Category: sketch
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Volcano Sketches
Ink, 2014 After reading “Volcanoes be in Sicily” by Emily Dickinson, and watching the close reading in ModPo, I’m struck by the image of little Emily Dickinson harnessing the power of volcanoes.
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Bikes
Bike, Digital Clunker, Digital Read an article on the history of Mountain Bikes. Made some stuff.
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Celebrity Birthday 2
Late New Years Res: try to post a celebrity caricature on their birthday. Well, waddaya want for the first one? screentone out.
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Peanut Spidey
Here’s another shot at inking and coloring a peanut Spidey in Freehand. First the sketch. Then the inked and colored version. The linework feels more lively than my previous example, but I don’t know if Spidey feels very peanut-y anymore, though. Just finished reading: This is the first Tintin story I’ve ever read; and it…
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Peanut Preview
Here’s a look at a sketch done in preparation for my piece for an upcoming art show. Be warned: “Thar’ be crazies on that link!” The theme I’m participating in is Peanut People; right now the name of my piece is Peanut Gallery. I’m going to draw gobs of characters from fact and fiction. Here’s…
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Jellyfish Work Scribble
Most frustrating at work is the lack of actual design time. It’s a lot of busy work, and it gets particularly bad during the fall. So, any chance I get to draw at work, I try to scoop it up. Here’s a few jellyfish I scribbled in photoshop. I try to draw fast to stay…
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I’m Reading…
…Larry Gonick’s “The Cartoon History of the Universe, Volumes 1-7” that I picked up cheap during a sale at my local comic book store. It’s terrific. I’m pretty sure I heard about Gonick from one of Scott McCloud‘s books, and you can visit Gonick’s website, but I’m curious about Gonick’s own history. I haven’t really…
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MGS 2, MGS 3, MGS 4, and Me
Why I haven’t been updating; told in a single image: I picked it up the day after my birthday, but, to be fair, I haven’t been playing it very much. What I have been playing are MGS 2 and 3, and I’m glad I did, because I didn’t remember half of the story. (You can…
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Work Doodle
Well, I reread the previous post, Hellboy Behind the Scenes Doodles, and it is not up to par. I should delete it, but I’m going to leave it up as a reminder to myself not to post late at night. So, in today’s post I’m going to keep things short. Here’s a sketch I doodled…
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Hellboy Behind the Scenes Doodles
Hellboy: Behind the Scenes > Hellboy: The Movie. Look of the flick? Fantastic. Perlman and company? Terrific. Abe Sapien? Beautiful. The movie lacked creepiness and subtley. Kronen should have perfectly fit that bill. He should have been in the shadows the whole flick. And when you hear the ticking of the clock, you know that…
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Epiphany
Coupla weeks ago. The comic book store; after a few pints. It’s the last place you’d expect an epiphany. Buddy Don is scoping out the Star Wars action figures; I’m whining about work. Don picks up an action figure based on the Ralph McQuarrie concept art. The toys themselves look pretty chintsy, but most toys…
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First Look
Ooh, all of you lucky dogs out there are getting a sneak peek! I’ve been working on (well, not so much working on as, mostly thinking about) a new big project for the art show coming up June 7th. Here’s a first glimpse at HERO CAPS…the future of uncollectable collectibles. Don’t tell anyone, but this…
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News, Another Post from the Archives
I just got Binh’s Perspective shirt back from the printer, and boy, do they look terrific. (See below for a lengthy post on the process behind the design. It was Binh’s birthday today, so I was able to put a shirt in his hands, which is a great feeling. And he saw the Short Round…
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From the Archives
It’s no fun when a blog doesn’t have regular posts; so here’s a couple of sketches from the sketchbook archives.. I used to work at a bookstore that had this great-looking clock in it… Sometimes we weren’t very busy, so here’s the chair I could sit in… It really is a chair; not a stool;…
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Short Round & Quick Time
Last night I attempted to upload a Quick Time video of a very short animated short I made in school, but WordPress wouldn’t let me. I’m going to have to do some more research, it looks like there’s a workaround, but I may not like the compromise. Anyway, until I figure out the problem, here’s…