Octopuses and other things.

Three little pieces I've been working on amongst other things. The first is Monsieur O. Un Agent de la Résistance Français. He's a little creation of mine... but in the story he's a creation of the Nazis intended for use in the war... but, unexpectedly, Herr Krake falls in love with Paris and the French and rejects the Nazi scheme for world domination. And then some other stuff happens... i need to figure that out.

The next are two character portraits of characters for a short comic I'm illustrating.

The last is a scene from Minority Report, by Philip Dick. I picked up an audio book collection of his stories and am loving every minute of it. I had no idea he'd written so many of my favorite scifi films... so I'm knee deep in his works right now. Expect some more drawings inspired by his work.

Watercolors and Failed Comic Books

Ok, I've been messing around with adding some color to my ink drawings and, to be honest, I really don't want to learn digital colored all that bad. I figure, it's probably in my best interests to stick with the brush and let my brush skills benefit from the experience rather than my mouse hand. The first two are Iron Fist and Batman with Poison Ivy (my favorite bat-villain!). Iron Fist had the benefit of a model, Batman and Ivy did not. I think I can see the difference as a lot of guest work is left out in Iron Fist. I think with Batman, the dodgy bits are quite obvious and hurt it overall. My colors... well, I'm not completely satisfied. Don't get me wrong, the color is a nice touch but I made some mistakes on both. I learned the hard way with Iron Fist that you should do your inks AFTER your colors and with Bats, watch out for drawing in pencil too dark and washes with ink won't get as dark as you like.

Anyway, the final two are part of a 6 page comic on Rayna Eclipse that I started months ago. I guess I just lost ambition with it as the script was too loose, the panel layouts ambiguous, the dialogue... unknown. Plus I started using models after page one and it shows. I used a technical pen to ink and that really doesn't give me the line quality I can get with a brush. So if I ever feel the need to re-tackle the story... lessons learned.