Off to China

Hey everyone,
I am moving to China tomorrow, and as you may already know, blogger is inaccessible behind the Great Firewall. I don't know how long this blog will remain inactive, at most the entire time I'm in China, and at least a few weeks until I get settled and work out a way to email the pictures to a friend in America who can upload them.

In the meantime, I am very excited to announce my new webcomic, 14 Nights, will be released some time in the coming month. It will be at www.14nights.com, which is happily NOT blocked by the Chinese firewall. I hope you will enjoy it.
~Kristina

sketches

Right now, I'm hard at work on my new webcomic, which will be at www.14nights.com. In the meantime, here are some sketches.

Forest

Started using Inkscape, the open-source vector program. I love it! There will be more vector graphics in the future, I think.

Here's an old one I hadn't uploaded before. I didn't figure anyone but me would like it, but then someone bought the original. I guess it just goes to show you're never as strange as you like to believe you are.

Stairway

Sorry for the lack of updates recently; I was out of town. There will be more in the next few days.

Six-eyed creature

This creature has six eyes, though it still cannot see very well.

hands

Practice.

Wire Self

It's Susumu Hirasawa

Yasha Lizard vol 3

Yasha and his roommate Nastya think they've found the perfect place to live in the Workers' Community Housing. However, they're caught up in a personal battle between architects that have no regard for the tenants of the building. 20 interior pages. 8.5"x5.5"

New! Review from Optical Sloth

Creature 11

This creature uses the strange fatty things protruding from its chest to release a nutritious fluid which nourishes the creature's offspring. Sounds painful, really.

Piano-mouth creature

Terrarium

This one is a little old. I forgot to upload it before.
In other news, Stumptown Comic Fest is this weekend. I'll be there, but unfortunately I won't have a table.

Experiments

Some experimenting with techniques. I'm happy with the moon. The tree needs more work. Next time I will certainly cut all the holes in the mask and do the white paint all at once. Also, it looks best where there are more leaf details.

Yasha Lizard vol 2

Art critic Clement Mountain Weasel discovers that lower animals like birds and reptiles have vastly better color vision than mammals. He puts together a smashing successful show featuring the work of Kreganthus Pigeon. Meanwhile, Yasha wants to show his boss that he, too, is a cultured person. 24 interior pages. 8.5"x5.5"

-Review from Optical Sloth
**New!** Review from The Comics Journal

These stores currently carry Yasha Lizard:
Oregon:
Emerald City Comics
The Reading Frenzy
Guapo Comics
Cosmic Monkey Comics

New York:
Jim Hanley's Universe
Forbidden Planet

Maurihe

Kuria

Number...what number am I on? This one is my favorite, so far.

Qophiat

Danrieth

Number four.

Jinkyu

Number three of twelve.

Roen

Number two of twelve characters

Sun

I'm working on some character designs for a client. Here is the first one. There will be twelve, total.

Vulnerable

It bothered me how unfinished it looked. I had to color it. The paper is thin stuff, good only for ink. Colored pencil was the only other option, really.