Slipping Through 3.0

The hardest part of learning is that when you start a project, two weeks later the work you've already done is nowhere near the quality of what you're doing presently. Twice I have started Slipping Through and now I'm going for three.

The summer I am dedicating my time to the epic tale of Slipping Through, the tale of a world quite like ours. Expect, here, magic is practiced openly and one might become a Magician the same way one might become a doctor, an attorney or insurance salesman.
The story takes place after a time when the world almost ended, but was repaired in time to save it, though not without cost. The world does not remember how the sky cracked open and other worlds began to slip through into theirs. They do not remember the brave Magicians who made terrible sacrifices to save everyone. It as if none of it ever happened.
The world, however, was imperfectly repaired and there are a few people who remember what happened. Maggie, our hero, remembers. She remembers the magicians who sacrificed themselves so completely that their very existences were destroyed, making so it is as if they were never even born.
Now Maggie's worse fears are being realized: the cracks are reopening and her warnings fall on deaf ears.
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Maggie is not our only hero, there will be at least six different story lines that converge for the final quest to save the world from cracking apart once more.

This summer I will begin the final version of Slipping Through (No more restarts!) and you will meet everyone from Ting the shape-shifter to the Gray Prince, an exile from another world.

Some Changes

Since Barbara's Artistic Achievements is taking care of my traditional mediums, I'm removing all of those posts from this blog, leaving just my webcomics, Slipping Through and Pretzel and the Princess.

All the images of my acrylic, ceramic and other traditional work are all on Artistic Achievements. Link should be on the right-hand side, tell me if you can't find it.

It has been too long since I've posted

So here are a couple pictures of a character of mine. His name is Matthew and he's been floating around in my head for about six years. It's only within the last month that I've figured out exactly what he looks like and drawn a satisfactory picture of him.
Nice shades, yes?




This is what he looked like when I drew him two years ago.

Quite a change. The only constants seem to be his earrings and wings. His personality, cheerful and snarky, has never changed, though.

His origins are quite interesting: I dreamed of him one night. A winged man with dark red skin and bright red hair. He seemed interesting and I used him as a character in a story I was working on. The story no longer exists, but within it he lived in the mountains fighting monsters all day, being extremely cheerful. I changed his hair to black and gave him silver claws that froze whatever they slashed.
Nowadays he can't do that, his claws are black, and he can shift back and forth between his human and winged forms.

He probably owes his existence to the fact I adored the show Gargoyles as a child. But by the time I dreamed him up it had been five years since I had last seen the show and had pretty much forgotten it existed. In fact, Matthew eventually reminded me of the show and I ended up watching episodes of it on youtube and getting hooked on it again. Except for the third season. There was never a third season. Never, do you hear me? NEVER.

Ahem

For school I have started up a third blog. Aside from this one and The In Joke blog, I now have Barbara's Artistic Achievements which will showcase all of my work at school as well as anything I happen to paint or draw in my free time.

So, hear this! This blog will no longer have posts with any of my traditional mediums. All of that work will be going to the new blog. This one will focus on my two comics: Slipping Through and Pretzel and the Princess.

For your comic needs, come here.
If you need a dose of humor head over to The In Joke. http://theinjoke.blogspot.com/
Interested in my serious work? Go over to Artistic Achievements. http://artisticachievements.blogspot.com/

Slipping Through (new): Part 3

I have been told I draw quite the adorable penguin.

Hm. I drew these pages this summer and altered them quite a bit since then. And already my art has progressed to the point where I want to redraw all these pages from scratch. However, I would never get anything done that way since I would be starting over every month. So I'm finishing up three more pages I drew this summer before I start to bring in my more recent work.

In the next installment we shall go to Maggie's place of work and meet her fellow employees. Needless to say, they are an interesting bunch.

Hello, long neglected blog

Goodness me, so many projects, so little time. This is just a note of what is to come.
1. The product's of last semester's sculpture class. Three pieces I must photograph and post.
2. Pretzel and the Princess: I have not abandoned it. I just need to ink more pages.
3. Slipping Through: I have about forty pages drawn. Just need to find the time to color them all.
4. My paintings. Must post my summer's work.
5. I am currently in a print making class which means I need to scan my work and post it here.

My, I have let my work pile up. And as I make this list I observe two things: that I'm marvelous at procrastination and that I have quite a bit of diversity in my work. Not that anyone has been pointing that out recently . . .

Also, I am using the computer in the art lab. This keyboard is disgraceful. Maybe I'm just used to my laptop, but it feels as if the keys here are sticking more than a bit. That is my excuse for a lack of further eloquent elaboration.

Pretzel and the Princess: Part 5

Just a brief update. We meet the other sister! I don't think it was mentioned, but her name is Regan. She is the middle child. Goneril the oldest. Our heroine the youngest.