From the Drawing Board: ORCS! Issue 4 Cover

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From the Drawing Board: ORCS! Issue 4 Cover

I had no time for this. That happens a lot when it comes to comic covers. They are often the last thing I am thinking about when I have interiors to tackle. I did have two ideas I really liked for the cover of 4. One was an image of the elves (Daniel and Leonard) with Mother Spider. The other was the Wise Woman and her magic in the Astral Plane. The former would have been a lovely, moody piece, but the latter – with only one figure and the worst of my worries being a great glob of glowing goo – seemed the piece I could turn around the fastest.

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Sketchbook Fury | Comics (Part 1)

I thought it would be a good idea to get some of my older sketchbook comics up on here, since they really have nowhere cohesive to live.

Old Besties started as a sketchbook doodle that lots of people responded to. I dusted the girls off once COVID came knocking.

All of the sketchbook comics below have been done since last March. In most cases, I sketched them out first and then colored them digitally, but there are a few painted pieces in there. I put them into order of creation. They were designed, mainly, as instagram posts, and probably read best in that format. You can find them on my swiperight_comics instagram page. Via my Patreon.

Then & Now (Volume 2)

Then & Now (Volume 2)

About a year ago, I contributed to an art book on kickstarter called Then & Now. The editors picked a number of illustrators and asked us to find old drawings from childhood to redraw now that we are professionals.

As with last year, I went to my high school sketch book (I was approximately 15 or 16 when I had this one) and plucked out two random character pages.

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Color Separations in Photoshop with 2 Ink Colors

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Color Separations in Photoshop with 2 Ink Colors

To aid my coloring process, I often use two ink colors and separate them digitally to save me time when it comes to coloring in the line art for arial perspective or character details. I am creating this post to help anyone else looking to speed along their own coloring process.

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First Post is a Hard Dump

Mad fist pumping for my first post on my new site!  Though I am somewhat vexed I cannot import posts from my old blogspot, I hope to build a formidable collection of blogging goodness here.

In the meanwhile, sketch dump...