Feb 22 2011
On the short list of most common problems with student comics artwork is “mitten hands.” You know what I’m talking about: a drawn hand that’s just a thumb hooked to an amorphous, fingerless blob. The close cousin of the mitten hand is the “hidey-hand” in which the character’s hands are always in his/her pockets, behind …
Jan 26 2011
As I’ve likely mentioned before, I’m not a great caricaturist–but the only way to get better is to try, try, try, right? So, to that end I’m going to try to do a (quick) caricature/portrait a week. As an attempt to motivate myself to actually do this every week, I’m going to try to post …
Jan 11 2011
Here’s another one of my superhero mini-pinups: Trapster. Unlike some of the other b-list characters I often find myself drawing, I actually have a real fondness for Trapster. Like a lot of comics-reading folk my I age, I grew up reading the John Byrne Fantastic Four and I recall really liking the issue where the …
Jan 07 2011
I’m at a point thumb-nailing a new chapter of Oyster War where I need some bad guys, so a few days ago I started drumming up some in my sketchbook. I think there are maybe two or three “keepers” here–which is a better ratio than I usually achieve when I do one of these nine-panel …
Nov 10 2010
For some reason my sketchbook drawings these days are starting to look more like stuff I used to draw in college. I think it’s because I’m consciously trying to draw from imagination more, rather than using my “free sketch” time to work on character designs, draw hands or cloth folds from magazines, etc. Fakey sepia …
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