Apparently, I am a cheap caricaturist —

I love my mom, but from time to time, she'll ask me to do things I really don't want to do, like draw a caricature of her boss on a train. Apparently, she talked to an actual caricaturist and he wanted like a whole hundred dollars, so she said screw that and press-ganged me into doing it for nothing. Actually, she offered me 50 bucks, but I'd rather get paid nothing for this lousy drawing.

Hilariously, I have no idea if this caricature even remotely resembles her boss, since the only ref she sent was a tiny jpg of the guy taken from like a football field away. Also, trains are fucking hard to draw. You will observe that I had no idea what to do with the front, nor did I care to figure it out.

Spidery-Man, plus cheesecake —

Still loving that Pentel brush pen. Still loving tits.

I Steal You Scanner, Foo —

Ha! Who needs to buy a scanner when you can just steal one every two weeks when your studio mate is out of town? Not me, that's who. Also, I gotta say there's something to be said for only posting the most interesting stuff from the past 2 weeks. Nice to be able to weed out the crap doodles and still have stuff worth posting!

Jeez, I really need to get my own scanner —

Haven't been able to hop on my studio mate's scanner in a bit. Anyway, in addition to still keeping at the gesture/stick figure work, I've been slowly working my way through Loomis's Fun With A Pencil. Figure I'll post some stuff from that:

Test —

Just thought I'd test out a new process for drawing. I drew blue line stick figures and rough structure lines, fleshed those out with a 2H pencil, and finished with my Pentel brush pen. Pretty happy with the results.

Low Fidelity —

Decided I needed to listen to the Beta Band's "Dry the Rain" and the High Fidelity Soundtrack was the only copy I had of the track. Saw the cover and figured it'd be fun to try to reproduce in my new Moleskine, which it was, until I tried to work faster and totally arsed the inking on that last face. Oh, well. I found it tricky to get the features placed because I was only drawing part of a head. I probably should have sketched in the proper structure lines first before putting details down. Oh well. Fun drawing anyway. Still loving that brush pen.

Moleskine! —

I also picked up a Moleskine sketchbook for my birthday. I've heard such great things, and was so blown away by Sean Phillips' and Duncan Fegredo's Intersections that I thought I'd pick one up. It's cool. Great paper, and I'm getting used to the size. At first I felt it was a bit too small and restrictive, but there's a lot to be said for being able to work smaller and faster.

I also learned really quickly that, as nice as the paper is, it sure doesn't hold up to either Copic markers or watercolor pencils for shit. Grr.

Pentel Brush Pen!!! —

Pentel Brush Pen!! 

Seriously, how great is this thing?! Karl Kerschl uses it! Sean Phillips does too! It's badass.  I was always afraid of inking with a brush, but I got one of these for my birthday (I asked for it) and now the fear, she is gone. I mean, I'm not gonna throw out my Staedtler pigment liners or anything, but I fricking love this brush pen. So much so that I went out and bought a really nice Windsor-Newton brush from Opus, which is also great. Inking is really fun suddenly. Now if only I didn't suck so much at it ...

More of the Same —

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah —

I know. I haven't been posting. I have been drawing, though, so that's gotta count for something, right?

Right?

On this first one, I got to wondering if all this stick figure work would pay off, so I fleshed out one of the sticks and was happy enough with the results that I resolved to draw about a thousand more sticks.