Category: comics
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inktober 2020 day 12
Day 12 Slippery Today’s slug-like creature was really inspired by Peter David’s run on DC Comic’s 1984 Star Trek series. David embraced The Animated Series’s ability to populate the crew with non-humanoids, since it’s not any more expensive to draw a character with three arms than it is to draw a traditional humanoid. Sketches Here’s…
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inktober 2020 day 11
Day 11 Disgusting For today’s prompt, I pretty much stole the hilarious teaser of the season 2 episode from Next Generation, Time Squared, where Riker prepared ‘Owon Egg Omelette’s for his friends. (For some reason, I inexplicably called them ‘Owog Eggs in the panel.) I removed Data from the scene entirely, added a little projectile…
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inktober 2020 day 10
Day 10 Hope Just a single image today. A moment from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy, where Kirk gives them hope for survival by destroying his own ship. I think most of my Star Trek love comes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and this movie, which…
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inktober 2020 day 9
Day 9 Throw Counselor Troi and Lt Worf doing a little judo. I was inspired by the Next Generation Episode Second Chances, where I thought they were doing judo, but apparently I wasn’t paying attention, because Worf was actually leading a class in Mok’ bara. I am a bad Trekker. Inktobers Past You can visit…
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inktober 2020 day 8
Day 8 Teeth For the longest time, I didn’t have a story for this one. The prompt of ‘teeth’ led me right to the Gorn, and so the image of McCoy reluctantly acting as dentist on the Gorn wasn’t far behind. But all I had was that image. It wasn’t until I realized that this…
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inktober 2020 day 7
Day 7: Fancy Inspired by that episode of DS9 where the crew play baseball against a team of Vulcans, I chose to depict Ezri Dax with some ‘fancy’ skills. I saw this episode recently, but didn’t remember Ezri Dax mentioning ‘Fancy Dan’ to Dr. Bashir, but searching fancy in the memory alpha must have been…
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inktober 2020 day 6
Day 6 Rodent Data, Geordi, and Spot (Data’s cat) make their first appearance in this year’s Star Trek themed Inktober. Though I tried to research all of the prompts for this year’s inktober in advance so I didn’t have to try and come up with an idea last minute, this was a last minute idea.…
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inktober 2020 day 5
day 5 ‘blade’ Worf and Jadzia sparring. I gave Worf and Jadzia the weapons and outfits they wore when sparring in the opening teaser of the 14th episode of season 4, ‘Sons of Mogh.’ If you’re deep into the details of Star Trek, (I’m usually not, but when working on this sort of project, I…
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inktober 2020 day 4
Day 4: Radio Inking this strip last night was my most confident inking this month. I think it’s because I spent more time on drawing the characters, though I did get lazy on Uhura’s control panel. I’m also getting more comfortable with my tools, which also helps. I should also note that I leave the…
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inktober 2020 – day 2
Day 2 Prompt: Wisp A quick search of ‘wisp’ in Memory Alpha turned up…not much. Apparently in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, the Enterprise and its crew get swallowed by a giant ship of non-corporeal beings, aka The Wisp, and have to escape. Full disclosure: I’ve never seen an episode of Enterprise. I loved…
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Inktober 2020 Begins
Day 1 Fish The first prompt from Jake Parker is ‘fish’, so that’s where we’ll start in my Star Trek themed Inktober. A quick search of memory-alpha, the online trove of Star Trek knowledge, turns up a game of go fish in the final episode of Deep Space Nine between Quark and the self-aware holosuite…
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collaborating with kieron gillen
Honestly, that’s a woefully misleading title. Grabby, though, ain’t it? In January, comics writer Kieron Gillen teamed up with Project Art Cred to write a script, release it to any artist that wanted it, and bask in the wide variation in storytelling that resulted. You can check out the results that resulted here. Amongst all…
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inktober day 15 legend
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 15: legend. as you probably noticed i’m behind. and skipping around. inspiration for the giant book that link consults is the lindsfarne bible, which i’d never heard of before doing the research for this strip. this is the first day this year that i used a wash. i…
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inktober day 12 dragon
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 12: dragon made some changes to the way i worked on today’s inktober and it really helped. the final piece looks more like i imagined. here’s how it went down. (if you find this sort of thing just mindnumbingly boring, here’s the color version, colored digitally, of today’s…
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inktober day 11 snow
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 11: snow i’m pulling a swerve and giving day 10 a miss because i have an idea for pattern that i need a little more time on. so here’s today’s: it works a lot better in color the way i drew these snowflakes makes them look like potato…
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inktober and linktober day 9 swing
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 9: swing (i know it’s the 10th. i’m behind.) i also did a digital color version lately i’ve been doing the sketch digitally, and inking over that here’s the sketch my sketches are better than my inks, but i guess that’s the whole point of inktober, right? i…
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 8 – frail
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 8: frail view the color version, where color reveals a little more information about one of our characters… forgot to ink in her boots, and squandered link’s pose in panel 2, but this effort felt much stronger than day 7’s the main thing i need to remember when…
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 7 – enchanted
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 7: enchanted
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 6 – husky
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 6: husky as i continue to struggle with the drawing of day 5: build, i’m moving on to day 6. only a day late. for all of you inktober purists out there, here’s today’s strip in glorious black and white if you’d like to see the comic in…
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 4 – freeze
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 4: freeze can you spot what link is missing in panel 3? seems like i forget to draw something every day. i didn’t have any ideas going in to fit the the prompt, but i read about the freezors, and once i started getting the pencil moving the…
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linktober continues – inktober 2019 day 2: mindless
linktober continues jake parker’s inktober 2019 official prompt: mindless penciled this piece 2 days ago felt less than confident about it inked it late last night after my soccer game hated it. told myself i’m going to throw it out in the morning in the morning i looked at it again and accepted it. (after…
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illustrating a comics page
Here’s a one-page comic I recently illustrated called the ‘The Origin of The Amazing Spider-Foo’. It’s a Spider-Man parody written by Crhymes; a writer, comedian, and musician based out of San Diego. From Script to Rough Layout Originally conceived of as a one-page 12 inch by 12 inch record insert, Crhyme’s script was a brillliant…
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it’s been awhile, but a new steps strip is up
go now! read it! it’s great! (to be fair, though, i am pretty biased) it’s been since november of last year that I posted a steps strip, which just seems crazy to me…
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redacted’s dream
this dream’s not mine, it was a friend of mine, but it was a good one to turn in to comics i wrote down as many dreams as i could remember in march, so i’ll be making more of these and today i picked up a ream of cardstock, so i’ll start printing copies of…