the pants press sketchblog

New Comic: Bucko

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:57:29 GMT

Bucko is live!

Written by Marvel Comics megastar, Jeff Parker and illustrated by me, our comic updates twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. It's a dick-n-fart joke murder-mystery that I personally promise will be totally kick ass. F'reals here, folks. We've already got the first four pages up for your perusal!

Sexy Times Poster

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:17:14 GMT

The Sexy Times poster returns after almost two years being out of print! See Full Size, since the picture above is tiny.

Over the course of four days, depraved cartoonists Lucy Knisley (French Milk) and Erika Moen (DAR!) drew a porn-landscape on a giant (41″ × 26″) piece of watercolor paper.

The goal was to depict every sexual act they could imagine (minus pooping and vomiting, though no disrespect is intended. They just didn’t wanna draw that). They started at opposite corners and would draw until ready to switch places. When it came time to ink, they fill up an entire section, regardless of whose pencil lines they were going over. Their styles meshed naturally and the result is a seamless sea of happy people gettin’ it on.

For this second printing, I re-colored the poster to the sorbet tones you see above and have printed only 55 Giclée prints, measuring 36″ × 24". The first printing sold out almost instantaneously, so here is a second chance for all you perverts who missed out the first time around.

Inform. Inspire. Infect

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:16:55 GMT

Same deal, more photos and talkin' 'bout this piece over here on my regular LJ.

Here's a time-lapse video of how I made it:

Inform. Inspire. Infect from Erika Moen on Vimeo.

Sea Witch

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:17:11 GMT

The Sea Witch, 8" x 10", watercolors on thick watercolor board with gold accent paint, glued on top of fancy papers.

In-progress shots over on my personal LJ, which is also where you can leave comments if you want to since I disable them over here on account'a cross-posting and I'm weird about it.

Saint Artichoke

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:06:49 GMT

10" x 10" x .25"
Watercolor and fancy papers and cake disks and gold paint and glue.

For sale on Etsy.

I documented the process over on my regular journal (EDIT: link fixed!), if you wanna see how this was made and some detail shots. Comments disabled here due to cross-posting between here and my other journal.

Je ne suis pas un faune

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:19:01 GMT

For Sale on Etsy
Just finished this guy last night! If you want to see a full step-by-step breakdown of how I put it together, I have just such a guide for you. Since I'm cross-posting this across LJs, I'm leaving comments disabled on this entry but they're open in the link :)

The Golden Mask

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:46:59 GMT

Underdrawing and reverse mask design (because I have to trace it on the backside of the paper that'll be the mask, so that it'll face the correct way when it's flipped over)

Using this photo of Jasika Nicole Pruitt (who is a super awesome actress on Fringe and a cartoonist to boot) as reference for the figure.

Final pencils lightboxed onto fancy thick watercolor board.

Making sure the mask will be aligned correctly.

Watercolors.

Hair detail.

Piecing it all together.

Finished piece! Measures 8" x 10" x .5" on hangable wooden panel.

Detail.

LGBT Youth Scholarship Auction

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:52:18 GMT

My piece in the LGBT Webcomic Charity Art Auction that'll be going on from July 20 - 24th.

Direct Link to the Auction Page My piece is on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

Money raised by the auction will be donated to the Point Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides financial support, mentoring, leadership training, and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

There's some other suuuuper bitchin' artists taking part in this, like my long-time favorite Paige Braddock (Jane's World), Rachel Dukes (Primary), and Megan Rose Gedris, (Yu+Me=Dream)

The Saints of Sexy Toys

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:33:13 GMT

Fellow Pants-Presser, Dylan Meconis and I were recently in a joint gallery show called Lady Parts at the Sequential Art Gallery here in Portland.

It's down now, but here's my half of the show.

Our Lady of the Butt Plugs

Saint Anal Beads

Saint Ball Gag and Hand Cuffs

Saint Hitachi Wand

Saint Vibrator

L'annunciation: The Messenger and The Virgin

Three Venuses

Each piece was composed of many separate layers of paper stacked on top of each other, with some reflective, shiny material in there too.
I've gotta bunch of behind the scenes pictures chronicling how I made them up on my Flickr.

Anyway, if you like 'em, I'm selling prints in my store /:)

Mango Vodka

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:13:52 GMT

Hey dudes!

My husband has really gotten into infusing vodka with different fruits and tasty things (My favorite so far is the lemon infused vodka. Oh man. Freakin' delish)

He just finished making a mango one and asked me to draw a label for one of the bottles he's sending back home for Christmas.

I colored it with Tria markers on a blank shipping label sticker thing.

Hostess and Guest at Meltdown Comics

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:48:24 GMT

I was lucky enough to be included in the Curious Unseen show at Meltdown Comics (7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.), which is open until September 20th.

Hostess and Guest

Hostess

Guest

If you are so inclined, individually they're $150, but if you buy both of them it's only $250

The show is only up for one more week! I recommend checking out some of the other contributions too since they include the stupidly talented Leslie Levings, Stuntkid, Helle Jorgensen and a bunch of my other favorite artists.

Whoo hello

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:09:23 GMT

Wow, haven't posted here in awhile... well hey hello here's a website update! (plus a sliver of an image I'm working on for a show - I will totally post the whole thing when closer to the date).

Lots of new stuff unless you've been keeping updated elsewhere! Night everyone!

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:52:14 GMT

Matt Nolan and I collaborated together several months ago to make a full color fancy-shmancy book. When I say 'we collaborated', I mean Matt went through a stack of my sketchbooks, scanned in and colored his favorite drawings of mine, did all the layout for the book, wrestled with lulu.com, and has made "Hoopla: A Super Girly Sketchbook" available for buying. Man, that is my kind of collaborating.

Hoopla came out pretty fancy and we're really pleased with the results.

VITAL STATS:
36 pages
6 x 9 inches
Full Color
$14.99

Are you not sated? Man, I totally don't blame you, here are some more samples. Some with my own face in them.

If you are interested, you can buy an individual copy directly from lulu.com for $14.99 ooooooor, until February 29th, I am offering a combination pack of all 5 of my minicomics plus Hoopla for $27. Combo packs will ship in early March.

EDIT, February 29th: The sale is over! No more combo packs, thanks for reading :)

Over and out, folks!

"Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dummy"

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:36:09 GMT

The most recent issue of Electroinc Gaming Monthly (just hitting shelves this week, with the "OMG MGS4/PS3 MAY NOT SUCK" cover) features another "guess the game name" puzzle in the back, this one space game-themed. (There was a request from the puzzle's writer to add a specific reference to The Last Starfighter, which lead me to polluting the whole piece with a bunch of non-game-related cameos from other sci-fi films and television shows):

Orienteering

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:05:52 GMT

Oh man, dudes, I was so super excited that Sara Ryan agreed to write a story for me to illustrate for the upcoming Snow Stories anthology!

Here's my finished pages, without any of the word balloons and text. Er, I guess the last page has a bit of text. But I have a flu or something so man I'm just gunna let that one be.

Here's a little before/after photoshopping of the last page.

If you want to see a step-by-step progression of how I made it, click-en-Von-Clickenstein over here.

DAR catch up

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:34:50 GMT

Hey Dudes, here are the last 13 comics I've done for DAR.

A couple aren't safe for work and I've tried to remember to include a warning on their preview graphics, but I forgot to put one on "The Best Job" so, y'know, watch out.

Pendants for sale!

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:20:00 GMT

Hey everybody!

I now have an online Etsy store running, thus to sell over a dozen hand-drawn pendants like this one:

Also for sale are a little Luther Levy from my comic, various Greek goddesses, and several delightful inanimate objects of which you might conceivably be fond!

I made these for the Stumptown Comics Fest '07, and I don't know when I'll make another round, so if you'd like a little drawing to wear or give away, mosey on over.

Coming this weekend: t-shirts!

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:06:38 GMT

One of the more presentable examples from the slushpile of things I doodle to keep my hands moving and my mind focused during work meetings.

If I'm ever elected president and have to meet with the other great leaders of the free world, I'm afraid they're going to have to put up with my scribbling on the U.N. letterhead while we negotiate international peace.

this one is sort of rude.

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:40:38 GMT

It was my boyfriend's birthday the other day, and part of his present was this painting (click to see the whole thing). It's girls-in-a-row (surprise!) with sort of a card theme, because he's pretty obsessed with poker. It's also kind of racy. I felt a little embarrassed in the frame store. So will you if you open it at work.

This one is for the staggeringly fabulous Lucy Knisley, of whom I am in awe. She wrote me a song once about a manamaid that I was supposed to make a little film out of, but time did not permit. It lives on as a painting, however. I imagine a manamaid would be very very soft.

Oh, I don't think I mentioned it on here, but I redid my website! It's got some new art, a new front page, and a shiny new shop section. Please enjoy verabee.com.

Girlie Girls

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:12:51 GMT

That last one looks like Twiggy.

Also, a little board thingy (I think I might record some soundfx for it at a future date)...clickez-vous:

Assassin's Creed is in your Kingdom of Heavens, stealing ur production design.

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:57:53 GMT

A work-in-progress, but I thought I'd toss it up here all the same.

Dr. Sketchy's Portland

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:42:18 GMT

Hey Portland Artists!

Remember I posted some costumed life drawing that I did at the Portland branch of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School a while back?

Well, now I'm gunna be a costumed model for them! Oh, how the tables have turned.

This Wednesday, 7pm - 10pm
Dante's
1 SW 3rd Ave
Portland, OR 97204

Here's some more Dr. S life drawings I've done:

My costume? Tank Girl, natch.

Just because.

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:50:21 GMT

"Bioshock", get it?

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:23:32 GMT

Oh, hey, I guess this is the part where I mention that I've got another "guess the name of the game" puzzle illustration in the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (issue #221, with the Saints Row 2 cover story.)

She was the roughest, toughest frail

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:46:08 GMT