A screencap from the hipster paper doll work in progress. This is what the students filtering through PNCA’s Manuel Izquierdo Gallery were greeted with as they passed behind me today.
April 16, 2010
More Quickie
Here’s another sample panel from the comic I’m working on, written by Shon Toney.
April 14, 2010
Of Birds and Bunnies
I explained briefly in a previous post that I was making a comic-format myth for my final project in Trevor Dodge’s Illuminated Manuscripts class. I give you “The Dove and the Hare,” a tale for children.
In researching this project, I discovered that where we Westerners see a man in the moon, many other cultures worldwide saw a rabbit. The dark spots on the surface of the moon represented a rabbit pounding corn in South America, a rabbit drumming in Japan, and even a rabbit holding an egg in Europe. It being the month of Easter, I decided to write a story about how the rabbit and the egg came to be way up there on the moon (and how dinosaurs became extinct, incidentally).
(As always, click to view larger.)
April 12, 2010
She Blinded Me With Science
An illustration from a presentation I’m working on about the difficulties of counting chromosomes in man with early technology.
April 2, 2010
The Rabbit in the Moon
To show a bit about my process, I’ve posted the first page of a comic I’m working on right now, along with the thumbnail roughs that I used to arrange the layout. You can see that not too much has changed between them. The story is a myth about the Moon Rabbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit), a story that has surprising similarities across the world, and how he ended up on the moon in the first place.
And here are a couple sketches I doodled in class while listening to a guest talk by Joelle Jones and Jamie Smith.
April 1, 2010
Couple Quickies
My final image for the Jim Henson project, and a quick sketch I did of my Robynski Twinski
March 31, 2010
Various & Sundry
Been awhile since I posted. Vive la spring break! I’ve got a couple projects on my plate right now. I’m working on a comic-format myth for my Illuminated Manuscripts class (which is basically a graphic-novel appreciation course). I’ll post some images from that shortly. In the meantime, here’s the pencil in progress for my Jim Henson portrait.
I always get a huge kick out foreign-language translations (aka “Engrish”), especially of the Chinese variety. My twin sister had these little gems in her bag the last time she visited me. Sorry for the crappy scanjob.
