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 …
Tag: Teaching
Mar 12 2012
On Visual Reference, The Movie Meatballs, and Pinterest
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
Why The Single Vanishing Point In 1-Point Perspective Is Always Dead Center
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
Please Support the Chain World Kickstarter Project
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 …
Aug 17 2011
Process: Oyster War Page 35 Start to Finish
If you follow me on Twitter, you’re already in the know, but if not… Yesterday I wrapped up chapter three of my webcomic Oyster War. (New pages posted here. Begin the story here.) Chapter three starts here and runs thirteen pages, I think–the longest chapter in the book so far. It’s also nearly wordless and …





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