Wiscon is Coming!

by on May 11, 2018 at 10:00 am

Two Weeks Until WisCon!

Hello, hi! WisCon, my favorite convention, is now a mere two weeks away, so this is going to be all the pertinent info on where to find me during the show, as well as a last call for preordering commissions!

Head over to alexheberling.com/wiscon for further details, now featuring a comment field for leaving messages!

Dealer’s Room Hours

I’ve got a spot in the Dealer’s Room at WisCon, so you can come find me at my table during these hours:

  • Friday: 5:00pm to 6:00pm
  • Saturday: 10:00am to 4:00pm
  • Sunday: 10:00am to 4:00 pm
  • Monday: 10:00am to 2:00pm

Panels

I’ll be on four panels at WisCon, as well!

  • What Makes Queer Comics Queer? Friday 10:30pm, University B
  • Tools of the Alt-Comics Trade, Saturday 4:00pm, Conference 4
  • Bisexual Representation in Film and TV, Saturday 10:30pm, Assembly
  • Hot Off The Presses: Creating & Enjoying Inclusive, Sex-Positive Erotic Comics, Sunday 4:00pm, Capitol B

I hope to see you there! Have a great day!

xoxo, Alex

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April Sketches

by on April 27, 2018 at 12:00 pm

Check out some of the drawings I’ve posted this month on Patreon!

Messing around with ink sketches and marker tones. :)

I’m slowly relearning how to draw my characters. ^_^;;

I used a Tombow marker for accents on this one, and the marker and ink lines ended up smearing a little bit as I applied it, but I kinda like how it smeared! 

I like how blue pencil and ink look on paper, whether sketchbooks or a finished piece. (In which the blue pencil is edited out digitally for publication– it’s an old comics thing.) 

April 17th was Hannah’s birthday! Uh, I guess I should tell you Hannah’s hair is going to change. But that’s a ways down the stream, don’t worry about it. :D

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Library Snuggles

by on November 16, 2017 at 5:01 pm


(Pen and colored pencil sketch.)

I’ve considered sending the girls to the library at some point in the story. It’s the main library in downtown Columbus, right across the street from Grant– time will tell once all the business at Grant is finished. But what-if scenarios are fun to think about and doodle, so Andy and Hannah are taking a nap on one of those institutional benches. :)

I have this tub full of old (like REALLY OLD) Crayola colored pencils that I collected between… let’s say 2000 and 2004. Some of them were pilfered from my HS art teacher’s supply, so who knows how old THOSE are. (But really, if they sold the lighter peach pencils in the retail packs, I wouldn’t have had to steal them from school, WOULD I?)

They have too much sentimental value to me to just get rid of them, even though I ALSO have a decent collection of GOOD colored pencils from Prismacolor. But being old and dry makes them pretty good for adding some color to sketchbook drawings.

In days of yore, colored pencils and cheap markers were my jam and I did everything with them.

(Proto-Andy in her proto-uniform. 2002? wtf)

(Proto-Hannah. I don’t know what she could possibly be doing in this pose. Playing basketball?)

(Proto-Sami back when she was a white blonde girl. I stole the pose from an Oh My Goddess VHS cover. Bonus Photoshop lens flare!)

Coming back to them feels a little like coming home.

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