~ Death March... ~

After about several hundred sketches, I think I've finally formalized her look.

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Reworked a previous sequence - rearranged and added a few boards, redrew some poses, etc.

~Just in time for the weekend ~

Playing catch-up from last week's lack of posts:


Small scrap vignette from a 3 page short sequence. I ended up doing another version of this with different poses that I liked better:

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Been jumping between A.C. Doyle and Charles Dickens over the past week. First time I've had a chance to read either, including A Christmas Carol. Couldn't help but see Patrick Stewart as Scrooge every other 5th page...

Anyhow, ended up drawing the Ghost of Christmas Future (in a pose suspiciously similar to one I posted two weeks ago)... :

...With Ignorance and Want clinging tenaciously.

Yeah, technically they were with Ghost of Christmas Present, but I liked how Dickens described Christmas Future. And besides, these two brats ought to have been hanging out with the shadowy silent ninja character anyway - literally the Snake Eyes of the story. (Other options include Cthulhu and Soundwave.)

~ Artwork on the Sly... ~

...Because I'm literally writing this while the car's parked and idling near a streetlamp.

Some color once again:


Alternate/original take with the trio in the bg. I think the head honcho's design in this one is a little closer to what I originally intended, although I liked how the other two turned out in the retake (color).

...Very first take, w/ DNA and notes.

And I realized that the lady-characters-with-whistling-mouth was pretty popular last few posts - so here's a page with other mouth shapes:


And of course, boy meets girl. Or... wait... Chernobyl employee meets chimeric supermodel.... Something like that.

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And because I got permission to post this, courtesy of Miss May Ann: A lovely Ainu couple (and their Siberian tiger/butler) :

(Remember guys, a drawing for the lady's always a good idea. Better than roses even.)

(Well, maybe on-par with roses...)

~ War Driving... ~

So this is what I'm having to resort to these days for an internet fix. Even as I type this, I'm up the street pulling posting this blog off of someone else's wireless.

Speaking of war driving:


Scan and Graf, inspiration courtesy of Colin Fleming and Pen Ward (Character Animation, '05).

I remember going on a war driving session with these guys back during 3rd or 4th year at CalArts. Creeping around Valencia one dark and stormy night in a gun-metal grey Astro minivan (I think), laptop in hand and the A-Team soundtrack bumpin through the speakers, looking for any unprotected wireless connections to be had...

I think we ended up talking to Kevin back at Woodglen Apartments through a webcam.

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Short scene I've had sitting around for several months. Finally got around to adding color and words:


And another color piece for all you grim reaper fans. Not as dynamic as I'd've liked it to have been: