Thumbnails for a short comic I’m working on. I still need to polish it up and do some light research, but once I get that out of the way, it shouldn’t take me very long to draw all of it.
The parts blurred are mostly dialog and a couple of doodles. Can’t spoil everything, now can we?
Starting Monday, the 28th and continuing until the following Monday, I will be going on complete electronic blackout. No computer, no video games, etcetera for a week.
I am doing this because I’ve noticed that I lose a lot of time to these things that could be better put to use in more constructive endeavors. Also, for the first time in a long time, I have felt almost completely creatively drained. That I don’t want to write or draw or anything. So, I’m effectively taking a week off from technology to let my brain relax and regroup.
I would like to try and get some work in, even hone in on my next project, but that really isn’t the purpose of this. In general, I just want to air out my mind and if I get some creative work done, then that’ll just be icing on the cake. I’m already on a bit of a drawdown, limiting my computer time for the rest of this week to try and get myself in the right place for the complete shutoff.
Of course, on Monday, June 4th, I’ll be back and everything will resume as usual. I might even have some new work to post up. So, if for some reason you need to contact me, do it before the weekend, or you likely won’t get a response for a little while.
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Late Sunday night sketch. Each one of these is kinda an exercise in building confidence, especially after I get a bit down and discouraged. I need to do this more.
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Morning sketches for May 16th.
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Rene and Sophie, because I clearly haven’t drawn them enough. I was mostly just messing around with this, and I think this is about as far as I’m gonna take it.
Prelim environment work. Trying to figure out how this city looks.
Playing around. This is Joost August Schrijver, a character whose name I’ve just thought up. And drawn for the first time. Because I have an obsession with monstery people. And Dutch things.
Roy Shoemaker, a lunatic from a small town in the countryside, now lives in the big city and is finding that he isn’t quite so special outside of his hometown. And to compensate for this, he spends a ton of time pulling pranks on people and, in general, upsetting the police.
He’s aided by his natural ability to manipulate gravity, as it allows him to do things that others cannot. Including using his powers to hurl himself through the air away from the authorities.
(On a side note, I think loving Sfe Monster’s stuff is starting to affect my drawing. Also, I don’t know how to do that “e” with a line over it.)
Painting practice. I have to get better at this, and doing line doodles al the time isn’t helping.
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Doing some study sketches, from images taken from Dirty Richmond. To be honest, it’s actually an excellent resource for drawing people. So long as they don’t mind, that is.
More practice. Playing around with a different brush for painting, and I’m kinda liking it.
Today’s doodles. Actually did some stuff far better than this, but it’s in a spiral-back notebook. Maybe I’ll scan it in a few days, after I’ve got more pages to share.
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A silly, nonsense sketch jumble. Will have something up here everyday again, starting to pick up some steam again with this project.
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Another Sophie sketch, I think I just like drawing her.
Sadly, it’ll be a little while before I put up more comic pages, because certain events have occurred that have rendered the entire arc I was working on moot and undoable. So, now I’m regrouping and reorienting and I’ll start the next story as soon as possible.
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Trying to do more value-oriented painting. This one is blue (with a bit of red).
I actually just did this right after a painting I didn’t like, and I want to do a couple of these every day just because I need the practice.
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