I made a skirt!

Awhile ago I went to a vintage/thrift/second hand store in Columbia and saw a skirt made from old t-shirts. "Now," says I, "I have a lot of huge tshirts that I will never ever wear just sitting in my closet because I don't have the heart to throw them away. I need to make me a skirt."

My mother is a wonderful seamstress and I set out a set of old t-shirts I would never wear but still liked and a couple pairs of pants that no longer fit me and scuttled off back to college for a few months. When I returned my mother had made me a skirt from the tshirts, but it just wasn't quite right. I told her more of what I wanted and sat on my bed coloring the character sheet from the previous post and listening to the London Symphony Orchestra perform the Who's Tommy while she farted around on the sewing machine next to me. "How about this?" she said as she presented me with my new skirt.

The moral of the story is my mother can make just about anything, including figure out what I want from a jumbled mess of words thrown at her.

Speaking of which, she has an Etsy site now!. You should check it out. sherrybingaman.etsy.com.

Anthony Gillis Turnaround

This is the last 'just for fun' thing I've allowed myself before I really buckle down and work hardcore on Skin Deep issue II. I guess it's not a totally useless drawing, since Anthony is the psuedo-main character of the comic after Orientation. Anthony was created by Sophia Morley, and I just think he's awesome. Perhaps because he's based off a frigate bird. Perhaps because he has feather muttonchops. The world may never know.

Alec Hyde Turnaround

So I was going to do a bunch of these kinds of drawings for the current characters of Skin Deep, but instead I got sidetracked and started doing secondary characters that show up later because that's how I roll. This is Alec Hyde, a character created for Skin Deep by Sheana Molloy (she's populated like half of the Skin Deep world I swear to god). So this is a taste of the kind of people who show up in the comic book later. Bugbears are like my favorite obscure mythical creatures because they're these gigantic freakin' spooky bears but the only thing they do is frighten runaway children into going back home. Totally harmless yet 100% creepy. Leave it to the English to think of something like that.

School's Out!

Winter break has officially started here in good old Missouri, so I'll be spending a lot of time working and drawing! My goal is to get the next issue of Skin Deep drawn out. That will be fun. I hope I can stick to my guns.

I posted this over at my deviantart account, but I'm doing dirt cheap sketch commissions for somewhere near 5 bucks a character. That's dirt cheap, ladies and gents. And especially since paypal takes money for every transaction I won't even be getting that whole 5 bucks. AND YET I AM STILL DOING THIS SPECIAL HOLIDAY DEAL. That's Christmas for you. I give and I give because I care.

I usually put pictures up of what I've been drawing lately but I haven't drawn or scanned anything for awhile since it's been finals week and what I have drawn has been pretty lousey, but here's a photograph of my roommate and I in our respective fudd-duddy hats. Hers keeps showing mine up. Jerk.

edit: I went trolling through Webcomics Nation, where my comic is hosted, and discovered that there is a "supernatural/magic" category. That might fit Skin Deep more appropriately (it was originally categorized as 'Fantasy', but it was up with a bunch of Lord of the Rings-esque comics and I don't really think it belongs there), so I moved it there. Plus there's only one other series floating around that category, so who knows, I might get more noticed. Or maybe it really does belong in fantasy. How do you classify a comic about modern day mythical creatures? It's kind of Harry Potter-y. Maybe there should be a Harry Potter-y category.

Jim Finn Turnaround Sheet

So this is kind of a spoiler to Skin Deep, and I apologize if you're actually one of the few people reading the comic who doesn't actually know anything about the comic.

Today's update is the first appearance of Jim Finn, one of the weirder characters in the comic. Completely unrelated to this fact I've just finished a character turnaround sheet for him, so I thought I upload it for fun. Like extra content or something. It's a ball everyday over here on kory bingaman dot com, folks. I could have added more ages for him like 'angsty teen' and 'high school', but that would be a tad more spoilery than I'm already making this. Also it would make this thing even more ungainly looking. Check out how long that is! Dang!

B is for Bestiary!

I've decided to start uploading the Bestiary Alphabet to Webcomics Nation along with Skin Deep. I know I'm already up to V with this thing on my DeviantART account, but I thought this would be a fun place to put it as well!

Printmaking Extravaganza Closeups!

All my final prints from my Printmaking class! And I love each and every one. Fun times, printmaking.

Printmaking Extravaganza!

I worked for 13 hours straight yesterday finishing up my portfolio for my printmaking class and this is the end result: 5 different prints printed a billion times. I wish I had more time to take more printmaking classes; I think it's great.

H is for Harpy

Not to be confused with Sirens.

G is for Gryphon

I've been slacking off on updates. It's Finals week!

Machine Man Fanart!

Aaron Stack AKA Machine Man is the best Marvel Superhero ever. Only because he's written a lot like Bender from Futurama in the Nextwave comic. I have a fondness for really lame characters being remade into interesting funny characters. If you don't like him you can bite his valve because he is the hero.