New Shop New Stuff

 Custom charm book for a friend.

 New packaging!

 New charm book and earrings, now up on our click-to-shop site!

Just got a BigCartel site to help with shopping!

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!

New Books!

There are a bunch of new books over on Paper Tapir now! These new keychain books come in two sizes, and are small and magical! Also there's an octopus book up too. Been busy busy with CONvergence coming up and a bunch of other events. Whew!

Photo Update

I have finally located my card reader for my smaller camera. After...several months. These were on there, along with quite a few other things. Like from the Ke$ha concert. Yep. Also my Chicago trip last year which included about a hundred pictures from the Planetarium.

At some point I must have been putting things that matched with books. I really like those red earrings, I should make another pair. I only have a single earring for myself, which is maybe a little strange. It's the long star earring. The one on the right is the little cartouche-style set that I started a while ago, which I love, but they're really time consuming. I want to find a better hanging mechanism and I'll probably try and sell them with cords.

Ume Abroad progress

I wrote this nice happy journal and then the internet ate it. So have a shorter less involved one. It's probably for the best anyways. This are header images for different sections of Ume Abroad. I figured because they happen to have Japanese names (even though none of them are) they'd start in Japan. The next one might be Europe. I really do want to hit the Euro, but maybe not Russia. Curse you fancy buildings.

The one of Senbei I gave up on because I don't like the original drawing so I'm starting over on it. Yes, they all happen to be wearing various shades of blue or teal, it was actually unintentional for once. But it might have to stay that way. Tamago is hard to color because her skin and hair are so...eggy. Ahaha I didn't do that on purpose either.

So yep. These might end up being the promos for the preview, but who knows. My computer is so sad right now. I've been running photoshop and a bunch of other things.

Looking at printing for the preview, Jubilee and Fresh Ume. Jubilee is proving harder than Fresh so that's going to be interesting.

Magical Girls B/W Submission

Did some quick lady doodles for an anthology some former classmates are putting together. This time it was magical girls. Yep.

I haven't drawn that much excessive frill in a while, but it's sort of nice to do again. I want to color the school girl. The second one is like some bad mix of my bird doodles and Belldandy. Oh well. Also I don't tone properly. These might look super funny on your monitor. I'm sorry.

You can buy a copy of F'Yeah Magical Girls at the Mini Comic Expo at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design this Friday at noon! 

Never Enough

Two recent book updates. I've been making changes on Paper Tapir, which can now be reached at www.thepapertapir.net, as well as it's old url of http://papertapir.blogspot.com. New things on the Etsy, also new banners and such. Ergh. Getting to the end of things.

Le Petit Livre

Tiny book! Details and pics over on Paper Tapir~

Senior Project 3.0

This is an adorable baby tapir. That's all.

So, my senior project is really hard to actually show anyone in full, it's bulky, and if I wanted to show the whole thing, the images would be huge and annoying. Also, they aren't meant to be seen on a screen, they also aren't supposed to be really large. It's frustrating. Alas...
Anyways, more 'caps of what's been going on. I'm getting ready to test print...eek!

Senior Project

Working on pencils for senior project. Made a mock up of the books over on Paper Tapir.

Time wasting book!

Well I'm doing the time wasting. Made a sketch/note book. Full post over on Paper Tapir with specs and images.


Also I need this in my life. Its an eyelet setter that doesn't require a hammer. It's spring loaded. Genius! It's $28 over on Paper Source, I'll be in the area tomorrow and will try and persuade myself that I have a reason to not get it :<.