Merry Christmas, Baby

I'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and wish you all the best of luck in the New Year!

American Indie

One page of American Indie is done now I finally have new Microns. I'm starting to ink Andy now and then I'm going to tackle Erik. This is a sample of the "American Indie" one pager! Back to inking!

20th Post!

AMERICAN INDIE

Me and Joe were talking about how depressing American indie comics were and so I decided I wanted to do a slight parody of all that stuff. What was born was "American Indie," a concept for a comic without a main character. I came up with a male lead character for the thing and then promptly noticed that I'd created Pranas, from Rocket Tonic (check the links). So after toying around with the character to distance him from Pranas, HE became a SHE. What a lovely girl she turned out to be too! I got her name by showing people the initial sketch of her and asking them what her name was.

After several ideas for names, the winner was "Lisa" and here she is!

Watch out for American Indie coming next quarter in Team JAM's yet-to-be-named mini comic!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Here's a drawing of Spongebob I did tonight. Overall it probably took me just over an hour.
I tried the Threshold adjustment, so it was all simple stuff with the paint bucket. I picked out the palette myself with a reference picture and no use of the picker tool.

I dunno, I just really wanted to draw Spongebob with my own slight slant on him. So here it is.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

Doodles

So this past quarter I was in one of the worst math classes I've ever been in. I sat and thumbnailed a whole load of Andy strips, designed my Hobgoblin and did various other doodles in that class. I saw on Joe's blog that he was posting doodles and sketches and I remembered these. I don't know why I did them in my math notes and not a skecthbook... Nothing tinkering with the levels won't solve!

Here you guys go!

Well everyone, it looks like fate (and Joe) forces my hand to make a new post!

The mini is coming along nicely. I just finished thumbnailing the Andy story and need to pencil four more pages for that. Erik is already scripted and I since I wrote the thing, I'm not going to thumbnail it (although I might do some test sketches). Erik is going to be drawn smaller too, 1) to save time and effort and 2) because I want to use microns and have rounded edges to my lines, giving it a childish feel... Andy is the full 11 x 17 though...

I made a stencil to draw a 10 x 15 frame so I don't have to waste time with Mr. T-Square. This was not a fantastic idea. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who's trying to cut corners as you have to keep it steady, get it straight on the bristol and hold it still while you draw. If you haven't already, get friendly with Mr. T-Square, a little tape and the corner of your drafting table... and apparently it's bad to measure out from the edge of your bristol, as the people that cut these pads ain't exactly careful with that stuff...

Of course, I'm preaching to the choir. So now it's art time!!

This is something I did in the awe-inspiring David Allan Duncan's cartooning class. I figured jokes about racism were easy to do (Dave Chapelle, Carlos Mencia to name a few) and while I was trying to come up with an idea I remembered all the different colored people in Doug! Almost every character was a different color! It was odd!! Anyway, here you go!I'm just about over the wisdom teeth thing now. Bailey's away this weekend, so I'm gonna try and work hard on the mini! Ta-ta for now...