Kelci D Crawford

The wonderful wizards of YOUMACON, BITCHES!

Ok, you’re not bitches. You’re awesome. Seriously.

Anyway, yes! This weekend I am off to Youmacon up in Detroit, Michigan! Keep an eye on my Twitter feed, because I intend on tweeting lots while I’m there. Convention pictures will also be tweeted. ;D

In other news, my NEW webcomic, The Legend of Jamie Roberts, is going to be released on November 10th over at SmackJeeves! A link will be provided closer to the release date. In the meantime, enjoy this teaser image of the finished cover art:

Isn’t it so pretty? I’m so seriously excited and proud to present this work! This has been my baby for years and I’m so excited to finally release it!

The story is about Jamie Roberts, a girl who disguises herself as a man to join the military school, so she can become a hero like her childhood idol, Queen Norsa. However, Jamie and her two best friends, Daniel and Thomas, discover that their nation is up to no good, and they flee the country to another one in the South. In this Southern country of Corith, they are taught by a wise dragon so they can return home and restore peace to their nation.

And there is cross-dressing and dragons and dancing galore!

So again: Youmacon on the Twitter page, and The Legend of Jamie Roberts releasing November 10th!

Don’t Forget to Be Awesome!

So in the process of making the cover art for my webcomic’s first chapter, I came across a problem:

I liked the inks…but I didn’t know how to color it. And the background? I had no idea what to do with it.

So, to work my way through it, I got another piece of paper and made these sketches:

I would call these “color keys” because I’m tinkering around with colors to see what works best in the compositions. I knew I wanted to keep the girl in the right in a blue uniform, because that uniform color was decided on LONG before I started the cover. I was figuring out the dress color for the girl on the right, and what to do with the background.

And looking at these, I’m going to go with the thumbnail on the bottom. The girl’s dress pops noticeably enough, but more importantly, the girl in uniform doesn’t disappear into the background. And the background is noticeably cool, but not distracting.

So voila! That’s just a little snippet of my work progress in action for all you lovely peeps who might be stuck on projects of your own.

Don’t Forget to Be Awesome, and I will see you again soon!

Oh shit.

Ok, so I’ve been planning on making a compilation of the comics I made during my final semester at college, right? So I was editing the pages in photoshop and I discovered…

None of my pages are adequately sized for printing.

They crop weird.

And they’re JUST THE WRONG SIZE.

Excuse me while I freak out and then brainstorm how to get out of this mess.

In the meantime, I shall work on some cover arts and commissions I promised to make for peeps. It’s usually worked where I have a problem with one project, so I work on another, and it gives me a fresh perspective on the first project’s problems. I hope that’s true this time.

Indeed, I spent most of my day decorating my walls, as these super grainy phone pictures shall prove:

I believe a good desk space should have lots of posters around it to inspire you and pin things onto it to keep you interested.

However, I DID also apply for work at the Mall AND got the number of the special services coordinator of the mall: turns out there used to be a guy who drew caricatures there on the weekends, during the holidays, but he hadn’t drawn there for a few years. I believe it’s my time to step in and do that service. :3

I still have to call the guy tomorrow and see what happens.

Also sent emails to peeps. It’s important to follow-up with the pros that you talk to, and this past year I was REALLY bad at that! I want to improve and follow-up IMMEDIATELY from now on.

Cooking dinner now: fried chicken and a baked potato. After that I’ll start drawing the covers for the webcomic and the anthology I’m planning out. No rest for the comic artist.

On the other hand, I hope to skype with some friends this Friday. I’ll start asking around. :3

Don’t Forget to Be Awesome, and I will post again tomorrow!

Man I haven’t updated this blog for a while. But I’ve been up to a lot of projects.

Page 2, on my easel’s scratchboard.

…and Auxaton at the bottom, just for you.