INKtober Day 6

Yay! More Gertrude. Boy these are fun to do. So much inking. I think I have to use some wallpaper sometime in there though.

Another one from The Sartorialist. These are really fun to do with the water brush filled with ink.

INKtober Day 5

 Sue Heck. Because she is my favorite character on The Middle. Then Brick. Sorry Sue actress. You are way cuter than this pic.

From The Sartorialist. Always fun.

INKtober Day 4

 Harry Potter, looking like a tool. I apologized to him already.

Some MidSomer Murders fan art of Chief Inspector Barnaby. I don't think Detective is part of his title, but I don't want to look in case there are spoilers. I am loving that show.

Wonder Woman with her lasso. Not sure why I give her such wild hair.

INKtober Day 3

The second of 2 Wonder Woman drawings I did last night. I have a short story I want to do, so I should really practice her. I have to keep looking up references because even though I can always recognize her, I can't say the pieces of her costume. Hope I got them all.

 I love this one, except what happened to her face?! I figure a flying cat would just limpy hang from it's own heard. I learned how to do clouds from looking at Skottie Young's amazing work.

Here are some doodles and ink scratches. It says "Rock out with your Doc out." A quote from a co-worker. Makes me laugh every time. And that is a pencil sticking out of the crotch.

INKtober Day 2

Day 2! This was a fun one, again with the brush pen thing, but in my sketch book. Which works well because even a lot of ink won't get through the paper. I just adore Kate Beaton's style, so I wanted to give it a shot. It works really well with this fat brush pen because I can't get bogged down in the details. I did pencil this out first but I can't work without guidelines and it looks better than i thought it would.

INKtober day 1

First INKtober drawing. This is another character from the story I am hopefully working on soon. I got a water brush and some paper from Uwajimaya in downtown Seattle this weekend with Abe. I filled the brush with ink instead of water. 

 These are my tests on the rough side of the new paper. That on the right is how bad my people look without sketching them before hand. Eesh. Couple of corgis. Perhaps I will need to do a comic in this style of corgi.

Then the practice on the smooth side. I don't think it makes much of a difference and I can't tell what the paper is or what is the intended side since it is all Japanese.

Sketchy times

More sketches. Tried doing cartoony corgis. I am not great at drawing dogs for some reason.

This golem is a character for an upcoming story that I will hopefully get started on in the next few months. Yeah, I spelled it wrong on the paper using the Lord of the Rings character name. Well aren't I a dummy.

Here are some sketches I did during 40 minutes of the hour wait to get our oil changed on the Kia Rio5 at the Kia dealership. That place is great, if understaffed on Saturdays.

The notes are as follows:

• Kia lounge chair
• Oh, Awake Tazo tea, how yummy you are.
• Bored much? Gotta bring stuff to do at an oil change!
• This may be the best car I've ever drawn. How sad and exciting.
  I was confused when I noticed it was a Chevy because we are at our Kia dealership, but then I remembered it was Chuck Olson Chevrolet.
• Just OK used cars? (that really is the sign!)

Next up are the sketches from the Northwest Poetry Reading at Northwest Book Fest 2011. The first three faces are two of the featured poets that I enjoyed. David was quite animated and funny. One of his poems was about the emperor of Rome and how he could stab people and they would thank him. Made me laugh. I think his set of poems on that would make great comics. Another poem, by the MC, was in response to a restriction on a poetry submission that said no rhymes. Of course, the poem rhymed. The last part is a little landscape of memory from the pond at my mom's while she was reading (Anita Boyle, ladies and gentlemen).

Second page of sketches while listening to the rest of the featured poets. Most of them are of the audience, hence the backs of heads.

There was an open mic after the featured poets and first up was one of my old high school classmates, Matt Bauer. He was really good; I was impressed. He wrote a great poem about working in Renton. Fortunately I have a window, but I understand in his poem about not having one. Sometimes I feel like I don't have one even though it is one wall of my cubicle. On the parking lot. Yay.