Hey, guys. New comics are coming soon, I swear. In the mean time I thought I’d show you this awesome piece of fanart I just got from Shane Kirshenblatt. Shane is a freelance illustrator, teaching artist, and the author of the graphic  novel series Dorothy Gale: Journey to Oz. Shane was my art teacher from the time I was twelve to fifteen. He taught me a lot of what I knew about drawing before I started Lemon Inc. and has continued to support my endeavors. One of the ways that he has done so is by drawing me this pinup. I really appreciate the attention to detail that he put into it. If you look closely you’ll notice that even the sun, the clouds, and the hills, are shaped like lemons.

Here’s the Tommy pumpkin I carved last year, and the Jeff pumpkin I carved the year before that.

Hey, I did a guest comic for Sean McLean over at Underwhelmed. You may remember him from the fanart I did for him, the fanart he did for me, or the time he featured Elephanté in one of his comics.

Last year I contributed a comic and a recipie to the Webcomics: What’s Cooking? cookbook. Now they only have 1000 cookbooks left and they’re trying to sell all of them by American Thanksgiving. Get it while you can! All of the proceeds will be donated to the National Food Banks to help feed families in need.

The cookbook is only $15 dollars but you can get it for 7.5% off when you use the code, Tim (case sensitive), when you check out. Click on the banner below to order a copy for yourself or a friend who likes comics or cooking.

This is a self portrait I drew for the back of the Lemon Inc. book. It’s a lot harder to draw myself than I would have thought it would be. The last time I did a finished self portrait was back in 2008, I think, and I’ve been meaning to do a better one for a while.

I already posted the illustration I did for the cover of Lemon Inc. Volume 1 but here is the final cover with the logo and volume number in place. Oh yeah, and apparently the first volume is going to be called “Freshly Sqeezed”.

Hey guys! The book isn’t finished yet but here’s the cover illustration without any of the logos or titles. I’d been procrastinating doing it for ages because I wanted it to be perfect and stuff. I’m actually really happy with how it turned out. The edges of this image will probably be cropped off to fit the dimensions of the book but I intend to have a print of the full image available.

I really wanted to go all out on the colouring so I decided to try out some new methods. I got a lot of the methods and ideas I incorporated into it from these really great colouring tutorials by Tony Cliff who does the awesome webcomic, Delilah Dirk, and has had his work in the Flight anthologies. My colouring still doesn’t look as good as his but I think his methods will have a significant impact on the way I colour in the future.

So this is the last Lemon Inc. comic of part one. This will be where the first book ends. This was one of the first Lemon Inc. comics I ever wrote. I wanted to end part one by focusing on Andy’s personality flaws and I also wanted to end on a joke so when I was trying to come up with an ending I found this comic burried in a Word document and I thought it worked perfectly. Now that part one is finished I’m going to take a short break from the comic. There are multiple reasons for this. In short, I want to take some time to put together the first book and to plan out the next storyline. I also want to look into putting together a portfolio for college. I’ll go into more detail about it in a blog post. Be sure to follow me on Twitter, or Facebook, or to subscribe to the RSS feed, to get updates on when the comic will return. This comic is also pretty late. I’ve been super slow at drawing lately. Sorry guys. I blame Google+.

This comic is soooo late. I think it’s pretty obvious why though. If you didn’t know, the title is taken from this.

I wanted to tie up all of the storylines that I had going on with this comic. I think it worked out really well seeing as I ‘d basically been making this stuff up as I went along. It’s cool that I got to bring Jeff’s bird suit back. I figure that he just wears his bird suit on all of his secret missions. Originally this was going to be the last comic of part one but I decieded that I needed one more for various reasons so now next week’s comic is the last comic of part one.

 The second spray wasn't lemonade... 

This one wasn’t actually going to be double size at first but I realized I needed more space to fit everything in. I’m pretty sure that there wasn’t even that much lemonade in the cup in the first place so I’m not sure what else he spit up. I think it’s funny that Andy is one of those people who says “OMG” in real life. There are only two more comics left before the end of part one and they will probably both be double size as well.