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!
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):
This popped up on my FB memories from 8 years back, and it still holds true: "Thumbing/penciling a page, and as I was drawing it I remembered that in comics, NOT seeing the moment of action but instead having to deduce what action occurred is often much funnier."
I worry that a book will suffer if I can't give it undivided attention, but I did plenty of books while holding a day job, on top of other obligations. I can carve time again. In the 3 hours I've worked (started yesterday), I've written/roughed three pages. Up to 53 now (of 250)!
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/
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.