Acheulean Beatboard

Piece from almost a year ago. Posted on the Instagram account back then; did a couple slight revisions the meanwhile, mostly having to do with just balancing the faces and head shapes surprisingly enough. (I can see why most artists avoid doing the downward-angled head at a slight turn from center. I think though that this was drawn before I had a more solid undersketch system down, or of establishing the feature distances on a character's face.)

~ Color Studies, or: Comic Panel Procrastination... ~


Wanted to do some studies in color. These are around the Golden Hour, sunset. I have another set of panels set during mid-day; I'll post those next time. The negative space is presumably for word bubbles. The panel layout was kind of an after-thought.

I'm noticing that I need to open up my character expression vocabulary a little more, give them a bigger variety of emotions and expressions. As is, I'm tending to start these scenarios or scenes with the introductory shot of someone looking dire or morose. I blame Russian novels.

Besides this, I need to work more on being able to pace a scene out, find where to bring the emotional level up during an interaction between characters. Plus, there are more than a few ways to make a scene interesting without having to resort to yelling and/or violence. I blame Tarantino* and whoever made Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.

(*Although he's gotten better. Reservoir Dogs is the only one that I've seen that's annoying in that respect.)

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Something from the sketchbook this past week:On a side note: Fabric softener is probably one of the best inventions of the modern world.

~ Quick Storyboard Sequential... ~

~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.)