Just calenderin’ it & One of the Johns in NYC!
(Oct 02, 2009)
So I finally started my calendar illustrations for this year. You might remember one of these characters from my calendar illustrations from a couple of years ago. Anyhow, here’s some quick process images, starting with pencils & inks:
I don’t have the coloring quite done yet, but I’ll update the post if I can get it done before I leave on my trip east. Which brings me to…
I will be crashing the last stop of the Punchbuggy Tour at Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn on Sunday the 11th of October at 5 pm. I’ll be reading some old One of the Johns material, as well as an excerpt from the graphic novel I’ve been working on with MK Reed, Americus [to be published by First Second Books 2012].
Be there!
And one more thing – we’ll be drawing the names of the winners for the September’s raffle and post them on Monday, so stay tuned!
Y R U so damned awesome? Call from you when you were in Texas? Nope!
Michael Turner,
10/02/09 @ 2:16 pmI’ve tried using illustration books to learn how to sketch and stuff — it might as well be the black arts, it is so beyond my capacity. I like seeing the two images side-by-side in progress.
the Hav,
10/02/09 @ 3:00 pmThanks, dudes.
Mikel – I haven’t left on my trip yet. I leave on monday. I’ll be in Texas from from Monday-Wednesday. I think we’re going to head down to Austin on Wednesday. I will call you for sure.
Hav – I really think that drawing is a technical skill that anyone can learn [though some people pick it up faster than others], but I think that it’s a matter of setting the time aside to practice, and I also think that it’s a lot easier to have someone to teach you than to learn from a books.
Oh, and special prize if either of you can catch who i’m referencing in this image.
Jonathan,
10/03/09 @ 11:35 pm