some initial sketches of Partice....still working on her face a little.

more lettering p 16

I wanted to add the words to this page since it mostly exists for the conversation. stil lnot sure if the flow of the balloons works. I thinned the balloon border by 1 pixel to see if looks better thinner on this page also.

pp14-15 lettered

lettered pp12-13

Some lettered pages...pp10-11

Up at the flickr site I posted six lettered pages but they are hard to read. Here they are...

tit-a-tete

exposed a boobie...practiced some lettering

progress on page 6

more work last night and tonight. The page is coming together pretty good.

Page 6-7 combo

started working on combining pages 6-7 last night. Here's what I got so far.

PAge 16 - cars

page 16 cont'd again

saving the cars for last....

page 16 cont'd

adding some lines to the page....

p16 layouts

...all geeked up so I figured I'd get going on p 16. Here are the layouts...

Constructing a comic page

By Steven grant on CBR - Some interesting stuff here.

No Key No Plan

I'm Diggin on "No Key No Plan" by Okkervil river

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto on the web

REference - charger

Charger 1
Charger 2

page 15

mostly completed p 15 over the long weekend. This page caused me a ton of frustration for a number of reasons so I am glad the pencils are almost done.

How-to by Kazu

Here is a cool step-by-step of the process Kazu Kibuishi uses on his "Copper" strip. I especially like that he uses a "cheap flat-bed scanner" because, so do I.

page 12-13 finishes

page 12 -13 inks completed. Looking good I think. Also, I posted this to the flickr set if you want to see all 13 inked pages.

xeric grant - for future reference

sketch of a scene from the movie "oldboy"

cast and crew

here is a sketch of the characters in the comic through the first 14 pages.

how to draw boobs

found this little gem while surfing around

Process page 14 - rendering

Here is the second pass of pencils. I changed the gun a little in panel 5 because it looked too small in the original layout. And that's right...those are speed lines baby!

11 pages and counting

page-1, originally uploaded by MDTSHORT.

Photo set of the first 11 inked pages put up on flickr for sharing etc. I have pencils scanned for p12 (but not for 13) and am working on p 14 now. Moving right along. Anyway I was playing with various venues for posting/viewing this stuff and flickr seems pretty good. Tell me what you think - either here or there.

Process page 14 - sketch

Here is the first pass at page 14. sketch the whole thing with light pencil (2h or 4h). Making sure everything is ok before adding any lines or tone. (The big ugly gray streak in the middle is due to my small scanner.)

Kitchen links

Links for research:

Kitchen 1

Kitchen 2

Kitchen 3
lots of kitchen pics here

Darkness is Spreading!!!

This is supposed to be a night scene so here is the first cut at making the street dark....I will do the othe half of the dbl page tomorrow

He's the DJ I'm the Rapper

Its DJ MARKIE and Chubbystubby

my last FM site

yeah these are the last 10 songs I listened to...

go to last.fm to see a little more

less blurry...but also less interesting

here is another less blurry pic.

Bollocks!!

Took a picture of all the pages we have so far......and it's friggin blurry!!! Oh well, I had some beers when I took the pic so I guess it's not all that surprising!!! anyway....more later.

double page spread

first double page layout I've ever really done. here are just the first draft pencils. Still need to go back and add shade etc.. This took me a long time to even begin but I am pretty happy with the results.

Chef Special

Picture I pencilled and Bruce inked last week. This was sort of a prelim/practice for doing a scene in a casino kitchen.

Page 9

Here are the pencils from page 9 of the comic. Starting to draw and compose better I think.

Sketch 2

Another Sketch....

Sketch

Just started a comic project with a guy from work. Here are some sketches. Tell me what you think.

pages from Hank's war

Last night I scanned in the old pencils and parital inks of the comic we did with April back in early 1997. We are close to the 10 year anniversary of this work. Also these are the first comic pages I ever did. The cover is an add-on I did a couple months ago after a cover from the Losers.


Hank's War

Process...

the pic below was an attempt to draw a nice background and then more cartoony characters. I think it came out pretty good. Here I have put the original photo background next to the drawing I did of it and added a photoshop combo of the two pieces...

Drawing more

comments welcome

psion sketch

Reading the "Buy my Books" column on CBR...Kirkman was hyping up his collaborator Cory Walker. Walker has an easy cartoony style which inspired me to draw.

Alexander...closer to great

Finally got to work a little more on this and then my computer died. I had to rescan and recolor the entire thing. Tell me what you think?

Alexander the Great

Here is the first draft of the Alexander drawing I am doing for Koli. Still haven't finished rendering with color and need to add the title. Comments welcome.

interesting article on work for hire rights

Started doing a little research on the whole ownership of creative property . The Star Wars dude asked if I'd do some concept art for a movie he is pitching to some "Hollywood Execs." Riiiight. Anyway, I humored him and said I was interested just to make sure I'd get the stupid stormtrooper helmet. It sounds like anything I'd create for this guy would become his property but I could retain rights to any original art. I THINK that means that if that guy wanted to take that Star Wars drawing I did, mass produce it, and sell it, he could do it without me seeing a single penny. I could only take the original drawing and sell that if I wanted. It's a shitty deal for an artist, particularly if you design something like the Terminator endoskeleton for a movie studio, the movie goes on to spawn sequels, merchandise, comic series and you never see another cent more than your original fee.

In this case, the guy hasn't offered anything yet - just asked if I was interested. In all likelihood, it'd prob. be for another homemade movie prop. Sounds like a lot of work for little reward. If the guy asks for a design for a cryogenics technician without much more description, the artist is doing all the work: costume design, chracter physical attributes, etc. Not sure it's worth it, other than the slim chance of having something you design get put into a movie.

Photoshop tutorials

Here is a better than average photoshop tutorial for coloring...

pretty damn good colors

This is one of the better coloring jobs I've seen. Check out how the colorist adds muscle tone to an otherwise flat drawing.

Cover for hank's war

just for the hell of it I did a little cover (ok ok, it's a slight copy off of a cover from "the losers") but it was just for fun. Remember "Stool pigeon press"? I thought it was hilarious!

stormtrooper helmet

looks like I might actually get it! looks pretty cool in the photo. If this works out I might consider doing work for his other project. We'll see...

Hank's war

Here is a little sketch of a possible cover to the old comic. I wasn't sure if we ever had a name for it so I am calling it, "Hank's War". The little boxes didn't come out so good...need to start usign rulers when I am tryign to do straight lines. but here is something to look at....

Hiring character creators at Super Villain Studios

I don't know if you guys have used 3dStudio Max....but this sounds like a crap load of fun. cool website too.

New FREE website....

here is the free site so far. I haven't uploaded everything yet or transferred the DNS (hence the URL is funny) I just wanted to get a feel for how it would look with the ads. So...I think it sucks with ads. what do you think?

options:

1) accept the ads and design the site so everything appears below the ads, that is, integrate the ads into the design a bit better.

2) these guys have a $35/year package that has no banner.

3) keep the lunar pages site. easier but costlier....($99/year)

here's a job for yooz

Profile ID: 71394 matches...
Project ID: 157166
Title: Adult Web site needs cartoonist
Category: Illustration / Cartooning / Painting / Sculpting
Description:
We would like to launch a new content area of our amateur adult Web site in the
next 30-45 days.

We are seeking an adult/erotic cartoon artist that can create a set of 20 pinup
illustrations of our main character (in color, sample attached), then a monthly
cartoon (non-animated) feature monthly with an additional 10 pinups monthly.

We can provide artists with reference photography of the main character as well,
but the design we've decided on is attached. We're looking for a character /
comic design that closely resembles this genre of drawing (sample attached).

We're hoping to pay $250 monthly for this work.

potomac studios website

I renewed our domain....we still own www.potomacstudios.com for one more year. However, I have not renewed our webhost so after July, if you enter that domain into your browser you will get a site not found message. We need to find a free webhost who allows us to register our domain.

here is one possible candidate (look it over if you have anytime)

http://www.100webspace.com/freeplan.html
I am going on vacation for a week. I will look into the particulars upon my return. If anyone else has ideas let me know.


Mike

murla job

Received another guru.com job:

Profile ID: 71394 matches...
Project ID: 155088
Title: Pet Mural in a Children's Room
Category: Illustration / Cartooning / Painting / Sculpting
Description:This project is a mural for a children's room depicting our family dogs. We're looking for someone who is familair with dog portraits. The mural will need to be done on a canvas since the wall it will hang on is paneled. The size of the mural will be approximately 4x6. We would like to be able to see sketches of the project before the painting has begun. We were hoping to have this completed by late September.

I don't have time for this - either of you interested?

final sand piper painting!

Finished at about 1:00am this morning....ahh feels good to be done with something. Tell me what you think.

...third piper detail....

here is the detail of the third sand piper...this one is my personal favorite...

piper pair detail

detail of the first two birds...

Sandpipers rough-in

Here is the first block in of color and detail on the birds in the composition. I still haveto do details in the feathers and shadows/reflections in the water beneath/ Tell me what you think.

sand pipers background

Here is is the background of the sandpiper painting I am working on....as I said in the comments of the star wars pic below: I have the background (ocean wave pulling away to reveal wet sand and some foam on the beach, wave receding in the background) still need to add some highlights to the water then its adding in the sandpipers.

So here it is...

Stuff Im working on...

[Ryan's last post from the other site....]


Here's what I'm working on right now. Prob. won't get to finish it until after my deadline at the office. The actual images are on 14 x 17 bristol. Darth Vader ran off the page, so I had to cut and paste. I have to say, that M-effer is one challenging subject to draw. Anyway, like I said, will eventually get the Deathstar hangar with Mill. Falcon in the background. Also wil draw the lightsabers in photoshop.

I'm in now

Posted some stuff at old wastedspace. I don't really care how this one looks. Ditch the orange if you want.

Chicken home

Here is sara veron's website

I am fascinated by this type of art for some reason. I think I like the speed with which it can be done and even though it is really simple I think this kind of stuff shows considerable skill.

I'm on board

I'm in with an obscene username that I won't remember.

SW Stuff

Here's that other starwars stuff i posted for that artxilla contest a while ago. I lost the final colored versions in the great PC crash of '04. What I was able to save was a non-colored kenobi and a 90% colored padme dwg.

I'll try to scan the stuff I'm working on right now, but the sheets are big, so I'll have to break it up and piece it together.

Testing for wastedspace transition

test the image viewing stuff

thought catcher:
Frisell's a Poem for Eva as background to homemovies
that;s it

Great quote on too much process from Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny:

"The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, 'How would I do this if I were a fool?' Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you'll never go wrong."

Risk management links

Book: "Against the Gods"

Book:Project Risk Management Guidelines

Interesting article comparing the costs/benefits of possessing a certificate in PM

Google suggest is pretty cool...

PM Links

Here are some links to the PM Blogs I will be reading over the next couple days. maybe I can find something useful as I follow the threads on these sites.

Naked PM

Reforming PM

Managing project development

Projectified

SW mgmt PI

Joel on SW This is pretty good

Theory of Constraints (TOC)

Patrick Mayfield

...more links...

AgileManagement

Boxes and Arrows - pretty good; lots of articles on web development and Information Architecting

Degrees of PM

Focused Performance

New Things

Office Zealot

Project, Process and Business Improvement

Virtual Project