03/26/04 - Sketchbook - Inking Practice

Scanned as grayscale so you can see the underlying pencil drawing. These were done on bristol, pencilled first (from my imagination/visual memory) then inked with Raphael 8404 #3 brush and Black Magic ink. The park bench scene was inked with a Hunt 102 crowquill pen.

My big problem with the brush is line weight. I tend to keep it too uniform. Outlines on the highlight side should be thinner and even break up a little. Jack Hamm talks about the "T" and overlapping shapes in his book Drawing the Head and Figure. This helps give some depth to the contour line as opposed to it looking like the edge of a cutout.

02/02/06 - Sketchbook

Some sketches done in pencil then inked with Faber Castell Pitt Brush pen.

02/19/06 - Comic - TWD 1 roughs

This is Project 1 for a local Comics Creators Group I am a member of. The assignment was to rough out the first four pages of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #1. He has a scriptbook out with the first several comic issues scripts.

These were done 1/4 final size or 3.75" x 2.5". This is the stage of drawing where you work out a lot of the logistical problems and should really be experimenting. These shoud be small but clear. It's easy to become attached to your layout if you put too much work into an early version. Don't always go with your first version. Save the detail for the final pencils. Otherwise you will lose a lot of life and energy from the layout to final pencils.

1993? - Comic - Watermelon

I'm having to kind of guess on the year for this one (Kids: always remember to put a date on your drawings!). Here's another complete comic page: all done by hand. Scanned in color so you can see pencil lines and everything. Other than the borders and the lettering, all inking done with a brush.

1980 - Comic - Silver Surfer & Thanos

One of my earliest attempts at creating a "professional" comic page: bristol board, india ink, 10"x15" image area.

02/18/06 First Post - Life Drawings

Hello. Comments, especially constructive ones are welcome. Here are some drawings - from today - despite our little snowstorm I was able to make it to a local life drawing session.

Pencil (4b lead) drawing from Saturday life drawing at the University. (Click on image for full size image at 72 ppi).Here is a pencil (HB lead) sketch that I inked with a WN Series Seven #1 brush and Rapidograph Universal ink.