Hopey

Hopey

Due to a full time job etc... this is what I got. I used sketchup to block the characters, however as one can tell I did not use enough reference. Ben's is
http://inkstink.net/blog/2009/12/challenge-week-2-hopey/

Tin Tin?

Yikes, the art part of my brain must be in space as well! At least I'm drawing though (this is the first of a series of character drawings being posted every week).

C'est la vie,

Alex

Tin Tin

As per Ben's request. I would consider this a roughly inked sketch instead of a finished illustration. I was incredibly busy this week with work, including Sunday, so this is what I have. Hopefully next week will better.

Biz

You can buy Jon Sperry's rocketman shirt!

Open letter to female Avengers

Brought To You By: The Spacepope.

I was bored at work today.

it's been too long.

i haven't been arting for too many reasons. but I wanted to drop a note here about this site i have recently learned of:

The Grid System is an incredibly useful and interesting site about grids. grids make the world go, as any comics artist would know first hand.

i think seeing the philosophy behind their use in other fields is pretty valuable. also directly applicable to all the web stuff today's cartoonist/illustrator is pretty much obligated to do.

happy holidays, and may all your type adhere to a baseline grid.

Design By Humans shirt

I did this illustration the other day and figured I'd give it a shot as a t-shirt design over at Design By Humans. Check it out and if you like it, please vote for it. If you don't like it, vote for it anyways (I've got student loans to pay!). Here is the direct link: http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/25972

in stores tomorrow:

POPGUN 2:

featuring a story by Ulises Farinas with colors by Ben DeRosa. See previous post for some preview pages.

Art-Burn Team-up GO! Popgun 2 preview @ act-i-vate.

Act-i-vate has a posted some Popgun 2 previews, including Leaf & August by Ulises, with colors by me (Ben).

read it!

batman? who?

haven't seen the new batman movie yet, but...

tintin wins easily, i think. hopefully the next batman movie will reflect this (crossover?).

(photo by me. hooray)

Giraffe-man is going to be a huge hit...

Here's an interesting piece on alex ross, photo-reliant/mimicking art and what it's done to comics. The comment section is mostly worth reading as well.

What drives me crazy though, (even if i agree with the central premise: ross=lame, fumetti-esque comics=suck) is how photo reference has somehow become a catch all pejorative term for quasi-plagarism/lazy/crutch-for-the-unskilled.

Photo reference doesn't mean photocopying, tracing, duplicating, or stealing a photograph. Photo reference means just what it sounds like. It's reference. It's the visual research you do, so you know and understand what it is you're planning to draw. Let's imagine I'm drawing a comic that features a giraffe (yes, the imagination is a terrifyingly powerful thing). I have a vague idea of what giraffes look like in my head. I know they have long necks, and sort of look like a cross between camels and horses, but beyond that it's pretty fuzzy. How long is the neck in the relationship to the body? They've got those knob things on their heads, but what exactly do they look like? and where exactly are they on the head; are they behind the ears, or between the ears? And what the hell kind of ears do they have? Shit if I know off the top of my head.

photo by digitalART2

photo by cornstaruk

photo by Wildcat Dunny

Oh, that's what they look like. Now I can draw any giraffe I want. Thanks, photo reference. And thanks, baby giraffe...

photo by Ron D’Raine