Posts

Showing posts from March, 2014

Drawing Table Tuesday

Image
In lieu of time today, this isn't a photo, just a scan of the top half of a drawing I happened to be scanning when I remembered it was Tuesday. I've gotten into the habit of scanning drawings after I've finished them to mirror them and try to spot things that don't look right. I didn't need to redraw anything on this one. That's why it's reversed; I just cropped it and resized it. I'm four drawings into this series. I think there'll be twenty four when I'm done with them. If things stay the same as they are now, they'll probably be finished just before the book is. Also, the Northeastern coast is the more interesting of coasts in the US. Beaches are boring. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

Seal

Image
I was scanning a couple sketchbook pages, got and used what I wanted from them, and was getting ready to close it-  without saving , until I saw this seal up at the very top of the page. This is really, really tiny. I thought it was pretty good for a two second doodle of a seal. So here it is. A tiny seal head. The seal was related to my secret project , but the idea changed in the sketchbook, so this won't ever be used for anything.

Drawing Table Tuesday

Image
Let's see, how do I explain this... I've been trying to decide on a side project for what seems like a couple years now. I've chosen recently, so I've been working on it for a few weeks now.  It seems like there were about a hundred  thousand things that led me to it, but I'd guess it started a couple years ago, when I was talking to Staci about ideas for another sketchbook. I'm not sure what they'll be used for when I'm finished, but I think they're going to be a little more meaningful than I originally intended. I think the idea really came from wanting to give popular culture the middle finger; sort of a rage against the machine ideology. Eventually the idea evolved, and I settled on a little more complex idea, really liked it, and sort of ran with it. I love the idea and, simultaneously, it's against about a thousand things I've grown to hate roll my eyes at (hate's a strong word, more like grown tired of ) . I love thing

Zzzzraapt

Image
It's almost embarrassing how long it took me to think of using transparency sheets to smudge proof pencil lines. I've never seen or heard of anyone using them for that, but I'm glad I thought of it because they're a heck of a lot easier to see through than tracing paper and they smudge pencil lines a lot less.

Drawing Table Tuesday

Image
Zzzzraapt. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

Coloring

Image
It looks like I got carried away with the scratches, but I was in a hurry and those are the only scratches I had on the spur. I have a folder somewhere on my computer full of nothing but paper textures and scuffs and folds, but I can't find it. Those are textures I found online quickly. I think Staci has some cheap newsprint somewhere, I need to ask to scan some. This would look better if I had some real newsprint for the texture. Here 's the working size version. The texture on the black would look better if it weren't so blurry, but that's all I could find quickly. There's some stuff I'd change if I were doing it again, but it was practice, so who cares. The halftones could be bigger. Smaller than a certain size, it's pretty much impossible to do recognizable faces. Not horrible for a second attempt at it, but I need to scan my own papers so I can get some high quality textures I can use in the long run. Also, 80's.

Drawing Table Tuesday

Image
 Lately, (the last few days), I've been researching color. I won't get into it, I'll probably get around to it eventually thought, but I really don't like contemporary comic book coloring. Not to say I don't like it all, there are some people that make amazing stuff, but I think a lot of it looks like crap. So it never really interested me much except that I should at least be able to put some sort of color on things and be halfway satisfied. Lately, the more satisfied I am with a drawing, the more I'm like, "Hmm... I should at least be able to color this if I had to, and still like it." So, I sort of cleared away everything everyone else does, started fresh, and decide how I want to color things. There's a long rant/essay on style (that I've been thinking about a lot recently because of some reprints I've gotten a while back) that I'm skipping that'll I'll probably get to eventually, but I decided that the coloring I