Jan 09 2013
For some reason, I’m back on a musician-drawing kick in my sketchbook. Here’re two drawings I did recently. They were all originally brush pen or brush/India ink, then scanned and colored in Photoshop. The Everly Brothers Fleetwood Mac (well, some of them anyway: Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and Lindsey Buckingham)
Dec 31 2012
I haven’t posted anything from my sketchbook lately–mostly, that’s been because a lot of my evening sketching time over the last few months has been consumed by the AlphaBooks project. Now that that’s over, though, I’ve been back working in my sketchbook on some non-alpha project things. With these sketches I was trying to work …
Sep 30 2012
Here’s a quick pinup I did of the first version of Iron Man’s armor. There’s something really appealing about this clunky, gray “bullet head” version of Iron Man, I think. It has a visual sense of weight and menace that the later versions lack. As you can see I’m still experimenting with trying spotting blacks. …
Aug 31 2012
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!
Aug 23 2012
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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