Category: General

P is for The Pirate Captain

My other contenders for this week’s “P” drawing were pretty easy to eliminate since I’ve already drawn characters from both of the books they’re from: Pilon from Tortilla Flat and Portunus from Lud-in-the-Mist. That left just this fella: P is for The Pirate Captain — From Pirates! In Adventure With Scientists by Gideon Defoe Before …

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Hellboy!

Here’s a quick ink & watercolor Hellboy I just wrapped up. I just started re-reading some of the early Hellboy comics. What great stuff–and so beautifully drawn and colored!

For Jack Kirby’s Birthday: Lockjaw vs. The Purina Chuckwagon

It’s August 28th–the day Jack “King” Kirby was born back in 1917. Lots of folks will have posts with great things to say about Kirby today, so I’ll let them do the talking. Needless to say, comics wouldn’t be comics without Kirby. Here’s a drawing I did for today, King Kirby Day. It would have …

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O is for Octavia

OK… Octavia is a pretty minor character in The Hunger Games, but she was just about the only “O” character I could think of from a book that I’d read and not drawn someone from already. O is for Octavia — From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Octavia is part of the protagonist, Katness’s, …

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Creature Generator! (Contour-to-Character Sketchbook Exercise)

I’ve written before about the three types of drawing I think people should be doing in their sketchbooks: Drawing from life and/or photos (yeah, photos are OK in a pinch–get over it art teacher snobs!) Goal-directed drawings–things like character designs and thumbnails for stories Drawing from imagination/doodling And, as also mentioned before, the third category–drawing …

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