Illustration Station 002 - Action Man Page 5

There have been a good deal of delays, but I finally have the fifth page of the Action-Man Adventures done. For anybody who doesn't know, The Action-Man Adventures is a comic strip I'm doing in the traditions of early 20th century comics like Little Nemo in Slumberland and Krazy Kat.

Each page is something of a new adventure in composition and how that effects the storytelling. Page 5 is heavily influenced by George Herriman's Krazy Kay. Herriman didn't draw boxes around all of the panels in his comic strips. To me, it gives Krazy Kat a chaotic energy. You know where the boxes would be, but with that line being implied, your eyes just move between panels in a different way then if there were gutters. (gutters are the spaces between comic pannels.)

I can't really post the entire page, but I've got a little preview panel.

And work on page six has already begun.

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.

Art Post 002

Still just trying to get more of my artwork online. These are a couple more New Saint Trading Cards. Still to come are the Saint of Zombies and the Saint of Kaiju (Japanese giant monsters). I think those 6 will make a really good first set, which means it'll be off to the presses with these guys.

First entry: Art Post 001

Welcome to the Drunken Penguin Studio blog. I don't know what most people would do for their inaugural blog entry, but since this is going to be about my artwork, I think it's best to just start with a couple pieces.

Both of these images are the size of common trading cards. I'm planing on doing a series of prints of these, in the same tradition of wood-cuts sold to pilgrims during the middle-ages.