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.)

quick self protrait

seedless

1-2-2007