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 …
Jul 19 2012
For some reason last week I decided to grab a Bic ballpoint pen from the “pen cup” on top of our refrigerator and fill a sketchbook page with ball point pen doodles. I hadn’t drawn with ballpoint pen in a while, and I’d forgotten what an interesting drawing tool it is. It’s sort of halfway …
Mar 12 2012
I recently got a commission to illustrate a six-page memoir comic about going to see The Empire Strikes Back on opening day. Empire was released in the summer of 1980 and so one thing I had to take care of before I got to actually drawing the story was getting visual reference for the story. …
Nov 08 2011
Or, maybe instead of “is always,” I should say “should always be.” You certainly see plenty of drawings where it’s not. But, hear me now and believe me later: this is just plain wrong–or at the very least, unnatural looking. This came up in class today, so I thought I’d do a quick post about …
Aug 29 2011
Well, it looks like I’m dipping my tippy-toes into the world of Kickstarter. I’m one of the “five industry artists” in A. Dave Lewis’s fascinating and ambitious “Chain World” project. The project is unlike pretty much anything I’ve seen attempted comics-wise, so rather than try to explain it here, please just go check out the …
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