Spectrum update!

I just got my Spectrum acceptance letter in the mail and it looks like this was their favorite page of mine!

I had the feeling this picture was going to be pretty well received when I first made it, but it's proven to be a fave of people who check my stuff out



And I swear, I really have been plugging away at new comics stuff out here the last few months. Here's a quick teaser-like object to get you thinking

Drawing these wacky, distorted gestures is way too fun. I wish I could do it alllllll day and never have to draw realistic, upright poses :B


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Sam Weber/Jillian Tamaki aftermath

Seeing Sam Weber and Jillian Tamaki on Tuesday was amazing! They were the first people in a long LONG time to get me excited about illustration in general again. For the last year or two I've felt like I wasn't cut out to be a normal editorial/book cover/etc illustrator and comics were all that really interested me, but the two of them really made it, for lack of a better term, COOL to me again.

I grabbed Sam after he gave his demo and told him how seeing his work helped set me on the course to where I am now and gave him a copy of Love Story in the Woods. I can't believe how nervous I was in the first ten seconds I talked to him, it was ridiculous!

Anyways, I'm definitely going to start making more non-comics work this year alongside the comics stuff I'm already doing. I'll do at least one right after I finish the first five or six pages of the current comic, and here's the sketch for the second page!!

I have an unhealthy obsession with writing down song lyrics that sound profound while I'm drawing.

ALSO: I may be sending more books to another comic shop overseas soon!! I don't want to give away any details and jinx my pants off, but Western Europe might want to start getting pumped!! :O


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the first drawing of the new comic!

This obviously isn't the finished page, but I'll probably have it done by the end of the week :D

Things are well underway with the new book and I'm getting very very close to having the whole thing written out. The first handful of pages will be in black and white, so I can knock them out relatively painlessly, but then we'll be moving into the color pages and there might be a little stall while I figure things out.

It will be amazing though, so get psyched.


Also, here's one of the images that the CFSL folks accepted which hasn't appeared on the blahg yet. It's ridiculous that I was so unaware of how personal Love Story in the Woods was to me while I was making it :B

Anyways...



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very quick update

progress has been slower than usual on the current short comic, and it's not just because i'm screwing around all the time. i'm putting in that extra time and work to make sure that i get everything as perfect as i can get them, and that means redrawing the same panels over a bunch of times until they're more than just good enough.

if anyone is interested in seeing what a terrible draughtsperson i can be on my off days, i can post some scrapped preliminary stuff in the future sometime. for now, however, i've got a couple keepers that you can use to inspire your imagination :D

i use a lot of tracing paper while i'm drawing so that i can draw people and objects overlapping more easily. i left most of the layers visible in the pictures above so you can get an idea of what i'm talking about


and here's another Love Story in the Woods spread for anyone who hasn't bought a book yet:

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progress is slow this month

i've been working hard to get things rolling on my current comic story, but MAN have there been a lot of distractions lately. nevertheless, here's a scan of a sketch for an upcoming page. it's missing a big component in the top left that i drew on another paper, as well as most of the background information, but here's a little glimpse of what my life looks like:

i should also mention that i've been getting closer and closer to making my book available online. my good friend in Chicago helped me test payments with Paypal, and while everything seems to be working fine i still need to fine tune the shipping end of things before i start accepting money from people. in the meantime, anyone interested in buying a book should definitely just email me

i've been trying to avoid putting all of the Love Story pages on the blahg, but since it's taken us longer than expected to get the official grimwilkins.com online i feel like i should drop a few pictures on here:

it's weird showing the pictures in their full splendor like this, since they're intended to be folded in the middle and made into two page spreads, but they still look okay and you can at least get an idea of what to expect



ANYWAYS, that all took longer to write than i expected!! thanks to everyone who has bought a book or taken the time to look through it and told me what you thought. it means a lot!!

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a little bit of what you've missed

told you i'd be back

so i don't have a ton to share with you right this second, since i sold my camera recently and most of my stuff isn't exactly scannable right now, but here are a few of the pages from my Ellipses promo book that never made it to the blog

(these are two-page spreads, so you'll have to use your imagination and pretend there's a crease in the middle. they look a LOT better in print, i swear)

and here are a few little figure drawings i did a couple weeks ago. i haven't had the chance to do as much of this stuff as i'd like, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, right?

those last few were done in an amazing sketchbook i got from my good buddy Jose Moreno. a brown plaid-clothed cover with gray stonehenge paper inside in landscape format?? you know you want one. they don't cost much more than a crappy Canson sketchbook you'd get at the art store, so you might as well get your checkbook ready and send him an email

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comic stuff

hey everyone. here are un-touched up scans of the cover and a page from the comic. there are still like six pages i need to scan/photograph and the back cover to paint (which will be so fun!! i'm seriously psyched!!), then i'm going to strategically insert some text and send this thing off the printers!! whose printers remains to be seen...

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more progress

i've also been working on some completely unrelated paintings on canvas. here's how that is going

(sorry for the janky photos, i don't have lots of space in my room to shoot these things)

let's get this party started

hey everybody. so i finally got around to making a place to post art that i've been working on, and figured i'd kick it off with some comic pages that sat on the wall above my drawing table for way too long before i finally finished them last week. they need to be tuned up in photoshop a bit before i "do" anything with them, but here they are in all their raw glory

see you soon!