Today's Charles Schulz's 100th birthday. Peanuts means a lot to me and my family, but there's one factor of his work that I've thought about an awful lot, and which I wrote about in a (comics) essay for a Peanuts tribute book some years back. 1/2
FB showed me this from 8 yrs ago - my roughs for trade dresses for the colored versions of the Crogan books. Only did the first 2; couldn't get a remotely bill-paying page-rate-against-royalties, which meant the series couldn't continue; that killed enthusiasm for coloring vol 3
Just finished this relatively-small but rather busy panel for an educational comic: here's that panel in the context of the incredibly helpful reference image for it (from the 1831 Gallery of the Louvre)
Glad I reworked the drawings for these two; I like these a lot more than I did the earlier pass. Painted finals and stories for both coming later this afternoon!
Thought I'd share my approach to placing figures in an environment, which I use a lot in wider shots that establish the location of a given scene and the spatial relationships of the characters to it, and to each other.
Today's Charles Schulz's 100th birthday. Peanuts means a lot to me and my family, but there's one factor of his work that I've thought about an awful lot, and which I wrote about in a (comics) essay for a Peanuts tribute book some years back. 1/2
My favorite prequel-era thing was when they had Obi-Wan go full Jedi KNIGHT, armor and all.
A quick thread comparing the ages of the characters in Alexander Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS and the ages of the actors playing them in adaptations: 1/
Tightened pencils!
I got an ipad so that i can work not-at-the-desk sometimes (I've gotten to the point where I almost exclusively do my pencils digitally, so to do anything other than fool around I needed something screeny). First sketch on it that I'm pretty happy with (about ten sketches in):
Commission for a Patreon backer, from the HOLLOW KNIGHT game
Me and & @TheKyleStarks's newest, from @Skybound/@ImageComics: 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON When the worst man in Hollywood is murdered, his 6 former supporting actors (whose careers he tanked) have to fight stuntpeople, ninjas, bikers, & more if they want to solve the crime.