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so last week's challenge for POTENTIALCOMIX was to redraw a page from an existing comic, but to alter the events of one panel.
i pretty much decided on Taiyo Matsumoto's TEKKONKINKREET right away, as it's been my biggest source of inspiration since forever?? it embodies pretty much everything i've ever wanted to achieve with my own work, and it holds a really important place in my heart (well, it pretty much has a hold on all of my heart..) IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING.
anything of Taiyo Matsumoto's still continues to leave me in utter awe and admiration. everything he does just WORKS.
he's forever my comicshero.

THATBEINGSAID,
i decided to start redrawing some of my favourite pages from tekkonkinkreet.
redrawing just one of his pages has already taught me A LOT and i'm hoping i can learn more about comics and drawing and just STUFF by studying his work.
doing these redraws i reallytruly feel just how far ahead and completely unreachable he is, which is REALLYSCARYTOME, but at the same time, it feels a little less impossible.
comics are intimidating, trying to do justice to the work of your alltimefavouritehero is intimidating, but it's a learning process!! i hope.

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if you're interested in redrawing pages from tekkonkinkreet, JOIN ME. :>
let's learn 2gether!!!

everything reads
>>> LEFT TO RIGHT >>>
( clicking the pages will bring you to the tumblr page, where you can see them a little larger! )


volume 1 page 18
altered panel challenge for Potential Comix
(you can see the original HERE)


volume 1 page 70
(you can see the original HERE)

be happy be happy!
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sketches for my first printmaking project on sustainability!

haven't been updating or drawing much lately. the past few weeks have been really busy! roadtrip to NYC for 4 days was UHHHMAZING. we ate a lot of reallydelicious things, and saw Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell in A Behanding in Spokane~
i never knew there was an American Folk Art Museum though!! really wish it wasn't closed when we went because they have two Henry Darger exhibitions right now!


( image via American Folk Art Museum )


( image via Time Out New York )

and then a day after i got back from NYC i became

A ~*SHIRO*~

Stephoo made the hat and jacket for me. NOTEVENKIDDING i will be wearing that hat FOREVERYWHERE.
hoping i can get my bangs cut a lot shorter in August so i can look more like Shiro for FanExpo. HURRDURRRRRRR

i also found Taiyo Matsumoto's 100 and 101 art book just a couple minutes before we left! i thought they were out of print already too. probably my favourite/best find at a convention in all.. 8? years of going. :'>

maybe i'm getting it entirely wrong, but i really love seeing a sort of French illustration influence on his work. especially Moebius'! ahhh really excited that my Taiyo Matsumoto collection is growing haha~ i can only hope that some day it'll look similar (or even more massive) than this.


butyes! hopefully the drawfu will come back to me this weekend so i can ACTUALLY UPDATE THIS BLAWRGH with real art.