Ballpoint Sketch - Cotton Exchange in Savannah!

Hey! I'm really happy with this sketch! All ballpoint pen on copy paper.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone who celebrated today had a great one! I spent most of the day enjoying Skyrim, and relaxing.

I've finally gotten started on the excited, fantastic, and super cool Madness of Phantom Hitler comic with Carlos Florez and Wesley Dodge Smith. Pretty great stuff!

Fun Fact: Cats are the 7th sleepiest animal on the planet, and the most popular housepet!

 

Here's a sketch of my house that I did over a few weeks ago. Enjoy!

Finals are over, Skyrim comes, and some awesome art!

So finals are over! This past week as been totally crazy, and I haven't updated my blog for a bit because of it, but no fear! I will show you lots of awesome art today!

First up, here are some of my favorite pages I did all quarter, and a sneak peek into a project that I've been writing for awhile! These pages are for a story called SCRAWL, about a struggling writer in near future world. I wanted to have a few sequential pages so that I could at least visualize the world and storytelling, so I created these for the final project in Environments, Props, and Structures.

SCRAWL

 

SCRAWL

SCRAWL

Awesome right!? These are just the pencilled versions, I plan on inking them over the break!

For my Environments, Props, and Structures class, I did two pages from different scripts, experimenting with different inking and watercolor techniques! I enjoyed these pages as well, and I'm pleased with them.

I.C. Hot, Stunter

Meet Cute

I hope you enjoy! I had a great quarter, but I'm definitely looking forward to the time off, as I'm starting brand new comic project today!

First things first though, it's time for breakfast and some dragon slaying!

The Snowtown Murder

I learned a little bit about the Snowtown Murders the other day, after I had done this illustration, but I felt that the title was still apt. I was also inspired of Warren Ellis' and Ben Templesmith's  excellent Fell comic. Oddly for the detective version, most people made it snowing, in fact it was snowing in most of the projects from my class. Must be the change in temperature around here.  I love noir, and I love using black, so choosing this subject matter for my drawing was natural for me, and I felt that the snow would accentuate the scene.  I've been enjoying the Materials and Techniques class, and I think I'm getting better as we go!

So anyway, enjoy! This is the scan of the entire board. For the project it is cropped, but I felt this illustration would benefit from the entire picture plane. You can see the "finished"version over at my deviantart.

My attempt at Paul Pope and some Tomb Raider

New art!? Oh yeah!

Eryk Donovan as Paul Pope? Nah!

This one is for my Materials and Techniques class. We were given a pencilled page which we then needed to ink in the style of a famous or established artist. I chose Paul Pope because I love the vibrancy of his line weight, and loose style. This project really gives me an appreciation for the work that he puts into his pages and the expertise he has as an artist.

This page is from my Environments, Props and Structures class. In class we made a loose action script, and each person in class drew a page number out of a hat. I got page 10, where Lara Croft swings into action to defeat the villian. I had fun with this page, and while we were not required to ink it, I think its always good to practice!

This past weekend was a little rough, I was tired and sick, and unfortunately didn't spend as much time as I needed to working, but I feel better now, so I should be able to get everything done before its due.

Walking Dead, Mystery Box, and a Gun Show

So I loved last night's season two premiere of The Walking Dead. Being a fan of the comics, I am glad to see Kirkman's masterpiece brought to the screen, but I am also enjoying the differences between the books and the show.

During our props class today, we had to draw a girl with a gun based on photo reference, and after drawing the girl I was to inspired not to leave it blank, and I added some (not so perfect in perspective) zombies in honor of the Walking Dead.

The Dead ARISE!!!!

We also had to draw a Mysterious Box, purchased by my professor at a yardsale over the weekend. The box is a genuine artifact, a tool used in the early 20th century which measured electrical currents.

The Box

We determined the box would be a great McGuffin for some sort of story, it positively reeks of mystery and intrigue, which is typical of even the most mundane old artifacts.

Finally, we had to draw ten different guns for our homework project. I really enjoyed this and since I'm going to be working on a story set in the 50s over the next few months, I thought it would be a good idea to learn up on some World War Two period weaponry. It's interesting how little our firearms have truly changed over the past 80 years, beyond the materials and the cosmetic differences.

M1 Bazooka and the German Luger

 

Thompson M1 and Ithaca M37

 

Johnson M1941 and MG42

MP44 and S&W .357

Colt M1911 and G43

Enjoy!

Some Inks and a Lifedrawing sketch

What have I been up to you ask~? Well I'll show you!

High Roads

 My first inks of professional pencils. This is the cover of High Roads #3, art by Leinil Yu. Overall I am pretty pleased with how this turned out. I used a brush for this one.

Yanick Paquette

This is some artwork from Yanick Paquette, a page from a book called Terra Obscura. The objective here was to use different tools to ink different panels.

From top left - G-Nib, Tech Pen, Brush, Brush, Marker/Nail/Knife.

I am pretty happy with this one as well, we will be doing a toning assignment on these inks as well.

I am also working on a cartoon style comic that I think I'll be hosting here online. Look forward to that over the next week.

Lastly a little life drawing from the open model session this afternoon.