pictures that didn’t make the montage

Deja Voodoo

The still-untitled mystery project. This is rapidograph…normally I don’t like montages, but somehow this one was okay.

Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out of Me

“Teenagers scare the living shit out of me, they could care less as long as someone’ll bleed.” -MCR

The teenaged characters for [untitled mystery project]. Some of the proportions are a little wonky because at first I was going for a big-head-little-body look but then I toned in down. More importantly, I need to draw the adults. Hmmmm….

Mystery Project X, Page 25 Rough Layout

I am a’iight with this page. Oh, but I want to flip panel 2 so that Chris is coming from the left hand side, not the right. kthnx.

Mystery Project X, Layouts 1 – 5

I just want everyone to know, these are the MOST DETAILED LAYOUTS I have EVER done in my ENTIRE LIFE.

I guess this is sorta what my drawing style would look like if I someday learned to LET GO

I finished dis shit today, and “shit” is the word I want.

Maybe I’ll redo it in ink. I suck at paint. :/ I like his face and hair, but the rest of it is like total Photoshop Amateur Hour. Awkward.

In other news, my name is in the LA Times! Just my name…in the book review section (there’s an interview with John Reed, author of Tales of Woe)…but I am tickled to see my name there. Ha ha ha.

I’ve been working on this for most of the day:

He's holding an ~*invisible*~ backpack, not giving the thumbs-up. In case you were wondering.

It should be noted that I have no idea what I’m doing. I really suck at digital painting — actually, I suck at anything that’s not cel-shading, so I suck at real painting too. Painting fabric really daunts me (as you can see). This isn’t “for” anything, I’m just procrastinating. :/ His glasses are crooked and unrealistic. They will be repainted.

Anyway, I’m going to go get an espresso and hope this thing is sitting on my screen, magically finished when I get back.

ETA:

Here we are at approx. the 6-hour mark:

Now with visible backpack and ~*invisible*~ eyeglasses. :0

The idea here is to do the thing in greyscale first and then go back with color. I was hoping to finish this tonight, but I guess it’s not in the cards. :/ Balls.

Some Doodles of Marginal Importance

So I was recently trapped on an island, literally, when a Noreaster blew up and left me stranded with my mother on Martha’s Vineyard in Cape Cod. What was already an awkward, not-so-fun “family vacation” ended in 48 hours of hell — being cold, wet, and stuck sleeping in an elementary school gymnasium that the Red Cross set up as an “emergency disaster shelter.” It was nuts, like really nuts. It’ll make a funny story someday, but right now I’m none too eager to revisit it in detail, so let’s move on.

I brought my sketchbooks along with me on “vacation” but (as expected) was woefully unproductive. Around Day 4 I doodled myself. No need to tell me my legs aren’t toothpick-skinny; I know they aren’t. :/

I also transplanted my hairstyle onto a random face with neon-green cat-eye glasses, for fun. I bought a box of Crayons while up in Cape Cod, having gone through a brief phase of being really enthusiastic about crayons during my senior year of highschool. They are very easy to carry around with you, which is cool, although otherwise are probably not so useful….

Finally back in Brooklyn, I’m sending out an Etsy order tomorrow which includes the Moleskine. Did you know, that when you order my Moleskine minicomic off Etsy, I do a little drawing in the back, where there are two blank pages? True story, I do. I should have done it like that at conventions, too, but let’s face it — at MoCCA I was pretty much incapacitated. Next year….

And lastly, the only sketch really worth making a post about, is a quick and dirty sketch I started, and have yet to finish, for the story I like to allude to as “The Murder Story” or “Mystery Project X,” which is in fact tentatively titled “Bodysnatcher” (yes, Radiohead reference) in my head.

I’ve actually been focusing mainly on this lately (reason: I totally blew my second deadline with the script), which explains the lack of Charles and Renfield updates. But I want to get back to that damn comic. Just as soon as I rewrite the painfully long and complicated murder story which will never fit into the planned thirty pages I originally wanted to get it done in. :/ Balls.

More soon?? Maybe!