more than style

I recently did this drawing of Tavi G. of The Style Rookie, and I debated putting it up here (would this come off as weird?), but what the heck.  I dig her because she is intelligent and isn't afraid to have (or change) opinions about stuff, and she has dealt very gracefully with the fact that some people want to treat her like a dancing bear.  I only wish I had been so sharp when I was in high school.

Also, though this is based on a photograph, I did make up the outfit.  In the immortal words of Bobby Brown, that's my prerogative.

period pieces

I am currently working on a little (as in only six pages) period piece, an adaptation of an old folk tale.  In these sketches, I was just trying to get the appearance of the characters and their clothes.

Now in COLOR! Sort of.

I came up with the idea of adding color to this because I figured, rightly, that this would make it easier for the viewer to see the two faces separately (also:drama!).

For this one, I just thought that the bubble had to be pink, then decided to do the girl's hair as well.

These were drawn, as usual, in pencil, then I did the details in color pencil.  I still have a huge much-loved set of aquarelle pencils that I used all the time when I first bought them... in middle school.  They have been rather neglected in the intervening years, and I think I should use them more.  Also, the creamy background color is the actual color of the paper in my sketchbook.  I'm now thinking about scanning all of my sketches, even the ones in plain ol' pencil, as color files.

nothing witty to say

Roughly based on a photo by Robert Doisneau.

I had these speech bubble cutouts left over from a birthday card, so I stuck them to a page in my sketchbook and drew people for them.

Random people that I more or less made up.

graphic novel characters

While drawing this, I tried to remember what it was like to be a boy-crazy teen.  Sigh.

For those who were teenagers in the '90s/were horribly awkward in middle school.  Holla!

File under: spending way too much time/effort on a sketch of a minor character.  Also, in case it isn't obvious: on the right is our man as 20something hottie, on the left is the same guy as 30something dad.

mountains, masks, and Muggsy

the bag

wild creatures

Morgan at the computer.  I didn't finish drawing the keyboard because that type of shit bores me to tears.  Also, I should include the disclaimer that MPJ does not actually look this dumpy and schlubby most of the time (slouch + pajamas = somewhat unflattering).  Lastly, yes, it is a small chair, made to look smaller by both the angle and by Morgan.

The first two are sketches for future paintings ("Since when do you paint?"), and the third is just a sketch I worked on until my neck got too sore (I was standing in the doorway of the room the whole time).  Why yes, I was aware that I use far too many parentheses.  Live with it.

stubbies

This was based on a photo I found on the internet.  I'm not going to say where, just that the subjects are unknown Canadian college students of yesteryear.  I was drawn (yuk yuk) to the photo because all of the subjects show different, somewhat inscrutable, facial expressions.  I was trying to do the drawing fairly quickly and simply, hence the lack of a background.  If I remember correctly, there wasn't much there anyhow.