The 24-Hour Comic

If you don't know what a 24-Hour Comic is, it's the immense challenge of creating and finishing 24 pages of a comic within 24 straight hours. No pre-planning, no character designs beforehand, no story, nothing. The clock starts as soon as your pencil hits the paper.  This originated with one of the comic kings himself, Scott McCloud who also has posted his first 24-hour comic at the link. This was an incredible test of determination and I highly recommend trying it at least once.

 My friend Catherine, myself, and a few others tried this out ourselves yesterday as we set our own date to do it. I was on my own on the West Coast but was grateful to be connected with my East Coast pals via web-cam.

Below you can read my 24-page comic which was started at 1pm, Friday January 18th PST, and was completed 8:45am Saturday January 19th PST. I had about 5 hours to spare and spent it sleeping. (no regrets on that one). So caution: wonky anatomy, ill-perspectives, and non-existent face-continuity ahead.

Note: if the text is hard to read, I recommend right clicking and 'View Image' over Blogger's image-viewer which sizes to your web browser
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 I started this off with the intention of poking humor at what goes on in someone's head when they take a shower. It took quite a serious turn at the halfway after I'd been sitting in the dark drawing for over 10 hours straight.
Hope you enjoyed this insanity!

Nancy Drew plus Tumblr/Twitter Links

New illustration I just finished that will be featured in Gallery 1988, partnered with Hello Giggles, one of the websites/projects with Zooey Deschanel. The artwork could only consist of females from old school young-adult literature (Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High, Babysitter’s Club).

Honestly, I never read any of these growing up; I wasn’t interested in finding female role models in any of those books.  I was more into the sci-fi and fantasy genres, and reading Nancy Drew these last few weeks for research was a bit of a struggle. The reading was easy of course, it was the fact that it was such a product of its time! And she’s so unbelievable without any faults whatsoever!

On another note,  I feel like I might be posting less and less to this blog; mainly because it feels like a ghost-town?

 In hopes of keeping up with general social media, it seems blogger has a bit of a setback on social sharing. If you're interested in following me elsewhere, here are a few places:

Kim Herbst Illustrations on Facebook

Kim Herbst's Illustrations on Twitter

and now Kim Herbst Illustrations on Tumblr

thanks for following and checking out my work!

MOAR Hunger Games - Katniss vs. Clove

I LIED. I’m staying awake until it’s time for me to go to the airport. Basically pulling an all-nighter to equip myself to Germany-time and ensure I pass out on the plane. SO MORE HUNGER GAMES SKETCHES IN THE MEANTIME. Here’s Katniss vs. Clove!

More Hunger Games!

Okay, last sketch before I get onto a plane tomorrow morning and sit immobile for 15 hours.  Here's Katniss towards the END of the first book, along with a uniform design, standing next to the most badass cake decorator ever, Peeta.

The Hunger Games - Katniss & Gale

I'm a bit behind on reading books, but I did manage to finally finish the first of the trilogy. I figured I'd do a quick sketch of Katniss and Gale in a calm moment before "the storm" begins.

Happy Holidays - 2012!

Happy Holidays all! Here's the design for my annual festive postcard that's sent out:

I'll be away in Germany from December 18th to January 2nd, so probably no posts until I get back. Hope you all have a Happy New Year as well!

Sloppy thumbs

I tend to get excited about freelance jobs, so my thumbnails get super sloppy. Does that happen to anyone else?

NO REFERENCES

So, at work, a few of us decided to try and draw some famous characters from memory, without using any references whatsoever. This is a hilarious task because as soon as I think of the character, the lines just blow away in the wind of my mind and that's when I start drawing. Some hilarious outcomes:

IT'S SO HARD.

Beasts & Beats

In-progress sketch for the upcoming Beasts & Beats show that's...themed for Monsters and Music (or you know, beasts... and beats).

Burn

Ever try incredibly hard to obtain a goal? You put your all into it, you do your absolute best, and in the end you fall short. You fail. Ever look right beside you and see someone obtain that goal without even really trying?

Me too.