Whatever Happened to Bigfoot?

One of the choices for a final project in my Humanities 270 (Comics) class was to do a non-fiction comic zine. That seemed like more fun to me than creating another presentation. And it was both more fun and a lot more work. With the exception of the footprint on the inside front cover, all the cartooning for this project was done digitally, using Photoshop. 

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 1

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 2

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 3

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 4

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 5

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 6

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 7

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, page 8

Whatever Happened to Bigfoot, Inside Cover

Occupy the Pearly Gates

Occupied?College hasn’t been all code and prerequisites. I took a class in comics and comics history in Spring 2012. One of the projects for the class was to do a minicomic. The students voted on a general theme and then each of us did a page for the book.

Our class chose “Mythical Creatures in Modern Times” as the theme. This was my page.

Something Wicked This Way Juggles

Circus ShoggothThis was done at the 2012 HP Lovecraft Film Festival. Official guests Nick Gucker, Mike Dubisch and Lee Moyer were doing a live painting demo/challenge. The audience had suggested that they illustrate a shoggoth at the circus. Since I had my sketchbook and drawing tools with me, I thought it would be fun to see what I could come up with. Nick, Mike and Lee’s final pieces can be seen in this Con report at Bizarro Central.

Digital Sketching

For my Spring quarter classes at Seattle Central I added an elective class on comics to my schedule. Nizzibet encouraged me to have some fun while getting my edumacation. One of the early class assignments was to sketch out a comic strip or comic page that told the reader how to do something. The actual instructions for the assignment just said to do the work in pencil. I over compensated a little. Royden Lepp Digital SketchingRoyden Lepp was an entertaining and informative speaker. Seeing his demonstration helped to point me further in direction I’m currently going. Mr. Lepp has a nifty gallery here.