hey carl 4
for some reason i can’t make a new comics collection for these, but if you’d like to catch up, here’s a link
hey carl
i’m starting to dig these guys
peter parker burns the midnight oil
my series of sh•••y drawings continues with peter parker burning the midnight oil
i think i forgot to draw his left arm
is this drawing too sh•••y? can you tell he’s in a dark room looking through a microscope at a sample
well tomorrow’s sh•••y drawing will be better. (though honestly it could be worse.)
onward!
a sh•••y prowler sketch
a sh•••y prowler ink and watercolor sketch based on my memory of the character from the new spidey-verse movie. go see it. it’s so good
is it better to most more often but have more sh***y drawings or less often but fewer s****y drawings?
sh***y wolverine drawing
killer cartoonists ed piskor and jim rugg‘s cartoonist kayfabe coverage of wizard magazine has got me drawing all these sh•••y drawings of superheroes i haven’t drawn in decades…
blurry image courtesy of my dying iphone
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lately i just cant get enough of drawing the spidey doodles
spidey swinging home after a long day of spider-manning
i like to think that his costume is in a constant state of repair. hastily stitched together.
and his webbing, though awesome, is never quite perfect. every batch a little different.
media:
- a little fountain pen action and some brush pen on top of pencil
- those crayola markers that kids use but it just soaked up the ink, (not waterproof) and made the whole thing pretty dark
- spidey’s left foot colored in with an orange and red colored pencils
colored my spidey doodles
i need some whiteout to fix the bubble butt i gave spidey in the one where his spidey sense is going crazy
a couple more spidey doodles from the sketchbook
both very different from each other
trail – 30dayscomics day 7
i’ve been working on today’s strip for-ev-er and my results are still mediocre. a frustrating lack of skill
i’ve got so many versions of this that look even worse
i’ll have to post them some time
since this strip works best horizontal, it will probably look best for you here (and it’s in color)
you can also view a color version here
30 days comics day 3
another new steps strips for the 30 days of comics
slice – inktober 2018 day 31
old snake from metal gear solid 4
eating some watermelon in a bombed out building
this ones a bit of a hot mess
you can tell its a hot mess because i had to explain the drawing
here’s the sketch
inktober 2018 is over:(
its been a…slice
jolt – inktober day 30 2018
a little metal gear solid 3 action with volgin giving snake a jolt
you even get the sketch
where else can you get deals like this
double – inktober 2018 day 29
day 29: double
so here’s a little paper, rock, scissors between twin snakes; metal, and liquid
its hard to believe that this inktober is winding down already…
it’s been so much fun, and somehow, less stressful than last year
i don’t know if my results have been any better, but the schedule was easier to keep for some reason
hopefully i can keep it up because i’m going to head right in to 30 days of comics in november.
gift – inktober 2018 day 28
what’s in the box?
it’s a cardboard box!
very useful in the metal gear franchise
thunder – inktober 2018 day 27
had no idea, but according to the metal gear wiki, raiden translates to ‘thunder and lightning’ or ‘thunder god’ in japanese… so today, a raiden sketch
stretch – inktober 2018 day 26
day 26 stretch
forgot my waterproof ink so no washes today
drew snake’s left leg way too long in the sketch but corrected it on the inks
prickly – inktober 2018 day 25
i may have mentioned this before, once or twice, but i haven’t played mgs5 so i can’t say for sure that there isn’t a porcupine suit in the game.
and since this is the third one of these i’ve done, i guess this makes it a ‘running gag.’
hoo!
…
i’ll just show myself out…
chop – inktober 2018 day 24
took a bunch of sketches to get here but here we are.
a little 4 panel action with raiden and a gekko from mgs4 for day 24: chop
update: maybe it helps to see this piece like this:
muddy – inktober 2018 day 23
muddy.
day 23.
a sketch i didn’t ink.
a sketch i did ink but didn’t love.
a third one i just went ink on. no pencil sketch underneath. its pretty frank miller-y.
im not crazy about any of them but…deadlines.
breakable – inktober 2018 day 20
the fury and snake again from mgs3
scorched – inktober 2018 day 19
we revisit the fury and snake from mgs3 and day 3
to anyone with more inking experience than me: its getting increasingly difficult for my brush to keep a fine point, making it very frustrating to use – does that mean its time to get a new brush?
clock – inktober 2018 day 14
one of the stranger threats in a bonkers game, mgs2, was the ‘fatman.’ he was a master bomb builder who also wore roller blades and kind of looked like uncle fester
here’s some process shots from sketch to first ink lines to final wash
guarded – inktober 2018 day 13
I can’t decide if I should’ve added the ink wash or not
anyway. inktober metal gear continues. day 13. guarded.
And that’s not a cake floating out there. It’s a ration. They float in the mgs games.
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.
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.