Re: VanderHuge Studios

Toning pages at the moment. This is what the tones look like right after scanning, before they're really tones. I'll maybe post the same panel when I finish with this batch. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

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.

Zzzzraapt. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

I'm getting pretty into this now. I mean, I've almost finished this as thumbnails, but it feels kind of abstract to a point. I'm way past page 100 in the thumbnails, but sometimes it feels like I haven't really done anything. It's encouraging to find that a lot of them I can print out and that I can almost trace them; most of the hard parts are already taken care of, and it's smooth sailing... for the most part. As the page count is getting closer to the 20's (pretty steadily, I might add), I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be printing a couple trashcan editions as I get to the appropriate page counts (because it was written simultaneously to be printed as 1 big volume or 6 issues). To hand out to friends and help keep a lookout for errors and stuff. Also, to a smaller degree, to feel like I'm actually doing something. Unrelated, I cleaned out a closet over x-mas break, and went through some old comics as I was moving boxes. I fou...

I needed a reference for a crappy toy, so I made this. I needed a toy that looked like all those crappy toys from the 80's and 90's that all had the same body but just had a different paint job (Anybody remember those? They barely moved. Sometimes the legs, torso and head were all one solid piece.) I needed it because whenever I tried to draw an action figure, it kept coming out more like a small person than a malformed, disproportioned, stiff action figure. I tried to find one I already had, but apparently action figure technology has come along way since then, and I couldn't find one that was all one piece and they all had joints and moved and so forth-- they didn't look anything like what I needed. I got it in a two-pack for a dollar. I was hoping for a wrestler, but they only had ninjas. Also, I just finished thumbnailing a chapter and almost finished off the sketchbook. The front page is blank because it's a title page that I haven...

or, Killing Trees & Why I hate Flats I've been dreading the tones for this book. The tones are definitely my least favorite part   The flats are definitely my least favorite part.   Flats are hard to describe if you don't know what they are. Flats are a part of the process that aren't really talked about (they're that boring) . Here's a visual example with images stolen borrowed from Terry Dodson, one of the few people I've seen even mention that they have a flatter (-a person who does this) . The flatter pretty much traces the picture and fills in shapes with color (see 1), it doesn't even have to be close to the final colors, the shapes just have to be filled with something. The flatter's done. That's it. They send it back, so that the person can pick up from there and finish it (see 2). Now, I know that it seems like this wouldn't be hard or take long. But, the specific image above is a cover. Imagine that image sm...

A while ago, I started one of those Essential Expressions  sheets because I thought it would be something interesting to do. It took about a week to draw because I drew it in between other stuff. Before I even started  it, I lost interest in the emotions that were there. I thought too many overlapped. I looked it up, and I was more or less right. I believe that there are about eight basic emotions, everything else is either a degree of one of those, or, combinations of degrees of different ones. I noticed a lot of them weren't really things you feel so much as things you are. So, I ended up dropping some of the things that you are  and added other things you are . A few of them turned out pretty good. Anger , hollow , and bloody were pretty good. I also added facing backwards and dead . Fierce turned out okay, at least okay enough for how big it was drawn. And for blowing through them as fast as I did. I'd like to try to color them, but I always have troubl...

These were traces of thumbnails I taped off to the side for consistency. When I went to take a picture I noticed they were probably more interesting than what was on the paper at the time. About Drawing Table Tuesday.

I liked this yesterday, so I took a picture of it. It also make a nice quality dichotomy with the last post.