As I was reading a bit of Twitter the other day a comic book related subject came up that I had contemplated before and it brought it to mind again. It has to do with pencilers, inkers, and original art.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I don’t usually dress down my own artwork. I’ve been making art for a long time and I generally know how to make good art. Or I at least know how to make art that satisfies me. It’s usually young[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m moved tonight to write about my trips to the comic book store. Or stores as the case may be. It’s one of those everyday (or every week) things that slip away unnoticed with time. In the mid-1970s before the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“People like cats.” That was my thought years ago when I first decided to draw some cat pictures. I’m guessing it was the early 2000s. I had never drawn many cats before, only one I can think of off the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been doing a lot of big ink drawings in the last two months. I think I’ve gotten nearly twenty of them done. I’ve also written about a few of them. But this week I thought I’d write not about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just spent way too much time drawing a couple of sketch covers. These were two hand bound sketch covers. That means instead of buying two new comics that have a blank cover made for drawing on I instead picked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I make art I generally like to keep things simple. Over the years I’ve learned to be pretty good at simple but it’s not easy. Simple is usually hard. Simple is stripping things down to the basics. If a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes as I contemplate things little thoughts come to me. I like little thoughts and observations. The things that get lost among the big things of life. My street photos are often about fleeting moments in life. That’s why I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Big paper. I’ve been making so many of my big ink drawings lately I had to order some more big paper this week. It’s funny because I last ordered some of this 22×30 inch watercolor paper back in 2014 and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to things. Case in point is that I finally finished some EC Comics sketch covers this week. I got the idea to do them months ago and they’ve been sitting around[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…