Alex Heberling

Last August, Sanford announced the imminent release of the Sharpie Liquid Pencil, a product that caused waves of twitterpation among the artist circles I watch.  Many people couldn’t wait to get their hands on it to try it out. Personally, I thought it was a really cool idea and then promptly forgot about it until [...]

Skipping around with color order a bit, since these two pair off as far as their relationship, which edges into “frenemies” territory. AND OH LOOK THEIR COLORS ARE COMPLEMENTARY TOO, see what I did there? Looking back, I’m aghast that I tried to simplify Murasaki’s hair in later revisions.  Yeah, great idea, TAKE AWAY THE [...]

Another piece to add to my 2011 revisits to The Hues.  I’m probably going to double up on characters-per-drawing so I don’t get fatigued. Aijiko and Hibana, the beta couple of the series.  (Their English names are Andrea and Hannah.)  Totally lesbians, though that doesn’t become maintext until the third book. ^_^ This was the [...]

So, I’ve been doing some soul-searching artistically these days, and I spent a couple nights rereading my old fiction project, The Hues, before bed.  I’ve been thinking a lot about the time I spent on it and how inspired and motivated I had to have felt to work tirelessly on the project for 7-odd years.  [...]

Happy New Year! The holidays were nuts. Here’s a Spring fairy to tide you over. :D