So here's a video I recently made about my process for making comics. It's called, "How NOT to make comics," and is available for free on YouTube. I don't recommend my process as it's a bit backwards but there really is no wrong way to make art. Have a watch if you dare!

Another iPad demo from work, this time a Monet copy. Wish I had more time to really work on it, but as a sketch, it's ok. Better than some of my others, though I think it looks more like his older self. Fun!

New page for Ghiroy. From start to finish, done today along with three loads of laundry. Trying to keep this one just fun. I think it is. At the least, I think it's visually interesting. LOTS of editing here. I've realized that my process is about 80% editing, moving things around, resizing, shaping and coloring. Just can't lay this stuff out ahead of time. Just doesn't work for me.

No scans or sketches for this one because I decided, for some fool reason, to take a lot of footage of me putting this page together. I'm planning on calling the video, "How Not to Make Comics." I'm only half serious about that title. I honestly don't think this is a process I would recommend to anyone else. That doesn't make it wrong, it's just kind of backwards from how it's generally done. Since I do a lot of teaching these days, I've been itching to do this kind of thing and this time thought to turn the recorder on while starting to make the page. Also took some footage of me inking pieces. I plan to add it all together in Final Cut Pro, do some narration and presentation and try and make the whole mess come in under 15 minutes. We'll see. This page is kind of complex. I rather like it because of that. It's starting to set the style for the rest of the comic and is also making things feel more lived in and messy, unlike the nice, above-it-all view we had in the opening pages. Everything's neat and clean til you start looking really closely, right? Anyway, I'm pretty happy with this one. Page 6. Only 180 or so to go.

Page 12 of Ghiroy. Still fun to do when I get the chance. This one required a LOT of moving and resizing. This is what happens when one doesn't do composition ahead of time. I'd probably spend the same amount of time the other way, so I guess it doesn't matter. I think this would be a fun cartoon show though it would lose some of the energy without the graffiti component. I enjoy the lack of panels, something I brought over to the Silas comic. Word balloons, too are meant to be more a part of the image as I so HATE it when they utterly contrast with the rest of the drawn page. This is the least popular of my stuff so this one really is just for me.

Was sitting at the car dealership awaiting service today and decided to bring my partner's iPad pro along to draw. Did this with Adobe Sketch (it's free) and a set of brushes that were styled after Edvard Munch's originals that were safely kept all these years. There's a contest going on from Adobe and while I may or may not enter it, it's cool to know that I can use a lot of the brushes I've bought for PS with Sketch. So I did this.

Yes, it's true; I am a fountain pen fan. A new one. The Esterbrook that I bought from eBay is the smoothest working nib I have ever used. Never had a nib of any kind literally glide across illustration board. The current Pilots still scratch as most nibs of any kind do though they're fine. But that 70 year old one...man. I could get used to that. Now I just have to keep OFF eBay and not get all crazy about pens. Yah...

Work art again. Another self portrait. This one felt a lot more 'me' though as I wasn't copying. I actually rather like it, distorted as it is. Same tools.

Two more of these work sketches. The top one is of a coworker, done rather quickly with just reference, no marks. The second is a somewhat unsuccessful copy of a Hals painting. That one had some marks but I think it's a poor choice to copy as there isn't a lot of structure in the original painting and he had access to the real person while I do not. Or I just did a crappy job. That being said, there are things I like about it and still think painting on the iPad is a good bit of fun.