First Few Tests...

I "finished" the pencils of the first issue of my big comic project, "Small Town Devil." For those of you who don't know, it's a project I've been writing/developing for a little while now and can basically be summed up as The 'Burbs meets The Last Picture Show with some Motörhead thrown in for good measure.

Anyway, when I started penciling the project, I was really inspired by the work I was seeing from Jerome Opena and Travel Foreman. They've been going straight from pencils to colors with really stellar results. As I trucked along in the project, my pencils got looser and looser (with the intention to tighten when I ink), but nothing has been quite as satisfying as those first 10 pages I drew.

Here's a test scan of some of those first pencils, with some loose colors thrown over them. Thoughts?

Life sketching some live music

Really pleasant evening at Bridge 281 tonight. Excellent tunes and good coffee.

Friday Sketch Dump

A week before finals and I've been sketching a lot in class. I can take only so many notes before I decide I'll just google it later for the test. I've also been gearing up since I'm going to complete the first issue of Small Town Devil over the break.

V & Evie

Do I look like the sort of guy who has a plan?

No method to this sketch, really. Just doodling and inking. I wanted it to be something with a Vendetta theme and I'd never drawn V before.

My kingdom for an eraser.

A non-update

I have had no time for proper art-ing these last two weeks. This semester has kept a fevered pitch for three weeks, with 5 to go! The closest I get to any sort of release is doodling in class.

heh heh...doodle.


Crossbones and Kris Kalenov


Geology notes.

A Creeping Rabbit-Pig

Interrupted silence with something I doodled last night. I felt like drawing a monster and this is what it turned into.

Character Study part trois

A WIP scan, playing with an all-graphite approach to this project - I don't know if my pencil lines are clean or pretty enough to warrant the approach though. Still, after looking at recent work by Frank Quietly, Travel Foreman and Jerome Opena, I'm in the mood and it's worth a shot. I'll be doing a full illustration of another character beside him, this time in inks, to compare and contrast each approach.

Maybe I'll put it to a vote?