page 18 - backgrounds and scorpions

Page 18 colors - more work

Made some good progress.

page 18 color

No heat in my house tonight so I'm coloring in the cold. Here are the flats for page 18. This took me a looooong time. My fingers are getting really cold. dang.

Sketch

Got some new brushes I wanted to try out only to realize I don't have any ink left. dug out a bottle of Higgins Eternal and remembered why I stopped using it. Here's the sketch.


Now off to dick blick to order some decent ink.

John McNamee at the Daily Cross Hatch

Funny dude and fellow Super Wrestle cartoonist John McNamee was featured a couple days ago over at the Daily Cross Hatch. Also checkout his strip, "Pie Comics".

Oregon Ridge Nature Center

The folks from the Oregon Ridge Nature Center used a drawing of mine in their newsletter this month

sketch

random painting

roach racers

Sketch: Greaser Roaches

Reference: roaches

Some good sites
http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates/periplaneta.html

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul05/wdparasite2.html

Reference: "american greasers"

Post about American Greasers from the Secret Forts Blog.

LINK: POSES

http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/

and page4

leviathan pp1-3

still working on this for now. cleaned up page 2 and details of page 3.

some quick cuts

more wacom work

Worked a little on trying to draw a little better using the wacom. Took a pic from yesterday and drew on top of it. doing this all electronically allows you to move objects around to improve the composition. Here I moved the dingy in the foreground over to the left to improve the balance of the drawing.

wacom sketching

practice with my new markers

got some fine line markers and started doodling. I've been doing a lot more work with the markers and pens without pencils to try and loosen up and I am starting to get some pretty nice results. the lines look ok but I can't resist adding some color.