The View From the Pew

Some faces from church.

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: