sketchbook

some inks on the pirates-dudes.

sketchbook

I've been thinking about drawing pirates so I drew two in my sketchbook tonight

sketchbook

Not much in the tank for drawing tonight. I actually spent about 2 hours painting earlier. Pics of that later.

sketchbook

sketchbook

drawing after a photo on zoetica's photostream

page 21: fed up

for some reason this has been one of the hardest pages for me. I think I am ready to move on. can't stand to look at it anymore.

page 21: more details

about halfway done with the second pass.

page 21: panel 6

dude we need a title for this mess!

Just playing around last night.

page 21: first pass

still thinking about panel 6.... but here are the first passes at the rest of the panels.

page 21: layout 3

So here is my layout/internalization of the new page 21. with some slight changes to the other layout. 9 panels. Alternate ending. no nudity. [grey tone added to help make sense of the skritchy-skratch.]

panel 1 no change -- moved angle down and left
panel 2 - no change
panel 3 - speedlines? that's right dammit those ARE speedlines! I think top down will be tough here so I went with an angle that shows more of seedless reaction to Patrice's "rush". Need help here.
For both panels 4 and 5, I pushed in a little closer to their faces. We can still see seeds hands -not- grasping pat. He is back on his heels as she rushes to embrace him in panel 4. And then panel 5 has the calmer seeds, actually returning the embrace a little-- although his guard is only slightly down here. I think the emotions on both faces are really paramount here [my opinion]
panel 6 - again I pushed in a bit to see pats face. She is delivering the longest bit of dialogue in the piece here and I think we need to see and hear her. Also I unconsciously drew Patrice closer to seeds than in the layout (maybe I was trying to save space for the balloons but that's not like me at all) . ANyway, she is pulling back a bit from the embrace. Seeds is still kind of holding her although now he is trying to read her feelings- here his peace is interrupted by her words and reaction; he is back on guard a bit again.
panel 7 - perhaps Patrice looks a tad too angry here. I was going for a head-cocked look and maybe took it too far.
panel 8 -9 maybe to close-up to both seeds and brett...but panel 8 is nothing but seeds eyeballing brett expectantly so his face is enough I think. panel 9, I didn't think we needed to be over seeds' shoulder in the pic. lemme know and it is back.


[feedback demanded]
[obviously]

page 21: layout

Man this page was hard to layout! A lot going on here with action mixed with head shots. Well I think it will work ok. Let me know what you think

Page 20: panel 7

only a little drawing tonight. Patrice in a towel. Tomorrow I will tackle panel 4 and clean up the rest of the page.

Page 20: more panels

Still lots to do....zeroing in patrice's for her first appearance.

Page 20: 3 panels

page 20: first coupla panels

Pose Maniacs

Pose maniacs is a website that gives you a new pose every 30 seconds.
(found it on the DC Conspiracy Website. Pretty cool)

page 19: pencils

Changed panel 4, added better lines and shadows, cleaned up a lot in general.

page 19 - fire in the hotel

page 19: updated

page 19: first pass

page 19 - layout

whew.....there is a ton of stuff going on page 19. I think after a lot of drawing and redrawing that this layout will work. My first reaction to reading the script was to end page 19 on panel 5, turn panel 6 into a double page spread with panels 7 and 8 as insets. That would've give me a lot more room to play with all the details in the panel description...but I don't know, I think the result on one page is pretty cool. Also, since the drawings were pretty loose, I used photshop to highlight the main elements in the panel to help see the composition and flow.

page 18: rocks, bushes and scrub oh my!

page 18: panels 1-6

page 18: so far

page 18: rough in

floating

I was cutting down 14x17 bristol to 11x17 and decided to use the leftover board to practice inks and washes.

p 18 thumbnail 2

p 18 thumbnail rough

p 18 panels 4,5,6

p 18 panel 3

page 17

some links

Tech and comics podcast
Flatting plug-in for photoshop

trying to make this actually look like night time. hmmmm......

Links: Shadows

Some pictures with shadows to look at for inking and spotting blacks

1. in the car
2. the hire
3. The hire 5
4. Renaissance 1
   
5. Grindhouse
6. Sandman
7. Smokin aces
   

Letters: pp16-17

working: p17 the old switcheroo

Bad scan but you can probably tell the bottom car is not a dodge charger anymore (chrysler 300)...not sure if the 300 works as the, "close to a charger", but the effect only has to last for one more panel really.

working: p17 refining poses and angles

changes in all panels except panel 5.
-panel 2 pulled brett back to make room for dialogue. changed expression on Seedless' face.
-panel 3 changed angle to show more expression. more interesting
-panel 4 changed angle of brett's head to make it more consistent with panel3, more expression, more naturalistic and more interesting.
-panel 6 changed the driver getting out of the car.
-panel 7 changed the drivers left arm

working: p17 panel 2

working: p17 panel two

page 17 setup

rough pencils for p 17.

"face in his hands"

sketching some poses of Brett with his face in his hands.

sketchbook: more brushwork

copied from a magazine photo...."Vibe" I think. Exercise for practicing inking with a brush.

sketchbook: Apartment Building exterior

sketchbook: the Edmund Fitzgerald

Attempting to draw more different things. Here is the mighty Edmund Fitzgerald. A lake freighter which sank in Lake Superior in 1975. The song, "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot haunted me as a kid when we'd go fishing in a little row boat in Lake Michigan with my Dad.

sketchbook: bought me a brush

Bought a brush and started going to town with inks. Also experimented with using lighter washes to get more tone.

sketchbook 1/16

barber shop

Ring necked duck

Marcus and I saw some interesting ducks on a walk around the big pond in Kingstowne. I searched the internet when we got home and sketched it with my gray and black brush pens.

Looks like it is called the "ring necked duck". Intersting name since the ones we saw didn't actually have rings around their necks. (Of course, I may be mis-identifying it.)