smokewithoutmirrors

So, tagged me to do this, and why the heck not. As always, if people want to keep track of what I actually do these days,come over to my Tumblr

RULES
1. Each person must share 10 things about them.
2. Answer the 10 questions asked to you, and invent 10 new questions that shall be asked to the people you will tag.
3. Choose 10 people, and put their icon on your journal. (... We'll see how many people I tag)

10 things
1. I started drawing in kindergarten, and drew nothing but horses for 10 years.
2. I have never dyed my hair.
3. I am very rarely ill.
4. I kind of suck at swimming, but still go swimming once a week.
5. I am a cat person.
6. I am a bookworm.
7. ... and yes, I have read the entirety of Moby Dick, from cover to cover.
8. My hometown has only 600 inhabitants.
9. I kind of suck at video games, but play them anyway.
10. I am a real scatterbrain.

's questions:
1. Do you like goats?
Yes! I mean, who doesn't? *Fainting goats* are a real thing! If that is not pure joy, I don't know what is.
2. What is your opinion on VATMOSS?
Fuck. VATMOSS. Thanks for eliminating any hopes that I, a freelance comic artist, could conceivably make a living off my work.
3. What is your middle name?
Maria. It's a family name.
4. Can I have your credit card number, please?
Hahahahahahaha - no.
5. What is your biggest dream at the moment?
To somehow get to make comics for a living.
6. Do you have any pets?
Yes - one huge, fluffy, grumpy cat.
7. If you were a fruit, which one would you be?
Pineapple.
8. Do you drink tea?
Only all the time.
9. If you draw/paint, what is your ideal art style or goal with your art?
To achieve a good balance between drawing pretty pictures and getting the story across. Hyperrealism is impressive, but I don't actually like it that much. Give me cartoonishly expressive art instead.
10. Name five people here on dA whom you admire for their art!
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My questions:
1. Do you have any personal projects going on right now? Comics, making your own game, etc.?
2. If you like movies, what kind of movies do you like best?
3. In the same vein, what sort of characters do you like best in stories?
4. Favourite ice-cream flavour?
5. Preferred software for drawing digitally? (PS, Manga Studio, SAI?)
6. What's your soundtrack?
7. Early mornings or late nights?
8. You can have coffee/tea with any three people in the world - who do you pick?
9. How many books do you have in your home?
10. What is something you'd like to learn more about?

Tagging:

Whoah, it's been a while since I last updated my journal over here, huh?

To be honest, I'm not very active on dA any more - Tumblr has sort of swallowed me whole. I still wander over here pretty frequently to check my inbox and so on, but most of my art gets posted to Tumblr.

If you want anything, you can still contact me here and I'll definitely see it and reply, but if you want to see what I'm up to, Tumblr is the place to be stalking me - you can find the link up in the header. If you're keen on knowing what I babble about when I'm NOT drawing, you can stalk me on Twitter - the link to which is also, conveniently, in the header.

Super-late to the party, as always when it comes to technology, I've finally gotten myself a Tumblr-account!

Here you can find daily warm-up sketches, paintings, character concepts, even short comics (eventually): it will most definitely be updated more frequently than my dA-gallery, since I use dA for my slightly more finished stuff.


And in other very exciting news - I've got a job! An illustration job! Yay!

This means more money coming in, but it also means pretty much full-time work as well; very little time to do anything else. I'll try - and I'll certainly be posting warm-up stuff on Tumblr - but expect updates in my gallery here to be few and far between.


For those interested - I'm lettering Fathoms III right now, and storyboarding pt. IV.

Or, well, more or less. The most labour-intensive part of the work is done - the inking!

There's some neat previews on my sketchblog.

I still need to clean up, letter and do a cover/titlepage, but it's almost, almost ready to go to print.

I'm so excited!

Yup, you read that right - my 24-hour-comic-turned-webcomic, Flatland is finished!

Other things are happening over here as well. I finished the second chapter of my fanzine, Fathoms of the Sky and it went on sale att Stockholm's International Comics Festival - and later this week, I'm taking my remaining fanzines to a con in Uppsala. I'm also working on part III - and am well on my way into inking it.

The ultimate plan is to finish the whole thing and release it, collected into a single volume - which would weigh in at around 200-ish pages. But that's a project for a far-flung future.

After I started posting Flatland, I've been toying with the idea of making a longer-format webcomic. I'm sure I would enjoy it - it's good practise, I adore making comics, and it'd be a good challenge to set myself (both in terms of deadlines; getting the pages out on time, and in terms of tailoring my art-style to something that CAN produce finished, coloured pages at a reasonable rate).

Alas, I am at loss for what it would be about. It's not that I don't have ideas - it's that I have too many of them. Way, waaay to many. Ideally, I'd sit down and brainstorm a bit on all of them until I could decide which one to pursue.

However, I might have landed myself one of those mythical JOBS people keep talking about, so time is in short supply.