Fear in the Fall of 2009

Saw this in a dream... really.

THUMBNAILS

Thumbnails for a comic I'm working on with my friend/colleague Zack Thomas.

Sad Girl

Henchman

Sketch, ink.
With simple Photoshop color. Generally not liking digital color. Must return to more hand-rendered color.

Blueman

Sketch, ink, colored pencil, photoshop smudge.

MEGAOPOLIS - Perspective Studies

Some sketches during break at work. Figuring out perspective, what works, what doesn't. I will say that the closer the vanishing point(s) get to the page, the tougher or more distorted the image seems to become. But maybe that could be a good thing in some situations?

Post-It Note Farmer

The title says it all.

"Robot Man"

Penciled, Inked, and then colored in Photoshop. The "grass" brush in Photoshop rocks! Laid the colors down, then it was pretty much dodging and burning for shadows and highlights.

Family Vacation

Did these up in a hurry for our meal out on the lake in Minnesota. MinneSOTa. OH YAH.

Iron Man Sketch

Starting to play around with inking sketches now. Colored Iron Man and background sky in Photoshop. Honestly the sky wasn't as difficult as I thought it'd be. Photoshop has a number of specialty brushes that give more natural effects. And here I thought I'd have to find a ripped copy of Corel Painter to do this. Played around with a lense flare also.

Shooter

A bit older sketch that I inked. Then, fun with markers. Did a lot of research and then decided on Copic Sketch markers. Two tips, one a wide (though not as wide as the standard Copic) and one a brush tip (very nice). Also still compatible with the Copic airbrush system which I haven't used for a finished sketch yet. This one still seems a little unfinished, but I got distracted and moved on.

Venerable Vegetables

I believe every vegetable has it's own inherent personality.

Fairy

Another Sketch. This one I scanned and printed out on my inkjet printer (accidentally at low quality, hence the dots at the shaded areas) that I tried inking with a brush pen. Still have a lot to learn about head shape and the location of a woman's featers on her head. Must look at Andrew Loomis more.

Tiny Soldier with Big Heart

In researching old engraving and pen stroke techniques for a (losing) T-shirt design entry for Corporate Challenge (turns out bold, simple graphics look better on T-shirts, at least in the eyes of this committee), I tried finishing some other sketches (including this one) in the same manner. I'm always trying to get better at drawing people, and after drawing this soldier, I got fed up with always having to draw from my mind (as opposed to drawing from a reference), so I decided to put my thumb (which I could look at) under him and a beer bottle cap (not that one was lying around or anything) behind him. And that is how these two worlds of scale came to be in the same place.

Presenter

Like many drawings I do, this one was an old pencil sketch, that I later came across and decided to take a little further. In this instance I had just been learning about brush pens (researching Michael Lark, artist for the Daredevil comic). This was one of my first attempts at using a brush pen. Fun!