February flew by! I had fun posting daily sketches and I hope you enjoyed them. I think I owe you two more from the weekend I was madly trying to finish up my children’s book project, a dummy book for my story Take Care Kittens, so I’ll get those last sketches up soon. If you haven’t seen the watercolor illustrations I did for Take Care Kittens, you can find them here. I got some great feedback on that project, and though I have no immediate plans to do more with it, I am considering reworking it this summer and turning it into something I would feel comfortable submitting to a publisher. Right now, I have no idea what the summer is going to look like, but I’ll keep you informed as I figure it out.
There are three other projects I’d like to catch you up on before I get back to running errands. First, you may remember me posting about the Canada’s Finest: C.O.N.D.O.R. Agent Astrid North a few weeks ago. I want to let you know that I have not forgotten, and I want to share that with you, I just haven’t decided how I want to go about doing it yet. It was a fun comic to work on and I look forward to being able to share it with all of you.
Second, I’m still working on Break, my anthology about relationships. At the moment it’s taking a back burner while I work on the next project I’m about to talk about, but it has a place near and dear to my heart, so I will be back. I’ve had a few people look at it and give me some feedback and I hope to take some time away from this next project to make some edits and do a small print run, probably over my spring break.
If you’ve been following my tumblr and my sketch-a-day February posts, you’ll notice that a handful of characters appear over and over again. If you look back further, you’ll find one of the characters has been appearing fairly regularly for quite awhile. This is Aileen Walsh, and my next comic is about her.
For the final project of the semester, I have nine weeks to create the best comic I can make. My comic is set in a world where advanced technology and magic tenuously coexist. Our conflict begins when a construction company gets a contract to turn the last bit of wild green land for miles into a skyscraper. Before they can start tearing out the trees, a group of terrorists sabotages the machinery in an attempt to save the forest and the mythical creature they believe resides within. Into this conflict is drawn Aileen Walsh, a hired gun being paid by the construction company, with more scruples than she’d like to admit and some doubts about who’s really in the right. The story will be told in approximately 30 pages, in black and grey ink.
The comic will be complete and printed by May 3. You can expect sketches and rough pages on tumblr and on this blog over the next two months. It’s a project I’m very excited about and having a lot of fun working on, so I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.
Have a lovely March.
Allison