Two brief process-related snippets this week. One is my continued attempt to train myself to flow more seamlessly between the more dimensional approach I am most used to, and the more flattened symbolic approach I have been enjoying so much lately. The above header image was a doodle made during an online board game...
2020-05-26 18:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I know you all have seen this page already, but I made this sequence of slides to post on social media (I'll post this weeks patreon page once I'm done with this).
I am already unbelievably grateful for all of your support (both here on Patreon, and in the non-digital world of flesh and bone!), so absolutely no pressure, but if any of...
Welp, I'm sick again. I don't know about you all, but I've been losing faith in my immune system lately. Being sick is such a pain! Yesterday my head was too muddled to even approach doing any real work (I think I managed to ink one panel). Today my mind is feeling clearer, even if my body feels just as bad. That's som...
2018-03-21 16:04:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The Japanese cartoonist Inio Asano is coming to TCAF this year, and in preparation, I am reading everything the library has of his work (about a dozen volumes).
I've read a few of his stories before, and my experience then is echoed in reading them now. This dude presents characters and situations that echo the darkest depths of...
Posts are slow coming on this trip, but I will be back in Toronto and on a regular update schedule next week!
I'm currently in New Jersey, visiting family, so there's not too much time for doing much drawing, but there has been plenty of travel time with lots of room for thought-work! Though there's not much result to visually ...
It always amazes me how difficult it can feel to sit down and draw some days, all of the tricks i find myself going through to get myself into a drawing mode. Maybe I've said this here before, but it reminds me of my experience with Tae-kwon do class growing up. The idea of going to class was rarely ever appealing, but once I forced myself through ...
2018-01-10 22:40:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The book Cricket is reading is inspired by the BBC television show "Secrets of the Castle, with Ruth, Peter, and Tom" . It's an amazing show about a castle that is currently being built in Guedelon, France. Everyone working on or around the castle...
2017-11-09 14:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Another tool has changed! This week I made the big little decision to change my primary inking implement for this comic from a faber castel pitt pen to a Tombo marker like THIS. I made this decision after making these warm up dra...
2017-10-19 03:16:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After a slow few days of re-learning how to make pictures move, I'm back up to speed working on this animation I started last year with my friend Nick Meurlott (aka Dangerlot). The goal is to have my part finished by this weekend, so i'm in for an intense week!
Its an interesting collaboration, in that we planned it out loosely together,...
The King of Police (or K.O.P.) sure is a bag of contradictions. Wisdom and foolishness in [approximately] equal measure. I'm excited to see how this character and his gang evolve as the story goes on!
Looking through my photos to grab this week's pencils, I realized I had taken photo reference for the previous week's stri...
2017-06-08 03:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the pencils for the cover of one of the class "graphic novels" from the Story Planet comics workshop from a few weeks ago. Inks, color, 4 interior pages, and one more cover to go, and the workshop will finally be complete! I've learned so much doing this project, and I think it will be satisfying to experience the improvements when we run ...
2017-05-20 07:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I just realized I forgot to post this on Patreon when I uploaded it to the main Turtle Library website! My apologies! To make up for it I'll make two back-to-back machine-gun-turbo posts right now!
By the time I finish this week's strip, I will have worked through all of the pages I initially sat down and thumbnailed (which I'l...
2017-05-01 19:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Just thought I'd take a break from pencilling this week's Turtle Library strip to show you the "about the authors"- type page from the "Official Investigators Logbook" Josh Rosen (joshdraws.com if you wanna see his stuff!) and I were up past three finishing a couple of nights ago. The workshop itself starts to tomorrow, so fingers crossed it all ...
2017-04-23 15:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
And here are the inks of the second shirt! Plus, if you'll direct your attention downward, you will encounter evidence of the strange and circuitous process which lead to this illsutration. You see, the pencil drawing below is a page of quick warm-up drawings I made while waiting for a Story Planet session to begin. I usually do t...
2017-02-18 17:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's what became of that pinball shirt drawing I posted pencils for the other day. I've also "accidentally" drawn up most of another possible shirt design, which i'll be sure to post once it's finished. Theres still a long ways to go until I've got these colored though. Soooooo much coloring! I may start going in to Marta's work even more reg...
2017-02-12 01:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of "finally"s here: finally found a way to post multiple images in one of these Patreon posts (though it is suuuper circuitous :0P) and I finally participated in a Story Planet workshop!
The workshops were wonderful. I was there "shadowing" my friend Josh Rosen, who has been working with Story Planet as an artist...
2017-01-30 20:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a quick pic of the prototype of my new game Climb and Go Sneak! I'm still working away at the Riverboat game that I believe I've mentioned before, and am part of the way through making the first prototype of that as well (albeit in a much more rough-n-rumble form). Still fine-tuning the rules for both games, but getting closer every day! ...
2017-01-04 00:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's the last piece of pen and ink for the book! front cover is on the right side, back is on the left. Next is all of the digital production work. Getting close!
2016-12-14 06:53:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Back again with another update on kid's book #2! In an attempt to make wrestling with our current not-so-good computer situation, I've uploaded this batch to google drive rather then go through the convoluted process that is now necessary to make a PDF. Please let me know how this works for you!
Hello hello! Sorry I haven't been posting much this last week or so, my insufficient excuse is that I've been spending most of my time helping Marta with the grunt-labor aspects of her upcoming exhibition. Still, I have managed to complete the storyboards for kids book #2 (Moon Full), and I will try and get around to posting them soon. I was abo...
2016-09-21 17:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post
here's the thumbnails for pages 8 through 15. The pages are drawn a bit out of order again, so make sure you check the page numbers when reading!
2016-09-09 20:43:17 +0000 UTC View Post
That bird from the Black Kids music video has been popping up everywhere. Here he is in a drawing I made for a Polish publisher's collection of bull drawings (the publisher is named Taurus Media: taurusmedia.pl).
2016-07-30 22:11:32 +0000 UTC View PostSome friends in Massachusetts have an ongoing gigantic add-a-panel-in-any-order drawin game. Here's my contribution from this visit!
2016-06-16 18:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post
