introduce myself, my name is Caroline. And this here is my first entry in my new lil' art blog. Give me a bit to get it looking spiffy. Thank you!