Tag: Comics

PR Round-up!

I haven’t done a PR round-up in a while because… well, because I haven’t had a book out for anyone to write about in forever. But there’ve been a few recent write-ups about my work in the last week or so. Here they are: First, blogger/comics-er/all around nice guy Shannon Smith is counting down some …

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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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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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Merida from Brave, done Popeye/E.C. Segar-Style

I recently saw Brave and absolutely loved it… but was mystified by the lackluster reviews of it I read after seeing it. I’m going to write a post with some of my thoughts about this discrepancy between how good I thought the film was and the critical reaction to it, but I just haven’t had …

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