Found someone elses' spider in my notepad

Pulled these sketches from a mostly blank notepad from Heavy Iron. Someone else did the spider sketch. I'm not sure who the artist was. I did the droopy alien.

This Is Not A Telephone Pole

Back at the Food Court

Tom Moon's drawing of cars and buildings inspired more detail in this one.

Sketchtheatre from the comicon

Click headline to watch me sketch my Harryhausen inspired wolf-demon thing.
The youtube clip is from the book I'm reading on digital comic art. Go to the link to get the psd path tool if you want it.
http://freddieart.com/QuickTools/index.php?page=detail&get_id=1&category=2

I'm on chapter 8. I've never read a how to book that made me so chomp the bit to create in the same way.

I'm on Chapter 10. Chapter 11 ids the inking chapter. Then the Chapter 13 wrap up. I'll be done tonight. But I can tell you now it was worth the 20 bucks I spent. Great organization and production tips for comic strip work.

Pen Heads

Done mostly while watching SCUM, British boys-in-reform-school-movie.

Click the Headline and watch Stan Lee looking at Jack Kirby Fantastic Four art with his notes in the margins

Added another line art straight from a ball point.

An interesting result

I did all the line art on it's own level. Then selected the line art and turned that selection into a work path, tolerance setting at 2.5. And look at that clean line when I did a path fill. I can't ink like that. But now I can! This has a few things I'm going to adjust- contrast, some tangents. But that line quality, I'm pretty happy.
One of the main things that has to be watched for when using this as a clean up. It's basically making curves out of averaging toward straightness. Curves can be straightened out and  become bad contour info. Like the helmet contour on the top of the guy's head. That's too straight. I need to show the original line art as well to show the diff.
One of the edit techniques is to use the pen selection tools to pull the nodes around on the work path if you don't like the line somewhere.
I added the non path converted line art. Bumply and irregular.

I get the new mold made for my partial plate next Thursday. I'm not going to cut my hair until I have my new teeth. Would you like to see a recent picture of my hair?

Sketch and Photoshop fun

Another drawing with some PS enhancements

the original can be seen here

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3qqVtAIrVKI8N_wG1m1ve666qzVVTFNOOUsgbqrwa29WU1mJqKr4CCeCFAaa13f2_D01O6KkdGm8qHlOohqRiIAgDqpI8jFp4rSokH92I43pYXLOoGgIRzeTeSAWkCui3E3GTw/s1600/pencil_girl2c+copy.jpg

Solomon Kane

This looks good. It opened to critical aclaim overseas. Don't know if it will be released here or direct to dvd