Not Dead!

...for those of you paying attention...

Yeah I plan to make this thing a lot more exciting. I been really busy with a lot of fan art, and this art exchange thing I did at DeviantArt.

I am (hopefully) also getting close to bringing the current Ants story arc wrapped up. I'll be updating that tonight. So far the Ants have pretty much wrecked the bowling alley, made the owner pretty mad, and Marco and Adam are at each other's throats. Oh yeah---one little catch--the owner has a crush on Gary! Chaos abounds (as usual!).

Anyhow, I will be posting lots of rough sketches and other stuff once I get the latest comic up. More later!

Got me a tablet!

Well...I'm borrowing one, anyhow, from my brother.

I thought I'd share the first drawing attempt with it, ever, here:



It's weird. For me drawing with the mouse is easier at this point. This'll take some getting used to!

I need to get busy scanning so I'll have more stuff up here. Sorry about the wait on that! Currently aside from doing the Antcomics, I'm posting a couple of other comics I do at DrunkDuck too. So I spend a heckuva lot of time scanning stuff!

One Year of the Ants!

Here's that One Year Ants drawing I promised you.
I really like how this turned out. I tried to follow an actual photo of the Guys from the PC era (once you click the above link you'll see another link in my comments where you can have a look at my cartoon and the photo side by side).

Not a lot of other news, except that Art book AA is thinking of having released has a new registration page (see my links over on your right there). The old one went screwy or something and you'll need to re-register if you're interested in purchasing a copy, should it materialize...

Amy out! Thanks again for reading my comics.

One Year of Antcomics!

Ohhhh boy!
I can't beleieve the one year anniversary of Antcomics is here! Well technically it's February 17th (when the first comic was actually completed, and that'd be this one)...but I am gonna do a special 1 year drawing-type-thingy.

Here is a rough sketch of it:

Here's to 100 more years! Er...you know, till my drawing hand gives out...

Character Meme

Someone over at DeviantArt created this "Character Meme". I did one on Adam:

El Clicko!

It was a lot of fun to do.

Not much other news, except I pretty much have the rest of the "Bowling" story worked out. I need to work on the next installment. It will probably be up at DrunkDuck Monday or Tuesday.

Question of the Day!

I got another inquiry about Antcomics today.

Today's question comes from worstcase, author of the webcomic, Faults:

Q. How long does it take you to make a regular Ants comic?

A. I can usually crank one out in one evening. Sometimes I have to do a rough sketch (usually with stickmen in my sketchboook), other times I will already have a rough draft. Sometimes, though, I don't sketch a rough draft. I just sit down and start on the comic.

It starts with a penciled version, then I ink it. Usually I sit down at around 6:30 or 7:00. If I'm lucky, the thing's done, inked, pencil lines erased by 10:00 p.m. Sometimes though, it can take till eleven or midnight. Then once I scan it, there's usually around a half hour to an hour of tweaking it, drawing box-- you know, making it look all snazzy.

If I color one, tack another entire evening on. This is, of course, if it's a multi-framer. If it's relatively simple, like say, a one-framer, I might be able to finish it all in one night. Usually though, I am so wiped out by the time I ink one that I have to call it quits for the evening.

Now, those calendar pages were a different story. I worked on a couple all day on a couple of Saturdays (namely the September and December pictures). Actually, I think the Christmas one took me all day Saturday and part of Sunday.

And there ya go, worstcase! Thanks for the question.

Anybody else got questions? Hit meh!

Ant Neighbor Ideas

So I'm trying to come up with more neighbors for the Ants. I have been kicking around ideas for some; I think there need to be a) more secondary characters and b) more females.

So far, we have met the mean and slobbery Mr. Laccolith, and the nice old lady, Mrs. Fookoo. Mr. Laccolith made his debut in "New Neighbor" and Mrs. Fookoo in "Marco's Crush."

Yesterday, during a meeting at work, I doodled some more people in my tablet...click the thumbnail below to see it:




So...if you have any thoughts, comments, suggestions, whatever...leave me a comment! You can also e-mail me anytime.

And there ya have it! One of those little 'extras' I promised you! ^o^

In other news, I did some fan art for another comic artist. Check it out here, on my DA page.