My First Watercolor and an Update

Hi all, I've been working on school steadily(next post, sculpture!), along with practicing comics and actually a lot of other stuff I should scan and post up here. Anyhoo, the point is, I did a nifty little watercolor for my wife to try out a new paint set I bought a few months ago that has been terrifying me. So I sucked it up and did a 4x6 painting of Disney's Wilderness Lodge(our favorite vacation spot). It was actually a cool time doing it, and I will look around for something else to try.

In other news, I "finished" my 5 page comic sampler and sent it to the only major publisher still accepting open submissions-Dark Horse. Well, they didn't reply so, I'm going to keep working and trying some new things. Or in this case an old thing. I picked back up on my work on Tharn's Warcraft story. Follow the Grym Tiding's link to the right to check out the newest addition. I decided to put it out in easy to digest strips rather than trying to bang out pages at a time. Instead of making excuses not to work, I'm trying to make it easier TO work. So far so good. Keep moving forward mule. Yah Mule!

Enjoy,

Holy Cow! It's page 5!!

Yes, yes, I've finally managed to drag 5 pages of comic-y goodness into existence. Next step is to start showing it around. I've started some research into who I need to talk to and what I need to present, so I will be busy putting together PDFs and brief synopsisesiess...however it's plural! I'm excited, but mostly frightened. Wish me luck!

This week's assignment

This is my assignment from last week, which was a layout featuring 2 point perspective. In all these assignments I try to make the perspective-y stuff secondary to whatever is going on, I dunno, I just like the human element and they don't have a lot of corners! This week I will have to put in all the tones and shadows with my grey markers, which I've gotten pretty comfortable with. They ain't so bad! Anyhoo, in the scene the young speedster has wrapped his '63 Austin Healey around the tree and the farm guy is pulling him from the wreckage. I did something fun with the car: I got some reference shots and drew one in the position I would need it in the layout. Then I tracing papered over it all the wreckage, then I applied that to the layout and used my microns over THAT layer! It took a while, but man, I'm happy with the results!

Enjoy!

EDIT: Hey hey! Here is the finished version, markered and ready to roll. In the end I went in a completely different direction then I intended from the beginning. Please, continue to...

Enjoy!

Another Page!!

Wow, how about that? I haven't totally given up on my latest project, going so far as making yet another page! I took the opportunity to redraw a lot of the panels in this one, and in every case I improved them. I'm definitely getting better, but I'm not there yet.

Enjoy!

More from the Sketchbook!

Um, yeah, the title says it all...

Sketchbook Posts

Ok, I scanned in a ton of sketchbook pages the other day, and I thought I'd start the ball rolling. I will post them 10 or so at a time until I run out. At the very least, it can provide some good content filler.

School work!

I'm sure you noticed on your calendars that the Fall semester has begun, so without further adoo-doo, here is my...INTERESTING SCHOOLWORK POST!!!... First in the series. This semester, I'm only taking one class, that being Perspective.

Enjoy!

More pages!

Hi Everybody, I've been working still, just not posting. Here are the inks for pages 2 and 3, I'm coloring 1, and still laying out 4. Otherwise, School has started again, I have Perspective this semester, so expect some Isometrics soon and some architecture later. Perhaps, I will have other surprises as well, like if I ever get off my ass and scan some sketchbook pages, got lots there. Anyhoo, enjoy and I'll see you soon!

PS. I may replace some of the pics on these pages, a couple are kinda bugging me.