My First Jiu-Jitsu Lesson

Especially for Ellis:
From "The Adventures of The Fly" #11, part of the Archie Superhero Series. Great comics. I learned my first jiu-jitsu moves from this comic book page.  In 1961 I would have been 8 years old. A group of us were walking home from school one day and Peder Leth started clowning around slapping me in the face.  I applied the arm bar on him as shown in the top panel.  It actually worked just the way it's drawn! A co-worker once said to me, "Do you realize that everything you are you owe to comic books?"  Well, maybe not everything.

Big Shapes-WIP

Using an action with photoshop pen tool. Getting quick easy fills for abstract shapes.

Here's a horribly narrated 'how-to' for creating the action.

Inking randomly on some really nice vellum paper. Color added in photoshop.

filtering with Dreamscope app

Frank

Drawing would probably be more fun if I hadn't goofed on making his hands so oversized

better

Happy New Year Tag Bloggers

Had a lot of personal situations that sucked. 

But things have got a lot better. 

I hope everyone in this group has a great 2016.

Especially Rick Schmitz, who will have a hard time having a better time than he seems to be having now.

I will continue to doodle and make some money doing stuff I want to do.

Making comics (manga) with Blender

Creating background imagery with Blender's Freestyle NPR renderer.

What a clever use of Blender. The technique is pretty seamless, too. It's not just a flat copy-paste technique...lot of thought put into the integration of the hand-drawn elements with the 3D models, gray-tone, etc. Looks very natural. If you didn't know in advance many elements were 3D models, you probably wouldn't notice.

Tuesday early- All Pencil Roughs for Ghost stories

Miscellaneous. I'm doing too much movie watching with the computer instead of working with the computer.

Watching the movie this Gif is from. We Were Strangers.

Brilliant commie symp flick by John Huston made in 1949.
About the very temporary revolt in 1933.

Jennifer Jones with the chopper. When I saw this gif 2 years ago I tried to figure out where it came from. Thought it might be Roger Corman. Now I know.

Drawing done in bits and pieces while I watched the final disc of True Detective. Enjoyed that little thriller.
Her neck is way too long. And her legs are ugly.
The legs probably ought to be lengthened about the exact amount the neck should be shortened.

Continuing the ghost stories. Going to try and finish all roughs by tomorrow.
Looking forward to the body of work I get out of this project.

6 new ones. 5 more to go.

ta-da! Roughs complete.
Now to paint like Picasso. Carelessly with gusto.

Ghost Story

Mashed up. Kinda fun to do.

It would be better to start with as finished a pencil as this one, but the next 29 will be more like the drive thru/clown example. Start rough and stay rough.

Teen Ellis as a Teddy Boy Rockabilly type.

They were first.
(note)
They apparently don't like hot linking.

Prepping

Today is painting-drawing day.

After I get an errand done.

Getting clear on my Kyle Brush presets.

Got a custom bunch. The repeats are just that. I need to edit those out.