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Word Man 3

February 2nd, 2012 by

word man rocking out

I finished this the other night. I might be learning a thing or two about color.

Slowly.

Buy One Get One Bee

January 23rd, 2012 by

buy one get one sketch process

We bought some cookies today–because it’s cheat day!–and the sticker on the box was a giant BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!! sticker. Then, once we arrived home, inspiration struck.

Above,  I present to you the “original” sketch followed by the intermediary step before the inky final step. I say “original” like that because, sadly, there is no actual original.  I did all of this in Manga Studio, my favorite program for drawing comics. I wish they would pay me to advertise for them because it’s that good. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: go try out the demo! The trial is only for the Debut version, but every few months it seems you can find EX 4 on sale for around $200 or less. It is WORTH IT.

Kt Shy’s Sketch Blog! – Frustration

January 22nd, 2012 by

kt shy's drawing

Kt Shy’s Sketch Blog!: Touch.

It’s comforting to see someone who can draw really well still gets frustrated with her work. Every time I get back in the groove of drawing–after making three-to-six comics it seems–I get super frustrated for no damn reason. Then, no one sees me for about six months.

Anyhooo, check out her sketch-a-ma-blog or her deviantart portfolio.

Sometime soon I will be saving up and buying Silly Kingdom, a comic by her and her brother.

*image rehosted from her sketchblog*

Hand Lettering

January 9th, 2012 by

Here’s a big close-up of the hand lettering that I did for Thursday’s Illustrated Thesaurus. I still have lots of practicing to do on the hand lettering, or traditional way of doing it, but I really enjoy it. The slant is still all over the place and I haven’t played with big bold letters enough, which shows. However, digital lettering is equally as fun, but in a completely different way. I love being able to throw down all the word bubbles and rearrange them at will, if needed, while selecting just the right font. I couldn’t pick which way is may favorite at this point in time, but it sure is nice to have a physical piece of artwork with the complete comic and word bubbles on it.

If you haven’t checked, I ported everything over to ComicPress on the Illustrated Thesaurus site and even found a ‘related posts by tags’ widget plugin. That’s what I really wanted! That way, when a word like abnormal comes up, you can see links directly to any related or synonymous words like aberrant! I’m so excited. It only took 6+ years for that idea to finally realize, as it was not obtainable using the old comic system I was using. Once there’s a few hundred words on there, that feature will really come into play.

How to make ice cream like a man

December 24th, 2011 by

Sketches from Hell

October 20th, 2011 by

  

And by hell, I mean the bathroom.

Let’s get personal, kids.
I spend a lot of time in the bathroom.
A wasteful amount of time.
Not having fun, either.
Digestive issues.
Buuuggghh.

Then, a good friend gave me some tablet-PCs that his company was just going to throw away. They even have Sketchbook pro on ‘em and come complete with a Wacom-type stylus that is pressure sensitive. Wacom may have contributed to the making of them, I don’t know. I do know, however, that it is immense fun to draw on the thing. Absolutely no keyboard though, so it’s not ideal for typing. I don’t have that kind of time in there.

That’s when the magic started happening. I’ve been drawing on this tablet thing for almost 2 weeks and making some fun drawings. Even started some goofy comic strips that I can’t wait to finish by beaming them to the real computer so I can finish them on the Cintiq. It’s a lot easier to finish something on the big screen and with a keyboard for shortcuts.

Enjoy these drawings knowing they caused me horrible, horrible stomach pain!

Fill a sketchbook 04

October 7th, 2011 by

More squid tits. Including the squid tits logo! I love it.

 

 

Test post

October 6th, 2011 by

I like the new TMBG album Join Us.

It is enjoyable.

Fill a sketchbook 03

October 6th, 2011 by

Here’s some more. The beginning of the squid tits!

Word Man 02

October 5th, 2011 by

Here’s another teaser image for Word Man. I like sharks.
That’s what they’re supposed to be. Don’t judge me.