In reading comics, I have noticed that even the professionals make mistakes.  Not that my Narnia comics don't make the same sort of mistakes - they are pretty unprofessional in some ways, but these are some mistakes I have seen in professional comics that I should be careful to avoid.

1.  Building discrepancies: a building changing dimensions in ( Read more... )

This week marks the fiftieth year since C.S. Lewis' death.  He is being honored by many people, including the people who run Westminster Abbey.  (And no, I have never been there, I've never been out of the United States, but I am in awe of this building.)  It is nice that he is being honored in this way because when he was alive, he was offered the ( Read more... )

These are some patterns I made a while back that are no longer on The Lion's Call website.  I am reposting them here, just so they will be here for reference.

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DAWN TREADER PATTERN
The Dawn Treader was featured in the book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis, it took some ( Read more... )

For a number of months, I have been reading comic books to try to improve my comic-making skills.  I think they have helped.  Most of these have been superhero comic books because DC and Marvel usually have the most professional art in my opinion.  The thing is, comic books tend to try for dramatic images (some of the covers have cover art for ( Read more... )

This past week has been great because of three things that happened ( Read more... )

As you know if you have been reading this blog, I like to draw comics ( Read more... )

A Narnia Fan-Comics Tutorial
Generate an Idea
It is difficult to come up with a formula for generating comics. Usually I think of them when I have time to “unwind” at the end of the day. However, this method probably also keeps cartoonists up at night all over the world whenever they feel they have a great idea.

A second method comes from the Caption ( Read more... )

This is my post where I talk about the music composer Murray Gold on the show Doctor Who.
I greatly enjoy his DW music, mainly because I think it captures the ideal of what music for outer space should sound like.  It gives the show the correct feel and emphasizes the action.  He can capture the silliness of Donna's signaling to the Doctor through ( Read more... )

This was the voter turnout in the U.S. general election in 2008 according to this website: http://elections.gmu.edu/voter_turnout.htm .
My question is, why do so many people not vote?  Probably some people are too busy or catch colds during the election, but not all.
Voting is a privilege, in the United States women have not even had that right for ( Read more... )

In the past year, I have managed to embarrass myself a couple times at school.  Both times, it was because my teachers wanted my opinion on topics that I wasn't interested in to begin with.  The problem is, I am still letting it bother me.  After I thought about it, I realized that I don't remember any of my fellow students ever saying anything ( Read more... )