The Pen is Mightier.

I've been going back to the old standby, ballpoint pen, recently.  It's a beautiful tool of commitment, precision, and lack of smudginess.  All qualities I admire in a medium.

This is a pretty apt interpretation of how I felt right before going onstage for open mic.

And maybe how I felt after?  Dissipating.  

This prompted me to get back more into more detailed life drawings.

I'm really digging drawing musicians lately. 

Challenging, and full of movement.

Various sketches.

This last one spurred something on in my consciousness.

An awareness that different hatchings can co-exist.  

They don't have to stop at each others' borders.

I think I just leveled up, shading-wise.

Some more recent sketches with crappy phone camera.

Uhh... no comment.

An interpretation of a dragon.  I guess.

My interpretation of a meat head.

I saw this experiment done where a person intentionally spills coffee on their paper, and then tries to draw something out of it.  Those people usually came up with more interesting coffee shapes than this, but I think it turned out not too bad, as a first attempt.

Old Comic.

So it turns out I never posted this.  It's a couple years old, but just a goofy comic I made in about a day in photoshop, just to say that I started and finished SOMETHING.

Shoe.

And one more sketch out of a total lack of imagination.

New things: Victoria edition.

I'm also really sorry for the resolution.  All I have is a crappy phone camera for all this stuff.  I promise once I have access to a scanner I'll do it up right.

I joined an art meetup group, which is what started me into sketching again.

So I decided to try out watercolours.  I'm making a film in the coming months, and I'd like to be able to hand paint my backgrounds, just like back in the day!  Here are some attempts. I think I still have a long way to go.

There is live music almost every night at the hostel I'm living in, which makes for some very exciting, energetic models.

I've also just started drawing some of my friendly dorm-mates who were kind enough to pose for me.

 

This last one is of a German gentleman named Sebastian, a very talented artist himself.  Check out all his work.

www.easterner.de

New stuff! Finally.

Sorry to all my loyal fans who have been missing out on my things.  It's been a long crazy journey through Thailand and I'm back now!  So I'll upload a few things that I did in Thailand first of all.

COMIC

I guess I promised everyone I'd let them know where to read the comic when it was done eh?  Sorry about that!  Read it here.  It's just the first issue, but as of now this comic is on hiatus.  I have many more projects coming soon, so stay tuned!

http://broken.smackjeeves.com/

Logo

I made a logo for a friend's band for his birthday, and this is what it looked like!

Holy cow pride...

Kay so I really like this.  Best layout I think I've ever done...  :D

Some panels I thought I did okay with.

Shadows!

I feel as though I really like painting with shadows and highlights. I like it a lot.

Also decided I wanted to do an homage to to this awesome old Dracula poster, which I like a lot.

Some stuff I like.

So despite how poorly other things have been going, I've been creating some work I'm fairly proud of.

From now on...

So I just talked to the writer, and he wants to post this online once we're done.  So as a result I've decided it's counter-intuitive to post everything online in poor resolution right now.  So I'll post sketches and minor updates, but not full pages anymore.  In about 3 months, when it's done, I'll post where to see it.  Thanks!

Page 4 so far...

It's so strange how some pages take me a week and a half to finish, and others you just blow through in a couple hours.  I mean, it's not done yet, but it's nice to see some progress in a timely manner.  Boy be catchin' his girl messin' around.

Paj 3

Page deux

First page!

Well things are ramping up fairly swimmingly!

Second panel.

This one went by a lot faster, just because I realized that a good pencil drawing saves hours and hours in the end.

Character.

So here's a rendition of the main character of said comic.  I think it turned out a'ight!

First panel.

So I've been working with someone for a few years on a comic book idea, and I'm trying to nail it down.  I spent a couple days on this first panel, and I'm hoping that it doesn't end up looking like a piece of crap.  Here's hoping!