We’re at Emerald City Comic Con!

Ananth and I will be attending ECCC in Seattle this weekend!  Stop by the Benign Kingdom booth at tables F12-F16, there’ll be all sortsa great people hangin’ out there.

her hair like blood.  pencil, photoshop.

Another old sketch that I dug out and colored.  Gosh I hope there’s no kids watching this blog.  Go away, kids.  Come back in a week.

Death and the Hearth.  Pencil, photoshop.

There’s a open ballot to vote for the names of Pluto’s two unnamed moons and let-me-say-right-now, I am a huge supporter of one of them being named Persephone.  (Well it should technically be Prosperpina/Prosperpine if you’re going for the Roman names but I digress.)  The whole thing’s made me think a bunch about my own Hades and Persephone analogues; Dhio being an irritable creepy god of what people (mistakenly) assume is death and Kaia being an even-temepered goddess of the hearth and domesticated animals.

Anyway what I’m getting at is that, despite its being in first place, Vulcan really isn’t an appropriate name for a frigid moon of a dwarf planet.

Reason and Desire process. (final)

As promised, here’s the process gif of yesterday’s illustration.  The colors were originally more muted with soft greens instead of the yellow, but then I decided to shoot for a high-saturation primary palette.

There’s more of my process posts over here if you’re interested!

Reason and Desire.  pencil, photoshop.

Found this drawing from last year then kinda got carried away cleaning it up and coloring it.  I’m not 100% on the meaning of cosmos flowers, but the name means “balanced” and there’s a variety called the Psyche cosmos, so I went with ‘em.  (And Serona’s costume design is the same as from this illustration.)

I’ll post a process gif tomorrow!

Prakin’ Theon.  Fanart Fridayyyy

OH HEY HEADS UP, spoilers for ASoIaF: The Winds of Winter.  This was drawn back when the Theon sample chapter went up last year (which seems to have disappeared off the internet) and I fiddled the thing into a readable state after my buddy Chelsea asked me to dig it up.

Now that the Beast is slain, maybe I’ll try to do more Fanart Fridays in the future?  I’ve been meaning to draw some Vattu fanart for ages.

Hourly Comics: 2013

We posted the second half of my 2013 hourly comics over at Johnny Wander!  Man, I was extra boring this year.  Although this is pretty much what my average day looks like; work a lot and don’t leave the apartment.

And again, here are some of my older hourly comics!

ananthymous:

We’re doing a release party for Johnny Wander V3: Ballad of Laundry Cat at Bergen St. Comics! I think we’ll have a projector set up - the plan is to do some drawing games with you guys! We’ll have the books and probably some other stuff - hope you can make it!

February 16th @ 7:30 PM
Bergen St. Comics
470 Bergen St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718.230.5600

bergenstreetcomics.com x johnnywander.com

Hopefully we’ll see you there! (and here’s last year’s poster if you want to see it!)

Benign Kingdom 2013 Dog Process. (final full logo)

Hey guys!  The Benign Kingdom Spring 2013 kickstarter only has a few hours left!  If it reaches $50K, Evan, Becky, KC, and myself will do a fresh new jam poster that will be sent to everyone who receives a physical shipment!  Also this group of artists is so rad, you guys.  I’ve seen these books and they are gorgeous.

Hourly Comics: 2013.

We posted (half of) this year’s hourly comics over at Johnny Wander!  The second half will go up on Thursday.  Here are some my older hourly comics!

Goblin on a Rooster process. (final illustration)

I’ve been enjoying sharing process gifs of the more involved/complex illustrations I’ve been doing.  I hope that’s cool with you guys!  There’s more of ‘em here if you’re interested.

Goblin Week is still goin’!  Lookit all those handsome gooblins.

Goblin on a Rooster.  Pencil, photoshop.

Evan declared this week Goblin Week and I could not refuse him.  There are two more days in Goblin Week if you would like to join along!  But truly, every week is Goblin Week.

I kinda made this fella up as I went along so he might be more of an unusually small kobold than an unusually small goblin?  Also I think I was subconsciously channeling Lauren Pettapiece and/or Sam Bosma with this one, and while I’m here you guys should be following their tumblrs if you are not already.

and sorry for the goblin shark link up there.

Lion Queen process.

Put together a process gif of the thing I posted yesterday.  The initial sketch was 2.5”x3” because everything I draw is teeny always.

Lion Queen.  pencil, photoshop.

Meticulously cleaned up and colored a thing I drew at a coffee shop today.