Penny and Walter’s Uncomfortable Dinner. brush and ink.

If you were not aware, Ananth and I are currently posting pages from Lucky Penny over at Johnny Wander! This is a panel from page 60-something, but I was pleased with the inks and am sharing it with you now.

This was the second time I’d ever used SketchUp to do a panel layout. Just a buncha squares to show where furniture sat — but it was a fairly painless process, all things considered. And it saved me an incredible amount of time!

2012 Monthly Art Meme. (2011 • 2010)

I did a lot of art this year!  Unfortunately, most of it is unpublished and/or for unannounced projects.  And while I prefer to put this yearly meme together with exclusively private non-fanart work, a good deal of fanart/published/professional work made its way into the spread.

I would like for 2013 to be a “keep your head down, work work work and don’t stop” year, though that was the intention for last year and I didn’t get half the things done last year I wanted.  Or maybe I keep unrealistic expectations of myself.

Funny how the year both opened and ended with Dhio and Kaia!  Maybe I should do another portrait of them before the month is over.

Penny, sittin’.  photoshop.

I meant to post this earlier in the week!  Oops!  I initially did this as a sketch warmup and then it wound up getting finished, ha ha.

Some day I’m gonna finish this book.  I just gotta finish… this other book first…

Lucky Penny pg. 9 preview.

Wow, everything I’ve posted lately has been in greyscale!  I promise I’ll have something really cool and full-color next week— it’s just been kinda crazy lately and everything I’ve been doing has been related to work or various projects.

I’m pretty pleased with how the environments are turning out in the book!  I actually completely made up Penny and Helen’s old apartment building, which was dumb, I should’ve looked up a photo reference.  But noo, I had to go and completely fudge some sorta renovated motel-turned apartment complex.  Yeesh.

The preview of Lucky Penny is still being posted over at the Johnny Wander site!  You can start reading it here.

Lucky Penny pg. 6 preview.

Ananth and I are posting a short preview of our book over at Johnny Wander this month.  It’s nice, I get to take the time and completely immerse myself in the project for a little bit.

In all, it should be about a 9-page preview.  The first two pages are up now.

Brush practice.  Brush and ink.

I honestly hadn’t touched a inking brush in several months until yesterday.  It’s nice to be back, I think the time away made me rethink the way I was working.  These guys are characters from A Thing I’ve been working on for a while.

Also at the bottom is Ombre de Loup from Freaks’ Squeele, which is among my very very favorite comics despite my inability to understand French in any capacity.  I want so badly for this comic to be picked up and translated, I think it’d do well with an English-speaking audience.  If you are fluent in French or want a gorgeous/sexy/fun/tongue-in-cheek bit of eye-candy, seriously consider picking up the series.

Penny.  Photoshop noodling.

I have been drawing many things, but can’t show them anywhere — although some of them will be online on Tuesday!  In the meantime, have a Photoshop doodle of Penny.

I’ve been burning through the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks these past weeks.  Just started A Storm of Swords yesterday.  It might be high time for some nerdy fanart. 8D

Thorsday Friday.

Everyone was drawin’ Thors at TCAF! Here is a Thor I drew from memory.  Man, I don’t know, he has a cape or somethin’ and some touch-lights on his chest, right?  Whatever, let’s draw some muscllleeeesssssss

Also some protagonist ladies because I’m much better at drawing them.  You might recognize one of them from some comic that some dude does.

Character Body Type Lineup: Girls (boys will be tomorrow!)

These sorts of things are important.  Artists: this is a good exercise!  It’s good for you.

Nina Matsumoto posted a bunch of athletic body diversity photos on her blog a bit back, the link has been going around.  It’s seriously worth checking out if you haven’t already.

Photoshop lady-doodles.  Serona, Penny, Ame, Rina.

Posted the picture of Ame a while back on Johnny Wander.  This is the rest of the page.  I… I think Peachifruit’s style has been leaking into mine.  I can’t stop it!  I cann’ttt stopppppp (except she’s way better than I am)

Penny, painted notebook cover.  Pen, ink wash, paint marker.

Got some small Muji notebooks for Ananth and did a series of character pinups on the covers.  This is the last one!