Constantine, Morpheus, Jerusalem

Sketchathon topics continue to be worked on. This was requested on facebook by brother-from-other-mother Jamie. Not great, but not terrible. I went through far too many drafts for this, most of which involved Spider behaving badly. I could do a whole series. Maybe even a mini comic. Night on the town stuff. V

A Bunch of Work from 2013

I did less work than I would have liked in 2013. Various factors led to this, but mostly I spent the year either chasing client work that never came through, planning & putting work into personal projects that have yet to be realised (ahem, the webcomic, mostly), or actually enjoying myself with extended family. There […]

End of 2013 Mega Sketch-a-Thon! (Part 1)

In keeping with a tradition I’ve done… er, two or three times, sporadically, it’s time for another Sketch-a-thon! I set aside a whole weekend for this, and solicited sketch topics on both facebook & twitter. I got a ton, and am still working through most of them. But here’s the first eight. “Bear With Us” […]

Doodling Owls

pen sketch of an owl's head

That title just sounds wrong. Using a very loose pen sketch technique which basically involves keeping a fineliner pinned to the paper and not picking it up until the sketch is more or less done, then doing similarly rough blacks with a big marker.

Purpose? To loosen up the hand, actually (and much needed with how little drawing I’ve been doing).

pen sketch of an owl

This one actually not the second sketch I did on the page, but the third. For some reason the second sketch is always crap. 😐

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Doodling Owls

pen sketch of an owl's head

That title just sounds wrong. Using a very loose pen sketch technique which basically involves keeping a fineliner pinned to the paper and not picking it up until the sketch is more or less done, then doing similarly rough blacks with a big marker.

Purpose? To loosen up the hand, actually (and much needed with how little drawing I’ve been doing).

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