Sketch Monday

                                                 

                                I love drawing fish men.  This handsome devil is for a project I'm working on with my buddy Dave.  The tendency when drawing fish men now is to begin to move towards what Guillermo Del Toro did with Abe Sapien.  I mean it is hard not to.  Abe is a great design.  I immediately wanted to do something that moved the design away from that a bit and into something different.  Ray Harryhausen the greatest of all monster makers said if you can draw the creature in repose and make it look believable then you've got a good monster.  With that in mind, I moved the fish man into a seated pose, and saw that what I'm really going for is a more amphibian look.  This totally had an effect on the overall design.  Can't wait to do more on this.  

Check back here next Monday for more sketch goodness, and tune in tomorrow for Tutorial Tuesday!

Sketch Monday

Every once in a while I get the urge to draw a super-hero, and Spider-Man is a childhood favorite.  I knocked this quick little number out while on the train on Saturday, on the way to visit family for the holidays.

Sketch Monday

This one actually started out as an example to one of my students regarding composition, and I just continued with it.  I had a lot of fun losing myself in the drawing.

Sketch Monday!

Hey look whats back!  After several months of quiet we are back up and running.  I feel I should take a moment to explain my absence.  I was furiously trying to meet my deadline for The Battle of Blood and Ink.  Last night I finished inking the last page.  Everything is sent off to the editor and now I have a bit of breathing space.  I've got  a few posts about Blood and Ink to put up, but for the moment I need a little breather.  I figured a sketch was the best welcome back.  Anyway enough with my jibber jabber, onto the drawing!

  

This caricature of George W. Bush was done in a bar on the fly for a potential client.  I ended up not taking the job, but I really like the drawing.  Next up, thoughts on completing a graphic novel.