Saturday, July 18th, 2009
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12:38 pm - Nowhere. Now. Here.
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
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7:07 pm - Not here? No. There.
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Test-driving a new drawing technique before I launch into she said. I’m quite pleased with the results. The above has nothing to do with anything, really. I’ll probably use it as my “out of office” sign on my day-job office door when I take time off.
Originally published at kris dresen draws. Please leave any comments there.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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9:09 pm - practice, practice, practice
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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5:52 pm - she said sneak peek
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The main characters.

The catty support characters.
Originally published at kris dresen draws. Please leave any comments there.
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
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9:00 am - what’s goin’ on
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Just an update to let everyone know that I am currently developing a new web-based graphic novel-ish project. Much like Grace, it will be a weekly serial. Start date and duration is unknown, but the wheels are in motion. If you’re a Twitter-ite, you were recently treated to a sneak peek.
Also, big thanks to all the new readers who recently stopped by to read Grace and she’s in the trees. Hope y’all enjoyed yourselves.
Originally published at kris dresen draws. Please leave any comments there.
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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10:07 pm - 014
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
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10:25 pm - she’s in the trees - now online for your viewing pleasure
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
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1:07 pm - blind rabbits returns
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12:55 pm - 013
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12:54 pm - 012
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
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5:54 pm - triangle food
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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2:38 pm - she’s in the trees - available now
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she’s in the trees is a quirky project that wasn’t even on my agenda, let alone in my brain until almost immediately after I finished work on Grace. I was doing some time-killing doodling and the woman you see in the story popped out of my head and on to the page. I liked her look and did a few more sketches to refine her appearance (She was originally wearing a long skirt. Eh.) I had an idea that I wanted to maybe draw a one page comic about this character. When I went to thumb the piece, much to my surprise, it quickly snowballed into a 20+ page graphic short story.
Huh. Funny how that happens.
I really liked the piece but wanted to do something different with the art. I had been contemplating doing some color work, but not necessarily full-blown color. That can get tedious and frustrating for me. But what about limited color? Say maybe incorporating just reds and grays? And maybe mess around with digital painting, too? Sure! Why not?
I did a few test images and was incredibly happy with the results. So I took a deep breath and jumped into another big project before I even had a chance to recover from Grace. It’s very true that a friend described she’s in the trees as my rebound book. It was a great exercise in a new way of creating images and was a nice way to slowly dissipate the energy I still had stored up from my Grace drawing routine. While I was initially wary of how lulu.com would handle reproduction of the artwork, the proof copies I ordered all look absolutely fantastic.
But what the heck is she’s in the trees about, you ask?
Good question. The best way for me to describe it is with this sentence: What secrets are the crows keeping from her?
Below is a 3-page preview. Click any of the pages or the cover above to order yourself a copy. It’s 36 pages , only available as POD from lulu.com, and will run you $12.99 plus shipping costs.



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12:16 pm - more seasoning
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
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1:56 pm - summer fling - off to a pretty good start
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
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2:21 pm - process junkie wayback machine: of my own will
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I’m giving my studio a good rummaging-through and came across this rarity - the thumbnail for of my own will, drawn 10 years ago in the Princerrific year of 1999. This an example of the “comic-improv” method I was so fond of back then. I’d sketch some convoluted layout, draw in key image ideas I had in my noggin, then have to figure out what went in the other panels to complete the story. Somehow they always worked out.
I probably doodled this at work while I waited for something to print. Back then it took forever for our work to process and print.

Originally published at kris dresen draws. Please leave any comments there.
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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6:18 pm - process junkie - prayer
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
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3:11 pm - prayer
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
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1:15 pm - two lesbians walk into an organic, locally sourced, fair trade coffee house….
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
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8:11 pm - they’re not laughing with you
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
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10:50 am - cover not final
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