Wow. Just Wow. Having managed to survive my first convention ever, let me say, it was both an ordeal and a great experience. There were so many amazing artists crammed into that cavernous, sweltering, former munitions depot where they film CSI-NY. Any money that I made (very little) and more was spent purchasing artness for my once barren walls. I am new to this convention thing, and so was slow to pick up on the concept of "the trade." As I was scrambling to get materials together for the show, I spent too much on printing costs to make me feel comfortable with trading away my books....next year I plan to come armed with much material, and much for trades...as there were so many trades that I just couldn't pass up!

I met a ton of new people. Unfortunately, I can only remember a few names, and was remiss in obtaining LJ account names. I did gank a few off of nervousystem's list...hopefully I'll be able to find everyone else eventually.

It was hot, it was exhausting, and it was overwhelming. I can't wait for next year.

Yes, I have an obsession with cupcakes, but I swear this is the last one for a while!

The seecret comic-ing continues in preperation for MoCCA, so in the meantime I continue to produce neat little spot illustrations for your consumption. I think I may have an unnatural obsession with cupcakes....or it may be a completely natural obsession...mmm cupcakes.....

I'm trying these new, one page comics to help me loosen up. It also give me something that is an uploadable, showable, finished product, relatively quickly. So, while I'm still pounding away at the big projects, enjoy my first finished one page comic!

Another sketchdoodle to whet your appetite. I've been working like a madperson on art, unfortunately none of it is internet material.

Ok Back to work!

Still working on all sorts of arts. Comic books and sketches, Postcards and doodles. Anyone out there ever written a Query letter? All I can find are examples for writers. I am not a writer. I need examples for ARTISTS!!! Sadness.

In the meantime, a finished sketchdoodle!

There are many doodles waiting to be finished on my computer now! I must get working! Deadlines are fast approaching and I have much to finish.

Away!

Ok, so I've been horribly delinquent in updating here. I promise to do better. In fact, I've got art for you!

This cute little guy is also available on t-shirts ov-ah at my cafepress store: www.cafepress.com/MNew
More later, promise!

So one of the scenes in the comic I'm working on is set in an amusement park, and relates to a ride that I remember fondly. The Gyrosphere at Seabreeze Amusement park. While searching for reference photos of that stretch of the boardwalk, I discovered two very sad things. First of all, there are virtually NO images of the outside of the Gyrosphere. Second, and even more sad, <a href="http://javaliterally.blogspot.com/2008/05/gyrosphere-is-gone.html">The Gyrosphere is gone</a>. Even sadder is that it was replaced with a cookie cutter ride that is in practically every other amusement park in the country. BOO on you Seabreeze. You've ruined my ability to relive teenage memories! Boo!

So in desperation I'm turning to all of you, does <b>anyone</b> know where I can get images of the outside of the Gyrosphere? I'm even willing to compensate Rochester Locals for a trip to the downtown library for scans from their amazing image library. I'm desperate here folks!

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With MOCCA coming up fast, 99% of my artistic energy is going towards the creation of a book to have on the table. I'm about four pages into what I hope will be a 12 page book, yeah I know, I need to step it up. Unfortunately for Blog land, none of the pages are scan ready, and even if they were, I'm not sharing! You'll just have to come to MOCCA and see them yourself.

I also distracted myself with the purchase of a tiny pocket box of watercolors, which is adorable and portable. It makes for fun colored sketches, even if my watercolor skills are far from ideal.

I had contemplated posting a page from a practice comic I was working on a while ago, but the scanned pages need significant clean up, and the time that would be devoted to that could be better spent getting this new comic out of my head and onto the page.

I actually got a lot of art done yesterday, or at least, a lot of progress made on art. None of it is ready to be posted, but it's all a lot further along than it's been in a while.

That and I finally got my website up and running: www.meghannew.com

I drew this a while ago, just finally got it scanned in and flat colored. I'm debating if I should do shading on it or not.

Because Cupcakes are the best food ever.
I swear I've got more complicated art that I'm working on...one of these days I'll finish a full piece and put it up...promise.

Back when I was a wee one, my Dad bought a second generation Mac Classic. We were early adopters you see, we even had a Beta Max. I grew up using that beige wonder box with it's tiny gray-scale screen, and I fondly remember the games that were available on it, Lode Runner (which was awesome because you could make your own levels), Frogger, Wishstone (which was a text based adventure that we never made it very far in) and this one game that I swear was called Castlevania, but people keep insisting I must be mistaken. I'm not sure what the point of the game was, except I remember you started off in this room with six doors and when you went through a door, you'd enter a level. There was one monster in particular that I remember fondly. We called them "Me Me"s because that was the noise they would make as they walked across the screen. These poor doomed creations would shuffle sideways waving their absurdly large hands at you, and were apparently poisonous to the touch. They were of course gray-scale, but I always pictured them as pink for some reason.

So in a fit of nostalgia, I present to you a "Castlevania Me Me". Oh and if anyone out there knows what the *real* name of that game is please enlighten me!

                                                                

More doodleness. I'm still getting used to using Illustrator in a new way to ink/color drawings. This little guy is a chess Bishop, evil looking, isn't he?

Gotta keep puttin up the finished art! Someday I'll match nervousystem 's output...I swear it!

Just a little sketch of Sexica from Multiple Warheads today. Hopefully I'll have something original finished and uploaded by the end of the week.

New year, old drawing table, new set up! Finally got my drawing table down to NYC and set up. One of my new years resolutions is one finished piece a week, I toil, you win!

After the recent shakeup in my life, I'm starting to get things back where they need to be. I'm not quick about getting on the right track, but I think things should be truckin along mightily soon.

So, to keep you occupied, a sketch and the inked version of a sketch i posted earlier...color to follow! Dun dun DUNNNNN!