This is my second attempt at this idea. I’ve gotten into the habit of taking something all the way to the end and going: “🤔… Nope!” And then throwing it in the wastepaper basket of my mind.
2024-02-21 13:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes you get an idea in your head and you have to spend a huge chunk of your day trying to see it through. Sometimes the idea is a character you don't know if you'll ever use and sometimes it takes you way too long to finesse a design that you think works, but in the back of your head you know you'll probably want to re-do it two days later. Sometimes that character is a meathead with persistent bedhead and a long torso and big arms that aren't super jacked but he has surprising bulbous ...
2024-02-18 13:49:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So far, the new year has been a tough one and I got really distracted from 12-Inch. Cannen and Patrick from the Clubhouse have sorta taken center stage in my sketching - probably because they're shiny and new.
Patrick is based on a guy I follow on Twitter who I find really hard to caricature so I can never really figure out if I've gotten him right. Cannen is a longstanding character who I've mentioned here before who's never really had much more of a personality other than b...
Sometimes my animation background gets the best of me.
2023-12-29 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
December has already been a lot of unfinished pages, sketch sessions, and Me watching my Patreon followers jump ship. This is my busiest week at work and then I'm off until the New Year, so expect to see in a few days.
My goals for next year are to: 1) Focus on pages - get back on a consistent schedule 2) Stop hoarding "reference" - use it or lose it and 3) Work on one thing at a time - why am I juggling??
I consider Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet a seminal creative awakening. Before R+J I didn't realize you could reinterpret a dagger from a William Shakespeare play as a handgun with "dagger 9mm" branded on the side. I had no idea that Friar Laurence could send a letter through a modern day delivery service called "Post-Haste". I had no clue that Aloha shirts could have religious iconography weaved into their design or that Queen Mab could simply be a hit of acid placed on a character's...
2023-11-15 14:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I have an odd relationship with the blank comic page. Which is not unique to me of course - everyone does. But over the last year or so, I've been changing the way I approach it and I feel like I'm getting better results. I was thinking about it recently when I happened upon a Neil Gaiman interview where he talked about the differences in writing a novel and a comic. Outside of his usually, 'try stuff', 'finish stuff', 'don't worry about the work' attitude, he also talked a little about build...
2023-11-14 17:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm getting real ballsy and going at this without a script in place...
2023-11-13 14:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Exploring more Carlos and Cannen for later...
2023-11-08 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Pages have been slow during my recovery but I'm getting some warm up sketching in in between doctor's appointments.
2023-11-07 15:55:42 +0000 UTC View PostDue to a bunch of sudden medical needs I was not very productive the last week and half but now with most of the doctor’s appointments behind me I will be jumping back in this week.
Apologies for the lag.
2023-10-23 02:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a bunch of personal/work stuff this week so not a ton of time to focus on pages but I've been thinking a lot about this pair... Cannen and Benn (I'm trying out Ben with two "Ns" now - I might change it to Benny) - anyways...
Cannen is one of the few characters that cross over between both 12-Inch Roommate and Jockstrap Academy he was inspired by a character in the College b-movie Wimps (1986), also named Cannen. The Wimps-Cannen is a d...
A buncha sketches I pulled from reference...
2023-09-22 16:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
