Saturday, April 3, 2010

Wondercon 2k10 Retrospective


It might have just been me, but it seemed like there were quite a bit more people attending Wondercon this year than the last. Regardless, I met a number of friendly folks at the Artist-Writer "Speed Dating" event - which had substantially more writers than artists, surprisingly - got to attend some excellent drawing and animation demos, and had the pleasure of watching one of my brothers wander about in awe at the sheer volume of stuff. All in all, 'twas a right good time.

The sketches above were drawn while at the con, while the head at the lower left corner was done on the BART train. I tried to do some gesture studies as well, but failed miserably. Those two scribbled masses at the upper left were the only ones that were spared my eraser's wrath, but they aren't depicting figures in movement, and are thus gesture in name only. How do you animators do it?

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Wondercon!

Wondercon's this weekend and I'll be prowling around on Friday and Saturday. If a discomfiting flash of light happens to glint off a pair of mile-wide glasses and momentarily blind you, you've probably spotted me somewhere amidst the masses. Feel free to say "hi," if'n you're so inclined. I won't bite!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Post-Battle Sammich


Dragon slaying is hungry work, or so they tell me. Don't forget to pack a lunch!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Say AAAAH! - Wrathsplosion


Here's the first of those bookmark designs I mentioned a few weeks back. Not sure if I like this combination of graphite and digital coloring, though. Maybe I should abandon the whole black-and-white outside/color interior approach and go full-on color?

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Another Dragon-Related WIP


This is going to be finished up with ink, watercolor, and gouache once that foot gets fixed up. Truth be told, said stick-and-ball foot was fully-pencilled earlier, but then I was informed that legs don't quite bend that way.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Scarves on a snowy day


Must...resist...urge to poke at niggling details that scream to be corrected....

On that note, I'm not sure if it's my monitor or my graphics card, but working in subtle steps up from pure black result in these weird patches of pixels that appear to vibrate. Blending over these trouble spots in Painter doesn't do a thing to fix it, so it's definitely not a software issue. True, they'll probably just convert to pure black when printed, but it's still perplexing.

Saturday, February 27, 2010