One of my all time favorite comics series, The Flaming Carrot, originally published in the ’80s, is cranking up for a new run with Image Comics. To really bring back the feeling of those halcyon days of the 1980s, be sure to buy an extra copy so you’ll have one to read, and one to immediately hermetically seal in a mylar bag!
Jan 03 2005
Pilot Mountain
Katherine, Sheila and I took advantage of the unseasonably warm temperatures yesterday and went for a hike at Pilot Mountain State Park.
Pictures here.
That unsightly haze that’s general throughout the valley is courtesy of Tennessee’s continued slack-ass air polution laws. First Garth Brooks, now this…
Jan 03 2005
The pail’s progress pt. 3
For each panel, I usually start working up a drawing in my sketchbook or on another sheet of paper. Again, I work in colored pencils–starting with a light color and moving to the darker ones to build up an image I’m happy with…to be able to make corrections and move things around without having to start a new drawing every time.
When I’ve got something I’m reasonably happy with, I can scan it, resize it to fit on the bristolboard page that the final artwork will be on, and use a lightbox to trace a rough outline of it onto the board. In this case, though, I wasn’t entirely happy with the colored pencil rough, so I just winged it a bit and copied it onto the board by sight and then refined the image a bit in the pencilling process.
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…and thats the final penciled panel to the right.
Jan 02 2005
The dog who is so angry…
All those artsy comics-journal-message-board-types are always “Dan Clowes” this, and “Crag Thompson” that… But why is no one discussing “The Angriest Dog in the World?”
The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl.
…Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.
Jan 02 2005
The pail’s progress pt. 2
As some point in the process before you really start drawing, you’ve gotta get a handle on the characters you’re going to be drawing. In this case I’ve drawn the Boxing Bucket a bunch before–and he’s not really that difficult to deal with…you see, he’s a bucket with arms and legs.
The other character in this story is Roger Rogers, who in this case is being drawn as an “eyestalk alien” rather than a human. I’ve got kindof a fixation on these aliens (see here and here) and know how to draw them, but the Roger Rogers alien has to have some of the features of the human Roger Rogers, so below you can see some of the preliminary work I’ve been doing in my sketchbook to get a handle on how to draw the Roger Rogers eyestalk alien.
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