Here is the poster I made for the 2012 Canadian Improv Games Saskatchewan tournament.
This year I tried to come up with an image comprised of incongruent elements, like an improv scene. Throw together a couple of unrelated characters, a prop. Boom! Instant improv scene! I’m telling you, this story writes itself.
And it’s a real tearjerker.
Update: I was able to get access to a scanner, so The Dailies are up now!
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I’m going to be on the road home this weekend, so The Dailies won’t go up until I have access to a scanner. Possibly as late as Monday night or Tuesday afternoon.
But as many children have learned at this time of year, life is full of disappointments that you can’t control because you’re small, you don’t know most words, and you occasionally forget to go to the bathroom because Looney Tunes is on.
Anyway, keep checking back for new comics, and have a happy whatever-you-do-at-this-time-of-year.
In the studio is the place to be.
If you visit this site semi-regularly, you may have noticed a lot of changes over the last couple of weeks. It’s all part of my final project for Alec Longstreth’s Professional Practices class at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
Originally, I started designing a basic hub/portfolio at dakotmcfadzean.com, but I quickly realized it was redundant because most of the links directed you back here to my blog. SO! Instead I incorporated what I had into my blog, and set up a blank redirect on dakotamcfadzean.com. This will be the last major overhaul to this site until I get the time/guts to install wordpress and comicpress (or some similar thing) onto dakotamcfadzean.com, thus doing away with this subdomain silliness I’ve gotten myself into.
I have a pack of those coloured Staedtler pens that have been sitting unused in my sketchbook bag forever. And then one day I woke up and yelled, “Today I will draw with those pens I have!” And then I did. I’m so glad the internet is here, so that I could get that off my chest.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles probably had more of an impact on me than anything else I can think of, and yet I never think to sit down and draw them.
Well no more! From now on I will periodically draw a ninja turtle! And why not some muppets too? Ands some greys.
Here are more old sketches from my previous sketchbook. At the time I had just bought a Pentel Brush Pen, and I was still trying to figure out how to ink with a brush.
Thanks to practicing with a brush pen, I’ve actually started using a brush for a lot of my comics.
My process is now as follows: pencil, brush, G-nib, crow-quill, a pin with a speck of ink on it, microscopic laser etching, erase pencils. And you’re done!
I didn’t realize it until very recently, but I’ve been a closeted lover of sci-fi all my life. My brother convinced me to start watching Doctor Who, and now I’m on to Star Trek: The Next Generation. What’s next? Battlestar Galactica? Dune? Frankenstein? Only time travelling will tell.
Of course the reason I didn’t know I liked science fiction is because I only watched animated shows until the age of 27. And the animated Star Trek show just didn’t do the trick.
Here are a couple of sketchbook pages from my backlog of sketchbook pages. I was drawing Super Mario while watching Purple Rain with some friends, and I’ll be damned if Prince didn’t sneak his abusive ass into the page.
If you haven’t seen Purple Rain,I wasn’t really paying attention, but it’s about Prince not compromising his artistic integrity by slapping women or something.
I’d recommend the Mad Magazine parody, “Purple Acid Rain” instead.
