Website Update, and old updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!