Making art
Blog posts about making comic and illustration art. Work in progress, creative process, design, art tools. The works.
Even Timelier Pencils
March 24, 2021 | BlogI rethought the first panel – I like this much better. If I still like it tomorrow, I can start inking things. Tonight’s brainstorm fuelled by the Bill & Ted Face the Music soundtrack. Thanks Bill & Ted!
Timely Pencils
March 23, 2021 | BlogLadies and gentlemen, some ugly pencils for the current comic. Death is at it again!
Blank Page Blues
March 20, 2021 | BlogWhen this page is blank, it can feel like the hardest thing in the world to get started. But once started, you don’t want to stop until it’s done. Except for hash browns and coffee. I mean, we have to live, amiright?
Pencils Pencils Everywhere
March 17, 2021 | BlogDeath is back, helping the hopeless. These are the pencil roughs for a new comic, drawn on plain old printer paper, with my comic grid printed for reference.
And To My Right…
March 12, 2021 | BlogMy lovely tool mess! Deleter ink is terrific. Series 7 brush from Winsor & Newton (#1) is dependable, especially when kept clean between uses (see brush cleaner). TWSBI Eco medium nib fountain pen for lettering, filled with Platinum Carbon black ink (it doesn’t like the eraser, so lettering is done with blue pencil). Not shown […]
Robot Upgrades
March 5, 2021 | BlogTime for a Robot retrospective! In 2003 I took a crack at creating a web comic strip. The result of that effort was The Good Little Robot. It was the adventures of a robot stranded on Earth, struggling to make sense of this planet, and the people who live on it. It was met with […]
Crows Past and Present
February 27, 2021 | BlogI was thinking recently about how much my drawings have changed since I started making Survival Anxiety. This is the first crows comic I drew in 2016.
Soft Boiled
February 25, 2021 | BlogDoesn’t everyone store their eggs in a limitless void? Just me? Boy, do you not know what you’re missing. Breaking out the white inks now, nearing the end of this one.
Patio Lanterns
February 24, 2021 | BlogInk, and splatter, this and that-er. Tonight’s panel, brought to you by Ryan’s Patio Lighting!