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the evolution of mr. grumpypants

Mr. Grumpypants! Someone on Tumblr asked me a question a long time ago about how I came up with characters, and I’ve long since accidentally deleted that question - but I was waiting for a time where I could actually show that process, rather than tell!

Anyway, here’s the evolution of Mr. Grumpypants(so far).

Mr. Grumpypants started in that stop motion experiment I posted a couple weeks ago, when he was a hastily sculpted lump of clay. That particular shape’s one I’ve been making for a long time, and largely based on starfish. Here’s Grumpypants from 2 weeks ago.

Here’s one of the starfish critters I used to sculpt(this one’s from 2009 or 2010, I think).

After making that video, I experimented with making a puppet type critter for more stop motion stuff. It went sort of terribly.

Yeah, I haven’t sewn anything for a couple years, and it shows. Then I sketched a version of Grumpypants I thought I’d make(about a week ago).

The Grumpypants-in-a-dorky-outfit image stuck with me, and this weekend, I sculpted him for an art show I’m participating in(more on that soon).

I got distracted, before adding “sleeves” to him, but decided I liked the tentacley arms. So I drew him that way again.

Current state of Mr. Grumpypants McGee(he got a prefix and a last name in the process).

And he’s probably not done yet. I think I want him a bit pudgier. Anyway, I guess what I was trying to say is that my “process” is really all over the place! Haha.

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Mr. Buzzypants Wright. A commission for a beeautiful collector. Okay, I’ll stop with the puns now.

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sawdustbear:

I got a ton of the stuff I needed to do done ahead of schedule today, so I rewarded myself by drawing some REALLY DORKY things.

Inspired by Erika Moen’s really terrible punning over here(go buy them. c’mon…”let’s not be anemones”? CLASSIC.), here are a bunch of little valentine cards featuring some of my favourite underwater creatures.

My favourite one is the one that says “without you, I would be abalonely,” but I realize that I might be the only person that’s really into abalone. I put an octopus and squid in because everyone likes octopuses and squids. The stingray was Jason’s idea. He submitted about 7 other really horrible ones, but this one made it through.

Here is a high res version (on flickr)! They’re Creative Commons licensed, so feel free to print them and use them(for non commercial porpoises)!

Underwater Valentines by Shing Yin Khor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

These are absolutely fantastic, which is not surprising considering the other stuff she has made. These are so cute. I might have to do something similar.

Aw, thank you(and thank you to everyone else who has reblogged this dorky thing)!

PLEASE make some, it would be so awesome to see more little Valentines with bad puns!

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I got a ton of the stuff I needed to do done ahead of schedule today, so I rewarded myself by drawing some REALLY DORKY things.

Inspired by Erika Moen’s really terrible punning over here(go buy them. c’mon…”let’s not be anemones”? CLASSIC.), here are a bunch of little valentine cards featuring some of my favourite underwater creatures.

My favourite one is the one that says “without you, I would be abalonely,” but I realize that I might be the only person that’s really into abalone. I put an octopus and squid in because everyone likes octopuses and squids. The stingray was Jason’s idea. He submitted about 7 other really horrible ones, but this one made it through.

Here is a high res version (on flickr)! They’re Creative Commons licensed, so feel free to print them and use them(for non commercial porpoises)!

Underwater Valentines by Shing Yin Khor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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I am incredibly excited to officially announce our first comic that will be released in “issue” format, both in print and digitally.

Marie and Jeanne #1 starts a story about two extraordinary girls from Domremy, France in the 15th century. One of them is Joan of Arc. It will be a story about her, of course, and The Siege of Orléans, and ultimately, her death and sentencing - but along the way, it’s mostly just a story about friendship and trust.

The most exciting part of it for me is that it is illustrated by the mindblowingly good artist James Neish, who I’m proud to have known for a really long time(since 5th grade), and one of the two people I first forayed into the comics world with when I was 15(so long ago!). He was the best artist I’d ever met when I was 10, and he played a significant part in instilling a permanent love of fantasy and comics and other assorted nerdy things in me. We’ve grown up and a bit wiser now(well, he is, I’m still a dumbass), but I’m still writing and he’s still illustrating, and I am honored to have been able to hire him to partner with me on this project.

So, check out the preview pages and look out for Marie and Jeanne #1, coming out in March 2012!

Oh hell yes, I will buy the ever-loving hell out of this!

SHING IS AWESOME, BASICALLY

I LOVE YOU ALI AND ERIKA. No really, I love you. You two are some of my biggest inspirations in this comics and publishing madness and I appreciate every ounce of support and encouragement you’ve always shared with me for…er…a long time JESUS CHRIST WE’VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR OVER A DECADE.

WE’RE OLD.

(also…er, for those who follow my tumblr, but not Sawdust Press, hey, this is my comic! The art is by James Neish, a super old and awesome friend of mine. The first issue is out in March!)

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