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Monday Night Sketches

6/8/2015

 
Moving forward, I think I'll try to make Monday Night Sketches an official thing. Today, I'm featuring a sketch that inspired a finished drawing:
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My notebooks are home to many invented plant and animal species along with variations on existing ones. Sometimes I'll write a little blurb about something after I sketch it. The pod dandelions in the lower left corner above served as the inspiration for this final piece:
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Ta-da!

Skyfaux Book Thumbnails:  Pages 22 and 23

5/7/2015

 
Thumbnails are perhaps the most crucial piece of the comic creation process (at least for yours truly) because they offer a chance to let words and artwork collide on the page for the first time. Like a chemistry experiment, the two components don't always interact in expected ways. Sometimes a particular piece of dialogue will take up way more space than anticipated, or a section that was planned as a single page ends up making more sense as several. In other words, thumbnails offer a chance to goof things up as much as necessary without requiring lengthy do-overs of the final product.

Sometimes, something awesome and unexpected emerges from the carefree spirit of the thumbnail that persists into the final version. On page 22, I liked the two Elementals laughing in the top panel so much that they were added to the final version with only minor changes. Click the images to see full-size:
Page 23 stayed mostly the same, but I fixed the orientation of the watch face in the final version (Skreer, why would you wear a watch where 12 isn't at the top!?) and combined the last two panels into one after thinking over the note I wrote in the margin. Click the images to see full-size:
Hooray for thumbnails!

Sketchbook:  Grand Peacock Fish

5/4/2015

 
It's Monday night, which is as good a night as any to post some sketches. Here's a favorite image from an old notebook called Grand Peacock Fish. 
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Fun fact:  The circular "eye" shapes on the side and lower fins are partly a collage made from cut out pictures of pizzas. 

Broken Picture Telephone:  ECCC 2015

4/22/2015

 
I had the awesome opportunity to be part of an ECCC artist's edition of broken picture telephone, a game in which artists take turns drawing, writing descriptions of each other's drawings, and then drawing those descriptions (repeating) until the game ends and hilarity ensues. There were two games running in parallel so that each artist could write and draw, both hosted by Orion Canning.

You can check out the results and a much better description of the event on Orion Canning's blog. Be sure to stop by and see how the games turned out!
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Thanks for giving Skyfaux a chance to participate! 

Character Sketches

4/20/2015

 
Hi everybody, have some Monday night character sketches!
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