Aug 20 2009

International Michael Jackson Tribute Exhibit

If you happen to be in Bucharest, Romania (by all accounts a pretty amazing city) next Friday, the 28th of August, be sure to check out the Michael Jackson International Tribute Exhibition (details on the poster below).  The exhibit showcases 49 pieces of artwork from 33 artists spanning 17 countries.  Holding down the fort for the good ole’ U.S. of A. will be Bill Plympton, Oronde Kairi, Mike Greaney, Sal Navarro,  Jaime Ramirez and me.  Bucharest was the site of a sold-out Michael Jackson concert in 1992.

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Aug 20 2009

Oyster War Inked Pages

In the second part of my series, “Excuses for why I’m not posting stuff more regularly to my blog,” here’s a shot of the now-inked introductory section of Oyster War. I’m still not 100% happy with my hatching technique, but what I’ve got is passable–and I’m certainly more confident than when I first started inking.  Now, on to color…

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Aug 12 2009

Sketchbook 8/12

Of the potential “rogues gallery” sketches from my last post, the only one that seemed to hold much potential was the lanky knife guy, so I had another go at him and refined him a bit:

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Aug 05 2009

Sketchbook 8/5

At some point in Oyster War, I’m gonna have to have a crew of “bad guys,” so I’ve been working a little on that in my sketchbook.  I don’t think any of these designs are particularly inspired, but you gotta start somewhere…

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Aug 03 2009

Oyster War Splash Page – Inked

Hand… cramping.  Must… finish… hatching.

Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve used dip pens rather than brushes for inking, and all the hatching is really running my arm through the wringer.  (I pretended today that my worn out arm was the reason I played squash so horribly, but I guess that’s probably not really the case.)  Anyway, here’s the inked page.  I’m clearly still finding my footing when it comes to this style of rendering.  I’d have thought that the parts of the page I did first would be the weakest and the final bits the strongest, but I think I’m still sorting out how all this works by trial and error throughout and as a result there are some strong areas and some weak areas scattered around randomly.  I hope by the time I’m done with this first batch of sample pages that I’ll have a pretty consistent dip pen hatching rendering technique.

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