Guest Comic

I'm currently working on the layout for a new comic strip. In the meantime, here's a comic from guest artist Mira, featuring dialogue from an actual conversation she and I had this afternoon:

 

Sometimes when I talk with her, I feel like I'm in a poorly translated foreign film. Maybe a Bollywood movie, since she occasionally breaks into a spontaneous dance routine.

It's a Friday

Not much on the illustration docket today... I started doodling a ship in Colors! for DS, but I'm not sure if I'm feeling it enough to finish...

I'm gratified by the positive response to the comic strips I've done recently, and I can say with certainty that I'll make a couple more in the near future. I have at least a few more ideas I want to play with.

 

I would prefer it if they stay fairly spontaneous; the minute it starts to feel contrived, I plan on giving it up. The joy of the strips for me so far has been that they're based on stuff that really happened.

Sleep? BAAA!!!

As per suggestion, here's last night's Facebook status converted into a comic strip...

Drizzle

For today's illustration, tried for a bit of a storybook feel...

And here are some quick sketches I did on the bus this morning:

Talk Time

After a long night of not much sleep because of a certain 19-month old, I had to get this out of my system...

Elder

I got on the bus this morning and down the aisle from me sat this elderly Asian man with a cane propped over his lap. Unfortunately someone was between us along my line-of-sight, so I could only see his head, hands, and knees. At first I thought to let it go as a missed opportunity, but it was just too good to pass up-- senior citizens often make good subjects to draw; their limbs tend to fall into dynamic angles, their clothes will drape over their forms in interesting ways. So I started to draw the man, and no sooner than the moment I put pen to paper, the person between us stood up and got off the bus. Yes! It then became a race against time, before someone sat between us again, the old man reached his stop, or I reached mine. I sat there scribbling away, juking my head back and forth trying to see around seats and bus poles. I imagine it looked rather silly, like a pigeon scanning a sidewalk for discarded Cheetos. Thankfully, I had just enough time to get the fellow down on paper...

30-day Drawing Commitment

My wife gave me this cool hardcover sketchbook that she made at North Branch Projects...

 
... and I decided to capitalize on the opportunity to fill it up, by committing to doing at least one drawing and/or painting everyday for a month. It may be from the sketchbook, could be a digital painting, or even something scrawled on a Post-It... and I might not be able to upload something everyday (it depends on my access to a scanner or a camera), but I will do my best to create something new each day, for the next 30 days.

So to kick it off, here's a pen-and-brush marker sketch... I like that it seems to tell a little bit of a story: