stuff

We have to bring in pictures of our favorite characters to the next SEQUENTIAL ART CLUB meeting, so I drew Ozu (from The Tatami Galaxy) and Daria. I might also draw Enid from Ghost World, but I am really lazy.

Also, I started working on my "choose your own adventure" book. Progress is pretty good, I guess. Mapping out the stories and their branches makes my head hurt, though. I find it hard to comprehend, really. But I will get over it!

-Kirby

spook 2 cover

So, SPOOK 2! I finished the cover for it. Now we just need to work on material. I better finish the time travel comic, and some other stuff.

I was also thinking of making a "choose your own adventure" type book, as a side project. Maybe.

-KIRBY

devil chick

I drew a devil chick
Enjoy

-Kirbs

let's learn our colors

Please enjoy these colorful Petyas I drew a bit ago!

aww yiss

oh my gog, WHAT is that....

It's SPOOK magazine's first issue, THAT'S WHAT IT IS!!!

Yes, for once in my life, I actually had the initiative to complete something. It took like 3 months but whatevah. The point is, it's done, and I'm happy! Thank you to errbody who has something in it! And to those who don't: There will soon be a second issue, and rest assured you will probably be in it.

I have ten books printed, so not everyone will get one just yet because I'm sending some off places. But you will all have one. Eventually. Or at least get to look at it.

NOW WHO WANTS TO SEE MORE WEBCAM PICS OF ME POSING WITH IT?

-Kirby!!

moar bowie

I have a problem.
Oh well, you guys are just lucky I'm not drawing tons of psychedelic Vladimir Putin.
...
Hmmm...

-Kirby!

i hate my scanner

So, the scanner only scanned part of Bowie. But, most of you have seen Bowie IRL, so this doesn't affect you much. It still bugs me, though.
Anyway here's a Bowie:

Man I love David Bowie! (platonically of course)

-Kirby

COLORS

I just finished drawing a picture of David Bowie (that I will post tomorrow), and I realized something; I can't use COLOR.

I mean, I know how the primaries and the secondaries and the color theory stuff works. But, everytime I try to use a wide array of colors it looks like gook. Especially when I try to do bright, neon-y stuff. It's like I always just end up choosing colors that look awful together. Then, I'll try to fix it by panicking and adding more colors, AAAND it's a downward spiral from there.

This is probably why I stick to only using monochromatic schemes, and the primaries (never secondaries, I think they are gross together).

On a somewhat relevant note, Jesus I hate contrasting colors with a passion. Why do we ALWAYS use that scheme in art class? If we did nothing but primaries all year, I would be SO CONTENT. Heck, why do we even get assigned color schemes in art class? I WANT TO DO WHAT I WANT /whine. But, some people just don't get them, I guess. Just like they don't get contour lines. Dear God someone get me out of my art class pleeeaasseee


PS: I totally used primaries on David Bowie

-KIRBY

on a roll

GUESS WHAT HAS TWO THUMBS, AND JUST FINISHED THE BACK COVER

THIS GIIIIRRRRLLLLL

I AM AN UNSTOPPABLE MACHINE

-Kirby

cover

Welp guys, I finished the cover for SPOOK!

It's the only thing that's going to be in color, so I went all-out. All-out LIKE A MANIAC.

SPOOK is almost complete, by the way. All that's left it Marley's advice column, Kathleen's mystery picture, and some technical nonsense. ARE YOU EXCITED? I am. This is exciting.

Boo!

-Kirbs

why why why

So, I've decided to start a series of watercolours. Watercolours of ghostly schoolgirls. Many of you saw the first one (and refer to her as Nubs, sending me into a blind frothing rage (PS: I promise not to call you K-fed anymore, Katelyn, lmao)).

Anyway, when I drew that one, it was like; "Oh yeah, pencil to paper, bam bam look at that".

Then tonight, I started on another, and it's like, "HOW DO I ANATOMY????"

NOTHING LOOKS RIGHT! It's all disproportioned, or awkwardly angled, or WROONNNGGG!!! I hate it. Feel my seething frustration.

Tomorrow I will try to draw them again, after I have calmed down. Hrrrhhggnnnhhgdffkdgld;h

-Kirby!

So.

my day

Please enjoy this lame and poorly draw depiction of my day so far!

Now I'm going to go do productive things. Namely, homework.

-Kirby

ladies

Ladies.

a house!

Please enjoy this drawing of an old house!

Ref pic: http://fuckyeaghosts.tumblr.com/post/1180293779#notes

I kinda ended up "squishing" it in my drawing, oops. I still like it though.

Also, you may have noticed that I also drew this house in my sketchbook. All I can say is; I really like this house.

Kay bye!

-Kirby

UBOA

http://mylifeiscreepy.com/view/Unexplained/501

i rule

omg

guys, are you ready for the best creepypasta ever
here it is:

Somewhere in West Philadelphia, you will find an old basketball court with a single ball lying in the middle. Pick it up and start shooting hoops. After a while, a small group of hooligans will approach you and challenge you to a fight, which you must accept.

After the fight, you must go home and relay the events to your mother. She will then inform you that you have an aunt and uncle living in one of the districts of Los Angeles, and out of fear, she will send you to live there for an indefinite period of time.

With your bags packed, go to the street corner, and whistle for a cab. The cab that will pull up will bear the word FRESH on the license plate, and upon closer inspection, novelty fuzzy dice will hang in the mirror. Although you will suddenly realize that cabs like these are extremely hard to find, do not bear any thought to it. At this point you MUST point out in front of the car and say ‘Yo homes to Bel Air’. You will stop in front of a mansion, and it will be sometime between 7 and 8 o’clock, even though it will feel like you’ve been traveling mere seconds. Get your luggage out and say ‘Yo homes, smell ya later!’, but do NOT turn back to face the cabby. Walk up to the door, look over your shoulder once, and then knock on the door three times.

If you follow these instructions, your life will get flip-turned upside-down.
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(http://www.creepypasta.com/the-princes-fresh-start/)

inforrmmaatiioonnn

Sup my bruthas from other muthas! I made a tumblr account. I've decided that will be where I post art that isn't comics, and also other junk. Here it is--> http://withriceball.tumblr.com/
I also put a link to it on the right hand side of this blog.

Also, I finished my Slenderman comic! (most of you already know this) Now, though, I have to ink it. Uuuugghhhhhh /whine

I'm also thinking of printing it up and selling it at Heroes like I did with Hideki and Daichi. What do ya'll think? TELL ME.

-Kirbs

yo homes

Hey guys, have a picture of Miku:

I really like to draw rainbows and triangles lately. I blame my reading of art magazines.

Anyway, I'm writing a comic right now. That and school combined, the blog posts will dwindle. BUT! There will always be one a week. Always.

-Kirby

A MEME

I am about to do a meme. Why? BECAUSE I WANT YOU ALL TO HATE ME HEEHEE Because I am bored!

Step 1: Put your iPod music player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist or show the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
NOTE: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

Alright, LET'S DO THIS.

1. Stop your messin' around, better think of your future
2. I did my best to notice, when the call came down the line
3. Traveling in a fried out combie
4. Sun is shining in the sky
5. This one was in Japanese. I have no idea what I heard.
6. BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM bum
7. I walk along the avenue, I never thought I'd meet a girl like you
8. Tip toe, through the window
9. Why this car is AUTOMATIC
10. I have often dreamed, of a far off place
11. Shake shake shake senora!
12. You want a guy who can bring the bacon
13. When I woke up tonight I said IIIIII'M gonna make somebody love me
14. Northside, eastside, little Willy Willy wears the crown
15. And the outside temperature rises
16. Down at the mall, is the one who's got it all
17. LET ME BORROW THAT TOP
18. COME ON COME ON COME ON NOW touch me babe
19. The taxman's taken all my dough
20. The greatest magicians have something to learn
21. I heard you on the wireless back in fifty-two
22. And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson (this ones the hardest, for realz)
23. Steve walks warily down the street
24. Yo I'm a freak, I'm so unique!
25. NO WIFIN' IN THE CLUB, GIMME 20 DOLLAHS (omg I'm so glad this was the last one hahaha)

Well that's that then. CAN YOU GUESS THE SONGS??? (answer: probably)
Anyway, I'm sorry for subjecting you guys to that. Here, Vladimir Putin the Giraffe will cheer you up:

Yeah, I thought he would.

-Kirby

No school, ahhh yeaahhh

Heyyy, there's no school today! Or tomorrow. Or the next two days. Anyway, have a comic;

Yeah, how do ya like them poor scans? They're great, I know. Also, the story told above isn't mine; I read it while browsing tumblr one day. But still.

LATER

-kirbs

EXPECT THEM

Please enjoy this little Petya comic! Also, writing Russian "d"s is hard.

So! Yesterday I went to the used bookstore and got a book called "RUSSIAN in record time"! It's like 40 years old but still quite helpful. It talks about grammar and stuff, and also has English/Russian and Russian/English dictionaries in the back. ALGEBRAIC!

And now, please enjoy a couple Russian things that I enjoy;

This cartoon!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1mFgYtr0c
This one too, although it's quite a bit darker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfI69DC_jaw
Aaaand this artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarkh_Lentulov

ENJOY

-Kirbs

призрак!!!

Boo!

I haven't been posting many comics lately, sorry! I've been too lazy to scan and to busy to do any digital ones lately. But hey, at least I'm giving you pictures!

Also, did you guys know I love drawing teeth? I love drawing teeth. Except they usually makes things look creepy.

-Kirby

Dude looks like a lady

Sup my bruddas! Please enjoy the above picture of me, Emma, and Katelyn's male alter egos. Their names are Kirk, Ernest, and Karl. Kirk is Elton John my alter ego, and he is the trios PEP MASTER. The ultimate source of happiness and team spirit! And everyone hates him for it.
Also, I'm ashamed to say that this is his outfit, pretty much;
Anyway back to the dudes. Ernest is an angsty guy who has no reason to angst at all, and also smokes a pipe. He writes poetry too. Poetry full of DEEP SYMBOLIC MEANING (angst).
Lastly there is KARL. Karl is a giant nerd and also kind of a jerk. He's really into sci-fi and alien ladies. Speaking of which;

Well guys, that's all I got for today. Seeya!

-Kirby

Kekekekeke

Hey guys!!! I'm afraid to say that posts on my blog will be less frequent now, because SCHOOL has started. But, I will still try to post at least 1 thing a week. It may be a comic, it may be a picture, but either way it will be posted!

For the most part, school has been pretty RADICAL. Except for Mr. Melki who is a dum-dum that doesn't know the difference between abstract and surrealism! hrrrhnfggghhh

Anyway here's a picture!
That's Monoko from a game called Yume Nikki, if you don't know. I drew her for lack of any better ideas. I tried a new effect/style/whatever thing with the brush hardness and opacity, and I like how it turned out.

That's all for now, SEE-YA!

-Kirby

CHECK IT

In a post a while back, I vaguely mentioned that I was working on something. Something awesome. It was this post, to be precise: http://the-kirbinator.blogspot.com/2010/08/bluh-bluh.html
But more importantly, that awesome thing I was working on has been completed, AND HERE IT IS:
If you can't tell what that is, because I took that with my shoddy webcam, I will tell you what it is. It is a comic book with nothing but Hideki and Daichi comics in it (many of you know them, the japanese twin dudes).

I know what you're thinking; "Yeah okay, Kirby just took a bunch of comics she's shown me before and binded them. What makes this so special?" WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL.

The comics featured in this book have NEVER BEEN READ BEFORE (well Katelyn has read like 4 of them, but that's less than half so I won't count it). So cool.

The bad part is I'm going to make you pay me before you can get one. And I'm not letting you read before you pay, either. But hey, it takes a lot of effort to put one of these things together okay? I have a right to ask for cash.

Lucky for you guys, I'm only asking for an even 3 buckaroos for one of these babies. I know you guys can afford that! I know it.

-Kirby

Sup my homies

HEY GUYS

HOW'S IT GOIN'

Here have a comic:

I'll leave you guessing as to what it says, even though I think it's fairly obvious. I think.

-Kirby

I ran so far awaayyy

Heyyy guys! I haven't drawn any comics in the last few days, surprisingly. Or, rather, I haven't completed any. So, have the above picture of a young man from a movie I love. If you don't know the movie, you don't know me.

Also here is a picture that will soon be a watercolor painting. Because I bought watercolors and watercolor paper. Alas, though, I do not have a lightbox to transfer this onto watercolor paper, so the painting can't be done yet. Maybe I will just use the window.

-Kirby

Art by others

Above is the picture of Petya I talked about in the last post, as drawn by Katelyn! Isn't it fab? It is very fab. I am blinded by how fab it is. Man I love it!

Also, below is a picture Kathleen drew of me that I paid two bucks for. If you want one, give Kathleen two bucks! Or a just a dollar, if you don't want it to be colored as fabulously as mine, you cheapskate.

That's all for now, homies!

-Kirbs

Ah Suki Suki

Remember a couple posts back when I said Katelyn had come up with her own study buddies, to help her learn Japanese? Remember when I said I would draw them? Well, I did! Their names are Sumi and Suki and they are twins.

Speaking of Katelyn, she got her own blog. Check it! --> http://logicallunatic.blogspot.com/

Katelyn also drew a picture of my study buddy, Petya. She will probably post it on her blog, and I will also post it here, so you all can gaze upon it on TWO BLOGS AT ONCE!

That's all for now, then!

-Kirby

Cyclops love! 2

Part two of the cyclops love saga! I don't know if there will be a third part, because I have no clue what to write. If something comes to me, though, I may write a third one. Maybe.

-Kirby

It is 1 am

Heyyy guys, it's 1 AM up in heeyaahhh. Why is Kirby updating her blog right now, you ask? Well, here is a list of my priorities, in order of importance;

1. Update blog
2. Sleep

See how much I care?

So anyway, today I hung out with Kathleen at the Sleepy Poet. We looked at antiques and bought a Mick Jagger record! We bought it because it had Mick Jagger on the cover in longjohns. Very tempting.

Afterwords we went to Kathleen's house, and she has THE CUTEST KITTEN, which you can see in the above picture. It's name is Claire. I love Claire.

Aaand, I will go to sleep now! Night errbody!

-Kirby

Cyclops love!

And now for a comic about giant cyclopes falling in love. What more could you want?

Page 2 coming soon!

-Kirby

Adventures in Visart

So the other day I was at Visart renting Donnie Darko (expect fanart later), and I saw Mr. Madison there. For like the third time. Anyway, this happened;

Why, mom? Why would you ever notice this? I could've gone my whole life not knowing that Mr. Madison had a bunch of back hair sticking out of his shirt collar. But NO. Apparently that wasn't in the cards.

Also, my face in the first panel is totally this: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=BEAT-PONY&Category_Code=BEAT

Lastly, have a picture of Petya.

Speaking of study buddies, Katelyn made some to help with her Japanese learnin'. I know this because read it on her Facebook page. Anyway, once I see these study buddies, I will be drawing them!

That's it for now!

-Kirby

Colors and falling

Why did I draw this? I have no idea, but aren't you glad I did?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Anyway, click the picture to make it bigger. Then, gaze upon the ludicrous colors, flying cars, and a guy being pushed from a window. WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT?

-Kirbs

Woah look at that rainbow

I drew the above picture on the train home from Raleigh! Well, I sketched it. I finished it yesterday on Photoshop, which I am finally getting used to (freaking layers, how do they work?).
The picture is of me and my cousin Noel (who was sitting next to me on the train) checkin' out some radical view of a rainbow. Aaahh yeaahhhh

-Kirbs

Ghosts

I wanted to write a comic with some ghosts in it, so I drew this. Jazz playing ghosts would rule. RULE SO HARD, MAN.

-Kirby

BLUH BLUH

BLARG I've been busy have a comic.
What have I been busy with, you ask? Well it's something awesome but it's not quite near completion so I'M NOT TELLING!!!
But it IS awesome, that's fo sho.

-Kirby

Study buddy

The dude above is my STUDY BUDDY! I named him Petya. He will help me learn my Russian by starring in comics in which he says things in it. Such as this one, that you probably won't be able to read! But you can still look at it and enjoy the painful primary colors!





-Kirby

Creeper mailbox

Back in the day (early 7th grade) I wrote a pretty dumb comic about Steve from Blue's Clues showering and then the mailbox busting in through the wall and being a creeper. I think the mailbox said something like; "I got some mail for ya. Why don't you...reach in and get it?" and then he pretty much did what I drew up there. Despite realizing the comics' dumbness, I STILL FIND IT FUNNY, for some reason, so I re-drew it! Enjoy.

-Kirbs