The Berry boys, Sean and Finn, have been searching the seas for their brother Tom - at least, that’s the story that they’ve been telling their crewmates. Last week Tom found them, arriving as captain of a privateer ship and saving the good ship Gabriele from the grasp of the dread lady pirate and fantastic cook Francoise. Strangely, Tom didn’t seem to recognize his brothers until Sean ran up, embraced him, and gave him a deep, passionate kiss. More disturbing than Sean’s incestuous tendencies was the enthusiasm with which Tom returned the affection.

The crew watched in bafflement and horror as Tom retreated to his ship with the boys in tow and disappeared into his cabin, doubtless for a twisted threesome.

After more than enough time for such evil deeds, the trio emerged, the boys completely changed. Cleaner, for one thing. Strangely buxom, for another. And, in the case of Sean, obviously pregnant. the brothers Sean and Finn Berry are now the sisters Rosie Berry and Coleen O’Shea, wife and sister-in-law, respectively, to Tom Berry.

Tom swore never to let Rosie from his sight again, and swore the same of Coleen, feeling some kind of familial responsibility, or maybe the inclination to take a crack at polygamy. Rosie took to this with enthusiasm - after all, she’s been searching for her husband so that they can be together again - but Coleen, having had a taste of relatively independent, productive, and intoxicating life of a cabinboy, was less thrilled. 

Filed under: gaming, sketches — Emma @ 9:25 pm

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I think a comic drawn like this would be kinda pretty freakin’ sweet. This story is currently rolled up like a fussy hedgehog, uncooperative and prickly and encouraging me to go work on other things. It still likes to get worried over and doodled, though.

Directly after I last posted, I went and started shooting a liveaction short film on the weekends. We’ve been continuing to shoot for the past month, mostly from 10 pm to 3 am on weekends. It’s pretty neat that I have to draw all day at work, because the only time outside of work that I’ve put pencil to paper in the past month has been to note down what we need to reshoot and to diagram out camera and light setups. Shooting is now done and we’re editing the short together. It’s nothing spectacular, but for something powered completely on enthusiasm and inexperience, it’s remarkably coherent. There’s a production blog here: Meat Love. If you’re curious, the short will be about 7 minutes long and tells the story of a butcher who falls hard for a vegan girl.

Unfortunately, sacrifices must be made. I figured I could massively restructure & redraw my Afterworks comic while making a short and working regular hours, and that was maybe a bit optimistic. The deadline came and went while I was working on this short film. I won’t have a story in Afterworks 3, but many awesome talented guys and girls will. The anthology will be out for Comicon this year.

After the short film I’ll get back to the short comic. James (my comrade in deadline-missing) and I are considering self-publishing our Afterworks shorts as a double feature, titled perhaps Afterworks: The B Team or Overachieving Slackers or something like that.

Filed under: sketches, comics — Emma @ 8:54 pm

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Heavy on the gaming posts! My recent obsessive doodling is proof of the game-mastering prowess of Everett and Austin. They throw us into awesome terrifying situations, and we try to survive them.

Most recently, we added a this person to our crew. When we saw him floating in the wreckage of a sailing ship, we figured he was eating the flesh of the drowned sailors, and wondered if he was edible. We were informed by a more experienced sailor that he was a PERSON, not seafood. We hid the crabs we’d been eating and invited him on board. He’s proven to be a very pleasant person so far…

Pleasant or not, Finn can’t get over the fact that he’s a giant crab-person, and is completely revolted.

And this is the ship’s doctor. He’s been responsible for the deaths of any number of creatures - most recently this shark, which he killed with a single shot through the eye - and as far as anyone can tell, he’s only ever SAVED one person’s life.

Filed under: gaming, sketches — Emma @ 10:51 pm

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That’s what I think. Vilo “Grub” is the ship’s cook on a viking longboat, but his luck has been pretty bad since he set foot on dry land. Even though by all rights he’s sound of mind and body, he’s always tripping, spacing out, mishearing orders, and completely overlooking approaching danger. He used to get away with it because he was so damn pretty -

But now… he’s going to have to start getting it together. Beauty’s only skin deep, and his skin got stripped off during a visit to a giant toad’s digestive tract.

I guess this is mildly interesting: my first version of the new Grub, before Austin told me disfigurement was nothing to be afraid of… you can see there’s not a whole lot of difference, but I like seeing slight changes when other people do them, so here it is.

Filed under: gaming, sketches — Emma @ 8:52 pm

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A scuffle on and around an detoxing laudanum addict, the unfortunate and brilliant Doctor Perry Brighton.

Once their ship put in to shore, the first stop the brothers made was the church on the hill… where Finn suggested something in Gaelic that Sean didn’t take kindly to. Another crewman, Diego, intervened before Sean could completely drown Finn in the basin of holy water, but the priests kicked them out of the church.

Filed under: gaming, sketches — Emma @ 7:10 pm

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We’ve got a weekly D&D game going on, and this is the guy I play in it. Been busy, but this is a sketch.

More sketches over at Dungeons and Shenanigans by the other DanDies and myself.

Filed under: d&d, sketches — Emma @ 2:01 pm

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But you’ve got to follow links to get to them! There’s this online app called Artpad, which will replay your sketch for you. It’s pretty neat, and so I abused it with horses: here and here, and a upset cat.

Filed under: process, sketches — Emma @ 5:52 pm

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What I was doing here was trying to mash a girl’s face around. Then I got picky and redrew a headshot of her, which doesn’t look anywhere near as lively as the fullbody drawing. I like it when a face surprises me… I don’t care to make people attractive, but hopefully they’re interesting.

Filed under: cat, sketches — Emma @ 12:34 pm

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UC Davis is one of the most (agri)cultured universities in the United States. They’ve got farmland, a lot of horse barns, ducks, suicidal squirrels, pigs and goats if you know where to look for them, a grove full of nesting herons and egrets, and a dairy.

March, April, and May are apparently calving/foaling season. There are a lot of baby horses and mules out at the barns, and there’s a very long row of baby cow pens. I went out there planning to draw, but they had this kind of baby animal magnetism going on. It was impossible to stand far enough away from them to get a good drawing, because they’d blink at me with their huge eyes, and wobble their chunky knees, and I figured that if I just observed them closely while scritching them, I’d probably learn SOMETHING about what they look and move like.

So these sketches were done today, from my memory of the two-day-old jersey calf that I was harassing. She wasn’t really strong enough to actually bound around, and her pen was not much room (about 3×3 feet with an igloo attached on), but she gave it her best.

Filed under: motion study, animals, sketches — Emma @ 10:24 pm

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Just messing around.

Filed under: color, sketches, photoshop — Emma @ 7:19 pm

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