Date: 2009-07-15 22:11 Subject: big angry Security: Public Tags: sketchbook

Another in a series. If you remember the first one of this set, I'll email you something like a dollar.

Date: 2009-05-24 11:20 Subject: a brief lesson Security: Public Tags: sketchbook

If you look at this picture in the horizontal alignment, it's just a reg'lar old merman swimming along.


But if you turn it 90 degrees clockwise he takes on more of a topless trannie merman with a flair for the dramatic kind of vibe.


Context is everything.

Date: 2009-04-07 21:58 Subject: titled Security: Public Tags: sketchbook, you'll probably want to buy one

Hey! Remember when I used to draw stuff and post it here?

*sigh*

I haven't gotten to the inking stage in any of my bigger projects so I decided to take some time and work up these gags a little. Other than this it's been all Uncertainty and !...

You know who does finish things on a regular basis?
boxbrown.
(how's that for a smooth segue?)

Boxbrown writes comics with a warmth and earnestness that's rare and appealing. His regular gig, a kind of slice-of-life gag strip called Bellen, is one of my favorite ongoing comic. Examining relationships is his thing (Bellen = Ben+Ellen, his two main characters) and he does it well, with honesty and humor and always a terrifically humbling sense of humanity.
Boxbrown's also just published a book of some longer form comics, done in a similar vein. Check out his Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing, self published and subsidized by a Xeric grant.
I wholly endorse this book.



Look at that! A sort of comic and a little write up of someone else's work! Not too shabby for a guy who barely posts anything anymore.
Now, to keep from appearing too competent, ( the concept doodle, for the above )

Date: 2009-03-26 17:03 Subject: doodle drop Security: Public Tags: mostly banal, sketchbook

Why, oh why do we have to live in a world that allows insanely ambitious projects couched with unprecedented expectations to collapse under the burden of their own massive weight? Why, dammit, WHY?
(link from comics comics, but maybe you saw it somewhere else too...)


( Here're some lousy doodles that I'm sure interest no one, but anyway... )

Date: 2009-03-19 16:47 Subject: "Uncertainty" process post Security: Public Tags: sketchbook, uncertainty

So, another reason I don't post much sketchbook stuff is that it looks like that. This is me figuring a page layout for the upcoming Uncertainty in my 5 cent Walmart spiral-bound notebook. The lines are awful and nearly unreadable, but that's okay because they're really only for me anyway. Naturally, I chose to lead the post with this.
( It gets a little more better, under the cut )

Date: 2009-03-07 16:20 Subject: i are still heer, internet. Security: Public Tags: sketchbook

Woah! It's been forever since I posted anything here. Didn't know this sketchblog-thing would become a monthly gig...
Here is something I drew just now, though. Especially for you!

Actually, I've been pretty busy with comics stuff lately. What's taking most of my (art) time right now are ! (which you've already seen) and Alexander's Uncertainty (which you can't see just yet). So, I'm drawing a lot, just not posting anything I draw here.
I'm going to try and get better with keeping this sketchblog stuff up. Maybe I'll post some in-process work for Uncertainty...

And wish me luck on getting ! into print. So far it hasn't been easy.
(but I am making headway)

I'll be in touch.

Date: 2009-02-09 17:15 Subject: mother Security: Public Tags: paper dolls, sketchbook

Chasing a notion this week...

Date: 2009-02-06 16:40 Subject: footprints Security: Public Tags: sketchbook

These last few sketches were done with a set of color Sharpies I've had for a few years now. In my crappy sketchbook they bleed like crazy. I have a proclivity for using only the cheapest of art materials.

I wanted to try and make a drawing work using only the colors available in the pack of markers. I drew this scene once and caught myself layering the colors to achieve a greater variation. I started over to try and keep it "pure"

Turns out "pure" looks a lot like crap and I ended up layering up on the second drawing too.
The two versions are pretty much the same, but I prefer the second (shown here) for the echo of Karel Čapek in the footprints.

Date: 2009-02-04 17:56 Subject: this one's for Derik Security: Public Tags: sketchbook

Derik said he saw panels in the ghost image under the truck sketch the other day, and so he did: Here in this little nonsense comic.

I remember now why I don't post too many things out of my sketchbook anymore. The book is 9" x 12" and my scanner can only take a little more than 8.5" x 11". That means I have to scan everything twice and piece it together in photoshop. Very annoying.
I am too stubborn (or lazy - or cheap) to buy a new - smaller - sketchbook however, so I guess I just have to live with it...