Ochaya Posters

 

Just realized without the screen cap getting part of the photoshop background in, these images would be awkwardly floating in a sea of white. Anyways, two simple posters and one with Wonder Woman (in lieu of the theme this year), for the tea room. Getting down to the wire, might do another couple ladies.

Ume Abroad Progress

So. Here's how Ume Abroad has gone. Tomorrow will be day 15, and it is being used for stapling and trimming. The above right photo is the same number of pages, but the top stack has been folded by hand, the bottom stack has been folded by hand and then with a bone folder. (Everyone use a bone folder, it'll take twice as long, but there will be less crying over uneven pages later.)

After penciling and scanning, the pages were inked with Photoshop, formatted in InDesign, printed at Kinkos using their terror copier, the covers were printed at home using the terror Epson. The cover paper is light cardstock from Office Max, my pencils were done on copy paper. Yep. Rockin'.

This is going to be available for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo this upcoming weekend. Go to the CAKE website for more information.

Ume Abroad Mock Up

This is the "mock-up" (of a mockup?) for the preview of Ume Abroad. Which is going to be at CAKE this upcoming weekend. I hadn't started something from scratch without a paper mock on InDesign in several years, so this was a little nerve wracking today. Spent a lot of my time at Boneshaker poking around files. But eventually everything worked out! Tried printing it just on my 8.5"x11" printer, and sort of like the smaller size, going to maybe go with that instead.

New Book and World Turtle Day

 

Recent updates around the other sites are this new charm book, you can find out more on Paper Tapir. Also here is a sneak peek for tomorrows special Ume update for World Turtle Day. 

I have a whole bunch of things going on until around the beginning of August, hopefully everything will get done and I'll have time to work on my own stuff, but I'm not holding my breath on this one. Trying to finish redrawing the Ume Abroad preview for CAKE (June 15-16), I'm helping with two different art festivals. CONvergence is at the beginning of July and we have to to a bunch of work for that, and I'm TAing for the MCAD pre-college program again during the middle and end of July. 

I'm going to be trying to get a normal website up for Paper Tapir and then un-merging the blog and the actual site, unfortunately that's going to come after all these other things. 

Again, thank you all so much for the additional support on the Facebook fanpage of Paper Tapir!

Doodle and update

Girl doodle, pencil and colored in photoshop. I love drawing with a .9 sometimes. It's a lot different from what I got used to, which was a .3. I was posting things that were really bright but I decided to tone this one down a little, I found that a bunch of these have been -really- bright. Whoops! I hope I haven't hurt anyone with color.

Going to mostly be working on CONvergence things in the next little while. Trying to stain plates today! I'm not even sure if it's going to work, yay for experimentation! Ume has still been updating on Tuesdays, and Ume Abroad is going, though I'm thinking about redrawing a bunch of it. Hopefully I'll still have a preview up for CAKE!

Will be trying to figure out a way to print Jubliee as well.

Ochaya

Ochaya got a Facebook fan page!

We will be posting updates about the room, what we're serving, etc.
Feel free to give us a "like"!

Thank you so much for the continued support~

Adventures in Sketchup Land

(Designs for the Ochaya Tea Room, CONvergence 2012.)

Basic flat layouts of where the room objects would be going. Wasn't going specifically for the correct size of everything, some things are up in the air, so I figured I'd play it safe and could downsize which would be faster than scaling up.

Added basic shapes in and blocked shapes. The original screen, go table and long table can be seen on the top, I did those after the basic layout was done. Wasn't really planning on putting them in. Sometime later I added said pieces, and got some plants from the online warehouse. Also those lanterns, the red is a little atrocious. But the example is needed.

This is what I have done so far. Added in more textures and items to fill out the room. The smaller screens were redone. We need to get reno information before I can work on the layout anymore though.

Promos

This is the promo that I'm using for Ume at MIX. It's actually quite pink and it matches the tabs on my Tapir tags. I'm excited for the Facebook page too, and I really appreciate the support I'm getting! There are currently preview photos of MIX stuff on said Fbook page.

Updating PT and Print!

Final print of the Gyeongbuk mini comic, it's available for sale over on the NEW Paper Tapir store, and will also be fore sale at MIX. I can't seem to win with colors online though...The paper color is a little darker on the image.

I've been doing some updates to Paper Tapir recently, slow going, but I'm happy with them. If there are any issues I hope to sort them out relatively quickly. Probably will forever stay with this strange blog format, even for the full PT site, because coding is a beast and I'm not hot on spending hours on it.

So flipping excited about these stamps. The stamp set, and the ink pad were both $1 at Michaels. Worked really well for making little stand signs for MIX. Woo!

MIX

Minneapolis Indie Xpo is coming up! Join us for artsy stuff and general merriment. Also blog updates because I'm real good at those apparently...

CONvergence

Tiny curb tree outside the Sheraton. I'll do a proper update later, was able to do a few crafty things this CONvergence, including some decoupage at Connie's Quantum Sandbox. It's over on PaperTapir if you want to see my temporary mediocre webcam shots of it.

MIX comics

Cross posted over on Paper Tapir. These are for MIX this November. Yay!

MIX 2010 Comics

Found my chipboard comics from the Minneapolis Indie Xpo, back in August. It's a lot of me being really hot, and being at a woogly table that moved every time someone stepped near it. It was still a lot of fun though, and I'm going back this year!

Printing

Working on a new screen print. *shuffa* I want to make a few variations for MIX and MiniCon, probably a three layer...kinda sorta...?

Stuck

One of the six images with Jillian and Nicholas together. They're outfits are oddly coherent and match-y. They're traveling in Europe or something, maybe that explains it. I've got about 23 more individual people to draw and then what like...72 extra things and backgrounds. It's actually going pretty smoothly. I'm a little shocked, maybe a day or two behind but that's it, if even. I should be able to start tones next week, which puts me ahead of schedule. (Because there's like 80% less scanning time involved.)

Also decided to register for Anime Detour this year, might or might not end up going for all of it, might sell a few things if I get around to it, otherwise. I'm just going to go and work/relax.

CVG 2011

The sort-of-frequent update about CONvergence 2011. This year Cam and I are not going to be having a room, but hopefully are going to be doing a traveling tea cart instead. Uhhh sort of like this:Obviously less extensive, but something along these lines. This is actually just a little desk sculpture that Cam found. I think it's a good example though, there are more, but I don't want to get too carried away. More updates for Senior Project soon.

MIX-Accordion Handout

So, sadly my accordion accordion will not be around in time for MIX, however, there's this nice little printout. I had a lot of (caffeine induced) fun with this, I think reading all those origami instructions as a child must have helped somehow. These will be printed for the Minneapolis Indie Xpo this weekend and handed out during the demo Hedwig and I are doing on book binding. Please stop by if you can!

The clickable version is large enough to save and print at your leisure. :)

Possible MIX

This is my reaction to Luke in "Professor Layton" after like...five minutes.

Might be trying to attend MIX on August 21st over at the Soap Factory. I guess MCAD got some tables and Barb asked me Hedwig and Caitlin to do a demo for book binding. Don't know what I'd be bringing yet though. Might try to bind up some Ume comics and do more with Pop and Skid as they are not attached to Ume. I don't even know. Have to get on a regular schedule for Ume.

Ponyo

Crappy cellphone pic of the Ponyo costume for Anime Detour this year.