January 2005 archive

Random sketch

Here’s a drawing I did a while back. I had pretty much forgotten about it, but I was rummaging around in my art supplies cabinet and found some sepia ink I had forgotten about buying. I then remembered this pencil draiwing that I thought might look good with a bit of sepia ink applied. The …

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Boxing Bucket Pg. 2, pt IV

…And here’s page 2 inked. I’m not as happy with the overall drawing on this page as I am with the first, but I like the panel layout. In most of my work I tend to stick to a pretty standard grid based on either 9 panels per page, or 6 panels per page. So …

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JonathanStrange.com

JonathanStrange.com I was just poking around this site while eating lunch–there’s a lot of cool stuff to be found there about this very cool book. It’s a difficult book to describe… but it’s kinda like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and J.K. Rowling all rolled into one. Interestingly the author, Susanna Clarke, sites comic book writers …

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Boxing Bucket, Pg. 2 – Part III

I’ve just finished tightening up the rough pencils for page 2 of the Boxing Bucket story I’m working on with my friend Chris Reilly (he wrote the story). I really struggled with a background for the second panel of this page–everything I put in there looked wrong somehow, and you can see that it’s been …

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Bonefish Grill declared crappy!

Ok, first off, let me say that I was most certainly predisposed not to enjoy my dining experience at the Bonefish Grill. I generally avoid all these stupid “P.J. O’Quackenbush’s”-type national chain restaurants…but, frankly, the dining scene here in Winston-Salem is so lacking that I’ll try pretty much anything at this point. (And I had …

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