Hey there, friends! If you're a new follower, you may not have my most recent art book: 88 pages of museum sketches, poster roughs, character drawings, environmental designs, and more. Comes signed and with a sketch.
Spent an hour watching an episode of Midnight Mass (giving it a second watch-through) and starting the tight pencils on the final level of the Santa playset: the stables. (a local friend let me visit her stables and carriage/sleigh house for reference, and it's been very helpful)
A few years back I drove up 41 to see the spot where Big Headless Harpe's skull hung for a hundred and eleven years, and found the historical marker where it was supposed to be, but it seemed odd at the time - the head was supposed to have been hung at a crossroads, and... 1/
Gonna be spending the weekend choring outside so best to spend this morning paging inside. Here's what I'm working on for OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE.
This month (exact date unknown, I believe) marks the 200th anniversary of the near-fatal grizzly mauling of mountain man Hugh Glass during the Rocky Mountain Fur Company's 1822-23 expedition. I made a paper figure set of the company years back: …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.