Official Kitty Cat Business - comic 3

Official Kitty Cat Business - strip 2

Here's the second strip for Official Kitty Cat Business.

sketch - carrying a mandolin

Doing a bunch of sketching for Project Apricot.  Liked this pair pretty well.  A mandolin musician.  Her on a good day and then again at the end of a rough day.

tingting-wu.com is up!

I also recently finally put together a page at www.tingting-wu.com.  Filled out some basics.  Will spruce up later.  Yay!  Productivity!  (Also, I'm tired.  Been staying really busy during my free time lately...)

Infinite Canvas

After having had the infinite canvas idea on my mind for a few years, I've finally found the time to try implementing it.  I've taught myself to use the Google App Engine framework and decided to use it to create a webapp for displaying comics in an "infinite canvas".

For more information about the concept, visit http://www.tingting-wu.com/infinitecanvas.html.

You can see a first test of the infinite canvas here: http://sketch-journey.appspot.com/test2.
You'll see one looooooong series of images in a linear row.  Keep scrolling to the right and more images will load.  I used all the images from my Avatar:The Last Airbender thumbnailing exercise, and this turned out to be a really good way to showcase them!

Enjoy!  I'm taking a break on coding for now, but I'm really looking forward to adding more features to it.

Some old in-progress sketches

I've been neck-deep in web-dev stuff lately and been mostly coding, but here are some sketches I had been working on.  They're still in progress, but I wanted to have some images to post up and also track progress of these.

sweet destruction

wonder-woman-esque

Cocktail Party

I had the extremely good fortune to be able to take a series of classes on narrative illustration from the phenomenal Pascal Campion (a very talented concept artist).  And though I was too busy to keep up with all the homework, I did do a sketch for the "cocktail party" assignment.

The concept of this assignment is that he gave us a list of phrases that characters in the scene would be saying or thinking.  Without using word bubbles, we were to draw the scene and characters that illustrated those phrases.  Here's my attempt.

Here is the list of phrases.  See if you can identify them in the image.  (I think I only got about 11 of them, so don't stain too hard looking.)

1. if only i was 20 years younger..
2. have you seen my business partner
   
3. this is despicable
4. better get out of here discretely before she sees me
5. if i ever put my hands on this one
6. how do you like it here
7. say when
   
8. you're a pig
9. i'm driving there
10. it is such a shame
    
11. no i never took it
12. where did you last see it
13. did you hear about jonesy?
    
14. ahahah!
15. don't cry please
16. again! (extra)
    
17. make it work (extra)

The classes were not quite what I expected, but I learned a ton of valuable exercises and started getting into the regiment of drawing again.  There's no substitute for practice.