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It’s been a while since I uploaded some pages from my sketchbook. No better time than now. I draw heads A LOT. I think I probably got the idea from Alex Toth, but if I’m bored, or more often when I’m doing warm ups, I’ll draw heads in my sketchbook. Here’s a couple of pages that are composite pages of some that I had scanned. Heads 01
Heads 02
The good people at Schmap found one of my photos of the Portland Japanese Garden so enticing, they added it to their online travelguide, which is kinda cool, I ‘spose. If you are interested in seeing more, by all means check out my flickr gallery. And if you live in, or are visiting the Portland area, I highly recommend checking the gardens out.
Earlier this year, J Chris Campbell from Wide Awake Press invited me to participate in his Anthology Jabberwacky. He suggested I use Reggie in my contribution, and I thought that was a pretty good idea. I folded it into the Reggie story (such as it is), so here is Chapter 3, Reginald Crabapple Takes Prince Leon to Scarborough (Part 1). Like usual, I did them in one hour apiece, stream-of-consciousness-style.
Here’s the first bunch I did, they’ll get you up to speed: I picked up Crogan’s March this year at Fluke! from the super nice guy Chris Schweizer. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and thought I’d do a drawing of the main character. You can find Chris at his Curious Old Library.
For the last little bit I’ve been working a concept that started out in my sketchbook a couple of years ago of a bird riding character who I was going to do as a webcomic. I did a handful of pages, thinking I’d do twenty or so before I would start posting. It didn’t take that many for me to realize that it wasn’t going to work. The main guy is close to another character that I ran across; and the more I thought about the story, the more I realized I didn’t have much to say with the characters, so I decided to scrap it and move on to something else. The following are the pages that I completed:
I’m a big fan of Grant Wood’s landscapes. I thought it would be fun to do a study of The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover. I gotta do more landscapes, and more color stuff. It took me forever to color this thing.
When I was at the Stumptown Show in April one of the minis I picked up that I really enjoyed was Corey Lewis’ Layered Jacket. Here’s my version of the title character. Good buddy Mike Maihack asked me to do a pinup for his comic Cleopatra in Spaaace! If you aren’t reading Cleo on a regular basis, you are really missing out. It’s one of the best webcomics around. 
Last weekend I went to Natchez Trace State Park in Tennessee for the lovely wife’s family reunion. I did a couple of drawings in my sketchbook while I was there. As usual they were done in Micron Pigma pen in my Piccadilly sketchbook. Footbridge Across Cub Lake (6/12/10) |
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