Mar 10 2011
Lately I’ve been taking a break from my obsessive sketchbook hand-drawing and have instead been doing exercises to address another problem drawing area: folds and drapery. If you’re drawing people, you’re most likely drawing them clothed (well, at least some of the time!) and that means that you need to know how to draw folds …
Mar 08 2011
Tonight’s portrait night subject is writer W.H. Auden, as suggested by Eric Newsom via Twitter. This isn’t a bad likeness, but it’s definitely a lot more literal/less cartoony than I’d like. I need to try next week to really, really push things toward a more abstract and less detailed rendering. I should really subject myself …
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 …
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