SHOP
My comics are now available on INPRNT!
I’ve been adding them to the shop the last few weeks, starting with the most recent. Some of the older comics might need to be re-done before I can add them, but a lot of them are now available as prints! They come in a few different sizes too!
Check it out HERE!
COMICS
In case you missed them, here are the comics from May!
ART
If you recall from last month, I decided that this year I want to focus on my comic strip, anime-style and cartoon illustrations…as well as sketching characters and backgrounds…
In May, I talked specifically about working on cartoon, sketching and starting a landscape.
And that would have been a lot of fun!
Instead, May was wild! (In the best way!)
I started prepping for the landscape, and a new anime-style illustration…But then we went to the beach! And got a puppy!
I didn’t make any art on our trip. I just soaked up sunshine and inspiration, and took dozens of pictures of the ocean… So I suspect the landscape is going to evolve and use the inspiration from the trip! Get ready for some beachy art!
When we got home from vacation, we got a puppy! His name is Spaghetti and he’s super cute! But he’s also a total shock to our routine! So working on art has been a challenge lately!
I did manage this last weekend to chip away at my anime-style illustration, which was a pleasant surprise! Hope y’all are ready for some dog art too!
This is called “Fetch” and is now available as a print at INPRNT too!
It was a lot of fun to work on this piece in anticipation of getting our new dog! It was also super intimidating— I felt like I was never going to figure out the pose, I’d never really drawn a dog before, and I was nervous about getting the composition right for what I had in mind. It made it really hard to get started on the drawing. I felt like I really had to get it “right.” But I just kept reminding myself the goal wasn’t to make an amazing piece of art (though that’d be nice!) but to just do the work and learn in the doing. In the end, I’ll have a new illustration and a new foundation for starting my next piece!
Fortunately I’m really pleased with the illustration and I learned a ton! I consider it a success! And a healthy mind-set for approaching my work!
As for sketching, I always admire artists with like neat and tidy and pretty sketchbooks. I know I always struggle with mine being a scribbly mess. But I recently got a new sketchbook with just basic drawing paper, and a packet of Pilot Juice pens. They’re ballpoint which is like an old-school favorite style (compared to the fancy brush pens that I tend to use for illustrations). They’re all kinds of colors, which is fun, and I’ve just been taking a few minutes at a time to do my scribbly sketching, but make it cute and colorful!
I’m really really enjoying it. It feels like super no-pressure drawing again, like the “breakfast sketches” I used to do, but still let me fill the page. And the consistent colors is like a simple art-hack to make it look nice and cohesive-ish! 😉
I haven’t figured if I’ll try to do studies this way too, or stick to just doodles. It might be helpful to do both. I mean, I really should do studies. If I did studies, I wouldn’t have to learn so much on the fly working on an illustration! But it was hard to stick with breakfast sketches as they became more formal studies of artists I admire, and stuff I struggled to draw. So the key would need to be balance…as always.
For June, I’m hoping things will settle down a bit. That I’ll get even more of a routine with the puppy (and maybe a full night’s sleep?!). With the anime-style illustration done, I want to turn my focus back to the landscape project and see where that goes. And I should also start brainstorming a cartoony illustration. And make a new t-shirt. And work on my comic strip. And sketch some doodles. And do some studies, I guess…
Yeah, I better get to it!
Thanks for reading!
Bee Sauls Art 