Just posting some sketchbook stuff this week. More polished work next time…? We shall see… Some more random work: (a) Some character designs of nerds… for the COMIC NRRDS VS THE BIBLE strips I posted a couple of weeks ago. (b) A dubiously agile T-Rex. I’ve been inking sketches I like with the ole’ brushpen [...]
As I mentioned before, I haven’t really been posting here the last couple of weeks because I’ve been getting SaveApathea.com, the website for Americus, ready. We plan on going live next Monday, jumping right into it with all of chapter 1 up and with chapter 2 starting then. We’ll be posting new pages every Monday, [...]
So for the decor of the Americus website, we’re treating it as if it was created by the main character, Neil Barton. The tricky thing about this is trying to draw like I’m thirteen years old. After doing some drawings, I realized that it’s easier to draw like you’re five than you’re thirteen. I think [...]
So yeah… the posting to ye olde blog has been sporadic as of late. Apologies to anyone who’s been waiting for us to get back in the swing of things. We’ve all been pretty busy, though hopefully we’ll be getting back to regular updates soon. But today I have some piping hot artstuffs fresh from [...]
This week I felt like trying to knock out an illustration as quickly as possible. I’ve been wanting to do another pin up of an AMATEURS character, so I did a few sketches and went with my favorite idea. I decided to post progress shots since a lot of Photoshop work went into creating the [...]
So I finished Americus last week! Okay, that’s a bit of a lie. I finished doing all the initial drawing of Americus last week. It’s still not ready to be sent to our big cheese over at First Second, Calista Brill, to begin the major editing process. Right now I’ve still got to clean up [...]
My apologies for the last two weeks of silence. Things have been hectic since I’ve been hanging with my man Michael Caine. You wouldn’t think it if you saw him, but when he comes to town, the party gets started. And if there’s already a party going on, “Sugar” Caine kicks it up to the [...]
I had planned to post more this week, but I think I had a bit of the art funk Tyler talked about Monday. In particular, I’d hoped to post my fourth calendar illustration. I’ve been working on it, but I’m not at a point where I’m ready to share it. Just to post something today, [...]
Not much to say this week. Two more calendar images drawn. I’d hoped to have some color on these. I’ll probably post that next week. For some reason, I had some problems trying to draw these at full size (approx. 10″ x 13.5″), so I worked out the compositions in my sketchbook: I then scanned [...]
Since I’ve been doing illustration work under tight deadlines, I’ve been getting used to getting ideas down quickly and not being overly precious with my drawing. So now I’ve been trying to apply those concepts to work that doesn’t require such an immediate turnaround. I don’t mean to imply that I’m throwing quality to the [...]