Studies

 

Linework done with brush and India ink, followed up with Pentel waterbrush.

Studies

 

Linework done with brush and India ink, followed up with Pentel waterbrush. 

Peck sketch at A-1 Comic's Creator Con

Practice

Contour: Verithin Black

Shading: Black Watercolor with Pentel Waterbrush

Detail: Micron 01

on Canson Coldpress Watercolor Paper

Initial form: Verithin Black

Mechanical Pencil to finish (#2 lead)

on Canson Coldpress Watercolor Paper

Practice

Head Shots

Playing with my Pentel waterbrush this evening. Used various pencils (HB, Verithin Black and Prismacolor Gris Chaud 90%) along with washes of black watercolor.

Wheeee!

Here's my latest cartoon:  You can see below the red line /inked version. And then the crude little post-it note sketches I played with before compositing the final lay out.

Dreaming Big

You'll note that I made the caveman smaller in the final cartoon. I also cropped out the ground to imply a slight worm's eye view. I wanted him to appear more incidental on the back of the brontosaurus—like an annoying fly. I redrew him a couple of times to really get that more accurate "bronco buster" feel. With the bronto's expression, I wanted it to appear mildly surprised. 

Rockwell Homage

Side note: Tomorrow (Friday, November 15th) is the last day to order a 2014 Incompatibles Wall Calendar!!! To order, surf over to http://incompatibles.bigcartel.com/product/2014-wall-calendar. Here's a sneak peek at the month of November:

This is a parody of the famous Norman Rockwell painting, Freedom From Want. Initially when I came up with the "Turduckow" concept, I thought I'd just do a beauty shot of a holiday turkey on the table. But then I thought it might be nice to have a family around the table waiting in anticipation. Then it hit me: Normal Rockwell already painted an image that fit the bill.

Below is the final redline inked over. Note the blank matted frame on the wall. Initially I was going to put one of my earlier cartoons there, but then my wife had the great idea of making it a painting of the dinner ingredients.

And here's some of the initial musings. Note how round my initial turkey was. Also I felt it was important—in the final piece—to have the bovine legs/hooves stand out, so I made the cow a Holstein:

Red Rough

Here's a hodgepodge of cartoons I've been working on lately. I like to work small on post-it notes. I can  break up the compositions into pieces, recomposite elements in P-shop, and then reprint them as a larger redline for final inking.