Tag: Pencil
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reading dune
and drawing ornithopters and sandworms… dune’s been on my to read list for awhile now i expected it to be a slog, but it’s not. it really moves the first chapter throws a lot at you, but after that it goes non-stop star wars owes so much to dune, but elements of the novel seem…
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4 minute comic challenge
i think it was a 4 minute challenge via the comics genius and guru lynda barry
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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…
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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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a new steps strip is up
it’s been so long since the last one but a new ‘steps’ strip, ‘potty training’, is up almost every other ‘steps’ strip has been done in digital, pushing pixels around but today’s is fully scribbled in pencil, with lots of (kneadable) erasing, then brushing down puddles of watercolor, and finally a bit of inking…
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digging in to the brushes and paints again
what i like about working digitally is not having to see my mistakes for very long i can get through more bad drawings faster but posting old work on screentone is giving me a chance to get back in to the brushes and inks and paints here’s a few stages from a piece last night…
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last of the 2015 everybody comes to raph’s
Here’s the final five 2015 strips of the Casablanca/TMNT mashup webcomic, ‘Everybody Comes To Raph’s by Mcwhitseen and I. It’s been fun to go back through them again since first posting them on the tumbles back in 2015. It’s still staggering to me how well the world’s align You’ve probably noticed the shift in styles over…
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watching the yankees
i thought i would come back and do more to this sketchbook page but i probably never will so i might as well post it as i read lynda barry’s syllabus, i continue trying to capture moments and get out of my uncomfortable zone to my more uncomfortable zone with watercolor pencil, watercolor, 2017
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welcome
i’ve had a huge influx of new followers the past few days (all thanks to the wordpress discover page.) To celebrate here’s a few sketches from yesterday’s inktober prompt, ‘climb.’ If you’ve just discovered the sketchbook, I’m in the midst of jake parker’s inktober challenge. To make it even more challenging I decide to to all…
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swift
pentel brush pen, 2017 inktober 2017 inktober2017, pencil, ink I’m working from jake parker‘s official inktober 2017 prompt list, but within the world of sherlock holmes.