So let’s do a quick life update:

Biggest news: I graduated from SCAD with cum laude honours. I’ve now officially got a BFA in Sequential Art and I’m ready to take on the comics world! Whoo! I have no plans to return to Savannah any time soon, but I’ll nonetheless treasure my time there.

Bigish News: My mother took the plunge and got laser eye surgery! She went with monovision and PRK. I had PRK and wrote an extensive journal on my healing, which you can read here. She’s healing a bit slower then I did, but she’s also quite a bit older. So my father and I have been helping out and driving her to and from work. I think in the end, she’ll be really happy, but it will take a little time.

Everyday news: I’m still working on the Marvel Official Handbooks as an art refurbisher. Once Handbook #9 is published, (end of July), I can begin to show you all what exactly I’ve been doing. Otherwise, I’ve been slowly colouring test pages for Marvel and wasting my time playing Fallout 3. Man, that game is addictive.

C’mon art blog, stick with me. I swear that when I’m done with school (in about a month!) I won’t neglect you!

Moving on, I haven’t really done anything this break. I haven’t drawn at all, I’ll end up working on website stuff today, and I’ve just been taking care of J. He had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled out on Monday, and has quite a bit of pain as a result, so I’m playing the good wife roll and taking care of him. This means I just end up being lazy and playing DS games instead of doing real work.

Oh well, I guess that’s really what my last spring break should be used for. Fun and games.

I’m looking forward to having my HP back in my arms. This Dell has been lovely and much better to use than the old HP that just runs on batteries, but…I’ll have bloody CS4 on the other machine…and it’s bigger!

I’m going to miss my major when I graduate. It’s so much fun and I couldn’t be happier with the major I chose. I doubt I’ll look back on my life and regret choosing Sequential Art to study. It’s just way to much fun, and I’m glad I followed my childhood dream. Even if I get a craptacular career because I’m doodling comics, at least I fulfilled my dream.

It’s…alright, not too great but I’m still working on building my portfolio.

This was actually our first assignment in the computer colouring class, and I only dislike the first image. The other two I had fun colouring. The man in the moon wasn’t actually in the original lineart. But I love The Mighty Boosh too much to pass up that opportunity.

Okay, for our midterm, we have to colour two sequential comic pages, a pin-up and whatever we want. I chose to colour one of my most favourite comics, Kabuki. I absolutely love the painted style, it’s the kind of style I’d ideally want to create. Which I still strive for, traditionally. But I think I can pull it off well digitally. David Mack’s black and white pages are far more open to fancy colouring, which is why I chose this page:

And ran with it. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten to the page after this, that’s for another update.