Obligatory Update

Not much has happened since my last post. Lots of work and lots of drawing. Today I hung out with my beautiful girlfriend, Emmalee and her friends as she worked on cutting the script for Hamlet. She'll be directing a high school performance of  it this fall. Gonna be sweet! Anywho, I dragged my sketch book along and got some gesture drawing done while she wasn't paying attention.

Each drawing was about 30 seconds.

  Also, I finally got page 1 of Avalir penciled, inked, and colored yesterday. I still need to letter it, but I feel I made some definite progress. I'm planning on having at least 10 pages finished before I start uploading them weekly to the site I set up. 

  So... yea.

Comic Cover Recreation

When I woke up this morning, I had an idea that I didn't think would take all day, but it most certainly did. I picked out a cool cover from my Daredevil collection to redraw myself. I wanted to practice composition, posing, shading & inking, and color, so I figured a good way to do that would be to copy a pro, and hopefully absorb some knowledge from it. I chose issue 155:

I started out drawing in blue pencil, so the scanner wouldn't pick up the construction lines when scanned in black and white. This took about 2 hours.

Then about 2 hours of inking...

I immediately noticed that, despite scanning at 600 dpi, the scanned image looks much choppier than my drawing on the paper. Damned computers. Next, 3 or 4 hours of coloring in photoshop. Then about 1 hour to cut and paste the title bar and other word effects. TaDa!!!

Not too bad... if you don't look at Beast or Hercules' faces. I wasn't aiming for it to look identical to the original, so long as I got some practice with the inking, coloring, etc.

There ya go, an effective way to spend a day... my butt's a bit sore, though...

Hulk...

I slowly started to hate this one as I was drawing it. Feels kinda flat, and shading kicks my butt sometimes. Oh well, here it is.

Here Comes.... Daredevil! Man Without Fear!

Good hell, I love Daredevil.
drawn and colored with india ink pens, colored pencil, and a big, fat sharpie.

Poor R2...

  I watched A New Hope and my personal favorite, Empire Strikes Back, this weekend. No time to watch Return of the Jedi, but I'm not missing much. I'm happier without watching Ewoks and mediocre acting. Here's a doodle inspired by one of Luke's oh-so-cheesy lines from A New Hope.