Category: sketch
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eagles dad
for the last few months i’ve felt pretty energized, creatively speaking (i’d been reading lynda barry’s syllabus, and i think that gave me quite a bit of fuel and confidence, both) for the last few weeks my creative juices are feeling lower i havent been putting out as many strips this month, and for some…
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more sketches from the sketchbook
here’s a few more sketches from the sketchbook while i work on the next strip
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snowball time lapse
here’s the timelapse of me drawing the snowball comic strip this is an interesting one to look at because the strip went through so many changes after i stopped recording i decided to run it vertically having no expression on the little guy in the last panel felt most right for the ‘punchline’ but even…
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the king and I
saw the king and I last night. It was incredible. Forgot my pencil bag with all my pencils and pens including my Wacom tablet stylus so had to do this one by hand.
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selfportrait in digital
i’m not left-handed. also i don’t own a shirt like that. digital. lines in 2017. color in 2018.
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currently reading
Slowly reading Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo Da Vinci so I’ve been filling up my sketchbook with words instead of drawings. I’m only 39 or so pages in, but most fascinating so far is Leonardo’s ‘mirror writing.’ Up until now I had considered his mirror writing a mystical facet of his ‘genius,’ however, Isaacson has completely demystified it…
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notes on vertigo
Vertigo is such a strange film. I think its easy to forget how strange it is because it shows up on so many best of lists. Vertigo must be Hitchcock’s most dreamlike film, particularly when Jimmy Stewart’s Scottie, is tracking Kim Novak’s Madeline through the city. And once Scottie runs into Judy, the movie completely…
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sciencefiction or something
i like this guy sketchbook doodle with some digital color i loved the coats in star trek 2 wrath of khan pencil, ink, digital color
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underwater mines
last week I dreamt of underwater mines in shallow, sandy bottomed ocean water colored pencil, 2017
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inktober retrospective
Inktober is over. Time to look back through the month and see what I can do better. The Bad Brush pen skills didn’t really improve over the course of the the month, but my confidence in using them did. The first day may have had some of the best linework. I like the delicate…
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inktober day 31 found
Today is the last of my sherlock holmes themed inktober. And somehow I skipped ‘found’ yesterday on jake parker’s official inktober 2017 prompt list. So here is yesterday’s inktober today. And yesterday’s was today’s. (This is more confusing then time travel.) To further complicate matters, I can’t find my brush pen so today’s drawing is in fountain…
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inktober day 30 masks
day 30! masks! so many exclamation points! too many! i can’t believe its the end of my sherlock holmes themed inktober. (based on the prompts from jake parker’s official inktober 2017 prompt list.) and here’s a look at the sketch i did before i inked today’s entry (watson’s pose changed a bit and for some reason i…