There are three types of drawing I really should be doing regularly in my sketchbook: drawing from life, drawing from imagination, and goal-directed drawing (design work for comics projects, etc.). Unfortunately, it seems these days that all I’m really doing is goal-directed drawing. It’s curious–when I was younger (high school, college) I was completely opposite …
Tag: Sketchbook
Oct 26 2010
More Characters from “In the Weeds”
I’ve mostly been working on the narrative structure for In the Weeds of late, (and I wrapped up scripting Act I today!) but I have been working a bit in my sketchbook on some of the ancillary characters from the story. Here are a few: At this point they’re getting to be less and less …
Oct 20 2010
80s X-Men as Drawn by E.C. Segar
I’m not sure why I got going on this particular tangent, but here’s a drawing of the early 80s X-Men (I used the lineup from the 1982 X-Men/Teen Titans crossover) done in the “bigfoot” style common to newspaper strips in the 1920s/30s. I used E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theater characters as my models here. In reverse …
Sep 28 2010
Craft: “In the Weeds” Character Designs
I’ve been working more on character designs for In the Weeds, refining some of the characters I’d already got rough versions of and adding a few secondary characters. I’ve still got a girlfriend or two, as well as a pastry chef (for some reason, I’ve saved the female characters for last) to get together visually, …





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