Drink 'n' Draw

Abe and I went to our first normally scheduled Drink 'n' Draw. Pretty fun, even though we came too late to get a good seat and ended up sequestered on a lonely couch that faced the same model TV that we have at home. First was the pig girl with mohawk and sideburn ponytails. There was also a sweet little Boston Terrier running around which inspired the little dog fella.

I realized I had been drawing hooves (the frog pony was first drawn on this page) because I am no good at hands and feet. So I drew a foot. I also started drawing what I thought my new glasses were going to look like before I picked them up. And Abe wanted to see Georgie's parents and Wellington's sisters (yes, The Jerks).

Abe didn't have his stupid mechanical pencil, so he ended up writing comic notes/stories most of the night, but  because of that he wanted to see some pictures of the Jerks to see that I could do it: Arthur blowing a raspberry, Georgie flipping someone off, Georgie smoking a cigar, Georgie from the side,  Georgie and Arthur bowling, a porcupine character for a Jerks Adventures story, Georgie splashing in water (I assumed happily, but it turns out he wanted scared).

I also drew Arthur and Georgie at different ages (sorry they are sideways). And some weird fish fella whose fin has been ripped off.

It was really fun and I look forward to going again. 4 pages of doodles is pretty good for me. And we get to meet other cartoonists. It was too bad we came too late to hang out in a section with other people, but we did get to talk to Adam a little, who we met at the ECCC version of the Drink 'n' Draw. I also passed around a copy of Hardly Kind, but I wasn't near anyone who read it so I don't know any reactions. The fella who returned the copy to me said he liked it, so that's something.

Color practice, lemming and bus stop

Well, I may have been a page and a half from finishing the inks for the lemming story for the last 4 days, but I did color the dancing lemming drawing. This was good practice because I found some colors I needed to order refills for. Though I think I have all the pens for the colors I need.

I also colored a page of Harrowing Tales at the Bus Stop, which turned out better than I expected. There may be a color version of this story in the future. The coloring in this is inconsistent panel-to-panel because I was trying out different colors. Based off this one, I do need some more colors. I ordered some of them, but others I didn't notice until I looked a little longer, like a lighter yellow.

Tonight is our second drink and draw. I am pretty excited, but I am also pretty exhausted. I had to pick Abe up from work, but I get there over an hour before he actually gets done. But I took full advantage of that time to read Shop Girl by Steve Martin. I am really enjoying it. Perhaps I will draw something from it and write up a review when I am done.

Do these sketches make me weird?

I decided to just sketch last night. Let the pencil do what it will. This is what happened. Think what you will.

You know, if anyone has tips on scanning and fixing these dratted pencil sketches, I would love to hear them. I draw pretty light.

Drink and Draw, ECCC edition

Sketches from my first drink and draw Friday night at Von's Roasthouse. I did not get much drawing done. I have a hard time drawing in public. Probably because everyone else is so much more awesome. So here we have some sketches in preparation for a Jerks story and just some other stuff.

On that last one, that is so washed out, there is the original Dude and updated Dude on the left and how I drew when I was very little on the right.
In other news, I finally got an artist's desk. It is nice and big and I can leave my stuff out. It has 6 small drawers and trays on both sides. Sometime I might even put pictures of it up.

people, part2

Quick post. More sketches of pictures from The Sartorialist. Also a drawing of me in a Julia Wertz style.

Tonight I am going to the special Emerald City Comicon Seattle Drink-and-Draw. I hope it is fun, but I will be at Von's Roasthouse tonight at 8:30, I guess. Away to Rift!

Sketches of people

Sketches of some great photos of people from The Sartorialist. I really need to practice drawing people, so I will probably be referencing that blog a lot. I used to watch it, but I wasn't really interested. Now that I had the idea to sketch the people I am interested again. 

 These are sketches of superhero women drawing by Andie Tong. These were really fun.

FYI, don't forget, I have Hardly Kind available as a PDF from The Illustrated Section and in hard copy at The Jerks store (if it is not there, send me an email or something and we will put it back up).

Kate Beaton fan art

Well, on my break at work, I took a little time to draw some holiday-themed Fat Pony fan art. If you have not checked out Kate Beaton's 'Hark! A Vagrant' you should because it is very funny. She has some hilarious "reviews" of novels, like Nancy Drew and Jane Austen.

These were drawn on the backs of scrap paper with a regular pen and highlighter.

St. Patrick's

Valentine's Day

Hahaha.