Caesura stuff.

Playing around with colour etc., because there's really only so long I can pull off black + white + accents before it'll all catch up to me.

Birthday stuff.

I'm a bit of a cheapskate, so people who know me well enough tend to get drawings for their birthdays in lieu of actual physical objects. Unfortunately for them, I am also an incorrigible procrastinator. Context: this was for a birthday in December 2012. And the 'zine is still unfinished.

Again: sorry, Mouse. Happy terribly belated birthday.

Cultural Convention work.

Every now and then this wonderful thing called Cultural Convention happens, which is pretty much a whiz-bang meetup of artistically, theatrically, musically, rhetorically, and dancetastically talented kids from the region's six main international schools. This year my school hosted the Debate/Forensics chunk of proceedings and through some trick of fate I ended up solely responsible for the event logo.

Stipulations were pretty clear: "Involve elements of local culture," they told me, "and don't insult the other schools too much." (I may be misremembering that last part.)

Mr Long Nose here is an artistic mangling of wayang kulit, one of my country's proudest, most beautiful forms of performance art. I'd say everything turned out fine.

Pretty fine, in fact.

Pret-ty fine indeed.

Unfinished character work.

Ah, the really exciting stuff. I'll get around to finishing these. Eventually.

This one's cute because it's based on a friend's alt-universe where our merry band of misfits is essentially recast as bad guys. So here we have an assassin, a scientist (me), and a getaway driver (the model for the February cover, oddly enough), with the supervillain we kowtow to (AKA the guy who made this up in the first place) being my snarky magazine columnist friend. There are supposed to be more people involved but I haven't got around to doing them yet. Etc.

The girls from Caesura, one of my own stories. It's meant to be a hardboiled/noir pastiche of life at the school I go to. Despite appearances, the main character is Max; Zelah, the namesake of my blog's old URL, just happened to be easier to pin a colour scheme onto.

This was ambitious. I had a list of seventy-five or so characters from all my different stories and I was planning on drawing each and every one of them. You can see for yourself how far I got.

Auf wiedersehen, pet.

Blue Umbrella Studios work.

I've run out of magazine issues, so now we're moving on to some work I've done for the school's design club.

My favourite. I wish I could remember how to draw like that.

The "Sauce For Hope" part is hand-lettered. Offsetting white type with a black shadow to add body is the absolute best thing ever, honestly.

Our girls' cross-country team wanted t-shirts with a running dragon on the front. Putting him in shorts made sense at the time.

Have you ever really stopped and thought about how many different types of umbrellas there are in the world? I mean—really stopped and thought about it? Because there are awful lot, just sayin'.

Scales.