QueenGwenevere

Mostly random art drabble, I generate so much of it I may as well post it somewhere... More of my art debris can be found at: The Wayward Queen My Sketch Blog My Twitter My DeviantArt Gwensingley.com My Tumblr Tags: The Wayward Queen Paintings Illustration Drawings Ink Sketches Character Design Comics Animals Life Drawing var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-30548257-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

[bob-artist]

Into the Smoke launches in ONE WEEK!!!

I can't wait! I've been working on this webcomic behind the scenes for almost two years, and FINALLY I get to share it with y'all!

So, while I'm frantically wrangling files and setting up promo and transcripts and banners, you can read a big chapter 1 preview episode at intothesmokecomic.com!

Or if you want to go into the comic 100% un-spoiled, you can sign up for the newsletter to get emailed when each episode goes live, or just sit back and chill and watch for the big announcement on my tumblr!

[queengwenevere]

World Goth Day (or Night) Ink Imp edition! :D

I keep forgetting to post more of these lil’ guys here (I have a whole swarm of them!)

All ink and brush and pen on paper

[queengwenevere]

So, I guess it’s World Goth Day? Or World Goth Night, even better! I dredged up some of my gothier things (including this very old but still creepy vamp!)

Halloween Queen of Pentacles (oil + digital)

Arboreal Undead (oil on paper)

Night Witch (colored pencil on toned paper)

[queengwenevere]

Why do I keep doing this to myself hahaha *sob*

Okay, I know the answer, “because it looks cool,” but… soooooo many little dots to ink

dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot derp~

(Trying to finish off a few new things for MoCCAFest)

[queengwenevere]

Is this the day when we post too many owls?* Happy Superb Owl Sunday! Owl witch says hi!

* there are never too many owls

[queengwenevere]

Happy year of the dragon! 🐉🐲 Here’s a few dragons to start the year in style! (With tea! And cupcakes! And, uh, worms…?)

[queengwenevere]

it’s ICY in Brooklyn today! And cold!

[queengwenevere]

I TOTALLY FORGOT THAT THIS SITE HAS MESSAGES~

I think I must have tuned them out when it was all pornbots for a while and then I wasn't using Tumblr much and then just kind of - forgot. Oops.

Uh, guess I should check them? Gonna be some suuuuper awkward late responses I think. Yay?

[queengwenevere]

Happy Solstice once more, with the last glimpses of the sun today!

[queengwenevere]

Happy solstice!

A little flaming art for the occasion! (Five of wands from the Chromatic Fates tarot, and Knight of Wands from the 78 Tarot Animal Deck)

Psst, there’s details and process sketches and stuff for the Five of Wands on my Patreon, for those who may be interested in that sort of thing: https://www.patreon.com/QueenGwenevere

[queengwenevere]

Behold my new stay-wet palette! (After I eat all the chocolate…)

No really! I saw someone else post about how to repurpose these boxes into palettes that are better than the ones from the art store, and, well, chocolates were on sale, so~

If this works I might have to get more. Oh no.

[queengwenevere]

Voted today, and apparently so did these characters!

[queengwenevere]

Me, making regrettable choices many, many long hours ago: “ooh you know what this needs?? This needs a macrame dress!”

I… think it’s done now??

[queengwenevere]

Totally unexpected perfect rainbow in the park today! Complete with frolicking dogs and a heron! (The heron flew right under the rainbow - it’s kinda sorta visible in the close-up)

[queengwenevere]

Woohoo! I’ve managed to get my Wayward Queen webcomic back up! I broke the whole site back in August and lost all my posts, finally figured out how to restore everything.

The site looks like a total mess and I’m missing some links and interface, but all the pages are back up in a readable format, and that’s the important part! Thumbnails are wonky and the design is “basic default,” but I’m working on that.

[queengwenevere]

Spotted a random giant spiderweb in the park, must be spooky season!

[dduane]

Via @Ed_Solomon at Twitter. Here's a clearer copy, in case (as a result of the looming Twitpocalypse) the original goes missing.

[neil-gaiman]

I love Ed so much.

I hate this plot shape so much too.

[freemonker]

So I don't have to follow this when making a story????

[neil-gaiman]

Not even a little bit, no.

[nimmenstjer]

Here's the written out version because:

1 story:

Act 1 Teaser: Wow! Normal world Something happens What the Fuck am I Doing?? Shit gets really bad But… Okay, now I think I know what I gotta do

Act 2 "I'm changing" I start out or 1st act out Okay, this is gonna be a lot harder than I thought Fuck Shit this sucks Wait, am I figuring something out? Oh god I suck it can't get any worse can it? It's the worst that it could possibly BE. OH FUCK

3rd act Building back up Wait, can I DO this? Okay - Fuck - maybe I can… what is my plan? Okay, here we go, let's try Will this work? No! It went bad! I'm totally going to fail But… but… but… ONE LAST TRY … and… Final effort and… Holy shit! I DID it! The End I get not what I wanted but what I needed

In circle: For Du F(unintelligeble) Ed with a squiggly face underneath

[queengwenevere]

I have sat through WAY too many lectures and classes with instructors harping on about this particular Hollywood Three Act Hero's Journey Formula, and at this point I feel like I'd rather tell any story BUT that.

I was in one workshop where an instructor insisted that this particular Hollywood three-act formula was the ONLY story structure that has ever existed in the whole world. When the class bombarded them with examples of myriad stories that do NOT fit this formula, the instructor got defensive, started simplifying their definition of "three act structure," and by the end of the class was reduced to saying that what they really MEANT by “three act structure” was that all stories have a beginning, middle, and end.

Which is not exactly something one needs to learn from an expert. Most people figure that out in kindergarten.

"But the main character needs to be CHANGED at the end!!" "Yo, have you never read a murder mystery..."