Mar 07 2011
While I’m certainly excited about the newly-revamped tcj.com, it is with mixed emotions that I note that this event has apparently precipitated the demise of the (in)famous Comics Journal message board. Admittedly, it’s been a good while since I was an active contributor to the board and for sure there are others who can comment …
Mar 01 2011
Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is the lovely Lætitia Sadier from the band Stereolab. Here’s my drawing of her and the image I used as a basis for it (from the latest issue of Signal to Noise magazine): If you’d like to request a subject for #PortraitNight, you can do so by leaving a comment here or …
Feb 28 2011
I have really good luck with commissions. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a commission that involved drawing something that I didn’t really like. Most recently, I got a commission to do a pinup of the great Mike Allred/Peter Milligan superhero team, X-Statix. The book started in the early 2000s (initially as X-Force) and it …
Feb 25 2011
I’m still on a music kick as far as my regular weekly portrait-drawing goes. For this past Tuesday’s #PortraitNight I did the guys in Fleetwood Mac. I would have liked to have done the whole band, but in the picture I was working from the males were in the foreground and the two women were …
Feb 22 2011
On the short list of most common problems with student comics artwork is “mitten hands.” You know what I’m talking about: a drawn hand that’s just a thumb hooked to an amorphous, fingerless blob. The close cousin of the mitten hand is the “hidey-hand” in which the character’s hands are always in his/her pockets, behind …
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