Illustration Station 006 - Warm up sketch

After a number of set backs, I've gotten back to work on my comics. This image has nothing to do with said comic, but it's just the warm up sketch I did before getting to the real work.

Work work to come, soon.

Illustration Station 003 - ray gun girl

It's been a long time since updating, so I thought I'd start with a new illustration instead of some sketchbook pages, but I'll be following up with those pretty soon.

It's a really pulp mass-market cover style drawing, but that's kinda what I like to do when I can't figure out what else to draw.

Tales from the Sketchbook 023 - Day 37

Didn't really like that sketch that I put on the first page so I changed it up a little with some Kirby influence.

Tales from the Sketchbook 022 - New Sketch Book

Started the new sketchbook today. It's a Lama-li sketchbook from Nepal, just like the last one, except this one has a red paper cover.

Tales from the Sketchbook 021 - filled another sketchbook

I finally finished off this sketchbook. Not with what I would call my best sketches, but either way, it feels good to move onto another book.

And then the last page:

And here's a picture of that sketchbook, held together with venting tape.

Tales from the Sketchbook 017 - Day 24

I didn't plan on this to be a sketchbook dump, but that seems to be the only artwork I've been able to make time for, lately. Once I get this big video project finished, I think I'll have some illustrations to get to.

This is a character I sketched and have had some fun developing into a bigger concept.

 

Tales from the Sketchbook 016 - So busy these days

Sketches from the last 4 days.

Tales from the Sketchbook 015 - Day 19

Another femme fatale armed with a megaphone. I've been thinking that these illustrations really need to be done with a gig-poster mentality.
Been working on a video editing project, lately. It's given me lots of time to sketch during processing time, but I really need to get some finished illustrations and comics done, too.

Tales from the Sketchbook 013 - days 14 through 17

Been a busy weekend.

Started sketching this at the Free Press Summerfest in Houston, but the rain kinda stopped my ability to get much more sketching done. Either way, seeing a live performance from the Flaming Lips fill your head with enough imagery to last for months.
A bit of that imagery has been working it's way into an idea for a pin-up poster illustration. Still haven't started on the final image, but I like the way the sketches are going.

Also, the idea for this cathedral/spaceship has been floating around in my head too. I'm not sure about the design I have here, but we'll see where it goes.

Illustrations Station 001 - Space Girl pin-up

Just been working on a pin up poster. I'm a big fan of the Barbarella movie. I've only seen a little bit of the comics, since I don't think they've been republished in English for a long while.
I use pin-up imagery in my paintings, but I've never really tried to do just a strait, cheesecake pin-up. It's been a long standing weakness of mine to due a strait illustration. Doing comics allows me to compose a narrative over a span of time or through multiple views of a space. Trying to put a narrative into a single image has been a really tough challenge, but one I feel like I need to start trying. Things like book covers and posters are really necessary for drawing people in to experience the inside of your comics.
The other advantage to the single pin-up illustration, is that having fun with designs that don't ever need to be very logical. One of those great things about ray-guns is that since they're physically impossible, you can let for go wild and ignore function.

And here's the messy pencils. I've never been one for clean pencils. Everybody tells me work from thumbnail sketches. It's sound advice, but I think my painterly training has got me stuck on thinking on the page.