We Are Future Homesick

Unofficial pictures of the (currently) unfinished Traded Stars book. You can see it in person at the

2012 Sheridan Illustration Grad Show.

Thursday April 19th at the Glass Factory

99 Sudbury Street Toronto.

You can also see the story continue at www.tradedstars.com

(hand model/ photographer: Rachel Idzerda)

I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see

Some process work for today's page of Traded Stars; page 61.

This page I did a little differently and recorded the process, so I thought I would share that process here.

I started off with thumbnails of the layout/ compositions. Then instead of going ahead and drawing those thumbnails, I drew in the background of the page first. Followed by drawing the people on top.

The last page is where you can see exactly what I drew on top and where I had to erase to accommodate the characters.

You can see I stick fairly close to the thumbnails, but I don't mind changing panels to better suit the flow of the page. The last panel was changed so that the last three images all flowed together in one direction visually.

All You Can Do Is Just Wait By The Moon

An actual nightmare for my third Narrative assignment; all about digging deeper.

Don't Believe A Word That I Haven't Heard

Assignment two for narrative class.

Figure I could use the class as a chance to do small scale experiments with storytelling and drawing style. Just a time to have fun for me.

All The Voices Sound Just Like You

This was for an assignment in my Narrative Class. Had to create four panels that included either 'What's that supposed to mean?' or 'Are you alright?'

For my final I used characters from my thesis (the thesis project being the big project all fourth year illustrators at Sheridan work on for the year), and an assignment from another class I'm actually not in. Another professor told his students to work the theme of good and evil into one piece of their thesis, and if they couldn't do it, then it probably wasn't a very strong thesis to begin with. I thought it was worth trying out... So I got to kill two birds with one stone.

Also, I included my original rough/ thumbnail of the final and of my other two ideas below.

Descended A Dusty Gravel Ridge

Was working on a comic for fun earlier this summer, decided to open it at a different point, so these pages have been moved elsewhere. Did I draw three pages of someone skipping rocks on an alien planet? yes. Does it make more sense in context? probably. But what you going to do really?

Barefoot in the shallow creek

I grabbed some stones from underneath

And waited for you to speak to me

Bixby Canyon Bridge - Death Cab for Cutie

Hope That I Don't See You Anymore

While I was at work today, decided to finish this little project that was long overdue. I drew these nine pages near the beginning of the summer, but never got around to colouring the last three pages.

The concept is one story, but told in three genres at three stages of completion.