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OK, this is my title piece I guess, though it's not really a drawing. I did the whole thing on computer. It's not something that took hours to make either, but it really has a nice feel to it. I like the red and green of the leaf, and the shadow effect of the larger leaf. |
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I've been experimenting of late a bit with a brush and ink, though I don't think it's at all possible
for me to do my comic that way. It's just an interesting art form.
This is my trying to see whether I can successfully express an emotion with as few real
lines as possible, and just dashing an image down on the page. This instance turned out quite well I
think. It's title is "But it's funny!" and beyond just the feeling of someone amused, I think it
fits that comment quite well. It just works in my opinion, and also fills the space well, for not
having a real background.
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This second is following a similar theme which I've been doing with these, of just producing a phrase
at random, and then drawing based off of that. This one has one I'm slightly embaresed by, which is
"What makes you think I'm pure?" It's just strikes me as sorta odd with this character. This also
ended up using a lighter ink than the former. It's also a much earlier onein the experiment, and
partly I think that shows. It makes for a nice contrast though.
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This is one of those things where I basically start by making a line, then end up with
an entire idea for a comic just based on the drawing. It's a bit odd how I can do them sometimes
simply by free association and letting my hand work. I'm always a bit sketchy on where swords over
the shoulder should lie, and this one looks a little high. It's also set up to be drawn right handed
right now, so how clever can my subconcious actually be?
Or maybe Jenny's simply right handed in this dream. I suppose there's odder things to be true.
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This is essentually something I made to contrast my own and other people's concepts
of what a relaxing image was. Of course, this is purely as a result of my stories and associations
with characters in them (not yet writen in this case) but I found it odd anyway that I felt compelled
to make this, and then just found it rather pleasent, despite everything in it looking a bit excessively
pointy and burned.
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This was something of an introductory concept piece I did for a class project involving a writing a
childrens book. It's a bit larger than anything in it would probably end up being, but I liked the
idea enough that I really wanted to impliment it as fully as I could at least once.
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This would be one of those oddities that springs out of my head when I'm sitting around for long
weeks of the summer with more time to think of ideas than is entirely healthy. Not only to think of
things, but to do the research and planning it takes to do it halfway decently. If decent is in
fact the word.
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I can't particularly name the reason I decided to design this. At the time, they were ment to be more
of contrasting forces than they are at this point. Or maybe I just like doing their little paterns
right next to one another.
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Sometimes things are done best when they're done small. This is just a small drawing of Jandice from
the corner of one of my pages of notes that I particularly liked.
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A little more formal than the above piece, but of the same school of thought of just making something
small to express the moment.
The moment I'm having instead of thinking about what I probably should be in class.
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Another piece done while sitting on an airplane, just letting my mind sorta flow. Jenny appears to
have aged a bit in order to be in this picture. Loosely based off of what my door looked like at
Vassar.
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There's something I like about this. It's a fence post with no real purpose, being connected to nothing
else. Around it are now free grass lands. One thing is caught in it. A scrap of cloth caught on a
nail for whatever reason. Of course, by being there it flutters with a lot more life than it
would if it fell, but it's in an odd place above where it should be, and definitely still caught.
Interesting though, despite just being a scrap of cloth. Needless to say, I liked the idea enough to
draw the thousands of blades of grass in this. Like library picture, or lizard below, I'm not sure
what compells me to do these things.
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Here we have the inexplicably named Tandy, also of a series yet to come. I'm not sure why I like this
particular people I made up, but I really do.
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This would be one of those truly random things that occur. Jenny, in red, with a sphere of some sort and of course long, kinda lop-earish things. Definitely a drift into high fantasy I suppose, though I didn't bother altering the costume, as it were. In blowing it up a bit, the different reds do show up nicely, if not so much so after compression. Was originally done on a 3x 5 note card that I had sitting around.
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I'm really not sure what's up with me and doing alternative Jenny's anymore than I'm certain why I keep doing them on little 3 x 5 cards. I like them though, even if this two sworded one seems a bit more violent than the other. It seems pretty inevitable she's gong to end up lopping off her own hair there, but perhaps she has a way to avoid that. It's certainly gotten long enough as is.
The pose is odd to me. It works and doesn't. It switches between being interesting and looking a bit wrong to me. Her butt seems too low, or perhaps her torso too long. But that's mostly when art from the bottom up. When I'm scanning from the top down it seems like a lot less of an issue. She's crouching a bit, and it tosses her weiht a bit off where it might normally seem to be. So what? The shirt's also longer than normal, which makes things a bit different.
Bottom up, her legs go from the ground to her body in about half the distance that the rest of it goes up from there. That can't possibly be right. |
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There is no real explination to go with this. The bunny's come from this strip, while the fish come from a series of things I did that I never posted and lost awhile back with the rest of my hard drive. The little note at the top is an attempt to give it any placement at all, but there just isn't. And while I enjoy the feel of it, there really is no way I could ever work into a comic strip. It just doesn't make any sence, which perhaps is why I do like it. |
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The third in my series of four so far in my experiments with working in only three colors, brown, black and silver, in the form of sharpie markers. I only have scans of two of them unfortunately, and I've given them all away. They all have slightly different aproches to the matter, this one going for a much more solid silver look than most of the others, and getting a much greatter variety in it in surfaces since it ended up almost wearing out the pen by the end of things. |
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I think this is perhaps my favorite of this series of experiments, because it explores using
all of the colors the most, both individually and in combination. It's unfortunate that it perhaps went to the person least likely to appreciate it as a gift, though it seemed apropriate at the time. In anycase, I particularly like how the foreground tree turned out, as well as the ocean. Am particularly proud since this came from a referance picture I took myself. I have to remember to carry my camera around more so I can find things like this to draw. |
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This is a picture I made while trying to work out some details of how the work would look in the other, more fantasy based seies I've been 'working' on. It has not yet gained the sort of momentum that my current ones have, but I find myself when I have time fiddling a lot with the characters and plot to that. It takes more work, since the way I'm writting it I'm going to need to know a lot more in advance what's going to happen. Anyway, this is one of the main characters weilding a rapier and oddly garbed, who's going under the name Violet at the moment. |
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This is the first solid picture of Violet that I drew after having a dream that mapped out a large plot involving her that was eventually almost completely scraped. She endured though, and with the combination of a lot of the other things in the back of my head, she seems to be a fairly central character now for when I finally get around to doing a fantasy series. The armor has changed a bit since then, but the glasses or goggles have always been there. So have the strange wing-things for that matter. I've never really adiquately explained those, even to myself, but they were so distinctive, and so much a part of who she was they stay, even after I think of inconvience after inconvience that they'd cause. |
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This is one of those reaccuring people who happen in my sketchbook, though not always quite this amicable looking. This is perhaps the first thing that I've ever done that got me asked if I was a perfessional artist, after spending hours and hours working on it while sitting in a plane. The actual image is simple in some ways. But then I decided that I wanted to make the background interesting, and drew in each and every one of those books individually, and then shaded them differently. By the end I was more than tired of it, but the effect I have to say is really nice.
I want a library like that. |
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The Power Puff comic, inspired by the Power Puff Girls Movie. It's been pointed out to me since dong this that they actually fit all the roles. Personally, I just find them amusing to draw, but I have to say, it takes a surprising amount of effort to do it right, so I respect people who reference them and do, and tend to less so those who don't think and end up with fairly skewed results. |
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Hmm, finally got this in. This was my art final project in high school. It's made up of a few people and places from more serious stories I've been working on. Unfortunately, nothing complete yet. |
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Kismet, the ever cute being. This is based off a picture I took of her when I was first moving into my house, and she decided that my hat was the best bed available at the time. |
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Another notebook piece. Nothing too dramatic, but sort of the largest version of a continuing theme in my notebook to date. Strangely, I've never been able to draw a face to go with this eye though I've tried about 100 times. |
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This is my door. It's something I've constructed entirely out of masking tape. I can't really give a reason for it other than I got bored and made one of the hands and the rest came out by request. They still want more, but I'm at a loss of what more to add. A leg would just trip me every time I tried to walk into a door, and almost anything else is impractical. |
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This is sort of a small thing I did in the margins of my notes one day. I liked how it turned out so I decided to scan it so I wouldn't lose it. It's based on a much larger pencil piece I did, which I left at home so you won't be seeing that very soon. |
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Probably the most real thing I've ever drawn in my life. Which is kind of ironic seeing as it is a drawing of an incredibly fake looking plastic lizard I own. The real nice thing is all the scales, though by the end of the 5th hour of drawing tiny little rombuses I was ready to scream. It's amazing what art classes can convince you to do. |
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Generic fantasy hero piece, based on nothing in particular. He just sort of popped into my head in math class one day. I get a lot of ideas while in class. It keeps bugging me that there's nothing to hold that sword up, but erasing and drawing in again always leaves marks on the paper that tend to mar the outcome of fixing things. |
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*link broken due to overlapping comic name. Will be fixed when I find to rescan*
Flowers, backround is mostly invented because it was rather foggy the day I had to draw this for art class. Not much more I'd like to say about this. |
That's all of it that I'd like to show right now. I have a whole lot more crap that is better left in the darkness of my sketch book.