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Dawn of the Wocket
Update on the centaur: some changes to my latest, latest, LATEST design. Instead of stretch suede to simulate horseskin, I'm going with a latex skin that's then sprayed with a high-quality flocking. This will give it more of a fuzzy My-Little-Pony finish, but will eliminate sagging and stretchy skin around the joints. :) -
Night of the Living Wocket
Of all my various wockets and wocket-related dealings, no wocket has so completely eluded me as the Undead Wocket that is my mechanical centaur ( Read more... ) -
Wocket to the Future
I'm in the zappy-pow ZONE tonight. Check out this preview, the first image from book 4 of Bizenghast.
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A terrible distraction
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2/11 weekly wocket: Environments
I was working on environment sketches for book 4 of Bizenghast this week...here are two of my favorite ones. The first is fully inked because I had time while waiting for my friend at the doctor's office, but the second has yet to be finished.
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I appreciate Myst on a much deeper level than you.
It's no secret...I am fanatically devoted to the Myst games. Not only are they a major influence on my art, but they're wicked fun to play. I bring this up because not too long ago, I got a new laptop and had to immediately exchange it for a different one, because the first one had a blown pixel in the screen. Unfortunately I left the first disc ( Read more... ) -
Model Wockets
When I have to draw a difficult face or gesture, the best way to do it is to take a picture of my own hand or expression and use it as reference. But when I can't use myself as a model, I use my friends and family a lot as stand-ins...my friend G-chan has put in a lot of shifts as Dinah and various guy friends have been Vincent. They come over ( Read more... ) -
thumbnails
Before I do each graphic novel, I make up what are called thumbnails...little sketches of what each page of the book will look like. This helps me plan out what information each page contains, and also lets me look at all the pages at once so I can spot similar panel layouts that occur too many times in the same chapter, etc. It's vital to have a ( Read more... )
