CMYK Launch!

Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, under ,

Don't forget to hit the back button to see the cover of this Episode as well!

CMYK is finally here! I can't believe it. I started working behind the scenes on this comic in 2010 and it has changed SO MUCH. I'm really grateful for Hayley's help in writing it as well because doing Taiki I realized that writing was my biggest weakness. (Like, I can come up with concepts; beginning, middle, and end, but not the stuff in between those.) All the stuff she added to the script was such a huge surprise and I love it. I can't wait to share it with all of you readers.

I had originally wanted to launch CMYK with multiple pages but in the end I decided to only post 1 because it stood well on it's own and I felt like it was better for me to have a few pages as a buffer.

I hope you guys enjoy CMYK and let's get this started!

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Phoenix Comicon!

Posted on Monday, May 20, 2013, under , ,


Hey everyone! I'll be at Phoenix Comicon at Artist Alley table AA38 from May 24th-26th! It'll be my first time selling at a convention so I'm both excited and nervous. haha I will have Taiki books, CMYK: Color Changes Everything teaser books, Fionna and Cake/Korra/Avengers Prints, stickers, and lots of hand drawn sketchcards!



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Taiki: The End

Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2012, under ,


Wow! I can't believe it! After working on Taiki for 6 years it's over. Even though I had originally intended on the story going on much longer than it did, I do believe I did the right thing in ending it where I did. I will miss each and every character very much and I'm sad to see it end. It still hasn't really sunk in that it's over though it probably will once I'm done drawing the epilogue for the book. haha

I had no idea what I was doing when I started as you can probably tell so I am grateful for all of the things that I have learned doing this comic that I can put towards my future projects. I am also very grateful for all of my readers and fans. Thanks for sticking with me when I didn't update often and for coming back. I couldn't have done it without you guys! I met a lot of awesome people from doing this comic and I hope to stay friends with them even when moving onto new projects. 

I can't believe how fast the Taiki Kickstarter was funded! Thanks again everyone who is helping me out with that! I understand that the timing was bad and not a lot of people have extra money around Christmas time so I appreciate all that you guys are doing for me. It's really exciting to see it made into a book and I can't wait for the moment that I can hold it in my hands. I'm sure it will be amazing!

As for my next comic CMYK, at this point I hope to start it in February once I'm done with all the Taiki book and Kickstarter stuff. I hope to see you guys there! =D

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Taiki Comic Book

Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012, under , ,

Hey everyone, a lot has happened behind the scenes in Taiki news that I need to share. The company that was publishing my Taiki comics has decided to shut down so I will have to publish Taiki on my own. To do this I will need to have a Kickstarter. I posted a poll on the Taiki site asking how many people would actually buy the book so please add your input, it would be very helpful.

In the end I have decided to print the whole book as 1 entire story instead of having multiple volumes because it would save on cost and have a higher probability of selling. It was decided not to continue the issues that I originally started getting printed of Chapter 3 because they didn't sell very well unfortunately. As for the Kickstarter itself I would have bundles that include the original print run of Issue 1 of Chapter 3. This would be most likely the last chance to get those comics as the company behind them is sending me the last of them and will never be printed again.

So far what I have concluded for the book:
  • All 375 comic pages (not including the intermissions).
  • 25 pages of extras (8 page mini Christmas comic never shown online, Epilogue, written out versions of original endings and other parts cut from the story, history of the Taiki characters, etc.)
  • Printed as a 400 page manga sized book.
Backer rewards would include pdf versions of the book, signed books, the original chapter 3 comic, possibly buttons, and original art. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions on what they would like to see please let me know! Thanks.

Having the entire story of Taiki in book form would be like a dream come true for me. I have worked on this project for 6 and half years and having a physical book of it to hold be just be amazing. :D

And as for news on CMYK, I had originally planned on finishing the Taiki pages a couple of months early and having CMYK start right away while the end of Taiki was still posting to the web but I don't think that will happen now. My work schedule is too hectic and I haven't gotten as many Taiki pages done as I had wanted. So CMYK will most likely start in January of 2013. February at the latest depending on how much of it I want to get done before starting it. Thank you for your patience if you're waiting for that one to start. C:

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Taiki 6th Anniversary

Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2012, under ,


Wow! 6 years! I can't believe it! It kinda makes me sad that this will be the last anniversary of the comic while it is still actively being updated as it is planned to end at the end of the year. I wanted to thank all of my readers, long time readers and new ones for reading! Especially the long time readers who have kept with me during my long hiatuses during college. 

The reason I drew them all as kids was because I was thinking to myself, “Taiki is 6 years old… wait, no she’s not…” and then I realized I had only ever drawn Taiki, Nikki, and Kai as kids and so I had a lot of fun drawing this. Raine and Lil didn't know each other as kids but I still wanted to draw them cute together. C:

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Color Changes Everything!

Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, under ,



For everyone who is interested in my next project after Taiki which is CMYK, an 8 page teaser comic is up to read so you can get a taste of the characters before the comic starts. Check it out on the CMYK website here!

I learned a lot doing these 8 pages. I experimented for the first time doing hand drawn panels and speech bubbles. The speech bubbles I ended up redrawing many times because they were originally more circular but after a while I liked the more square ones because it seems to blend with the art style more so I went back and changed them all. I also ended up altering Key's outfit AGAIN (this is the 3rd time) because his shirt was much to hard to draw over and over again.

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Printed Webcomics

Posted on Saturday, May 05, 2012, under

I am a huge fan of webcomic artists printing their comics and selling them in book form if they're serious about finishing the project someday. I always buy the printed forms of my favorite ones to both support the artist and to have a collection. I especially like collecting the special edition ones that are signed and drawn in. haha So I'd like to share my collection so far if anyone is interested in knowing. C:

Girly #1 (signed, art)
Girly #2
Cute Wendy Collection (signed, art)
YU+ME #1 (signed)
Hanna is Not a Boy's Name #1 self published by Tessa Stone (signed, art)
Hanna is Not a Boy's Name #2 self published by Tessa Stone (signed, art)
Hanna is Not a Boy's Name #1 by 4DE (signed, art)
Eerie Cuties #0 (signed, art)
Eerie Cuties #1 (signed, art)
Ménage à 3 #1
Ménage à 3 #2 (signed, art)
Ménage à 3 #3 (signed, art)
Boxer Hockey #1 (signed, art)
Boxer Hockey #2 (signed)
Diesel #1 (signed, art)
Vixen (signed, art) x2
Go Get a Roomie #1
Paradox by Denise Schroeder (signed)
My Sweet Girl by Gina Biggs
Wind Fish (signed)
Plume #1 (signed)
Kick Girl #1 (signed)
Kick Girl #2 (signed)
Kick Girl #3 (signed)
Mystery Babylon #1 (signed)

Anyone else own any webcomics in printed form? :]

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