I came up with this panel by panel, as I drew it. I’ve never done that before but I think I like it. The beginning of a series? Perhaps.

Once again, no robot from me, but today’s ‘bot comes courtesy of Bryan Fleming, one of my fellow illustration majors. Bryan’s got some swell comics over at http://www.brybox.com as well as his comic collective Saturday Morning Press. Go now!

Today’s robot comes to us from Kent “Burby” Southwell. Kent runs a t-shirt company at http://www.burbyshirts.com and has more robots amongst his other shirt designs. No need to be topless any longer when you’ve got Burby Shirts!

Today is long-time R-A-D contributor and friend, Jessica McLeod’s birthday! I think she is just aces, so you should go and be her internet friend over at http://tiny_monster.livejournal.com.

I have a small excess of chipboard, so you’ll probably be seeing a few more ‘bots this week on the stuff.

I’m in a class at school called Time Arts. It’s sort of an overview of performance art, video, sound, comics, storyboards, and animation. We are in the animation section right now and we had to design a quick, 12-frame animation to play on a zoetrope. I of course chose to animate a robot. It looks better moving faster on the zoetrope than it does in animated gif format, but you get the idea.

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The last page for my submission to the PNCA comic anthology.

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Page two of three for my submission to the PNCA comic anthology. This one needs a bit more cleaning up than the first page did. Later today, I’ll be using my school’s 11 by 17 scanner to make some higher quality scans of these. The end tomorrow.

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Here’s the first page of three for my submission to the PNCA comic anthology. Not cleaned up or anything, just the straight scan. I might add in a spot gray tone for the final, but I’m not sure yet. Page two tomorrow.

My weekend was very productive, but not quite productive enough. So I’m working on a little three page comic that takes place in a coffeeshop. I’m submitting it to my school’s comics anthology which will then get printed and sold, apparently all across the nation. My plan was to have it finished today, but I only have the pages sketched out, none of them are inked yet, so here’s some sketches of two of the three characters involved in the comic. (The lady looks MUCH better in the actual comic than in this sketch, but it’s just the closest sketch to what she looks like in the final.)

SUPER-FANTASTICAL NEWS!
This coming January, I will be having my very first solo art show! It was just confirmed on Sunday. I have been wanting to do my own show for a long time. I’m calling it “Spoke Up!” and it is themed around the biking community of Portland, and even more specifically, those crazy souls (like myself) who bike year-round, rain or shine. Being that the show is not robot-oriented, I will not be showing any of it here. However, I will be showing my process and pieces as they finish over at http://radrobot.livejournal.com. If you’re on the LJ, now would be a great time to friend me. I have a lot of other good stuff coming up over the next few months. Including all of the pieces in the solo show, I plan on (and have the ability to) have at least one piece in at least one show every month until February 2007, at the moment. Hopefully there’ll be more to follow in the spring.