Marjorie Cooper Illustration

Snow and Christmas time

2009-12-20T11:47:00.000-08:00

Hello! I hope everyone is having a grand December!

Graduation was great - got home Thursday - finished my Christmas shopping on Friday and BAM. 2 feet of snow! So as far as art goes, I haven't gotten much done since graduation. I feel like a bum. Granted, a lot of things have been going on (family time, snow shoveling, shopping for my sister in MARYLAND...), but still!

I can't wait to finish my comic.

And on another note - James Cameron's "Avatar" is amazing and was worth the 13.50 to see it in 3-D.

Happy Holidays!

website update

2009-11-17T09:13:00.000-08:00

Hello~.

Big update on the website - the illustration and sequential galleries are up and running. Within the sequential section you can see my comic! It's in order and would be less confusing than viewing it on my blog - enjoy the javastript by Lightbox 2!

Cover sketch

2009-11-04T10:33:00.000-08:00

Here be the cover sketch for my comic. Yarg. Pirate talk.

2009-11-02T12:55:00.000-08:00

The final page of my comic. :) I'll get them all together and post the sketches soon.

Pages 01 and 02 color

2009-10-28T17:03:00.001-07:00

Pages 1 and 2 done (pretty much). I just gotta do a little edge clean up. :)

website in progresso...

2009-10-27T14:32:00.001-07:00

Still workin on my website. It's coming along. :) I had some issues with sizing from different monitor sizes but I think it's fixed. YAY.

Page 12

2009-10-21T14:08:00.000-07:00

Page 12 sketch! Woo... See posts below for others - I think once I've everything sketched out I'll put them together in one long image and post it.. yeah.

Page 11

2009-10-18T16:37:00.000-07:00

Yup! Page 11 sketched up. (I've got pages 1-8 penciled, but I figured that I would wait to post them till I have all of 'em done). See below posts for pages 1-10 sketch stages.

pages 09 and 10

2009-10-05T10:02:00.001-07:00

Pages 09 and 10 are sketched out. :) Again, see older posts for other pages.

Page 07/08

2009-10-04T22:10:00.001-07:00

Page 07/08 :). See previous blog posts for other pages.

Page 06

2009-09-30T20:40:00.001-07:00

Yup! Page 6 sketched out. WOOSH jellyfish. See earlier posts (below) for pages 1-5. Still don't know how I feel about the fade-to-black-fade-out-of-black thing. Conceptually it seemed fine but not sure if it works visually just yet...

2009-09-29T11:39:00.001-07:00

I DID IT.

It's not much but I wrote it's xhtml and css code in text edit, I did!

www.marjicooper.com

It will link you right back here though, lol.

2009-09-25T06:41:00.000-07:00

This guy has some amazing stuff.

http://nimit-malavia.blogspot.com/

On a side note: I'm tired of being sick. I'd like the doctors to figure out what's wrong with me so we can get on with it.

2009-09-21T08:22:00.001-07:00

Page 5 sketch. See pages 1-4 below. :)

2009-09-20T19:50:00.001-07:00

What I've been working on (nearly) all day... My fav. pannels are the cross section of her head and the little bird sitting on the book. It's so cute. <3 I think I need to redraw the first page and make it more stylized. It feels too serious - probably because I just drew from my photo reference straight up. Ah well. I will fix later and make it more "cartoony".

2009-09-13T16:40:00.001-07:00

Sunday SUNDAY sunday. That's about all I have to say of Sunday.

2009-09-12T12:41:00.000-07:00

A scenery sketch for my comic. :)

2009-09-11T19:39:00.001-07:00

In keeping up with my daily blog assignment.. well. I've nothing via art that I can post (no scanner at the parent's house). Plus I'm dead tired. AND I hit a hubcap on I-95 driving home. I successfully straddled it but it scraped the underside of my car. Whoopsie...

2009-09-10T12:01:00.000-07:00

These are the "dreams" that Sammy sees. Or at least, some of them. With the professor, I added some red to his cheeks today since he was too.. dull.

Anyway, the dreams start out flat/flat color int he comic and as Sammy continues to see them they become more lifelike (to her) and painterly (visually).

Woot. And yes that C3rb3rus' design tweaked a bit. I love the shapes I can make with it's black silhouette too much to not include it.

2009-09-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

Changed Samster a little, and then the Professor is colored. :) Still in flu-quarantine.

2009-09-07T15:36:00.000-07:00

So I've got the flu? Eh. I colored Sammy despite the throbbing headache.

2009-09-04T18:37:00.000-07:00

The start of my comic project! This is Sammy, the main character.

Computer Break!

2009-05-02T15:41:00.001-07:00

Collage works well with concept stuff! I've always avoided robots because I'm more organically prone with my art and whatnot. I tried Tin's method of collage and it's actually pretty cool! This is for Game Design again and took about an hr and fifteen mins.

Blog-Break

2009-05-01T18:39:00.001-07:00

Been doing some concept sketches for Game Design and I'm taking a blog break, but here they are. :) ALIENS!

WIP

2009-03-17T21:43:00.000-07:00

Yeah, work in progress I guess. As of now I kind of like it.

Spring Break

2009-03-14T16:39:00.001-07:00

Wow this semester is crazy. I haven't done much that I like so far, save for this.

This is a concept sketch for Tock from the Phantom Tollbooth. I figured he should be an akita.

And the spot. Milo & Tock.

FINALS!

2008-12-11T21:54:00.001-08:00

Oh my god. Finals. Almost done with this semester. I did some sketching. LIZARD INVASION!

The first one is an in-class project. 2 hours HUAH. Thanks to Tin, I've gotten a lot faster. His classes are great and it makes me sad that his last semester teaching will be this spring.

Middle two are sketch book pages that I did today and yesterday...

And the last is a final project for one of my classes that was done a few weeks ago. Yay. :)

And The Wolf said...

2008-11-15T22:00:00.000-08:00

An illustration done for a fairy tale project. I like how it came out. :)

Boredom = Jellyfish

2008-11-06T19:54:00.000-08:00

Now that's just silly.

The Mighty..

2008-10-30T20:02:00.000-07:00

King Kong! Rawrarghaghrgh. I went on a haunted Halloween hayride tonight with some friends. The guy with the chainsaw was INTENSE. King Kong is a homework assignment, by the way. And yes, your mom is in the credits.

It hurts when it's cold.

2008-10-28T21:30:00.000-07:00

My knee, that is. I think I need to see a doctor. Below is part of a 5-illustration project for class. When dvds play they spin really fast, so the little guy on his centipede would just be going around and around and around... I thought it was funny anyway.

Calendar

2008-10-27T22:42:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I'm done working on it. I doubt it'll win the calendar spot, but oh well.

Mars loves you

2008-10-24T14:32:00.000-07:00

I did this for one of my friends just for the hell of it, but also because she had been having a rough few weeks. That's her cat that I fostered for a while until he could find a good, permanent home. His name is Mars, and Mars loves you.

Nothing new, something a month old...

2008-10-21T20:27:00.000-07:00

Or maybe two months, I'm not sure. I found out this weekend that I could still do a cartwheel and not bust my face on the ground. Awesomeness. I haven't done a cartwheel in seven years.

Clinton and PET milk.

2008-10-12T18:21:00.000-07:00

First: PET milk (not pet, P.E.T.) tastes funky. It was cheap so I got it and.. uh. It doesn't taste bad? But I'm not sure it tastes good either.

Second: Bill Clinton was on campus today. I started laughing when he mentioned him and Hillary happy together. Sorry, I couldn't help it. ;)

Third: I drew a dead bug. Ah pencil, how I miss you.

2008-10-10T23:05:00.000-07:00

I had to get one. I had to! I've conformed. So I'll start posting my art and doodles and whatever else I feel like here. Starter:

I drew it in red pen, but via a scan it's more visible on the computer in black. I went to 821 cafe here in Richmond with some friends. They have a lot of stuff to draw there, and I had no money for food.