Three more pen sketches I drew from the end of 2010 to January 2011. The first sketch below was made with a pen that was at its end of life; I completely destroyed its felt-tip trying to use up its last drops of ink.
I think that got me a little ink-deprived, as you can tell from the zealous use of ink in the two newer sketches with a brand new pen.
Front cover
Back cover
Received my copy of Liquid City volume 2 (thanks Sonny Liew and Image Comics!) comics anthology. Above are the actual scans of the front and back covers. It’s a heavy book, with 328 glossy pages featuring 22 short stories including my very own story called ‘Salvage’.
You can buy your copy from Amazon, your local Kinokuniya and in other big bookstores.
To see previews of each story, visit the official website Liquid Citizen and see also these previous posts for my story’s cover and previews. Enjoy the book!
These are a couple of line sketches done over a few of months in a wire spiral bound sketchbook I bought a long time ago for a dollar or so. I’ll occasionally post the sketches as it fills up.
You have already seen the cover page of my short story comic, Salvage, from the Liquid City volume 2 anthology, here’s a preview of 4 pages from it.
Salvage page 6
Salvage page 7
Salvage page 8
Salvage page 9
The story is set in Southeast-Asia about a group of kids living in a slum at the edge of a great lake. For a fee, anyone can hire them to salvage items from a flooded city at the depths of the lake, and this is about one particular job.
There is about a month more before the book is released, I haven’t seen it in print yet, so I’m just as excited as you.
What do you do with your pencil when it gets too short to have a firm hold on it? Chuck it in the bin? Not me!
I use blue colour pencils (so I don’t have to bother with erasing the penciling before scanning and it saves on erasers) which costs about $1.15 each, it’ll be such a waste to not use it until its very last inch. How to do that? Make a pencil holder for it of course. Here’s how I made one.
All I needed was an old plastic ballpoint pen and I had a few of those laying about. The one I chose was a PILOT V pen with an unusable nib clogged with 10 year-old dried ink, a pen I should have thrown out a long time ago but I’m glad I didn’t, because it looked like it had all the right qualities for a pencil holder.
The pen’s point (nib) was connected to a feed (the part that draws ink from the ink tank to the ballpoint tip) housed inside a transparent ink tank. I knew that if I could get the nib and the feed out, the tank would make a perfect fit to hold a pencil in.
I made a quick run to the toolbox for a pair of handy pliers, and gripping the nib and pulling it with a bit of force,
it popped out along with the feed quite easily.
The remnants of ink in the tank was water-soluble so it washed out without any difficulty and after a good dry it was ready for a fitting test.
To my great delight, the pencil fitted snugly inside the ink tank and didn’t shake about when I tired it out for fast and fluid sketches to tiny detailed work.
From now on whenever my pencils get to three inches of length, I just stuff it into the pencil holder and what was once a pencil too short to hold is now a pencil still good for another two to three inches of use. Hooray to recycling and creativity (and miserliness).
My new short story comic, Salvage, has been included in the Liquid City, vol. 2 anthology. Liquid City, vol. 2 is a collection of short story comics by Southeast Asian comic creators from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and more.
The book will be published by Image Comics and will be on sale from September 29, 2010. More info here.
Starting off a new comic series Revolutionary Visionary today with pages 1 to 3 of the first chapter called ‘Runner’. This series will be a long running collection of strange and peculiar stories, of surreal and outlandish tales, of the bizarre and the weird and the, the… Rather than try to describe it in words, it’s best left to be experienced.
