Actual Sketches – Page 5

Detours book release?

Posted onMay 17, 2010Leave a comment

detours book cover

I can explain. It all started with a swirly texture that I sketched out a few days ago. I had no choice but to scan it in and start playing with it in PhotoShop. Once I came up with a few interesting variations, I thought, “That would make one sweet background for a comic!” Of course I couldn’t stop there, having come so far, so I worked up this scene of Zeke exploring something. How it turned into a book cover is anybody’s guess.

Will there be an actual Detours book rolling off the presses?
I’m not currently at liberty to say… Although I can say this much; it definitely isn’t going to be printed before I actually draw the comic. Pretty sure on that part.

All I’ve got for you so far, are the fragments of my experimental comic.

Character sketches

Posted onApril 19, 2010Leave a comment

carpenter guy

MASTER CARPENTER

Here are a few character sketches. The rough idea here was to weave some back-story into the “portraits”. I thought it would be cool if I could imply some history, or personality behind the characters being represented. Other than that, this is just good clean fun with a sketchbook.

Sketching Relics

Posted onApril 18, 2010Leave a comment

Here are a few quick sketches I did at Rug & Relic a while back. There are so many cool and random paintings, carvings, pottery, rugs, and relics there! I wandered around like a kid in a candy store for some time before deciding on a few things to actually draw. I skipped the rugs this time around…

large pots

A FEW LARGE POTS

Sketching around town

Posted onApril 13, 2010Leave a comment

theater seat at the Orpheum

I scored some new Prismacolor markers in various vibrant shades of gray. This sketch of a seat from the Orpheum theater was their first trial run. I think I need a few more darker shades so I can build up some deeper shadows. Kind of fun though…

BTW – This is the first drawing I’ve ever done while on stage. No word yet on when the performance will be going on tour.

Playing with hand drawn typography 1

Posted onFebruary 25, 2010Leave a comment

pants_then_shoes

Its the little things that make all the difference…

Anyway, rough as it is, I think the connections between the letters is fun.

Sketching at arm’s length

Posted onFebruary 20, 2010Leave a comment

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When in doubt, draw what’s right in front of you. I got a Droid Eris recently. This thing can do all kinds of cool stuff… most of it isn’t really all that necessary, but cool none-the-less.

“Wooden Oh” sketch

Posted onJanuary 24, 2010Leave a comment

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Many times drawing is an exploratory process. I start with the seed of an idea and see where it goes. Not the case here. This graphical “O” burst into my head, fully formed, animated, and way cooler than it turned out in this first attempt to get in out on paper. Hopefully I can carve out some time to develop it some more. I kinda like it.

DrawnTown with a view

Posted onNovember 4, 2009Leave a comment

I realized that I never posted the results from the last DrawnTown, which was nearly a month ago. I’m sure the tension is killing all the rabid fans out there…

Rabid fans? …Is that like a ceiling fan that’s foaming at the mouth? Lets hope I bolted that thing on good enough, or I’ll end up with a fan blade to the head! Freaky.

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So, this DrawnTown was at Kiel’s trendy downtown apartment, and featured a selection of delicious soups and some homemade cider. I’m going to start coming just for the food… Oh, and there was some drawing too:

View out the window. (If you’re good you should be able to tell where Kiel lives just from this drawing.)

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Its a pre-school thing

Posted onOctober 4, 2009Leave a comment

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Maybe I’m reverting to a three-year-old… Actually, I have this brilliant, sophisticated, and entirely grown up idea for a comic strip rattling around in my head, but this is all the further I’ve gotten so far. It is kind of a reminder sketch. You can tell it is going to be revolutionary, no?

It was kind of fun to “play” with the blocks in my head to draw this… maybe I should go pick up a set and see what I’ve been missing.

Drawin’ at the Falls

Posted onAugust 16, 2009Leave a comment

I dropped by the Sioux Falls last week for another installment of “Drawn Town Sioux Falls”. The place was down-right infested with people scratching away in sketchbooks. Innocent bystanders kept wondering if we were all part of some art class. Classic. Here is what I managed to put on paper:

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You can get a bigger picture of the maddness in this slideshow.