So much art after a long Hiatus!

Poor, poor neglected blog. It'd be a bit of an understatement to say this semester has been insane. I've had all studio classes where I'm having to actually turn out pages and still make them look good, so my work load's kicked up a lot this quarter. On top of that I have to balance my crazy schedule at the book store, find time to spend with a awesome guy I met that happens to have a crazier schedule than me, and now I'm dealing with a crazy new room mate as well. I'd say my life is pretty exciting, if it wasn't wearing me out so much. As much as I've enjoyed this semester (Editors Forum! Friday Temples! Small Classes!), I'm more than ready for the holidays. I'll be heading back to Texas all of December, and hopefully I'll remain productivewhile I've got the time off. I definitely have projects I need to be working on anyway.

Anywho, to prove I'm not all talk, here's some examples of what I've been working on lately.

This is page one of a three page comic for Nolans Digital Coloring Class. Now I just have to throw down some colors on here @_@

These pages are a 3 page silent argument story done for Shawns Visual Storytelling Class.
Dont ask why, but a lot of my stories this semester have tended to be somewhat dark and violent 8| . . .

Aaaaand Some character sketches for my Final in Visual Storytelling. This 6 page comic is going to kick serious ass. I'm just warning y'all now.

Oh yeah, and a colored response to one of the Temples sketch challenges. I haven't had time to do any other ones yet, but I was restless the other night and needed to knock out an illustration for old times sake. I haven't gotten to do a pin up in months ;_;
(Technically the challenge was The Batman, but I still dont like him very much, so I used this as a good excuse to draw Tim Drake. What? Stop looking at me like that.)
Also, they're apparently standing in a giant mountain of Mashed Potatoes. On a roof top. Dont question it, just accept it.

Today was like, new student check in or something, so new kids have been running around the dorms moving all of their stuff in and what not. My room's right by the elevator, so people are walking by all the time, but I like having the blinds open to let the sunlight in. My room mate, however, gets all creeped out whenever someone walks by and glances in the room.

She may not like what I'm making for our window 8D I just decided it needed some... decoration X)
So I started out by creating a large line drawing, inked with (gasp!) a br

ush pen!

Then I decided, hey, it's going to get aged by the sun anyway if I put it in the window, I'll

 encourage the look by staining the heck out of the paper with old Barley Tea I had laying around.

And then I was all gung-ho about dripping things onto the paper, so I thought I'd try out a technique used by Nanamirio (featured in Comickers).  Basically you just drop copic ink directly onto the paper and it spreads in crazy ways.  I only have Baby Skin Pink ink, so I just used this method on Eff, but then I realized this was just like dripping Alcohol on Watercolors so... I did a lot of that too 8D But yeah, I'm definitely going to be investing in more bottles of copic inks for this technique~

Then I threw down some details with watercolors and white gouache X)

(p.s. I think I like the little tattoo design more than anything else in this piece XD)

Then I moved on to the carousel horses.  They're just there because the room mate is crazy about horses, and I thought they'd look whimsical 8D

And it's almost finished!

Cut out and ready to be hung in the window... but oh god, look at the mess I made...