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whale – inktober 2018 day 12
I haven’t played Metal Gear Solid V, so I can’t say for sure that there is not a whale suit in the game.
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cruel – inktober 2018 day 11
inktober 2018 celebration continues in metal gear land. i think this image would work great for any of the 3 new yorker captions that works on every cartoon.
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flowing – inktober 2018 day 10
metal gear solid 3 has maybe the most beautiful (and sad) boss battle in video games update: i did an ink wash but i don’t think i like it as much:
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star – inktober 2018 day 8
metal gear solid 2 introduced the idea of having to deal with the enemy guards you’d incapacitated. You had to drag around the guards, hide them in alcoves, or stuff them in lockers so fellow guards wouldn’t stumble upon them and your presence wouldn’t be detected. After using a wash in yesterday’s sketch, I decided…
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drooling – inktober 2018 day 6
Today’s inktober 2018 prompt, drooling. If you’re not familiar with the Metal Gear video games, one of the ways you can bypass enemy guards is to drop magazines as a distraction, allowing Snake to sneak by undetected. (I don’t remember any magazines in the original Metal Gear Solid, but the guards also had full face…
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chicken – inktober 2018 day 5
I haven’t played Metal Gear Solid 5 so I don’t know if there’s a chicken suit in there or not. But I’d like to think there is.
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spell – inktober day 4 2018
inktober 2018 day 4: spell metal gear solid. meryl is under the spell of foxhound’s resident psychic this one could really use a background. maybe i’ll go back in sometime this month and fill it in
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inktober starts tomorrow
gearing up for inktober 2018 tour inktobers past: 2017: I got serious, busted out a brush pen, i followed jake parker’s official prompt list, but did them within the Sherlock Holmes universe, managing an ink drawing every day of the month 2016: I only managed 1 ink drawing during 2016’s inktober 2015:featured a few drawings…
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new ‘steps’ strip posted: grasshopper
new steps strip up in full watercolor (and pencil) you can see it here i’ve been studying hayao miyazaki’s storyboards and concept art, and dustin nguyen’s work on ‘lil gotham’ and ‘descender’ in hopes of elevating my watercolor game
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new steps up
new steps strip is up go take a look i’m not in love with the inks they feel too harsh maybe i just need to work larger maybe i just need to use pencil instead of ink maybe i need to get better with the paints so i can avoid the line work entirely and…
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i’ve got 4 strips drawn
but i’m scared to ink and color them working digitally i can screw up the colors on a separate layer and the drawing itself is still intact same with inking you can see it on the screen capture timelapses if i don’t place a dot of ink in just the right spot and just the…
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watercolor practice
i’m still struggling with the watercolors and those first two poses were too similar but it was a fun moment where little guy was all involved in painting one moment and then completely distracted the next
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hey man
a new comic in the journal is posted it’s been awhile since i’ve done one of these i did it in digital first but then decided i need the practice so i drew it in ink and watercolor as you can see i ran in to some lettering trouble in panel 2
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site logo: now animated
updated the site logo first i made this but then i wanted the eyes to blink so i made this but then i wanted the animated logo to look more…animated so i made this now it’s probably too jiggly but i am tired
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stencil
i made myself a little stencil it helps me make 4 in x 4 in squares in my sketchbook using the stencil makes it faster than having to measure and mark the lines out every time getting the courage to make comics, even if they’re ugly or messy, or don’t come out the way i…
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self-rejected steps strip
here’s a look at the first version of yesterday’s steps strip i hated it when i got done with it the son character was too difficult to distinguish from the background i tried a lot of different things to get the background to ‘fade back’ first i tried erasing it (you can see where the…
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new ‘steps’ strip is up: ‘scratch’
the last couple of these have been done in watercolor and ink and pencil instead of digital working digitally you can a make your mistakes quicker with analog tools there’s a lot more redrawing and starting over so it takes me a lot longer to create a finished strip in fact i did this strip…
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page 19 is posted
not only is page 19 of the story about a guy with no head up but i also posted a new ‘steps’ strip read the story about a guy with no head from the beginning read ‘steps’ from the beginning
