In memory of my yellow nib holder...

Please enjoy this little experimental three page comic, starring my yellow nib holder and drawn with my yellow nib holder. I drew it maybe about a year and a half ago. It's very Freudian, as I was trying to say something about art and sex but I couldn't remember what exactly. Nonetheless I find it still interesting to look at and I hope you do too.

Worst day of 2009 (so far) - goodbye yellow nib holder

Before I get whiney, Happy New Year to everybody who's reading this blog (how many of you are out there? Three?). I hope you've had a great holiday, I sure am as I'm spending mine back in the big apple.

I was spending my day in the Rockefeller Center making drawings for the comic book I'm currently working on. The Rockefeller Center has a lot of cultural significances and is loaded with art and information, which make it a great place to draw. I've already been drawing for a while and my fingertips were starting to freeze and that's when I dropped my yellow nib holder and it fell into the sewer...

For those of you who don't know, a nib holder is a stick, most of the time made of plastic, which... well, holds nibs. This way you can change the nibs of your pen when they get worn out or change different types of nibs that make different types of marks.

This yellow nib holder has been with me for a very long time, so long that I can't even remember how long I've had it. It holds nibs that are slightly differently sized than the one's you'll find in North American art stores. My favorites nibs are the Maru-pen and the G-pen, which are commonly used amongst Japanese manga artists, especially the G-pen, which is capable of making a wide range of marks like a musical instrument that has a wide range or high and low notes and a variety of tones.

Rest in peace, my beloved nib holder. I guess at least I'll have a whole lot of drawings that we made together to remember you by.

About time for an update

This one is for all you cat people.

Meow decided to have a sleepover on my bed a couple of nights ago and I made a quick drawing before I went to sleep. I accidentally squashed her with my comparatively gigantic body a couple of times in the middle of the night but hey that's the price you pay for claiming someone else's bed your own.

I'm pretty sure she's gained tremendous weight since the end of July when I took her over, what a fat ass.

Autumn in Vancouver

Vancouver is at its best when the leaves change colour before they fall. It's brief, like any other thing you'll find beautiful, so you'll have to take, or even better, make, a picture of it before it's gone.

More kiddo drawings

Even though I just got the news that I'm gonna lose my job, my boss needs a little time finding someone who qualifies for the position so she asked the government for a one week grace period. Long story short I'm still working this week and I plan to draw the kids as much as I can before I'm done Biatch!

Twister

I have been stealing time from work to draw the kids I'm working with at the childcare centre. Unfortunately I just got laid off last week, apparently the government is getting on my boss's back about her new staff needing to have experiences or a certificate since we're getting funding for special need kids. Tough twist!

Dear Letters

Dear Letters is a comic book that I've been working on for quite a while now. I have been thumbnailing, drawing, painting, writing, rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, and rewriting in the past 9 months or so but it's still a long way from completion. I didn't know what I was signing myself up for when I planned it out to be six chapters long with a gazillion stories going on all at once, but it's nothing a little bit of rewriting couldn't fix.

I can't wait to rewrite some more!