Alex Heberling

March 28th was the day of Animarathon VII, a one-day anime convention at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.  Animarathon is always a highlight of my con season because it’s a completely free convention just outside my hometown of Toledo, so I tend to see a ton of people I know. It’s really [...]

After I did AGTALWL, I really liked the aesthetic of the bold Sharpie drawings with color applied to them.  Since I was already offering Sharpie Portraits on Etsy, Chris suggested I offer a color version as well, and they’ve been a modest success. (The first portrait is recognizable from the group of Sharpie Drawings.  I [...]

Draw your face for a dollar? I started selling these at my first Artist Alley table at the first AnimePunch in 2006.  Back then, they started out as “Quick Sharpie Portraits” on half-sheets of letter-sized copy paper, but for Ohayocon 2007 I got some index cards instead.  Since then, they’re sort of become my ‘thing,’ [...]

I completed my 4th 24 Hour Comic on December 4th, 2008 at 7:17 PM.  This piece was done on the premises of OSU’s quarterly Art & Tech show, Locovore Bot, in Haskett Hall on Ohio State campus.  I began it the night before the opening reception, on the 3rd, in order to complete it during [...]

This was the first time in many years I’d drawn an animal, and certainly the first time I seriously drew a dragon.  I don’t generally pride myself on my ability to draw animals; I can do passable impressions of cats due to being cat-crazy as a small child and drawing almost nothing but for a [...]