Comic Coloring Demo

I'm working on some coloring demos for April. A comic colorist adds color to lines drawn by other artists in order to complete the image. It's basically pants fancy coloring books.

The pencils by Chris Bachalo are great, but the inks by Tim Townsend are really fantastic.

It occurs to me that these may not be the best as samples because the snowstorm makes them a bit hard to read ... oh well.

Simpsons Storyboard Test

It's been a while since my last post, so I'm making this a good one. I give you my Simpsons Storyboard test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPt7zqBvB5k

The script, audio track and character/location models were provided. I contributed the drawings. Enjoy!

Mystery Caricature

Few things are more disappointing than people "not getting" your work. Example: This week I caricatured a celebrity I was watching give a speech, but my folks could not identify him based on my drawing. I was annoyed. But I looked at the drawing the next day and they were right - it looks nothing like him.

SO, I drew a couple of new ones, the one below in the style of Al Hirshfield. I think it's much better, but would trust an outside opinion. That's where you come in. If you can identify the person below, I will love you. That is all.

Life Drawings

Going to life drawing co-ops is a great way to build your skills as an artist. I've heard that if you can draw the human form you can draw anything ... not sure if I agree with that, but it's a good time, and it can't hurt.

Sometimes I try to draw "realistically"

 

  

Other times I try to caricature the models (to varying degrees). Sometimes I secretively draw a fellow co-op attendee (muah-ha-ha-ha!)

A rival artist once asked "What's the point in trying to draw something exactly as you see it? INTERPRET!" Hard to argue with, even if caricature isn't your thing.

  

  

  

Speaking of caricature ...