"[You] will burst into bloom. [You] will rejoice greatly and shout for joy." Isaiah 35:2
Every day in every way I feel God's presence with me. As I take my trembling steps in this walk upon my road, I feel myself blooming into the beautiful flower God has meant for me to be. Each step becoming stronger, even as others try to shear the stem of my faith, I walk.
I love, therefor I Am.
It seems it's time to give a small detail of the story that I am currently working on. The story takes place upon a planet called Thrae, where many of the inhabitants are of different races with just as differing creatures. I mean for this planet to be something of a mirror to ours, but with so many differences. It's going to start in a place that should have God's presence and Will working in it, but something is not quite right with it.
As I go further into the story, I may give out some more details of the story. Currently, do understand that my comic book will not be another representation of a story from the Bible. These stories that I tell will hold the very Living Word within yet be stories of their own right.
I now have 89 panels planned, four panels sketched. I aim to have the panels planned out for the first book, once the planning stage is complete I will concentrate more on the sketching. Once the sketching is done, I will then move on to inking and coloring. How I present the comic, I am not sure at this point. Once I am creating the pages, I will have figured it out.
Until then, please bear with me as I work. I am having a lot of fun seeing how the story is coming to life. I will of course edit here and there, but the second draft is coming along much better than the first draft was. Going panel to panel works better than page to page for me.
I pray you will come back on Wednesday.
May God Bless You Upon This Day In Which He Hath Made.
"But if anyone does not have [virtues], he is near-sighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins." 2 Peter 1:9 (I encourage you to read 2 Peter 1:3-11 for a better understanding of this passage)
I was baptized when I was just a child, cleansed of the spirit. Yet as time went by and I grew, I still sinned and had done things I'd much rather forget. Even more recent, I have been sinning yet again and feeling so ashamed that my shame became my burden.
This passage reminds me that I need to turn to the Messiah, My King, ask for forgiveness upon bended knee. I need to strive to live in His word and follow His will. In this way, He will have me forget my sins but remember the virtues in which I must have as a child of God.
I pray that my works will reach out and touch others. For in time, all good things shall come to pass (though the bad things must come first).
Concerning that comic itself, I am still working on character sketching but I do have enough characters to begin writing up the story. I have seventy-nine panels planned so far, and one panel fully sketched while another is in the works.
On top of working on my comic around work and family, I am also doing a commission for a friend. Once I have finished with the sketch, I will post it here for all to see.
Sketching has always been easy, as it typically takes me an hour or more to do it. Inking and coloring is the challenge, as I have to wait till my son has fallen asleep for the day before I can do anything. Inking takes me approximately two or more hours to do and coloring takes approximately four hours or more to do, and I only have maybe an hour after my son's bedtime to work.
It really is a challenge, but I love it all the same!
I pray you will return Sunday for my next post!
"In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth" Gen 1:1
When I was just a budding artist in my teen years, I held this one obsession that's been through my ups and downs of life. As it happens with most teens, my obsession was looked down upon by a lot of adults, parents included. My obsession was so strong that it was the greatest distraction from school and a rather lonely home life. Even better, my obsession made it down right difficult for my parents to even ground me.
What is this obsession I continue to refer to?
Comic Books
It didn't even stop at comic books, I even enjoyed books filled to the brim of plots and characterization and beautiful words that could describe the greatest landscapes and still leave room for imagination to fill in the details. I even recall the very first book that drew upon my imagination, a book that so many in this world have already enjoyed and further into the world who will also enjoy.
"Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling was my first love in the world of stories. From there, I went from Robotech and Sailormoon to Mangas (now referred to as Graphic Novels) and Comic Books. I was constantly flipping from one world to another. I didn't care if it was through a television show or movie, through the words of an author or even through the art and wording of comics. If there was a story, I was there. I even went through chat rooms, seeking out others to play out scenes of some story.
Through out all of these stories, I had been practicing drawing and making stories. It is why I loved comics of any kind, two things I love put in one binding of pages.
I did attend college with a vague idea to do something in art, but at the time the vague idea did not stand up to the pressure of college. After failing quite a few classes that should have been relatively easy for me, I dropped out and gained my first ever job in the world of retail. At that time, I was twenty years old.
Upon the age of twenty-two, I met my amazing husband through our mutual friend. Life continued to push me, revealing to me many more stories while my own story blossomed still.
For my twenty-fourth birthday I found out that we were going to bring one to the world from our two beings. My son is a wonderful boy, growing and learning so many things that watching this unfold is a true treat for me.
Though Life had taken a toll upon my drawing and story making, I had set it behind me as I gave attention to Life. I did doodle from time to time, but I ignored my skill so that my son and husband could have the higher priority. As a child of God, I do shamefully admit that I even placed my time with God further back.
When my twenty-sixth birthday rolled around, I could no longer ignore God or the skills in which He blessed me with, skills that I love. God brought to my attention that the life He blessed me with is still limited, that I must now take up the pencil and make comic books with Him in the heart of it all.
This is the Gift blessed upon me, and as I use it to make these stories within me, I pray that they will reach out to others. As I begin anew, I pray that others can watch as I walk upon this rocky road.
I will be posting every Sunday and Wednesday the progress and struggles of my road to becoming a Comic Book Artist for God with the blessings of God's Will.
I promise, these comics will be unlike those that have come before in the Christian comic books.
