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Birdsies

by Karen H. Brown on Sunday, November 13, 2011

Are you tired yet of my cruel lies? Here are some sketches of birds I did recently. They're really beautiful animals, no?


Work in progress.

by Karen H. Brown on Friday, November 4, 2011

Rick Perry is a 2012 hopeful for the Republican nomination to run in the upcoming Presidential elections. He seems to inject faith and religion into everything he does, which fascinates me!

I am working on this piece, where we see Rick Perry being called to high office. Progress to be posted here in the next few days. God willing.*

Sorry to twitter and tumblr followers, I've been lax in that department. ;_; In so many things.



*HAHAHA SEE WHAT I DID THERE. I made a joke.

Early look

by Karen H. Brown on Thursday, June 2, 2011

I've got a new scanner! Horray! My sleep sched is messed up! I am very tirrzzzZZzZzzzzzz

If you don't read my Twitter or Tumblr (shame on you! shaaaame), you may not know that I'm working diligently on a comic. It's a retooled idea that I'd pitched for Crown Royale comics. Yes, yes that does mean that it's gonna be Yaoi! Right now I'm on the final revisions of the written draft and am in the middle of the character design phase.  I'm having a blast working on this reverse-gender fairytale, and am both giddy and nervous to get it down and release it to the wide, scary world. Like a mother pushing her baby bird out of the nest, and watching it plummet towards the cold, hard ground.

Uh.

Here's the first look at some of the character sketches. In this one, I was working on the facial features and some hairstyles for the Stepsister, who've I've called Jeanne. The hairstyle still needs to be decided, but I love her look.

More to come in the next few days!

ALL HAIL SCANNER GLORY zzzzzzzz

Blog Update, Sketches

by Karen H. Brown on Wednesday, March 23, 2011

If you keep up a blog, how do you do it? I've been struggling to maintain this baby for awhile now. I've not given up on the old gal - HURR, DETERMINATION - but I am a bit frustrated at how slow I am. So how about it? What helps you to get blogging?

Also, I'm trying to update the look of this thing. I'm... seriously unhappy with how it looks right now, but it'll have to do for awhile. Please bear with me while I tweak with it, dipping big my toe into the scare CSS pool.

Also, did you know I have a Tumblr and Twitter? Well, you do now! Check em out, drop me a line!

I have not come to you entirely emtpy handed - Voila, some fun sketches: Two of my crushes, Ray Stevenson and Barberella!


Dragonball again?

by Karen H. Brown on Friday, September 24, 2010

Got some news coming up about my participation in a gallery at the gladstone, but for now, a sketch:

Whoops

by Karen H. Brown on Monday, September 20, 2010

I've been falling off the wagon, in terms on updating the blog. Bear with me, I'm still trying to get into the habit of updating on a regular sched!

Here's a few doodles out of my sketchbook: I've been watching a lot of Dragon Ball, the original series. I love Tien so much - he's the triclops of my dreams. He acts like such a dickhead - he went to dickhead school and everything! - but he just can't help but be a good guy.



Oh, and also, I don't get enough protien in my diet, so every so often I grab fistfuls of meat and shove them into my gob. I ought to do a better job of balancing my nutrition.


Finally, I've burnt my drawing hand! I was draining some potatoes while my mom was buzzing in my ear, and, in my annoyance, got careless. Splash! Scalding water all over my right hand. I've slathered the thing with polysporin, and bandaged it up. It's not a bad burn or anything, but it stings and I imagine the skin is going to peel like a bastard. Lucky, it was mostly in the palm and lower finger area, leaving the tips of my fingers unscathed, free for drawins.

And drawins I be doing! I'm going to have my first gallery showing this October, along with a group of Illustrators, at the Gladstone Hotel. Keep an eye peeled here for more info and process work.


Rock on!

Fan Expo Sneak Peak #2

by Karen H. Brown on Monday, August 16, 2010

Two more peeks into the sketchbook for Fan Expo:

Fan Expo Sneak Peak #1

by Karen H. Brown on Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Goodness me, it's been awhile hasn't it?

I've been deep on the down low all year, detoxing from my college days. It's time to knuckle down and get some serious work done, though. I was scared to death to get back to painting, since it's been so long now, but things are going pretty well.

I'll be breaking my convention cherry at Fan Expo this year - Gasp! Blush! - and I'm both excited and nervous! More info about where I'll be located to come later.

In the lead up expo, I'll be posting sneak peeks of new art. Horray!

Here's your first look:


Fans of boobies will be pretty happy with me this year!

Designs, oh my.

by Karen H. Brown on Saturday, October 24, 2009

I've developed a recent obsession with Wonder Woman! To celebrate, I'm doing art challenges on the Wonder Woman message boards at Comic Book Resources, check it out!

First one was Wonder Woman's Winter Wardrobe - it's a cardi & underwear take on one of Wonder Woman's weirder costumes. I'm working on some other designs, but damn it's hard.



I'm also going to have some stuff at canzine, so if you're going, drop by!

24 Hour Comic Day

by Karen H. Brown on Sunday, October 4, 2009

October 3rd was 24 Hour Comic Day. I didn't know it was coming, but a friend told me about it the night before. I decided, what the hey, I'd give it a spin. I worked from 1pm to 8am the next day, and then crapped out on the last 5 hours. I was dead in the water. It was pretty hilarious to make up the story on the fly, without any pre-plotting. I trashed something like four start pages before finally settling on one.

Anyhow, I managed to finish the sometimes-rough-sometimes-polished pencils. I'm going to clean the sucker up and ink it, and post the whole thing here in it's entirety. Or at least, link to someplace where you can read it. It's a pretty straightforward story about a space lady boarding a ship to complete some unspecified mission.

But it's got monsters! Aw yeah, monsters.

In the meantime, he are some of my favorite panels, and my fave page.