Happy Halloween everybody! ooOOOOooo! After getting the greatest scare of my life from Tony and Mike Barth a couple nihgt ago, I'm all pumped up on adrenalin and energy to update this blog! Ha.


This here is a silly little piece of fluff in tribute to all those other cartoony girl pinups out there. While I had fun with the simple colouring, this one was a pain because I decided to colour ontop the rough sketch rather than ink it clean and then colour... because I liked the original drawing and didn't want to go through the meticulous clean-up-process. The result is: it takes LONGER to colour, nigh impossible to clean after colouring and an obvious lack of the polished look you get with an inked drawing. BAH! I'm buying pens first thing tommorrow.

Also, I think I might treat myself to a new tablet this christmas, mine's lasted a good three years but it's all scuffed and a little too small which gives me crazy finger cramps. *looks devious* Though they have very nice tablets at work...

~ KT (I'm a princess for halloween! even though a guy at work told me only little girls and transvestite men can be "princesses." BAH.)

Alrighty, bring on good ol Hallows Eve! This is my FAVOURITE time of the year, and the first time I'll be experiencing it in Ottawa. There's this house down the street, all decked out, MAAAAaaan I wish I was a kid again so I could go tricker treating, or had a kid with me so I could use them as an excuse to go tricker treating, ha ha.
Haven't been up to much besides work and sleep (glutunous amounts of sleep) lately, but I found time to doodle up another ridiculous little Simply Potterific comic, here's the first panel:


I still need to figure out how to get my films up online, boy oh boy do I need a day off!


~ KT

How do I post titles for these things?

*ahem*

Alrighty! Closet-Space's been officially revamped, new menu pages that fit the "closet-space" theme and I've scanned through all my drawings and filed the old stuff into archives to keep the gallary neat and tidy. Now I just need to get the ol' keester in gear-ster and get into the habbit of practice-practice-draw-draw again.
Here's my latest doodley (yeees, it's been a while). A birthday card for Gerry who likes Archie comics as much as I do... I mean did *shifts eyes around nervously*

~ KT

Bernard's planning a short film project and I've been invited to join the team, so I'm pretty hyped for that. I find my intentions are always pure when it comes to art, but unless I've got someone giving me direction or deadlines or some sense of "do this now!" I can sit day dreaming forever. Then I wake up, reaise I'm 22 and finished school and not even CLOSE to achieving all those creative goals I set way back in highschool, maybe even grade school! There was something a stranger had said to me on the street (he creeped me out when he first approached me but the value of what he had to say soon overcame the creepyness), he told me the problem with young people is a lot of us aren't confident enough to begin achieving our goals, that we're inhibited by misplaced perceptions we place on ourselves that we're too young and inexperienced to create anything. He said people need to realise we have EVERYTHING in us RIGHT NOW to beable to create, we just need to realise this.
We just need to see it.
Speaking of "seeing" here's a pic I scrounged up of me and Lucia outside the Ottawa Art Gallary back around Canada Day, wha hee!



~ KT

The Animation Festival was really good and there were some amazing films (my favourite will eventually be seen at http://www.jaspermorello.com/). It felt good to be able to connect with other animators on a similar level rather than having the "I'm just a student" status.... not that there's anything wrong with that! It's just there seemed to be more to talk about and relate to this time around. So the PLAN is, the plan, the plan... IS, to get around to finishing my film. Within the year *fingers crossed.*
Oh! And I just finished the sketchbook I started last year 2nd semester, YES! Now for a clean start!

Here are some doodles from the last page.








And here's an old one, done in photoshop. I wish I'd spent more time on it to get the skirt to actually LOOK like fabric, but I had to move on to other things.

Happy Autumnal Exinox! This has always been my favourite season. And the days are getting better with the kick off of the animation festival, and BEST of all is Lucia's come to stay with me and Andrea for the week. Fun times galore! Though not much sleep.
~ KT

Warming up the ol' sketch hand.
It's been a long time since I've used pencil crayons, but I went and bought a pack at Wallacks the other day to try and get back into them. This is a quick sketch of a dress I saw on Ebay (I'm DANGEROUSLY close to buying a renaissance peasent dress and a civil war era gown from there... getting a credit card has unleashed my inner material demons.) I like the feel of pencil crayons, but it's always irked me that colouring over erased pencil marks leaves a pale kind of back trace line that I can't get rid of unless I lightly colour through the groove with a darker shade. It's all a learning process.

As has been politely pointed out by Bernard, I smell... oh, and I don't update NEARLY as much as I should. And the horrible aweful horrible (did I say horrible?) truth is that I don't draw NEARLY as much anymore. Yes, there's the "job" excuse, but that really is just an excuse isn't it? The only creative stuff I've been doing lately are the Shrub Monkey comics I've been making to amuse my brother and creative partner Steven. And the normal sketches and doodles that fill up my books but I don't feel like going through the back-breaking effort of picking up the book, turning on the scanner, scanning the pages... oh god, it's too much to even think about! Anyhoo, here's a quick sketch I did for Gerry (you'll know him from Bernard's postings, Bernard draws him ALL the time). And I'll be spending the next few days before the Animation Film Festival updating my website design. It's now closet-space.com and no longer procrast-effects, folks. I've dubbed it closet-space because that's the name of the first original comic I put together back when I was 15, and NO, no-one who's not related to me is allowed to see it!
~ KT

The 27th is "Sketch-Crawl" day, but I tried to get a head start today and just wander about all morning drawing whatever came into view. Trouble is I always spend more time observing than actually drawing anything. Therefore nothing to show. But here's a cartoony study I did a little while ago of a girl I saw walking down the street one particularily hot day. I love crazy coloured hair... though not enough to dye my own. Photoshop ontop of pencil sketch.

PLACEHOLDERS (if you're reading this blog, ignore these, they're placeholders for other posts. Any ANYWAYS my new and frequently updated blog is over at http:ktshy.blogspot.com :)

Well, the rest of the Sheridan crew seems to be doing it, so why not I? Hope everyone's doing fine and dandy! I'm enjoying myself here in lovely Ottawa working at Pip Animation. It's going to take me a little bit to fully figure out this blog thing, but in the meantime, here's a line up of characters for a flash animated series I'll be starting up with my brother soon. (these were created in flash)