Christopher Baldwin's Blog

dreaming, walking, drawing....

Huge stints of drawing are always exhausting and yet feel good at the same time.

I am going away for a week and a half, and so I've been drawing from the moment I get up until the moment I go to bed for the last two weeks. My back is sore, my hands are sore, my fingertips from holding a brush/pen/stylus are sore. Days passed with things like a morning self-reminder "don't forget to call so-and-so today" and then suddenly it was midnight. Dreamy days, filled with ink and audiobooks.

I'm essenti...

October 1st Update

No new experimental comic. I guess that I have to admit that they are pretty officially on hiatus, simply because I don't see my work load lightening until at least 2010. Perhaps once the development of Spacetrawler is done, I might have time again. But I'll still try to post monthly here about my goings on regardless.

I do have something to show, though. This: spacetrawler.com is now live. Although it will likely be worked over a lot before the comics starts, and the comic itself won't start ...

September 1st update

Again, nothing to report. I know, I haven't really done an experimental comic since March. But that is how it's been with developing a new comic strip. I have clocked about a zillion hours so far into the space comic, have about a half year of strips written, edited, and thumbnailed (and are now being reviewed). I've also put in way too many hours on Sketchup, and am still too clumsy and useless at it. Sigh.

I still like the experimental comic script I wrote, and wish to draw it. I've just not...

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August 1st Update

August 1st Update

Yup. Missed July (sorry, Argadi!). It's been particularly heavy lately in my life, personal stuff as well as comics related, and I apologize. One blog post a month isn't too hard, and generally I make it.

This month's comic is actually a rebirth of my diary comic. I have begun a blog about cooking, with my friends Matt, Dan, and Jessica. It has just begun, and we're still finding our feet. I am learning about food blogging, and thinking a lot about it. I have yet to find my c...

June 1st Update

Oops. June's here already.

Well, I've been crazy busy this month. Finished a few freelance jobs, prepped nine "Little Dee" posters for printing (should be up in a week or two), am working on Little Dee book #3, and spending too much distracted time on my new comic (but which I keep making serious headway on).

The above spaceship image (one of five) was built as a 3-D model for me by commission by the amazing Matt Nolan. I had him build it very simply because these 3-D models won't actually appe...

Save the day, Gary! The world needs you!

May 1st update

No experimental comic this month. I've been working on a bunch of stuff. Little Dee book #3. Babysitting in San Diego. Freelance. And a lot of time into a sci-fi project I'm working on (the mess of papers shown below), which I'm mentioning as a tease. Hopefully I'll have more to tell in the next couple months.



but there is more pretty art behind the cut.


I did do the Olympia comic fest poster, the fourth year in a row I've done it. I do it for free because I like them. And I'll be tabling there...

April 1st Update

Above is a wash drawing I drew in Wenatchee, WA. A quick sketch, but I like it.

This month wasn't great in the experimental comic world of me. I tried drawing a script I wrote in the autumn, but I abandoned it after pencilling it. but I'll share the pencils as they are interesting I guess in showing the process.

I was playing with trying to write a palindrome script. The words are not a palindrome, but the panels (at least the text) are. With more work, the drawings could have been too.

I was pl...

March 1st Update

February is gone already. Damn. That was quick. Although it was a busy month. I've been ill twice, lasting about two weeks total. I took a small trip to the islands just outside of Seattle. I had a birthday (36th). Along with all the normal work I have to keep up with, it's no wonder it's all a fair blur.

Before this month's comic, a few pics behind the cut
Me on Orcas Island.



Misha, of who you may remember my comic Misha and Marx:



And this, because it's an awesome lovely, wonderful pic of my fr...