Archive for October, 2011

2011 Challenger: Allie Mehner

Hello, fellow creatives!  My name is Allie and I love to draw very silly things.  I’m 22 and currently a third year 2D animation student at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

I often find myself designing and developing random characters in my spare time, so figured this challenge would be a total blast!

I can’t wait to get started and see what everybody else does.  How exciting!

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2011 Challenger Richard Worth

Hey guys,

i’m new to the challenge this year but i’m looking forward to it immenselt. I’m a struggling comic book writer and my first title is coming out mid way through this month…

its here http://www.indiegogo.com/Ladies-Gentlemen-The-Curse-of-the-Were-Hyena-and-other-Horrible-Hybrids?a=121964&i=addr .

I dont draw very well but i intend to try my best, even if there aren’t very good i hope you at least get a laugh from them. I’m pretty much doing this to test my skills as a writer and see what level my characterisation is up to. having said that alot of these post will be absurd and manly here to make people chuckle.

I’m hoping to meet some nice people on here and hopefully entertain at least some of you. Can’t wait to see what you guys can do.

Peace and Colours

2011 Challenger: Dan Seljak

Hello all, my name is Dan and I’m a student at The University of Toronto. I’m taking this challenge as I have recently
started doing a lot of less creative and more corporate style work at both my jobs (I work as a PR intern and run a college newspaper), and I really want a chance to explore my own narratives. That being said, I didn’t want to do Novel November again and I’ve been looking for something to help me kick start my failed stalled webcomic for some time, so this challenge seemed perfect. 
I’m more of a photographer/writer, but I’d like to at least challenge myself to sketch the characters I create this month.

If you want to follow my things, I can be found on Tumblr and Twitter.

2011 Challenger: Matt G

Well, I guess I’ll have to say some sort of hello. Don’t mind me though, I’m just here to better myself personally in arts and creativity and to be inspired by all the characters that will pop up around here. I hope this’ll be loads of fun! See ya!

2011 Challenger – Casey Shaffer

Hi y’all! Name’s Casey.

I’m in my last year at The Art Institute of Phoenix, in the Media Arts & Animation program. I harbor a love-hate relationship with animation as my true passion is illustration. I’m also fiddling around with an original story but I’m not sure if I want to make it an actual book or go the graphic novel route.

I hope to experiment with a lot of different genres and character types. Character design is something I really love doing. This is my first time doing this challenge and I’m going to try my best to see it through to the end.

I have a website (gonna revamp in the near future but it’s still up now!), a deviantart, and a Tumblr sketchblog.

I look forward to doing this and I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with! 😀

2011 Challenger: Calamity Jon Morris

Howdy! My name is Jon Morris, I’m a Washington-based cartoonist who’s a first-timer in the 30 Characters Challenge. Many many moons ago I was the writer and artist on a webcomic called Jeremy:Just Turned Nine about the youngest son of Dr.Frankenstein, although I haven’t worked in comics in forever.

I’m using the 30 Characters challenge as a sketchbook for a story idea I’ve bouncing around my head for the last six months. Hopefully by having to build thirty characters around the premise, I’ll flesh out some of the half-formed ideas in my head and give myself a robust cast of characters around whom to build a comic.

My personal website is http://CalamityJonSave.Us where I only occasionally post, but recently I’ve spent most of my time managing to DC Fifty-Too project at http://dcfifty-too.blogspot.com/ and the CORNERED Blog at http://corneredblog.blogspot.com/. You can drop me a line at calamityjon@gmail.com – thanks, and good luck to everyone!

2011 Challenger: Jack Payne

Hiya! I’m Jack. England guy dude here. Nothing too much to say really, I do little oodles of doodles and thingymabobs, and study animation at University the rest of the time. I’ve tried many of these 30 day challenge things, and I don’t think I’ve ever actually managed to complete one. Maybe it’ll change this time!

I draw cartoony bits and pieces, seriousness and realism have never been my strong point in the slightest. I’m all in favour of keeping it bonkers and carefree.

When it comes to characters, I actually don’t really create all that many. I draw miscellaneous characters and such, but don’t put much thought into what they are. I should probably get on that. This challenge might help a little, and even if it doesn’t, I’m sure it’ll be a great deal of fun anyway.

So yeah! I hope everyone has a super time doing this challenge, myself included. Good luck!  -  Jack

2011 Challenger: Lisa Robinson

Hello! My name is Lisa, born in Iowa, attending college in Kansas City, Missouri, and this challenge looks like a lot of fun!

I’m currently a freshman in art college, just halfway into my first semester. I intend to study animation, so this is a great opportunity to practice some character creation. I’ve always loved creating ’em! I also love comics as a format, though sadly I never really have the time or resources to look into the professional ones, so I’m a big webcomic fan. I have some plans for my own comic in the works, but I’m really slow at it, plus my time’s always being eaten up by other things.

I’m really big on colored pencils and ink, and digital media. Due to time, I’ll mostly be exploring concepts rather than polished works. So, a digital sketch or so, like this little quickie of me to the left, and maybe a bit of writing to explain the story or concept. I try really hard to give an idea or purpose to each character I create!

I hope to take on a whole variety of genres, and hope that I can expand my own imagination as well as the worlds I’ve already built. I also need to work on this problem I have of keeping the characters in my head, rather than getting them written or drawn out. Hopefully I can follow through!

You can find my artwork on my deviantArt gallery.

Good day, and good luck to everyone else entering!

2011 Challenger: Natalia Małachowska (Ozzie Scribbler)

Greetings and welcome from Poland! My first time participating here, so…

My name is Natalia MaÅ‚achowska, but you can call me by my all-time Internet nickname Ozzie Scribbler (or Ozzie, for short). I’m 21 years old graphic design student at Szczecin’s Arts Academy, but although being an artist-in-training I’m far from considering myself a professional. I’m taking this challenge mainly to learn keeping my focus and practice my creativity.

As a huge cartoon and comic geek I always have been fascinated most with character design and this is what I consider my biggest strength at drawing. I specialise at loose sketches and hand-made inking. Maybe, but only maybe I’ll try to practice some color work later this month, but considering how uncertain I feel about my coloring I can’t promise that. Knowing my interest the characters I’ll create for the challenge will end up being random fantasy humanoids, cute deformed animals and/or chibis. Some of them may end up in the webcomic I’m currently planning to make…

Don’t forget to check out my deviantArt page

Good luck, everyone!

Sincerely yours,
Ozzie

2011 Challenger: Niki Smith

Comics! And stuff!

http://niki-smith.com/

http://InMapsAndLegendsComic.com/

http://twitter.com/niki_smith/

I just finished up my first comic series, IN MAPS & LEGENDS, with writer Michael Jasper. We were originally winners of DC’s Zuda imprint before we went independent, and I remember seeing some of the other Zuda creators taking part in the 30 Char challenge… so now that we’ve wrapped up and I’m between projects, this seemed like a good excuse to work out a few ideas.

2011 Challenger: Katri Korpela

Hi, I’m Katri but Riiva is something I’m being called in the great Internets also.

I live in Finland where we ride polar bears and have penguins as pets. I’ll be 21 in December and I study set building. It’s my final year and after this I should graduate as a set building artisan.

I love creating; characters, universes, stories – you name it, but I haven’t been doing that for a long time now. Drawing is also something that I should’ve done more, but for some reason I draw rarely nowadays. That will change! That’s why I decided to take part to this challenge.

Few words about “what can be expected from me”.. Well, my style is heavily inspired by art nouveau, Alphonse Mucha is my greatest inspiration and idol. I also adore artists like Kay Nielsen ans Salvador Dalí, so I do play with things like anatomy a lot.
I usually prefer traditional media, but may use digital flat colouring on traditionally done, inked line-art.
My deviantart is a good place to check out what I’m talking about!

Good luck everyone!

2011 Challenger: Roxana Y (superenvelope)

hey all you beautiful people

this is superenvelope and i’m here to succeed

i’m a junior in highschool and plan to major in graphic design

drawing is honestly the one thing i can say i’m good at so lets see how this challenge turns out!!

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let’s make this a great year guys!

2011 Challenger: Britney Blevins

Kind of last minute, but here I am! My name is Britney, and I love drawing. Unfortunately, I haven’t drawn as much as I would like to, so I decided to use this as a chance to push myself. The very first style I learned was the anime/manga style, which is never a bad thing. Now I want to change it and morph it into something new and unique. This whole thing will be an experiment with my style and coloring in Photoshop Elements, so I can’t wait to start!

I’m looking forward to this! Good luck, everyone!

2011 Challenger: Kjerstin

Hello guys! My name is Kjerstin, and I am a student of 22 in my third year of a visual communication bachelor’s degree. This might just me being an idiot and putting too much stuff on myself, or I might get a kick out of it and get inspired through the rest of my assignments, you never know until you try! My preferred mediums are digital painting and traditional drawing, but I might try to push myself and try a lot of other techniques as well. I will be pulling notes from a “hat” to combine and give some inspirational sparks in case I’ll need it.

You can see some of my previous works right here and here

(Happy Halloweeeeen!)

2011 Challenger: S.G. McKeithen

Whelp, guess if I’m doing this I’d best introduce myself. I’m S.G. or Lego, depending on where you are on the internet. I’ve been drawing for quite a while, and was previously running a webcomic until changes in life forced me to put it on hiatus a year ago.

I haven’t really drawn since then, aside from sketches here and there. Normally I find challenges like this way too, er, challenging, but creating characters is pretty much my favorite thing in the world to do, and I figure if anything can help me get my creative juices flowing again, this can.

Anywho, I have (depressingly bare) deviantART and Tumblr pages, so feel free to poke around.