Layout Sketches

What we have here is a detailed sketch next to an enlarged version of it. I draw small (letter size) because it allows me to work faster. Then I go to Kinko’s and enlarge the drawing to the desired size. After that it gets taped to my light box (my dad helped me build it) and traced onto a piece of water color paper. The final drawing will be done with washes of  house paint. Why house paint? Because it’s cheap.

My model here  is April Johnson, but it doesn’t look that much like her. Guess I’ll have to work on that. Thanks for letting me use your picture April

I’m Back

It’s been a while but I’m finally back online and hopefully onto a regular posting schedule. Keep checking back because I have tons of sketches and finished work coming up.

This one is just a sketch from my journal. I love to create drawings that span across both pages.

Sorry :(

Sorry for the lack of posts. I don’t have internet access at the moment and wont for a little while longer.

Sketchbook

Free Comic Day was awesome yesterday. I sold about half of my sketchbooks. I’ll take that as a success considering the guy next to me had a much more well designed product at a lower price and he did a free sketch to go with it. I was definitely out classed.

There were some really talented guys set up there. Check out their sites.

Mark Deering, Otis Framton, Drew Moss

If you missed out and still want to purchase a sketchbook just e-mail me. They’re 2 bucks.

Wolverine!

Don’t forget Free Comic Book Day is May 2nd. I’ll be at the Amazing Fantasy Store on Warwick from 11-2 then the Kiln Creek store from 3-5 or later depending on the crowd. Hope to see you there!

Comics

When someone mentions comics everyone gets the same picture in their mind. Wolverine, Superman, Spiderman, all those four-colored heroes that jump off the page. I’ve always loved those kinds of comics, and I’ll probably continue to indulge in them, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve begun to demand more from comics. I want the medium to produce stories that are more literary. And the medium has done that.

The other day I picked up a book called “In the Flesh” by Koren Shadmi. I recommend you take a moment to check out his site.  The book was a collection of short stories that are as dark and tormenting as they come. They draw you in and leave you wondering where these characters will go next.

I was hooked by the first story.  A man works for a childrens’ TV show dressed as a giant dog. There’s a woman he works with who invites him over but she has one request, he bring the dog suit. Later, at her place, they have sex. What he doesn’t know is someone is in the closet filming the whole thing. When he finds out he freaks out and rushes out of the house. The story ends with the guy realizing he forgot the dogs head. It makes you feel so awful for the guy because he either has to go back or face his boss later about it.

I also just read “Fables” vol 1. If you love me you’ll buy me vol 2. They have it at Borders for $12.99. It deals with fairy tale characters forced into the real world. I reccomend that one too.

New Sketchbook For Sale

I printed up some sketchbooks to sell at Amazing Fantasy comics on free comic book day 5/2/09.  If you want a copy and can’t make it I’ll be putting them for sale here on the blog starting 5/3. They’re four pages black and white and feature four of my drawings plus on on the cover and one on the back cover. So for two bucks you get six drawings. I might even set up a price package that includes and original drawing on the inside cover.

Web Comic Preview

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while guys. Guess I blew my daily posting goal. It was a pretty unrealistic goal anyway.

This is an image from a digitally created web comic I’m working on. Once I have a few strips lined up I’ll create a page for it with weekly updates so keep your eyes peeled.

Cartoon People

I just got on this kick of taking pictures of my friends off their Facebook pages and turning them into cartoons. What I did was trace over the figure in photoshop then color the new line drawing. That left me with a cartoon person on a real life back drop. I was tempted to color the whole picture this way but I liked the juxtaposition of a 2D figure in a 3D world.

This is my friend Landon by the way. He’s got a great blog that he never updates anymore. You should check it out anyway.  Duck and Cover

Foolin’ Around

I was messing around in photoshop today and this guy was the result. I see him as a frazzeled old detective. Like Dirty Harry but more bad ass.