Sketches

When in doubt, draw what’s right in front of you. I got a Droid Eris recently. This thing can do all kinds of cool stuff… most of it isn’t really all that necessary, but cool none-the-less.

Many times drawing is an exploratory process. I start with the seed of an idea and see where it goes. Not the case here. This graphical “O” burst into my head, fully formed, animated, and way cooler than it turned out in this first attempt to get in out on paper. Hopefully I can carve out some time to develop it some more. I kinda like it.

I realized that I never posted the results from the last DrawnTown, which was nearly a month ago. I’m sure the tension is killing all the rabid fans out there…

Rabid fans? …Is that like a ceiling fan that’s foaming at the mouth? Lets hope I bolted that thing on good enough, or I’ll end up with a fan blade to the head! Freaky.

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So, this DrawnTown was at Kiel’s trendy downtown apartment, and featured a selection of delicious soups and some homemade cider. I’m going to start coming just for the food… Oh, and there was some drawing too:

View out the window. (If you’re good you should be able to tell where Kiel lives just from this drawing.)

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Maybe I’m reverting to a three-year-old… Actually, I have this brilliant, sophisticated, and entirely grown up idea for a comic strip rattling around in my head, but this is all the further I’ve gotten so far. It is kind of a reminder sketch. You can tell it is going to be revolutionary, no?

It was kind of fun to “play” with the blocks in my head to draw this… maybe I should go pick up a set and see what I’ve been missing.

I dropped by the Sioux Falls last week for another installment of “Drawn Town Sioux Falls”. The place was down-right infested with people scratching away in sketchbooks. Innocent bystanders kept wondering if we were all part of some art class. Classic. Here is what I managed to put on paper:

You can get a bigger picture of the maddness in this slideshow.

For some reason, I had this image percolating around in my head for a couple days. I figure the best way to get it out is on paper, so now you have to look at it too. I knocked this out in one evening, which is quite fast for me. I kind of like the way the dramatic lighting and forced perspective work together. Fairytale-ish with a bit of a dark edge.

Here are some nearly fascinating insights into the process behind creating this final sketch:
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Loosely inspired by the dramatic landscapes in Bill Waterson’s, Calvin & Hobbes, this was also a good excuse to experiment with markers. I think it turned out kind of fun… although it could probably use more alien monsters, and the smoldering wreckage of a red spaceship…

The web is a dangerous place. Two days ago I find this new blog called Graphic Content, run by Kiel “MagicMouse” Mutschelknaus. The next thing I know I’m standing in a park with a bunch of people, clutching sketchbooks, and staring down a thunderstorm.

Good times! Met some very cool people, and even managed to sneak in a few sketches without more than a sprinkle. Check them out below:

This guy hung around the flowerbeds quite a while, though he didn’t exactly sit still.
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Here is a hypothetical question:

If someone asks you if you’re still “doing your comic,” can you still say yes if you haven’t posted anything new for a few months?

How about if you run home and make a new post that evening?

This is purely a hypothetical musing. Curiosity. Nothing more…

Hey! Check out this random sketch:

I just stumbled on an interesting collection of drawings at: http://www.drawninblack.com/ The site is basically a pile of black and white (mostly) drawings that the guy found interesting. Most of which demonstrate more polished skills than I have… but it was fun to paw through them. Along the same vein, here is a pencil drawing I did after a trip I took to New York City.

(Click on the image to view a larger image.)