megrart

megrar @ 2009-10-17T12:55:00

2009-10-17T16:56:05Z

dear hallmark. i hate you. please die.

vomitology

2009-08-17T01:13:27Z

so, for the past few years, my husband has been collecting sketches at comic conventions. and yes, the theme of the sketchbook he's been passing around IS vomit. now that the sketchbook is full, he's decided to scan it in, and occasionally post up pages.

if gross and funny is your thing, go here:
http://vomitology.blogspot.com/

and yes. i did a sketch too.

megrar @ 2009-06-20T03:50:00

2009-06-20T08:01:26Z

so i've been following the iranian election horror for the last week or so, lurking on fark threads and devouring all the information i can find.

i even joined twitter. i hate twitter. i think it's fucking stupid. but it's sure as shit proved itself useful. i read the ayatollah's friday prayers translated in real time on twitter. consider my mind blown.

if you're curious and want to catch up, peep this:
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4460093

the first post in the iran threads on fark invariably has a sum-up of all events and players involved.

the tech-savvy who want to help the protesters be heard can go here:
http://iran.sharearchy.com/

megrar @ 2009-06-08T22:00:00

2009-06-09T02:01:27Z

stress doodles. fairy designs for a project.

megrar @ 2009-04-10T22:52:00

2009-04-11T02:56:53Z

going to try to do a page a day of something, until i die. practicing on the smaller projects until i'm confident again. then i tear into the big ones.

megrar @ 2009-04-08T23:30:00

2009-04-09T04:04:19Z

i apologize if i've over stretched anyone's friends' page. still quite a ways away from getting this project complete enough to present, but, it's on its way.

megrar @ 2009-03-21T18:01:00

2009-03-21T22:04:28Z

couldn't make the zia picture work out right, so i did a new piece.

hope i get in. i love his books.

megrar @ 2009-03-02T21:09:00

2009-03-03T02:12:00Z

i meant to upload this yesterday, but it snowed and we lost power.

my husband and i tied the knot on feb. 29th, 2008! so! froggy love is the theme.

megrar @ 2009-02-26T03:49:00

2009-02-26T09:05:39Z

i've been sick as a dog for almost a week now. this happens every spring, and every spring i am wholly unprepared for it. see, i live in virgina. and mother nature HATES virginia. our temperatures don't slowly creep from freezing to warm. they yoyo. one day will be 60 degrees, the next it will be 30. figuring out how to dress from day to day is madness, and my otherwise made-of-steel immune system falls down and begs for mercy. i could lick raw eggs off an elementary school floor and not get sick, but i cannot cope with spring. fuck you, spring.

i've been in a weird zombie state for the last couple days, thanks to this sickness. if i try to go sleep at night, my nose becomes a waterfall of snot, and i end up too busy trying to breath to get any sleeping done. i end up passing out during the day--and these naps are curiously phlegm free. so i'm trying something different tonight. i'm staying up. so far i feel ... almost healthy. my mind is back to functional! clearly, that diurnal shit is for suckers.

also, you should all check out this link:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/01/fifth-dimension-treatment-tatsuyuki-tanaka/

a friend lent us tatsuyuki tanaka's "cannabis works", and it is fucking amazing. it reminded me of all the things i fell in love with japanese comics for.

megrar @ 2009-02-18T09:56:00

2009-02-18T15:19:38Z

i did this when ross campbell made an open call for fanart for his next wetmoon book. i stopped working on it when i lost my favorite brush-pen. i have no idea where it went! somewhere between the coffee shop and home and a friend's house. i've looked all over. its just not here.

in a bid to lose the weight i gained while cowering for the last year in that depressing ghetto shithole, i've started walking every day. today it rains. and between last night and this morning, snow has magically appeared on the ground. freezing, and wet, and miserable. now, i could walk the two miles to the art store to see if they have any more of those pens (word is, though, that this brand has been discontinued), or i could stay here and be warm and dry.

i think i'm wussing out today.

megrar @ 2009-02-06T01:24:00

2009-02-06T06:25:12Z

megrar @ 2009-02-01T19:11:00

2009-02-02T00:13:50Z

more godsend tinkering.

megrar @ 2009-01-30T20:20:00

2009-01-31T01:33:41Z

so! i have moved out of the awful shithole, and into a finer shitehole. and let me tell you, internets, aside from the building being old enough to occasionally forget we're in the electric age now, it is infinitely superior to the old place. i could count the ways in which it is more awesome, but suffice to say--my subconscious happily rouses me before 10am now, where before i honestly could not make myself get up before 1pm because i just didn't want to be awake.

and! i am productive again.

first! for jenner, who mailed me the most ridiculous magazine i have ever seen--the 2009 tokyopop gothic lolita bible. it seems my good friend (aside from having a warped sense of humor), decided i did not have enough pink and lace in my portfolio. so.

next! i have essentially promised away the next two+ years of my life to other writers. i've posted up Godsend stuff before--but they were in color. i've had some talks with the writer of that project, jesse, and we've agreed to constrict the look to something more economical, that i can do quickly, and that we could actually print ourselves if we wanted to. i'm thinking more like this:

the dogs are salukis, which are, i understand, the oldest breed in the world, originally bred by middle eastern nomads to help in hunting.

i have two other projects in the works, but they're still hush hush.

megrar @ 2009-01-21T01:56:00

2009-01-21T07:00:21Z

we had an inauguration brunch with friends. it was delightful. and then we got the keys for our new non-ghetto apartment.

so, today kinda fuckin rocked.

megrar @ 2009-01-13T20:07:00

2009-01-14T01:47:40Z

things! first, a friend of mine has a horrible time with deviantart, and asked me to put this drawing where she could see it. it's too wide for your friends lists, so, i'm posting it just as a link.

http://shatterlands.com/sketch/chronowhat.jpg

next! i have actually seen the book interior colors now. they're even worse than i anticipated. this is strangely relieving, as they're so bad that i no longer think anyone will suspect i did them. i'm actually trying not to laugh. they colored one character's skin bright blue, with bright red hair and lips, and made her clothes--clothes that were clearly intended to be spider webbing and moths--bright purple. one character that was noted in the script as being a red-head with glasses became a blond with trashy maroon lipstick. so! no more hard feelings. i can't hold a grudge against kitsch.

next and most fabulously:
merure is out.
i had no part in that project--i'm simply telling people about it because i watch one of the girls in it on deviantart, and i know her work kicks ass, so i'm excited about this collection.

megrar @ 2009-01-12T14:19:00

2009-01-12T20:13:43Z

so it's been a wild year. i started it homeless, but employed. we got an efficiency in the ghetto within a month. and i have never lived in such a miserable shithole in all my life. and this isn't even a bad ghetto. there's no graffiti, no questionable guys at street corners, none of that stuff you see in the movies. well. there are the occasional distant gunshots. but you learn not to hear them after awhile. i hear kids playing outside on the weekends, people walk their dogs by our front door. there are things i like about this place--i like seeing the old men on the porch chatting with anyone who walks by. i like the squealing children.

i don't like our landlords. in fact, i fucking hate them. if we got a place down the street, i'd be tempted come back and paint massive cocks in the grass with weedkiller.

see, the walls are thin here. as are the ceilings and floors. i can hear my neighbor's bed squeak when she has sex. i can hear her kid when he throws tantrums. when we first moved in, there were a lot of mysterious crashes through the ceiling that we couldn't really guess the cause of. then one night she screamed, and we didn't have to guess anymore. two neighbors answered her; myself and another young woman. i stayed the night so she'd feel safe enough to go back to sleep. my husband and i ended up chasing off her abusive ex-boyfriend when he came back. one neighbor reported her for noise.

our landlords, with the security guards' and police reports in front of them affirming the domestic break-in and assault, decided the appropriate response was to send my neighbor a letter essentially telling her that if she screams again, they'll throw her and her toddler out on the fucking street.

and that's what living here is like. every small thing, every big thing--the only fairness to it is that it has all been equally fucked up. they have lied to us about everything they could get away with. they tried to get us to sign a lead-paint waiver a month ago (i hope my neighbor's kid doesn't eat any paint chips), without putting the date on; we had to threaten legal action to get them to fix our heat when winter hit--these people are shameless. and there are agencies to report them to, but none of them give two shits. the cops don't care either--they told my neighbor straight up there was nothing they could do. i've had a year of this constant bullshit and i need out. i feel this place under my skin all the time. i have a hard time concentrating. the noise and the shit, all day long.

i've been seeing these news reports lately--researchers have discovered that inner-city kids brains resemble the brains of stroke victims, researchers have discovered that people who live in the city have a harder time focusing--

i want to shake them. dear researchers; i offer you my apartment. live here a year. you will understand why inner city kids are so broken.

so anyway, we're moving. to the north side. it'll be $150 more a month(which is painful), for a one-bedroom with roughly the same amount of floor space. but there will be peace and quiet. it's not the city that gets to people. at least, it isn't with me. i love the city. i came from a place with nothing but rednecks and walmarts. their idea of diversity was the chinese buffet next to the grocery store. richmond is beautiful. we just have to stop letting the assholes run the place.

megrar @ 2009-01-06T00:09:00

2009-01-06T06:09:08Z

i'm sort of at a loss. i got a call from my mother-in-law, saying a package had arrived from my previous employers, containing ten copies of the book i did for them. she said it looked good! and then she started describing things i know i did not draw. now, they didn't shell out for new inks, so that means the coloring job must be atrocious.

i found a preview image of the cover, and it looks like day-glow vomit. we'll be going to our in-laws sometime this week to get and see the book interiors. they might be better than the cover, but i'm not getting my hopes up.

i'm also not going to link to where i found the preview image. i'm not going to mention the book's name. they fired me before i could do the colors, and then paid some poor blind idiot to do the work instead. so i'm not feeling generous enough to throw them any business.

what i am going to do, is dig up a few of the inks i'm most proud of, and post up here how i would have done the colors. because i hate the idea that some yahoo out there is going to see that book and think i'm responsible for that mess. it offends my pride.

on the bright side, my grandparents will be thrilled to get a copy of it now matter how bad it looks. so there's that.

megrar @ 2009-01-05T16:54:00

2009-01-05T21:55:32Z

this looks awesome.

megrar @ 2008-12-29T01:15:00

2008-12-29T06:16:34Z

megrar @ 2008-12-20T00:21:00

2008-12-20T05:25:30Z

in progress. for my mom, so she'll hopefully stop printing and passing out an awful angel sketch i did my first year of college.

megrar @ 2008-12-04T01:19:00

2008-12-04T06:27:41Z

finished poster design. i guess. it'll be screen printed, hand pulled. which means i get to stand on a cinder block and print it myself. which hurts, guys. for realz. spencer's screening set-up is for guys taller and stronger than me.

but the handmade effect really pleases me, so.

the skull pattern should have been trees. but i got bored of drawing leaves inside ten seconds.

megrar @ 2008-11-30T00:25:00

2008-11-30T05:29:43Z

first work bits of a larger poster i'm doing for team 8.

happy holidays

2008-11-24T23:00:35Z

megrar @ 2008-11-20T16:38:00

2008-11-20T21:42:18Z

my aunt sue died. i'm going to her funeral on saturday.

it's been a bad year for family.

megrar @ 2008-11-15T21:42:00

2008-11-16T02:43:44Z

i owe a lot of my style to old, cheesy videogame art. so, for shits and giggles, i revisited it.