Here she is, my senior project still on the slab. Twelve 22x30 gouache and watercolor painted pages due at the end of the quarter.... why on earth would I do this to myself you ask? Because deep down inside is an evil self deprecating Brooke Allen who never passes up a chance to self sabotage... curse her.
So heres a little process, if you've got time to kill and you're curious about what on earth I was thinkin when I made A Home for Mr.Easter you can see my post on process HERE.
I know some of this is redundant, but these were the Aesop designs that got displayed (and ultimately won!!!!) at Citrus Cel this year.
Next step: get these sheeps in motion!
This time Vengeance was spelled right... but if you read any of the character bios there is a bounty of typos ... but I guess I was banking on no one would read it... D:
(story boards, animatics, and backgrounds to come!)
MoCCA: MoCCA was fantastic and everything I had hoped it'd be!!! NYC was amazing and it was an awesome experience sharing the NBM table with Greg Houston, Neil Kleid, and Ted Rall which I owe Terry Nantier big time for. I sold out of A Home for Mr. Easter and had a chance to get my feet wet signing/sketching in books (which is utterly horrifying). I also snagged a copy of Greg's blaxploitation meets the pope comic Vatican Hustle which is seven different shades of groovy and if you haven't read it already then there's no place in my good books for your kind. Over all it was a great weekend that went very well....
Switching gears to things that DIDNT go so well:
If you've seen THIS then you've seen the face of satan breaking your dreams
My hard drive died and took everything with it to Mac Book Pro hell where I hope it's happy burning for the unforgivable sin of ruining my life!!! And if you ask me why on earth I didn't back everything up I'll answer by killing you. So we'll just silently acknowledge that I am the worlds most heinously dumb human being and walk chin up into the future....
Here's some drawings of little nature things I did three years ago...
... BECAUSE THEY WERE THE LAST THINGS I BACKED UP
So all in all I learned my lesson: back up your files or gamble with the fates (and lose).
.... I like to believe that when apple tried to save my data it happened exactly like this:
Check this sweet poster by Dash Shaw... that I will certainly make a point to snatch
SO I'M GOIN TO MoCCA!! I'll be there helping push A Home for Mr.Easter into every hand humanly possible. In addition to that Terry of NBM has enlightened me that the first 25 people to enter the after party gets a free copy of the book which is awesome... or there could be 25 copies of A Home for Mr.Easter being used as drink coasters when I get there...which would ALSO BE AWESOME!!!
In addittion to signing Mr.Easters I'll have a ton of pins (see fig. below):
Also Mars Import will be carrying limited addition signed copies!
I'm getting pretty pumped for that after party... getting fashionably plastered to cosmic Psychenaut jams provided by DJ PULPHOPE, stumbling back to the hotel room that I'm sharing with my parents and their 2 chihuahuas, and joyously vomiting off the rooftop garden while a choir of angels sing "Empire State of Mind"... at least thats how I dreamed it.
