Here’s a drawing of Lou Reed I started the evening he died and just wrapped up this evening. Since his death, people far more eloquent and far more knowledgeable about music than I have written about Lou Reed’s significance and importance. I’ll just say this: I discovered the Velvet Underground when I was in high …
Tag: Sketchbook
Sep 01 2013
Sketchbook 9/1
I’ve been doing some drawing in ballpoint pen lately. Here are a few of them–fantasy beasts drawn with a black Bic ballpoint pen. The very last one (the cat with the wavy hair) is in pencil, but also a recent fantasy beast. I really dig the ballpoint cat/mount in the upper right. I’m slated to …
Aug 02 2013
Manga Studio Drawings: Storm & Neil Gaiman
Here’re a couple of recent drawings, neither of which I’m 100% happy with… but both were good Manga Studio practice. Storm was hand-drawn in my sketchbook, then inked in Manga Studio, and finally colored in Photoshop. You may recognize her costume there as being from the recent Brian Wood/Oliver Coipel X-Men series. I’ve not followed …
Jun 27 2013
Three Recent Drawings
Just for fun (and for practice) I scanned three drawings from my sketchbook and inked them in Digital Manga Studio. I’m in the process of transitioning my coloring to DMS as well, but for the sake of expediency though, I wound up coloring these particular images in Photoshop. I’m not 100% sold on how I’ve …
Jun 17 2013
Black Sabbath
I drew Black Sabbath. I was mainly just looking for an excuse to play with coloring in Manga Studio. I’m only on EX4, but I hear there’s some pretty serious coloring features coming to EX5 later this summer. I’d really like to get Adobe products entirely out of my workflow, given their odious new pricing …
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