I think I’ve mentioned that I’ve been a fan of the Oz books since I was a kid. Since Aunt Hortense could travel anywhere going to Oz at least once was inevitable.
Category Archives: misspent youths
1995 Calendar: January
Most of the illustrations in the 1995 calendar featured characters from Misspent Youths. At the time I was thinking of reviving the series as a self published comic that I intended to call Bonecage Graffiti. Aunt Hortense and the Lizards were going to be part of the ensemble cast of the comic.
But in 1995 Nizzibet and I began our plans for world domination and Bonecage Graffiti became one of the serials in the first version of Glyph.
The human characters on the page are Black Molly (in black), Lili Veracruz (in plaid) and Sequoia St. Jude O’Hare (in the hat).
1995 Calendar Front Cover
From 1988 to 1995 I did a series of calendars. The calendars featured original illustrations each month. The first calendar in 1988 featured a different “classic” monster each month – vampire, witch, werewolf, etc. Every calendar (but one) after that featured the Lizards. I’ve never really worried too much about what the Lizards actually were. They had the ability to create doors in reality so they could have adventures pretty anywhere. They had an Aunt Hortense, who was constantly smoking something, but otherwise their relationships are undefined. I couldn’t tell you if they were siblings or cousins or friends. I’m not even sure that Hortense is really anyone’s Aunt.
The last calendar in that series was done in 1994 for the coming year of 1995. The theme of this issue was “Through Time and Space with Aunt Hortense” so basically it was an excuse for me to draw whatever I wanted.
The art was done on duoshade boards, an artboard with a pattern imprinted on it that can brought out by painting a chemical on it. One chemical brought out a hatch pattern. A second chemical brought out a crosshatch. Duoshade doesn’t scan as well as I’d like. It tends to show a moire pattern.
Three Characters
The three women portraited today (the portraits themselves having been done in 2000) are from my own fiction. The first is Lili Veracruz from Misspent Youths. The middle and last are Sister D and the Jade Buddha, respectively, from Bugfuck Palace.
And Then There Are All the Projects I’m Not Working On … Yet
And what have we learned so far? Not much really. I’m terribly over committed. Really, really over committed when you consider that on most days of the week I have less than an hour available to draw. I don’t know if I’d manage to get more done on any individual project if I had more time available or if I’d just gludge things up by committing to more projects. I’m kind of stupid that way.
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
Progress Report – DavidLeeIngersoll.com
Less than embryonic
Progress Report – Skook Sketchblog
This post 1708. 292 to go. I really need to scan some art. These progress reports are going to get dull pretty quickly.
Progress Report – Skook Sketchblog
And finally, I need to scan more images so I have something for you to look at every day. I know, no one is dying of suspense waiting for the next sketch or resurrected childhood drawing but posting here on a regular basis is a good way for me to pay attention to the passing of time.
I also need to repost the addresses of the blogs and websites of friends, acquaintances and regularly read complete strangers. I lost my list when I updated my template months ago and have only just now started recreating it.
My current thinking is that on post 2000 I’ll retire this blog. I expect to continue some sort of regular posting but, if all goes well, it will be at DavidLeeIngersoll.com. This is post 1707. 293 to go.
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
DavidLeeIngersoll.com – less than embryonic
(Note to self – put this stuff into a spreadsheet or something. Slob.)
Progress Report – DavidLeeIngersoll.com
Drat. Missed a day.
I own DavidLeeIngersoll.com and DavidIngersoll.com. At the moment both those addresses point here. Eventually I’d like there to be a website at that address. Something professional and attractive that shows off my portfolio quickly and simply. At the moment I have to admit I haven’t even come up with a rough sketch for what I’d like the site to look like. The most thought I’ve put to it in the last few years was/is this post. So, a long way to go with that project.
DavidLeeIngersoll.com – less than embryonic
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
Progress Report – 2011 Illustrated Fiction Blog
Way back in 2009, when my day job was a much different animal than it is right now, I had a lot of time on my hands. Much of the time my job involved me waiting for the phone to ring. That was one of the advantages we had over most of our competitors; someone was there to answer the phone when a potential customer called. Because we wanted me to be as responsive as possible I had a lot of unscheduled time. I never wanted to read a book while on the job, or play games online or watch videos or do anything that would cut down on my ability to pay attention to a customer when needed. So I spent a lot of time waiting. Eventually I started spending some of that time sketching and eventually I started to think that I could sketch with a goal in mind. And thus was born 365 Bumps in the Night.
What exactly 365 Bumps is will have to wait until January 31st. Hopefully that will be January 31st of 2011 but I originally hoped to start this project on January 31st of this year and that obviously didn’t happen. There will be 366 posts in the project – one character drawing plus some text that will give some context to the illustration. The stages for each character drawing goes from sketch to inks to shading to photoshopping and posting. Here’s where I am so far –
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – Oziana Submission
This one might be finished. It might have some lettering still to be done. It might require some more illustrations. It all depends on what the writer finally decides. It’s a comic that has mostly been accepted for a near future issue of the Oziana. Currently there are nine pages finished. I just can’t take the project off my plate until I know what might need to be done and it’s been sent to the Oziana editor.
Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 16
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Penciled – 2
Yet To Be Started – 34
Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Moe and Detritus minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – The Last Moe and Detritus Story (minicomic)
Back in May Indigo Kelleigh invited me to contribute to a minicomics anthology box that he is putting together for the 2011 Stumptown Comics Festival. It’s been … decades … since I did a minicomic, long enough ago that I’ve forgotten how much work they could be. I probably would have said yes even if I hadn’t had a story in mind. I’ll be bringing back Moe and Detritus for a final story. Nobody dies. The world doesn’t end. It’s mostly so I can let the versions of Moe and Detritus that I was writing back in the ’90s head off into their own worlds. Versions of those characters still live in my head but I’m a different person than the guy who wrote Misspent Youths and so they are different people as well. No doubt versions of them will appear in another project somewhere down the line.
This is an eight page black and white minicomic. At the moment the script is still unfinished. So. Not much progress to report yet.
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 16
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Penciled – 2
Yet To Be Started – 34
Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages. Hey! Something is actually done!
