What do you get when two sweet potatoes/yams decide to collaborate with each other to make a comic? Mashed potatoes!
We Made a Comic is centered around the personified yams, Allen and Scott. The premise follows the formula for gag-a-day comic strips about two couch potatoes sitting around making ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Steel and Manitou
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2015
Steel and Manitou tells a tale of the legendary Gtchi Manitou, a Great Spirit, embodied by a white horse with a feather in its mane. The stories are inspired by the Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree) Aboriginal legends from Saskatchewan, Canada. This tale begins when a young orphaned girl, Kassidy Kerr, finds ...
Traditional Art in Webcomics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2015
We've talked a few times in newsposts and Quackcasts about how tablets have made digital art more convenient than ever. But as much as I enjoy the clean lines and bright colours of digital drawing, when inspiration strikes I still often find myself reaching for my sketchbook and ProMarkers ...
Handmade versus Store-Bought Gifts
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 15, 2014
The tradition of creating handmade gifts began sometime in elementary school when it was not only appropriate, but expected, to give our parents original creations. Eventually, a handmade knick-knack has a difficult time competing with the latest smart phone or drawing tablet and is pushed aside to make room for ...
Día de los Muertos
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2014
Living in Southern California makes me no stranger to to the Mexican holiday of Día de Muertos, otherwise known as Day of the Dead. However, I had never experienced one before and lucky for me, when the opportunity arose this weekend I jumped at the chance.
I decided to dress ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Comic Book Idols
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2014
Yesterday, August 28th, was the anniversary of Jack Kirby's birthday. This has prompted some people to talk about how his work affected them, and made me think a bit about comic book influences and artists we look up to. Although I wasn't actively a huge fan of Kirby ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Contribute to Quackcast#172: "The Marvelous World of Tomorrow"
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 13, 2014
Special thanks to Gunwallace for this illustration - be sure to check out his comic All Unicorns to Battle Stations!
If you would like to have your art featured in a newspost, send it my way via PQ or email!
For Quackcast 172, ozoneocean and Banes are going to be talking ...
Digital Sketching in a Café with a Tablet in My Hand
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 2, 2014
I went to a café Sunday afternoon and spent my time doing something I have not been able to do in months–sat down and sketched. The last time I felt like drawing in a public space involved my oversized sketchbook, a few reference magazines, drafting mechanical pencils, and rubber ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Comic creating on the go
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 2, 2014
I'm away from home at the moment, staying in a small apartment while I take a summer course at a university across the country. I packed the most ridiculously huge bag, but even in the world's tiniest apartment it's kind of amazing how little it amounted to ...