that damned elusive megaloo

For our Youth Literacy class, we presented a group project on graphic novels. We worked in "reading circles", in which each person got a job assignment such as leader, connector, illustrator, vocabulary...er. I got to be the illustrator.

Our group's graphic novel was the first printed volume of Bayou, which is an online comic by Jeremy Love and Patrick Morgan. It's got a strong female protagonist, Lee, living in post-Civil War, pre-civil rights Mississippi. Her white best friend, Lily, gets kidnapped by a monster in the bayou, Cotton-Eyed Joe. Lee's father ends up getting blamed for Lily's disappearance. To save him from lynching, Lee must find Lily with the help of the other swamp monster, the kind Bayou. It deals with race, love and hatred, and Deep South folklore. It's extremely well done and I mean to finish it once school finishes.

( Some of the sketches. )

( Here's the illustration I did! )

Work is boring as hell today, so here's some art I scanned but didn't get around to posting yet. ( And yes, it's all Merlin fanart. I'm addicted to it still. )

I have committed Merlin fanart! How, months after the finale, this show still consumes my brain I know not.



( Prince prat and worst-servant-ever under the cut. )

If I have the time, Gwen and Morgana next. :)

This is fanart for sheafrotherdon's latest Farm in Iowa story Sunday Morning. Her writing always paints a picture in my mind and I wanted to try to envision some of it on paper. :)

Medium: Pencil
Rating: Uh, PG for McShep hand holding?

( 'Daylight saving blows,' Rodney mumbles. )

Also, I recently did some Teyla line art over at fandom_in_color. It's a fairly new community and could use some more members if anyone's interested.