sweet!

This is probably the best compliment I ever got, Steve Rolston used my comic page I made in his comic course on his 2011 flyer!

See my page right there on the bottom right above my name. Well, I think it's pretty awesome. BTW, you should take that course. 

Also, GK Studios is going to be represented at the January 16th Vancouver Comiccon. I have a poster here for you.

Finished art

Finished my painting, wasn't as good as I hoped but whatever, it is what it is.

Watercolours

Work in Progress

Working on some art that ISN'T a comic page is rare, so it's real nice to be able to do. What with winter coming and all, I did a wintery image of Iada and Unicorn.

Its far from done, I've only painted about an hour, but I thought I'd make use of my blog and post some work in progress shots.
Especially since the process is a bit strange, especially on her coat.

I cropped out a lot of the background, but it hasn't been painted yet anyway.

Close up of Iada's face, I inked it all in grey except for her hair, which I inked in Wine coloured multiliner

Yes, of course it's watercolours.

Comic Creators Alliance

Well, since I had the time and it was for a good cause, I decided once again to participate in the Comic Creators Alliance. Which is a fund Raiser to stop human trafficking. Last year Almost 100 comic creators came together to create a massive wallpaper that was given out  by donation.
This year they are doing the same thing, with a new twist that you'll have to donate and get the wallpaper to find out. Over 50 people have already signed up, and it's barely begun, so this years wallpaper will be awesome!

So, I painted a nice new image of Iada for it, and in order to see the full image, you'll have to donate to the cause when donations are started in January.

Keep an eye out!






Also, If you don't watch the Gurukitty Blog, I finished the 4 Page comic, the Bachelors and the Python from school and posted them. You should scoot over there and have a look see =>

Done School!

Woot! Survived! I finished the introduction to comic production course at Vanarts.
Lots of stuff I already knew, lots of new info and it was nice to make a comic in someone else's methods.
Steve Rolston is an awesome teacher!
All in all, very beneficial, Daqueran feels like a pile of crap now,  but I'm okay with that, it's just a webcomic, I have other projects aside to do more seriously.

Well in that course we made a 4 page comic and I chose to do a small condensed section of a graphic novel project I'm planning to do after Daqueran is done. I'm making a mini sub-site for it and I'm going to post a teaser online on some sites.
I just want to fix some inks and stuff and re-letter it. I really had to rush at the last minute to get it all done so it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be.

Also, I bought a couple of Steve's comics, One Bad Day and Pounded, which were both awesome.

I'm going to post the pages on a new site and on the gurukitty studios blog in a few minutes

I will never understand how someone could pay 600$ for an art course and not try and take full advantage of it. I feel like my classmate really doesn't belong there, every class I'm wondering why he even bothered.

He never agrees with anything Steve (the instructor) says and he never brings anything to class to work on!

Last class one of the students, in our 3 student class, was sick so it was just me and him. It was a work class, where you just work and as you work you can ask questions and the instructor can point out your flaws as you make them, etc. Well this student decided he wasn't going to stay, he just came to get his thoughts and leave.

So that leaves me sitting there, Steve said because I was the last one there, I could go when I was ready. I had no questions and I was just drawing so I felt guilty hanging around and making Steve stay just for me, when I really didn't need him at the moment, so I went home as soon as I got a good start on my pages.

It just seems so ridiculous to spend the money and not listen. The guy seems to struggle constantly and you'd just cringe when you hear him ask questions and shit because you can tell he just wasn't listening and he wasn't paying attention.

It irritates me because he takes up time that my other Classmate and I deserve. I don't have too many questions, I get the most out of the critiques, but I think my other classmate sure could use the extra time.

Anyway, i just needed to vent that. We only have like 3 classes left and it really irritates me.

Also, I have no voice right now so I cant talk to anyone and vent properly. HAHA

I have a bad cold and I lost my voice, noone can understand me and I feel like an idiot.

Oh, I'm going to be making some cuuuuuuute little blank sletchbooks with GK Studios artwork on them for the convention this weekend!

I hope my voice comes back before then 0_0

Vancouver Comiccon

November 14th

Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street, Vancouver, BC

Bookbinding + School

I've been wanting to do some bookbinding for a long time, because as an independent/self published comic artist, mini comics are a bit of a necessity.

A while back I even bought a cute little book at Opus called "Indy Publishing" because it had really clear and easy to follow how to instructions on a variety of different binding techniques.

Well, today, because of a contest Guruubii was doing for a

marker blog hop thingy, I had to bind a little book for the first time.

I just used a single *signature pamphlet style binding method described in my book.

What I made was a tiny little lineart comic, printed on marker paper stock, thats meant for people to colour. I even included blank pages in the back for people to draw and colour in, so it's a mini colouring book and sketchbook.

It was totally fun to do, I cant wait to do more with some sketches or just blank cute paper with hand drawn covers.

Well anyway, you will be able to find this book I bound at conventions I go to and on the shop.

*A signature is a bundle of pages, for thicker books you need to make several bundles and stitch them in individually.

Yesterday at school was the first day we actually got to sit and work on our projects.

It was funny, It was weird to get critiques and instruction from someone who doesn't belittle you and insult you as they do it.

Deviantart is hideous for that, people have no clue how to critique artwork, they're so arrogant and disgusting and just plain rude. You can barely see their point through the crap they are spewing... that is even if they have something to say, I find more often now, people critique in a nasty way just to get attention or cheap page-views. Thankfully, you can block that kind of troll now.

Not that thats news to me, it's been a long time since I actually sought out a critique on Deviantart, and theres not much chance of me ever requesting a critique on DA again because of that. The community is not what it was 3 years ago, thats for sure.

Anyway, I got lots of good advice on my thumbnails, but I wasn't really fully done my script so it made it a little weird. Script and Thumbnails are both due next class.

But it really opened my eyes to weaknesses I have and where i need to start concentrating more. Putting more thought into areas like moments and timing.

It also helped assure me that I am on the right track with some of the decisions I've made in my comics as well. It's nice to know my instincts on some things were quite good.

I'm working on a teaser that will be for my next graphic novel project, The Bachelors and the Python.

Also, I bought the book "Making Comics" by Scott Mcloud and it's awesome. If you haven't seen it, it's actually a graphic novel, which is rockin'. It has lots of good information and it is really good for reference.

What I REALLY like about it is the fact that he is not arrogant or self important at all. He's quite humble, acknowledges other artists strength and most importantly his own weaknesses. He doesn't claim to be the end all authority on comics, and he doesn't glorify himself in anyway.

It's totally refreshing!

It makes the book way more easy to read and makes the information he's giving not seem so overwhelming.

I totally would recommend that book to anyone interested in making comics...

or to anyone who thinks making comics is easy!

Anyway, fun timez :>

Comic Introduction Course with Steve Rolston

I started a comic course at Vanarts, taught by Steve Rolston, a sweet comic artist that knows his shit. SOME of you might be saying "Why the fuck would you pay for a course when you've been doing comics for so long?"

Well the answer is simple, I've only taught myself, through books, trial and error and tutorials, I've never been to art school at all. While thats fine, I have nothing against self aughtedness, but it's a lot slower a process and it's much more difficult.

I wanted formal training in something and a comic course seemed the best idea.

Daqueran is a big experiment for me, I wanted to see if I could actually keep up a comic and finish it all the way through, and actually see if comics were what I really wanted to do or if I wanted to stick to book illustration or something like that. Obviously, as the series isn't complete, it's an ongoing experiment thats not complete.

I did learn that YES, Comics is what I really want to do, so thats when i made the decision to do the comic course.

I eyed a couple, there was one at Emily Carr, that was much cheaper, but I am not a fan of Emily Carr. The one at Vanarts seemed much more intensive and thorough, so I chose.

I'm glad I did.

I've been having a good time there, and while for someone who's done comics for a while, it's moving a bit slow, the pace is starting to pick up and it's getting funner and more exciting now that we are scripting.

In the course you have to make a 4 page comic, so i decided to make the 4 page comic a kind of teaser for a type of comic I wanted to do for a long time.

So yeah. I think I'll use this blog to talk more about the course and my experiences in the comic world.

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