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Inspired in part by Charles Huettner.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about manga studio, so I’m giving it a bit of a trial whirl right now. I don’t usually have a very painterly style—I typically keep things in blocks of solid color, I don’t even use brushes in photoshop—but manga studio’s strength seems to be in its brushes and how it simulates real media. I’m using this as a bit of a way to encourage myself to loosen up and try a smooshier, messier approach (not that that’s overly evident from this drawing).
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Had a lot of fun with this commission piece. From the pleasantly broad prompt of “ghosts/spirits”.
If you’re interested in commissioning me…
http://plain.bigcartel.com/product/commissioned-drawing-13-x-19
I recently commissioned a piece from Mac Schubert, who runs two nascent but so far fantastic comics and competed on Strip Search.
I’m pretty thrilled by what Mac cooked up, and I’m glad it was a fun project!
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I digitized an old doodle I’d always kind of liked.
I’m no stranger to inconsistent colors but man oh man this one seems to switch between highlighter green and dull green-gray, depending on the monitor and application.
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Late night sketch of a king who is also a bomb. It’s a metaphor, probably.
And he’s all outlined. Weird, right?
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I was really psyched about this for the first half of the drawing process, but I think I suffered from the art version of feature creep. Nothin’ like drawing a half-dozen hands to make an artist lose confidence. I’m still decently pleased with the final product, though.
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“I know what you are”
“Say it. Out loud.”
(bites lip. murmurs) “Vampire”
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An angry lightbulb (in a classic jailbreak pose?)
“But Cole, what’s the deal with the lighting in this picture? Why is the lightbulb emitting no light itself?”
“Um. Artistic license.”
“Also, it doesn’t make much sense spatially. How is he standing so close to the wall? Is he flat or something?”
“Shut up shut upppppp”
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I’ve been playing around with adding more corners and fewer curves (inspired by the style of one of my favorite artists, Mike Mignola). I think I may have applied that idea a bit too heavy-handedly here. *shrug*
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Hey blog. Long time no see.
I realized it’s been forever since I’ve posted anything, so I decided tonight to throw some colors on a sketch I did of a stubby shark.
I did a very similar poster for a Gauntlet Hair concert last year, because raspberry sharks are rad.
I’ve also wanted to play around with water ever since I read this post by nedroid, so…now I have done that. It kind of looks like cobwebs though.
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Calm the hell down, clefairy.
