Alisa's Sketches

King Con

2009-11-05T10:30:00.003-05:00

King Con is this Saturday and Sunday at the Brooklyn Lyceum. No word on table assignments at the moment, but Allan and I will be in the directory. In addition to Urban Nomad 2, I'll have copies of Urban Nomad 1, Counter Attack 1 & 2, sets of circus bookmarks, Darjeeling Limited mini postcards and packs of 3 Holiday card designs. Hope to see you there!

Urban Nomad # 2 preview!

2009-11-03T10:30:00.001-05:00

Look what I just got in the mail this past weekend! Allan and I will be at King Con this Saturday and Sunday (Nov 7 & 8) so you should stop by and check them out in person!

Here's a sample page! This issue contains 10 brand new stories from my life in NYC. Click the image to make larger.

I cleaned up the paypal links to the right and added some preview links to Counter Attack as well as my bookmarks. Check it out!

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-30T10:30:00.000-04:00

Pumpkin Time!

2009-10-27T10:30:00.002-04:00

A little watercolor I did over the weekend. Halloween always seems to creep up on me; I still need to find a cute pumpkin to carve.

bunnies

2009-10-22T10:45:00.001-04:00

I drew some bunnies during my commute the other day. Now that I'm done with UN 2, I'll have to get back to sketchbook drawing. I've run out of scanned art!

I'll be joining Allan at Game X in Philly this weekend. I'm looking forward to some sketch time while sitting behind his table.

three minute pose

2009-10-20T10:30:00.000-04:00

During the longer poses towards the end of class my mind wanders and I start sketching other people in the room. Some of you may recognize this guy:

life drawing from last week

2009-10-15T10:30:00.002-04:00

There was a great model last week. I usually get frustrated with the contortionist types, but it was working out alright that night.

cover thumbnails

2009-10-13T10:23:00.001-04:00

Hope you're not sick of my comic progress posts, but it's all I've been working on! Finishing up the cover paints this week.

random head doodles

2009-10-08T10:30:00.000-04:00

I did these at life drawing last night, but they're from my head, not the model.

phone sketches

2009-10-06T10:30:00.000-04:00

The Wildlife

2009-10-01T10:15:00.000-04:00

You can check out the animated series that I'm currently working on here. It's now airing in Denmark! We're working with pre-existing animation from the Danish studio and it's also dubbed (which is why the lip synch is off). Design by Zartosht Soltani, animation directed by Dan Forgione. This was the first episode I was on and I animated and cleaned up the boil on the moose's foot as well as the polar bear falling into the water in the climate cartoon.

Sneak peek panel from Urban Nomad #2

2009-09-29T10:15:00.001-04:00

18 down, 2 more pages left to ink. Then on to the cover art!

The Asifa East open screening is tonight at 7 pm at SVA and will be my one weeknight out so I can stay on schedule.

Comic in Color

2009-09-24T10:15:00.001-04:00

I had some time to color my previously grayscale submission from Lifemeter 2 a few weeks back. Although it won't be in Lifemeter 3, you can pick up said comic at SPX in Maryland this weekend. Perhaps next year I'll get down there myself.

Sketchcrawl #24 Corona Park

2009-09-22T10:15:00.001-04:00

A few friends joined me in Flushing on Saturday and we ended up walking to Flushing Meadows Corona Park, site of the World's Fair. These were done in my tiny moleskine-wannabe sketchbook. I also got to check out the Panorama at the Queens Museum: A scale model of the 5 boroughs, complete with tiny planes flying into LaGuardia. We ended the day with huge dinner at Buddha Bodai. I wish I'd realized they were family style portions!

Comics!

2009-09-17T10:15:00.001-04:00

I leave my desk for a minute and Fidget takes my chair. She's "helping."

I finished penciling Urban Nomad #2 over the weekend and here's the proof. (Though this was taken while I was figuring out the story order so 3 pages are missing.) For now, you'll just have to wait to see further details.

I also just found out that MoCCA is having an exhibition of Peter Kuper's "Diario de Oaxaca" starting tonight.

Events this week:

2009-09-15T10:15:00.000-04:00

Today- (Tuesday Sept 15)

David Levy signs his new book "Animation Development from Pitch to Production" in addition to a a panel discussion by animated series creators.

SVA 209 E 23rd
3rd floor Amphitheater
@ 7pm

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Friday- 2 Art 4 TV

Friday is the 2 Art 4 TV Gallery opening! A couple of my friends have work in the show and it promises to be pretty awesome.

Erebuni Gallery
158 Roebling St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn
6:00pm - 9:30pm
(To get there: L Train to Bedford Ave, walk south, left on N 4th, right on Roebling)

There's an afterparty at Trophy Bar.

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Saturday- Sketchcrawl #24

This Saturday September 19th is Sketchcrawl! There will be a group heading to Governer's Island. Check the forum for where and when to meet!

I'm trying to meet a deadline so I'll probably stay close to home to sketch. I don't mind company if you'd like to head out to Flushing, though I probably won't be out for too long. Just drop me an email so I know when to expect you.

And here's a sketch for reading all of that:

Classy lady

2009-09-10T10:30:00.000-04:00

A doodle I did in sketchbook pro after watching Funny Face.

Spa Castle

2009-09-07T10:30:00.000-04:00

A few of my friends and I finally got to check out Spa Castle in Whitestone last week. We spent the entire day there. I had such a great time that I had to do a sketch afterwards. I can't remember the last time I was so relaxed.

from an old pitch

2009-09-03T11:00:00.000-04:00

I did these character studies as part of some samples for a graphic novel project almost 2 years ago now. They chose someone else, so I figured these would never see the light of day otherwise. Also Jane Goodall is going to be speaking at B&N Union Square Thursday night which led to me digging these up.

Where did August go?

2009-09-01T11:27:00.003-04:00

The tail end of August finds me at the end of my backlog of scans from the summer. I'll have to get some newer stuff up soon. For now, here's a handful that I didn't hate from the last drawing session a few weeks back.

Flushing Meadows

2009-08-27T11:00:00.000-04:00

A few more from the dragon boat races a few weekends ago. I'm heading back to PA this weekend and am looking forward to getting some sketching done there.

Grace

2009-08-25T10:40:00.000-04:00

One of my roommates from college had her second child recently so I sent her the original watercolor.

Drawing class is over for now...

2009-08-21T11:36:00.003-04:00

...but I still have a backlog of drawings to post! These were some 3-4 minute poses from a few weeks back. I got to hang out with some old work buddies and watch some new cartoons from the NY animation scene on Wednesday night. Good times.

Another hot afternoon...

2009-08-18T14:06:00.003-04:00

...reminded me to post some more poolside sketches from 2 weeks ago.

Dragon Boats

2009-08-15T13:51:00.002-04:00

Last Saturday Allan and I went with some friends to Flushing Meadows to watch the Dragon Boat Races. There were a lot of kids flying kites in a field where we stopped to eat lunch.