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Rotsterarsil 1.1 Down, 1.2 Starting

Rotsterarsil 1.1 Page 17

So, Chapter One, Issue One is finally all posted. Milestone and all. I am determined to finish all Chapter One before I give up, but I confess it's been hard going from Maze and all its readers to Wheel, with, like, almost zero readers. I continue to tell myself that it is merely because it is new. But a lot of me is still thinking that the story sucks. Bah. I will finish up this bit and then reevaluate if I want to move on to one of my other plot ideas. I have so many in the wings! It has been really nice to write about happy, non-angsty people for awhile; I think I could go back to defeated depressing characters again without sighing too much.

 
Posted 2012.05.14 11:04 | Last modified 2012.05.14 12:40 | 3 Comments

Webcomics Panel March 29

Morning Serial: Webcomics at the Henry Art Gallery

If you haven't heard, my comic, The Locked Maze is being featured at the Henry Art Gallery's webcomics exhibit now through June 30th.

The gallery is also hosting a pre-ECCC panel this Thursday, March 29th, at 7:00pm. It is free for students and only $5 for everyone else. I will be there, although probably frozen in fear and mute with horror at the crowds (they are putting a MIC on me... eek!), and I will bring lots of free bookmarks and prints, so be sure to say hi after! :)

Posted 2012.03.24 18:17 | Last modified 2012.03.24 18:18 | Leave a reply

Preview Cityscape

Preview Cityscape (mleiv.com)
image © 2011 mleiv
Medium: PhotoShop Size: 14"x10.5"

Posting this before I lose the nerve. It's a background spread from my Next Project. There will be other stuff over it, but I am a crazy person and always draw the whole bg first. This is supposed to be about halfway between Blade Runner and WWII-era Britain.

Posted 2011.11.11 20:59 | Last modified 2011.11.20 12:37 | 3 Comments

The Locked Maze 3: Title

The Locked Maze 3: Title (mleiv.com)
image © 2010 mleiv
Medium: Photoshop Size: 8.5X11"

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Okay, deep breath, here we go! I will try to keep up with the weekly schedule, but these new pages are taking a very long time to create and it is very likely I will fall behind. I will post WIPs or sketches or filler art if that happens. Maybe a breakdown of my process - I've been meaning to do that one of these days.

This page is one of those rare artistic moments where I am completely happy with how it turned out. I am very, very proud of it. :) I've revealed more plot secrets than I wanted to, of course, but as they are all out of context, I don't think they will spoil anything until after the fact.
Posted 2010.08.01 10:59 | Last modified 2010.08.01 10:59 | 11 Comments

The Locked Maze 2: Title

The Locked Maze 2: Title (mleiv.com)
image © 2009 mleiv
Medium: Photoshop Size: 8.5X11"

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Read Book I first.
Posted 2009.03.29 0:25 | Last modified 2009.03.29 0:25 | 2 Comments

The Locked Maze: Title

The Locked Maze: Title (mleiv.com)
image © 2008 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 8.5X11"

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Update: You can buy Book I at IndyPlanet. See the Archive for signed copy options.

I started this comic 5 years ago. I never read comic books as a kid, but I got the strange idea that I could draw my personal novel (the one about Teisni and Aian) as a comic, and I wanted to try a "test run" first. So I selected this story that I had running around in my head. But my lovely obsessive nature immediately took over and I spent the next 5 years rewriting the "screenplay" and redrawing the characters over and over. I have come to the conclusion that I suck at this. But I want to finish this damn thing so I am going to do it anyway. Hopefully I will get better as I go, but it's been 5 years and I still suck so I have little hope of that.

I chose 8X11 pencil sketches as my medium because it was the easiest and most familiar. As I progress I hope to switch to digital, and in color. Maybe in book 2 I will try a size more suited to a browser window. But all that will have to wait.

"Out by the Oak Leaf" is from The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (see Favorite Books).
Posted 2008.01.11 23:22 | Last modified 2011.07.04 0:11 | Leave a reply

Teisni and Aian – first chapter

Teisni and Aian - first chapter (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2002 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 6X8"

I was thinking the other day that I haven't drawn an actual story scene in ages. I was worried I had forgotten how. I guess not.

Posted 2005.10.08 22:45 | Last modified 2011.03.10 10:16 | Leave a reply

Anal-Retentive Man

Anal-Retentive Man (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2005 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 8X11"

Oh, this is just one of those random bits of silliness I indulge in.

Posted 2005.05.22 9:52 | Last modified 2005.05.22 9:52 | Leave a reply

Daddy Comic

Daddy Comic (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2004 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 8X11"

I created this for a friend who was sterilized for his birthday. :)

Posted 2005.01.04 12:00 | Last modified 2005.01.04 12:00 | Leave a reply

Jeopardy Comic

Jeopardy Comic (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2004 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 8X11"

Yeah, I have this thing where Mormon know-it-all men still piss me off.

Posted 2005.01.04 12:00 | Last modified 2005.01.04 12:00 | Leave a reply

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