Life Drawings

Need to do more drawing from life. It helps in that I tend to incorporate stuff that I picked up from life drawing into the cartoony stuff. It also goes in reverse. Not too happy with most of this stuff, but then again I don't really do this as often as I really should.

The one on the bottom right is another attempt to do a profile shot in the "style"

Strip One

So. after two and a half years of talking about this thing, I've finally got strip one up.

To begin with, I didn't realize it would take me THAT long to crank out one strip. Way too damn long. On the plus side, I've learned what to do to make this process easier on me.

1. Draw thumbnails of every fucking strip. None of this "Oh, I've got an idea of how the strip should look and I'll just draw each panel on the fly." crap. Layouts and composition get worked out with the drafts.
2. Attempt draw a weeks worth of panels on one shot. a) this keeps things consistent b) Once I'm in the groove, I can stay in it, and hopefully minimize "off days"
3. Those same panels will be inked the next day in one shot, again to maintain consistency. I apolgize for calling any inkers in the past "tracers". In order to really go the pencils any justice, you really do wind up redrawing the image all over again, using the pencils as a guide.
4. Colors on the third day. This is actually the easy part.

-Enjoy