Daily Sketch 021 & 022

Looks like I forgot to upload a few sketches. This first one was done after watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Good movie I just recently watched for the first time. Filmed here in Oregon. I recognized Depoe Bay when they were stealing the boat. Pretty rad.

The second one was done last night after painting all day. I still want to find a way to incorporate this style into my comic work. Unfortunately, my first impulse is always toward more realistic proportions. Trying to break that habit. 8)

Daily Sketch 020

Here's the drawing I did yesterday. When I told my buddy, John Hallman, I was wanting to draw Batman's entire rogues gallery he suggested I draw Killer Croc. Again, this was about all I could do in 30 min.
I've been kind of sick or about a week now. Hoping it clears up in time for ECCC. I'm pretty excited!! I'm going to have a booth set up with CEP and copies of ZFW #1, I'm going to show some new pages to CB and Tom Brevoort at Marvel, and I always love to show my work to other artists and get some feedback. Not to mention getting sketches from some of my favorite artists, going to various panels, hanging out with tons of comic people after the convention, seeing the CEP crew again... I freakin' LOVE comic conventions. And my best buddy and fellow KND member, Jay Are, is going to join me for his first convention experience. Woot! Woot!

Daily Sketch 019

Well, here's what I drew tonight. It was a late night drawing after working the day job. And after watching some Stargate Atlantis. The first one was done on the back of a wasted comic page.

The other was done on the front side. It was already wasted. The already-drawn panel lines gave me some spaces to work with. There's some Thing action and a guy in a biggo armored body suit. Just some random sketches done in about 15 min. I should have spent the next 15 min making Thing look more rocky, but I was moving on to the next drawing 8)

I had decided to scrap the page and start over. One thing I have learned lately was that the underdrawing done in a red pencil which is quite waxy doesn't erase well. So I am going to start doing very simple drawings in red and focus more on the actual pencils. They erase much much better. The original comic drawing I did was way too small and I wanted to zoom in a bit so I decided to just start over.

Daily Sketch 018

I watched Two Mules For Sister Sarah last night on Netflix Streaming. It was a good one. I am loving going back and watching all these old westerns I refused to watch while growing up. I love the trippy music by Ennio Morricone. Thankfully the ending has never been ruined for me either. I had no idea! I loved Shirley Maclaine's voice. Actually, Clint Eastwood had a pretty amazing voice as well.

Daily Sketch 017

I wanted to do something pretty big and epic. OF course, I wish I had more time to add details to the buildings, more debris floating around, people running in terror, add some grainy shading, etc. Only so much you can do in 30 minutes. One thing this exercise also helps with is learning how to draw faster.

Daily Sketch 016

What got me into comics when I was 15 was Spider-man's Black and white outfit. The first comic I ever bought was Amazing Spider-man 298, the first appearance of Venom and Todd McFarlane's first issue. Of course, Two issues later Spidey went back to his red and blue costume. pfft. Thankfully Venom was a pretty fun character. (Even tho his role in Spider-man 3 was not the Venom I knew and loved.)

I limited myself to 30 min so I didn't get to work with any shading or line weights. This one definitely needs to be inked. Looks like these daily sketches are creating even MORE work for me!