Butterflies and Hurricanes

Long time no update. Oh my poor school blog. How I miss thee. :<

Have the latest Trials of Triple A to get you by along with the slew of other updates following. :3

Enjoy~

Can't A Boy Get Some Love?

The Trials of Triple A is back in action with odd couple hilarity, gender ambiguous hijinks, and a good dose of tender drama to top it all off. Not only that! It has it's own site now! Amazing! :D Now gone independent from The Connector the content is no longer appropriate for all ages, and as also gone color! :D

Hope to see ya around.

The Trials of Triple A @ Nomad Chronicle

Triple A Bonanza!

I realized I hadn't stuck any Trials of Triple A up here in a long time. And since I know quite a few out there that forget to grab the Connector from week to week I give you the whole enchilada to date. :D The last strip actually hits stands this Friday but when has anyone been against a sneak peek? :3 A Hint: It's actually a three part story in the works~

Irony out of doing this babies all quarter from switching up ways I do them from digital, to hand drawn, to inking with nibs and brush, to technical pens looking for just the right line quality... In the end hand drawn on Copic Multiliners are the way to go. It's almost like coming full circle since that's how they started. Oh irony. :D

Enjoy. :3

Trials Of Triple A #4

And now we're back to our regularly scheduled lunacy for dear little Triple A and his long suffering best friend John. One day John will make a man out of the Boy Princess.... it just won't be today.

Again I get to sneak My Little Ponies into something. I know, there's a special ring of hell waiting just for me. *laughs* Still figuring out how to block in the shadow shapes on Triple A's jacket, it's still not there yet for me, but I'm figuring out his hair more and more. This was done digitally again as there's zilch workspace and terrible lighting here at the folk's place. I really don't like the digital inking on these and think I'm going to set up in the kitchen and bust out the Holbien and the G-Pen.

Enjoy. :3

The Trials of.... Rapunzel?!

Let's just say we have too much fun on over in The Connector office, for April Fools we're pulling a little switcheroo where everyone switches out on everyone else's comics. I won't tell you who's doing what as that would spoil the surprise, but as you can see here the strip I picked to spoof was Rapunzel by Angela Sasser using the Trials of Triple A Cast and Triple A himself as the..... not quite fair damsel.

I tried to stay true to some elements of Rapunzel, such as being done all digital, and echoing the 'scratchboard' like shading from it in Triple A's jacket. However Rapunzel constantly uses a single Meta-panel in a homage to Dave McKean's Sandman days and very rarely do I have a gift for them. I'm still trying to work out being more careful of my accidental tangents! I'll kill my tangenting tendencies yet!

Enjoy. :3

A Double Dose Of Triple A!

A twofer tonight! Here's the colors for the Ahimsa action sheet which I got it down to such a science took only seventy minutes, I timed myself by watching a disc of Band of Brothers while working and finished twenty minutes into the second episode on the disc. Let's hope I can stay that speedy! :D Only the..... Ahimsa minus his uniform has any complicated cuts on him because I wanted to bring out his muscle tone and that's the only one that took any amount of time to do. :3

The second is the latest Trials Of Triple A strip which won't be seeing print until next week. But here's a sneak peek. :>

N-Joi. :3

The Trials of Triple A

Since my previous concept for my Character Design Final tanked, which was just as well since it wasn't my first idea anyway, my Editor in Chief of the Connector was really taken by it and she had been really on my case to start submitting a strip again regularly.



I was watching History of the Joke on History Channel and one comedian explained that he found his material by making fun of his life. So I thought about it and thought about it and what better way of the true story in my own life of the constant running gag of how it seemed my straight friends were magnets for gay waiters. XD Also more of a play with black and white shapes, forground, middleground, and background, as well as what I've been learning in character design all rolled into one. There's a couple tangents here and there that aren't going to kill me but I just know to be more mindful of them in the future. Also Memo To Me: Don't hand ink elipses. Just DON'T. I think I'm going to experiment with Chibi Ahimsa's hair more because I'm unsure if I like that halo around the sections of it. I mean it's done with a purpose but I can hear Shawn screaming in my head of 'AUGH. HALO HALO HALO. YOU FAIL.' D:



Enjoy and look forward to more. :3