Would have more, but I got a bit derailed by those damn posts. This is Amy, looking surprisingly more like her actual age than… well, damned if I’m not ripping off Aaron A. yet again…

I was deliberately trying not to make this look cheesecake-y, mostly because the wonders of trackback mean I might well have to defend this sketch. Defend it with words and ideas and pointy objects. (In that order. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.) Anyhow, I think for the most part I pulled it off. If I’d bothered to draw the rest of her, she’d be resting her weight on one leg (that’s why she’s leaning to one side like that), which is a fairly natural pose for a person at rest, and I’m not drawing any unnecessary attention to her tits, which aren’t larger than her head. (Granted, she is wearing a tank top, but I wanted to show her tattoo. I want it to be impossible to picture her without it, plus it’s fun to draw.) So if nothing else, Karen Healey’s blog has had an effect on at least one cartoonist for at least one evening.

The whole cube-head thing I’ve been trying is working out well, though I’m still working on mapping it out to a less realistic style like mine. (In this case, her cheekbone is a tad too low for my taste, and her ear is too high. But I always seem to draw my ears too damn high.) I’m fairly happy with how the body came out, especially considering that I didn’t use any real guides. (Though it leads to inconsistent artwork, I prefer the results, and I definitely prefer not ripping my hair out and getting an ulcer, which is where sticking closely to guides was leading me.)

Earlier tonight I mentioned that I was going to be doing some site redesigning. Basically, I’m going to change the site around a little so that going to brimzero.net loads up a portal page of sorts instead of Brimzero. It’ll have links to all three of the comics, as well as Volatile Contents and subvert apathy. The graphics for the comic links will be all new, instead of recycled artwork, so you can expect similar sketches of all the major characters by the time I’m done, as well as (possibly) a couple of characters I haven’t introduced in SEP yet.