WonderCon 2010 Wrap-up

This year's Con was even more fantastic than last years. We met a ton of cool people and all the cosplayers pics have been posted so check them out and tag yourself.

KatGirl Studio Fan Mirzers, gifted us our very first piece of fan art! Check it out on the KatGirl Studio Facebook Fan Page! Got a piece of Fan Art for KatGirl Studio? The bring it to us at our next event or email us and we will feature it on the site and FB Fan Page!

The new Stalking the Elusive Quetzal matted prints and The Sea of Imagination Giclées we took to the event completely sold out. So if you missed your chance to get one at the Con you can now order them from our brand new shiny store!

The I Heart Sea Monsters shirts were hugely popular and we only have a few left from the first run so get yours today before they sell out. We also took pre-orders for the Nom Nom shirt that will be released at Fanime. If you didn't get a chance to pre-order yours at WonderCon you can here. Pre-orders will close Friday April 23, 2010. Pre-orders get to pick what color shirt they want and will receive theirs via mail before Fanime.

All orders made from our shiny new store will receive a free gift print with their order to celebrate our grand opening!

Thank you everyone who came by and supported our studios we greatly appreciate it! Our next event will be Free Comic Book Day on May 1st.

The Stalking the Elusive Quetzal Project

The drawing for one of the picture books I am currently working on Stalking the Elusive Quetzal.

The Promo cover and book dummy for the book. After making this I thought it would look better with a more dynamic cover. I will mostly likely use the painted version of page 13 instead.



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SCBWI Summer Conference & the Los Gatos Fiesta De Artes

In a few days we’ll be leaving for the SCBWI Summer conference in LA. Even though I’m super busy I thought I’d share with you all the book dummy for Stalking the Elusive Quetzal. I did not send out for this it is 100% printed and assembled here in the studio. I tried really hard to make it look like a real book and I’m very pleased with the results.

Oh and don’t forget!

KatGirl Studio will have a booth at their very first Art and Wine Festival on August 15th & 16th at the Los Gatos Fiesta De Artes in Down Town Lost Gatos. So if you live nearby come out and say hi! We will have a ton of cool items available and the newly completed Stalking the Elusive Quetzal book dummy will be on display.

Sketch Update

updated skeyches for pages 7 & 17 of Stalking the Elusuve Quetzal

Updates on Stalking the Elusive Quetzal

I have finally finished sketching all the pages for Stalking the Elusive Quetzal! Over the next few weeks I will be tracing clean copies of the sketched pages and binding them together along with the text in a book dummy. The completed book dummy will them make its debut at the 2009 SCBWI Summer Conference Portfolio Art Show. Who know maybe the story will be picked up by a publisher there. So stay tuned Quetzal fans, Stalking the Elusive Quetzal is well on its way to completion!

If you haven’t joined Katgirl Studio’s book mailing list and would like to join just email us at kat@katgirl.net

And here's some more Stalking the Elusive Quetzal sketched pages:

Busy Busy Summer

Sorry about the lack of updates lately. I’ve been busy working on a children’s book for Canadian publisher Three Bears and cannot post my work until its ready for publication. If you’d like to be notified when that book or any of my other books come out feel free to join our book mailing list by emailing us at Kat@katgirl.net . In the minimal free time I have I’ve been working on Stalking the Elusive Quetzal and my novel series COR (The Chronicles of Rayn). As well I’ve been preparing for the children’s conference and the Art and Wine festival I will be doing this year. This summer has shaped up to do an extremely busy one.

For your enjoyment here is a raft of sketched pages for Stalking the Elusive Quetzal.

Fanime 2009

KatGirl Studio, along with Lost Graphics will be at tables 209 and 210 in the Artist Alley room at Fanime 2009 May 22-25.

KatGirl Studio will be offering 5x7 mini matted prints, 8x10 standard prints, 8.5x11 Fine Art prints, 11x14 matted prints, Limited Edition 13x19 Gicleé’s, The Stalking the Elusive Quetzal mini color book, postcards, bookmarks, Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art necklaces, a few more surprises. We will also have the Stalking the Elusive Quetzal full size hand bound book dummy on display. So stop by and say hi!

Moving, Projects and Computer crash

Sorry about the lack of art lately, I assure you we are actually quite busy at KatGirl Studio. We have been preparing to move (only 2 weeks away), rebuilding the website (it ate itself) and negotiating contracts for major upcoming projects.

Website and Computer Crash… Again
Last month KatGirl Studio’s website decided to rewrite some of its own code (scary I now) taking the whole site down in the process. While in the midst of repairing that problem the studio computer’s 3 month old hard drive decided to kill itself taking everything that wasn’t saved to the external hard drive with it (i.e. the fixed website, 2009 contact list, various sketches and documents for upcoming and in progress projects etc.) This then seemed like an opportune moment to design and create the new sections of the site since the whole site needed to be updated anyways. So stay tuned for KatGirl Studio’s two new site sections.

Moving
KatGirl Studio will be relocating in the next two weeks to a larger space with better lighting. It’s really exciting but a lot of work. Everything that is not important has been packed away in boxes. This of course also means that we will have to file for new permits and Business licenses.

Upcoming Projects
KatGirl Studio is currently in negotiations for a few upcoming projects. However I can’t talk about them just yet. I can however talk about my children’s book, Stalking the Elusive Quetzal. The book creation is progressing along nicely and I hope to have the completed book dummy ready for viewing at Fanime.

The newest sketches for Stalking the Elusive Quetzal

WonderCon 2009 Review

Sorry about the late review I came down horribly sick when I got back from the con.

Our Table
The Matted Mini Prints and Mini Color books were a smash hit! In general, the response to my studio’s offerings were good. And due to overwhelming demand KatGirl Studio will be publishing the full length illustrated book Stalking the Elusive Quetzal later this year! We will also hopefully have studio shirts and Kiki plushies by famine since people kept trying to buy the ones we was wearing. If you really wanted one of our items and it A: Sold out or B: you ran out of cash, worry not because most of the items will also be featured in our Etsy shop. I’d like to say thank you to my best pal Sally Rose for being my table rep when I wasn’t there so I could get a chance to walk around.

Mike Mignola
Most of my friends know that as fair a “Super Heroes” go Hell Boy is my fav so I was really exited to be able to meet Hell Boys creater Mike Mignola. There a pretty funny story about how I ended up waiting in line twice to get my book signed and if you want the whole story let me know. But the short story ends with me getting a few things signed and us (me and Mike) doing impressions of our pet cats.

Stan Saki
My roommate owns most of the Usagi Yojimbo graphic novels and the “art of book” and so of course I’ve read all of the ones he has because well there awesome and two train rides become very boring. It’s a not so little know fact that Stan is one of the most hardworking comic artists/cartoonists in the US if not the world. besided getting a few books, posters and the art of book signed I also picked up one of the newer books we didn’t have from dark horse because he (Stan) had sold out already and it was only part of the way through sat.

Tracy Butler
I’ve been following her work since I was in high school and she’s one of the first people I started watching on DA. I really love her comic Lackadaisy and it was a big shock to round a corner and sew one of her characters in sculpture form at a book and then realize she was there and then realize whereas I had admired her for years I had no idea what she looked like. Luckily she was there and I got to tell her how much I loved her work. I also preordered her book because customs has seized their shipment of books for random drug search and they had sold out of the ones they had by 11am on Saturday.

Camilla D’Errico
Camilla among other things is the artist of Nightmares and Fairy Tales. I picked up her book some months back at my friend Anna’s comic store and really liked it. We saw her at APE and I kicked myself for forgetting to bring the book for her to sign. Luckily she was at the con and signed my book. As well her and the writer Serena will be doing a signing later this year at Anna’s store.

David Petersen
David is the artist and writer of Mouse Guard and I picked up a signed copy of his book as well at the con. I’ve only flipped through them a few times at Anna’s store but what I saw made my want to buy it. Who can say no to a book of such cute mice? I’d greatly looking forward to reading his comic.

Other Cool people I met were: Laurie B., Bobby Crosby (writer of Marry Me), Travis Hanson (he drew me a cool cat sketch), Gabrielle Pennacchioli (a Dreamworks animator and he sat next to us in AA), Steph Laberis (cool illustrator who gave me the last of her sold out buttons she found under her table) and many many more.

I’d also like to give lots of hugs to your friend Brian Kolm of Atomic Bear Press who’s father passed away this weekend. Hang in there Brian we’re all here for you.

Mini Masterpiece Launch Day 7

It's Day 7 of the Mini Masterpiece Wearable Art launch and here is todays release The Sleeping Margay.


Want this piece of Wearable art? You can find it here