Random Offerings

Some random things I had laying around the last sketchbook that were worth posting, plus an old pencil sketch of Nephenee that I scanned ages ago and forgot to post.

More Reliving My Childhood

This all happened.

No Submission - Pencil Comps 1

Some of the pencil work from the No Submission clothing designs, now that the project is finally underway. This is a SKETCH blog right? Still resolving final logos, designs, etc. but the website is live with placeholder images and the promotional clothing run over at http://nosubmission.com

Red Crane Murmurs

The last six to eight months working on Benthic has given me the longest break since college from working on my near-unfinishable epic, Red Crane. It's also given me a chance to see Red Crane from a bit further back. So while I tweak the script for Benthic's second issue I keep having ideas for tweaking Red Crane too, and that makes me want to draw. Thus, here are some sketches of Xun and Annabelle.

Wizard of Oz Sketches

I added text to the Tin Man sketches and finished up Scarecrow on my Wizard of Oz-themed hand typeface experiments. Hoping to paint these over the coming week.

I'm not sure how I want to handle Cowardly Lion. In every version except the classic movie, hes an actual lion and not a guy dressed up as a lion. I'll probably end up going the lion route, but part of me wants to play up the human angle and have him some freakishly terrified person who is wearing a plastic lion mask to scare people (which depending on how it was drawn, would either be psychologically disturbing or downright hilarious).

More Old Characters

In the same vein as my first post, heres a drawing of the character I spent most of college drawing. Most of the stuff I did then was all rendered pencil so I kinda just left him that way.

In all honesty, I'm beginning to think maybe I should go back to doing this story when I'm done with my current one instead of going back to Red Crane, it had a lot more range. This is the only group that could have very probably had some sort of major heist centered around joining a dance competition or something.

ASIFA Drawing Backlog, Part 5 - Brown Sketchbook Edition

So sometimes at drawing sessions I use a brown paper sketchbook, usually when I'm feeling off my game; this way it'll either shake things up and start doing better, or I'll be drawing crappy on much cheaper paper. I'm prone to doodle more there as well. A lot of the stuff in there is kinda hard to see and doesn't scan for crap, but I decided to toss a few of these up.

Kintaro

A couple months back I was invited to submit a piece for a show down in Brooklyn, the theme of which was "fairy tale". I had been wanting to do something fish related anyway, so I ended up doing an image of Kintaro riding the Giant Carp. The submission of said piece turned into something of a debacle and ended up as ineligible for the show, but here it is.

I literally brought my box of paints home from the post office about two hours ago, and I'm hoping to get a lot more painting done once I'm all set up for it.

Page 4, Panel 6

Full pages soon to come.

I don't think Issalai looked this latin when I first started drawing her. I blame this new room of mine. The walls are peach, the radiator is turquoise, and I'm constantly craving Mexican food. I need to paint before I start drawing nothing but mariachi bands.

Reno Sketches

Today, both a pencil drawing and an ink drawing of the main character of my SCAD Senior Project, and a main character of my unfinishable saga Red Crane, Richard "Steel Strings Reno. I think its safe to say hes a bit younger in the pencil drawing...