Art & Comics by Katherine Roy

Back in Vermont! After a great holiday at home and a good start to the new year, I am back at home in the New England cold, swinging away at my thesis project to make some significant progress. Expect to see a lot of drawings and comics over the new few weeks from my sketchbook and desktop. Here are a few more figure drawings from Kriota’s workshop:

Structure of the figure while standing and at rest:

Various added deformities to our two models (Cave-Man & Scoliosis):

And of Kriota (such a wonderful model herself!) as she drew ON the models:

As I prepare for our trip to Egypt later this semester, I am penciling a few pages of “before” comics, which underscore the depth of my naive upper-middle class American upbringing. I’ll be posting these pages every few days for the next couple of weeks as they are finished. More soon!

I watched The Mummy (the remake with Brendan Fraser) a few days ago. Ee gads! It’s a bad movie, but it’s entertaining. Where’s your Theme, guys?! All set-up and no theme?!? But the special effects are cool and the scenery sets the mood. Based on this film, Egypt will have mummies around every corner!

As a kid I watched several movies over and over again, The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur among them (courtesy of my Southern Baptist grandmother). If my memory can be trusted, Charleston Heston does a terrific job as an epic, God-fearing protagonist. For now I’ll leave the 10 plagues out of my comics, but you never know… swarms of locusts could be around any corner. It’s a good way to increase drama (or start an epic adventure, right Jeff Smith??)

The final installment! And we are back from Egypt! More of the REAL sketchbook soon– this is as far as I got in the story before we left.