We Killed the Hubble!

Spent some time drawing superheroes at Free Comic Book Day yesterday, and once again was struck by the impracticalities of the female superhero's outfits...

They need more pants. Also, kneepads. Maybe I'll draw more this week month. It'll be Practical Superhero Week Month or something.

Boy drawings today.

I drew these last year for the Herald to pitch my comic strip idea ... actually, it wasn't really much of a pitch, more them saying "hey, do whatever" and me being "okay!" That doesn't happen very often ... actually, that's the first time that's happened. Anyway, it was probably a good exercise in drawing different types of people, even though they're all the same age and gender (don't ask me how that'd work).

Isaac from D101, apparently auditioning for a Calvin Klein ad ... I need to draw more guys. I realized recently I'm not really drawing adult males at all, and that's not so good. I need to get better at drawing them and I ain't gonna if I don't practice, y'know.

DDR!

I like to play in socks, because then I can slide my feet across the pad quicker. I REALLY want one of those heavy duty pads (I only have the flimsy one). Maybe for my birthday ... I was going to do a whole sequence of someone dancing on a pad, but then got distracted by ... uh, life, I guess. :P

Taking a break from everything, watching crappy reality TV ...

mmm, sleepy.

Hey everybody, nem0 and I (who's sketchblog this is) have asked Adam Boorman (who inked all those lovely drawings in the last post that you all seemed to like so much) to join the sketchblog, so hopefully you'll be getting lovely art from him as well!

Just a pen doodle of Lucy, a punky character.

People drawings from the sketchcrawl yesterday. It went pretty well, considering we couldn't go outside. The guy that organized it wants to try and make it a regular thing, so if you're an artist in the Halifax area, go here for info.

A bit of something different in the sketchblog ... the very talented Adam Boorman did some of his amazing inking over top a few of my drawings, the result of which is quite startling. I thought I'd share them with you. There's a bunch of different stuff, and I've put them behind the cut to preserve the size. I think they're all fabulous and wish my artwork actually looked like that. I sort of have a ... cuteness, I guess, to my style of drawing, and with different inks, these piece look so different it's shocking. Warning: NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Frontal nudity and such.

Previews:


( ... more fantastically inked artwork under the cut )

A boy on the ferry, who did not have a star on his bag. Call it artistic embellishment. Or maybe I like pretending everyone has Communist sympathies now. I think it's a Bloom County influence...

HI. SUP?

I've been on a Russian fairy tale kick lately, complete with a newfound appreciation for Ivan Bilibin. Not that that really has anything to do with anything, except that I ganked the idea for this from a picture he did for Vasilissa the Beautiful.



And a cartoony wolf. Careful, he bites.

An update, oh miracle of miracles. Hopefully I'll be back at work next week, so will have time to draw on the ferry. And, of course, will use that time to stare vacantly into space. :P


Oh yeah, and there was a teenager at the library with a Guy Fawkes/V mask the other day. It was creepy.

Ice won't be updated today; working on a bunch of pages and I want to post them all at the same time.

Lacey from Demonology 101. I went drawing with friends for about four hours yesterday and produced only this worth scanning ... just one of those days. I actually was looking at D101 a few weeks ago; haven't done that since I ended it. Man, it's so raw and ... really personal. I didn't realize it was like that when I was doing it, but looking back on it ... so many bad fathers. It was a weird experience. I did realize that I want to go back to it someday. Hopefully someday I'll be worth something as a cartoonist, and I'll be able to convince a publisher to let me redo the whole thing and present it as I'd like to present it.