the pants press sketchblog

Whoo hello

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:09:23 GMT

Wow, haven't posted here in awhile... well hey hello here's a website update! (plus a sliver of an image I'm working on for a show - I will totally post the whole thing when closer to the date).

Lots of new stuff unless you've been keeping updated elsewhere! Night everyone!

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:52:14 GMT

Matt Nolan and I collaborated together several months ago to make a full color fancy-shmancy book. When I say 'we collaborated', I mean Matt went through a stack of my sketchbooks, scanned in and colored his favorite drawings of mine, did all the layout for the book, wrestled with lulu.com, and has made "Hoopla: A Super Girly Sketchbook" available for buying. Man, that is my kind of collaborating.

Hoopla came out pretty fancy and we're really pleased with the results.

VITAL STATS:
36 pages
6 x 9 inches
Full Color
$14.99

Are you not sated? Man, I totally don't blame you, here are some more samples. Some with my own face in them.

If you are interested, you can buy an individual copy directly from lulu.com for $14.99 ooooooor, until February 29th, I am offering a combination pack of all 5 of my minicomics plus Hoopla for $27. Combo packs will ship in early March.

EDIT, February 29th: The sale is over! No more combo packs, thanks for reading :)

Over and out, folks!

"Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dummy"

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:36:09 GMT

The most recent issue of Electroinc Gaming Monthly (just hitting shelves this week, with the "OMG MGS4/PS3 MAY NOT SUCK" cover) features another "guess the game name" puzzle in the back, this one space game-themed. (There was a request from the puzzle's writer to add a specific reference to The Last Starfighter, which lead me to polluting the whole piece with a bunch of non-game-related cameos from other sci-fi films and television shows):

Orienteering

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:05:52 GMT

Oh man, dudes, I was so super excited that Sara Ryan agreed to write a story for me to illustrate for the upcoming Snow Stories anthology!

Here's my finished pages, without any of the word balloons and text. Er, I guess the last page has a bit of text. But I have a flu or something so man I'm just gunna let that one be.

Here's a little before/after photoshopping of the last page.

If you want to see a step-by-step progression of how I made it, click-en-Von-Clickenstein over here.

DAR catch up

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:34:50 GMT

Hey Dudes, here are the last 13 comics I've done for DAR.

A couple aren't safe for work and I've tried to remember to include a warning on their preview graphics, but I forgot to put one on "The Best Job" so, y'know, watch out.

Pendants for sale!

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:20:00 GMT

Hey everybody!

I now have an online Etsy store running, thus to sell over a dozen hand-drawn pendants like this one:

Also for sale are a little Luther Levy from my comic, various Greek goddesses, and several delightful inanimate objects of which you might conceivably be fond!

I made these for the Stumptown Comics Fest '07, and I don't know when I'll make another round, so if you'd like a little drawing to wear or give away, mosey on over.

Coming this weekend: t-shirts!

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:06:38 GMT

One of the more presentable examples from the slushpile of things I doodle to keep my hands moving and my mind focused during work meetings.

If I'm ever elected president and have to meet with the other great leaders of the free world, I'm afraid they're going to have to put up with my scribbling on the U.N. letterhead while we negotiate international peace.

this one is sort of rude.

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:40:38 GMT

It was my boyfriend's birthday the other day, and part of his present was this painting (click to see the whole thing). It's girls-in-a-row (surprise!) with sort of a card theme, because he's pretty obsessed with poker. It's also kind of racy. I felt a little embarrassed in the frame store. So will you if you open it at work.

This one is for the staggeringly fabulous Lucy Knisley, of whom I am in awe. She wrote me a song once about a manamaid that I was supposed to make a little film out of, but time did not permit. It lives on as a painting, however. I imagine a manamaid would be very very soft.

Oh, I don't think I mentioned it on here, but I redid my website! It's got some new art, a new front page, and a shiny new shop section. Please enjoy verabee.com.

Girlie Girls

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:12:51 GMT

That last one looks like Twiggy.

Also, a little board thingy (I think I might record some soundfx for it at a future date)...clickez-vous:

Assassin's Creed is in your Kingdom of Heavens, stealing ur production design.

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:57:53 GMT

A work-in-progress, but I thought I'd toss it up here all the same.

Dr. Sketchy's Portland

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:42:18 GMT

Hey Portland Artists!

Remember I posted some costumed life drawing that I did at the Portland branch of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School a while back?

Well, now I'm gunna be a costumed model for them! Oh, how the tables have turned.

This Wednesday, 7pm - 10pm
Dante's
1 SW 3rd Ave
Portland, OR 97204

Here's some more Dr. S life drawings I've done:

My costume? Tank Girl, natch.

Just because.

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:50:21 GMT

"Bioshock", get it?

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:23:32 GMT

Oh, hey, I guess this is the part where I mention that I've got another "guess the name of the game" puzzle illustration in the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (issue #221, with the Saints Row 2 cover story.)

She was the roughest, toughest frail

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:46:08 GMT

Trendy Hipster Drawing

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:41:48 GMT

Experimenting in photoshop at work:

It is hella based on this photo of a girl named elysiarenee.

OH!! And the Stumptown Comics Fest is coming up NEXT MONTH, September 29th and 30th, right here in beautiful Portland, OR and if you want to have your own table you really need to get your ass in gear and reserve one NOW because the deadline has been extended to two weeks from now.

(Poster by Stumptown guest Sarah Oleksyk)

(My DAR caricature is on the far right there, you see it? Yeah. I think that's pretty rad :D )

DAR and Portland Zine Symposium

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:24:18 GMT

Sooo I've been updating DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary each week and I've got a small cache of comics to look through if you haven't checked in for a while. Or ever. Either way: comics!

The one labeled "Boobs" is probably not Safe For Work. Unless your work is totally radical. Or you work from home. In which case, Dress Code: Naked.

Also, THIS WEEKEND is the Portland Zine Symposium right here at the Portland State University. It's August 11 - 12th and admission is free - sounds pretty sweet to me. I will have a table, which is why I bring it up. See how I sneak that right in there? That is what I call 'sneaking in the info'.

CLICK.

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:16:33 GMT

Apologies to my readers for the double post, but I have a new 14-page minicomic, written by novelist Sara Ryan (and starring one of her characters), available for full viewin' online!

Featuring all kinds of poignant high-school angst.

Go read!

No, Baby, not my Pradas!!

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:40:15 GMT

Hey guys! My book's ready for buyin' (if it so pleases you). It is the nicest book-type thing I have made so far. The reason for the title is on the back.

Deathly Hallows made me all sniffly. =(

a sketch

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:42:56 GMT

Work was actually really slow, so I doodled around in Illustrator.

An amalgamation of these two photos by Matt :)

lookit those feathers fly.

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:27:59 GMT

Check out these monster dudes. They're going to be in the Ninja Show at Nucleus, opening August 11th. Note the ninjas in each of these paintings. They are small but important.

Last stand.

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:38:19 GMT

Okay, one last bit of Potter doodlage and I'm done.

It's entirely unfinished (no stained glass in the arches behind Tonks & Lupin, the Death Eater in the far background looks pretty clunky & silly, etc, etc) and I'll probably end up tweaking it farther when I find the time to actually color the damned thing, but ce la vie.

Heir of Gryffindor....

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:39:22 GMT

Been working on a kids' book about pirates lately, and so haven't had time to really draw much of anything else lately. I had a few spare days this week to knock out a few personal gaming-related doodles, and so here they are.

WARNING: HARRY POTTER BULLSHIT AHEAD.....

Just a rough sketch of Neville that I cranked out last night and threw some rough color onto this afternoon. Hooboy.

Kinda makes up for the fact that I never got around to sending in crappy letter art as a kid.

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:27:01 GMT

Anybody out there who subscribes to Electronic Gaming Monthly and has received the most recent issue (with the Soul Caliber IV cover story), go ahead and turn to page 94 - you'll see a 2-page puzzle illustration hastily doodled by yours truly.

I don't have a copy of that *exact* version of the illustration on hand, but after the cut you'll find an earlier version of the same image with a bunch of extra EGM-fanboy tidbits tossed into the "name the game" puzzle.

(The above is a detail depicting both the crew from the pretty damned fantastic 1up Yours podcast and the grave of Sushi-X...)

My one and only encounter with Transformers

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:23:16 GMT

catch-up dump

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:16:31 GMT

I have a week off from work and am spending it catsitting for a friend who has a cintiq. Thus, drawings. This one makes me sad because I accidentally saved over the psd after deleting the layer set that had the drawing on them. So all that exists now is this crappy jpeg. Godspeed, little jpeg.

This is a sketch for what might be a shirt design. I'm really into anenomes and things lately. I am nowhere near the beach.

Another shirt-maybe. I have a drawing like this on my site already, but this one is fifty times better now that I learned to draw.

The colors were brighter on the other monitor. :(

I had one more but the internet gave out at cat-house. Maybe later, dudes.