cavemen and complicated facial surgery + more shit

Haven't been very active here as of lately, or anywhere for that matter, except for working on that book, which should be done and wrapped up in a few months. I'll make a post with some pages from the book when the time is ripe.

Julia Rothman contacted me some time ago about making an illustration for a book being published by Chronicle Books in the fall of 2012, by the name of; The Where, The What and The How: 75 Artists Illustrate the Wondrous Mysteries of the Universe.
My mystery was: What caused the extinction of the Neanderthals?

Here's a two page comic I did together with the fabulous Julian Gough for Nobrow's Double issue, out about now I guess.

And here's a little something to fill up an otherwise pretty thin blog post, a collection of sketches and designs from the making of Obsolete. The guys at Nobrow made me put this together for their website, but never really considered posting them here for some reason. Sorry about the small sizes, but it's all I got since my computer died a while back.

sidetrackin'

There might not be much posting here over the next couple of months, since I'm spending all my time on that one comic. I'll see if I can post some pages from the book once in a while.

Here's the cover for Busdriver's new EP, Leaf House, out September 30th.
For those of you who doesn't know his work, enlighten yourselves, as well as thou neighbor! 


Here's an illustration for the brilliant Scottish poet Ross Sutherland's upcoming E-book, which will contain a sonnet for each of the Street Fighter II characters, as well as illustrations. I didn't have a choice of character, since all of them were already drawn except Guile, but had lots of fun with this one. And I missed ink and brush.
I'll update you further on when the collection of poems are released, will most likely be early November.



A revisit

with cognitive affection

Haven't posted anything in a while. Too much thinking and too less drawing. Been completely and obsessively absorbed in figuring out this immense project in front of me. I certainly didn't think it would be easy to do a 140 page comic in colors from another persons script, but for a perfectionist and a creative control freak, this whole thing has been, and is, a sandwich way to big to gape over—I gotta learn the art of nibbling.

Here's some random stuff.


Some clean-up tests and a test in atmospheric fading.




Another one of those book sketches.


Two tests on the comic I'm working on.


An apologetic extra book sketch of the always sexy, B.P.R.D.


A couple of development sketches I did a while back for an animated film about the Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard.




Something I dug out of an old folder, just a test. I think these characters belong to someone, a young German artist, but it's too long ago for me to remember the details. You, whoever you are, if you find me, sue me.


And finally, a Sam Hiti inspired sketch of a demon samurai, for no apparent reason, other than the fact that I adore his work.

meathaus

A couple of drawings for the next meathaus anthology sketchbook, GO FOR THE GOLD! 4.
I believe it's coming out sometime this summer, will post more info later.

вещи

Sorry about the lack of posting, I've been spending all my working hours doing thumbnails and planning colors for the new comic I'm working on. 140 pages, lots of environments and strong emotions, a big challenge. I got past the stage where I was too intimidated to do anything at all, my brain hurting from speculating too much, as when you would ponder on paradoxes in time-traveling and get lost.

This drawing has no relevance whatsoever, but lightens the otherwise heavy mood of the post by several ounces.


Back to relative reality. Here's a couple of tests, not on the style itself, more on the technique and the tools. I keep thinking I should stop doing all these tests and just draw, but how else would I find out how to draw anything without regretting it half-way through a book, right?


Testing out the coloring technique. It has to look crisp, but not take up too much time. I have to finish the whole comic in November, so I don't have too much time for knobbing about. Don't know if it's too time-consuming to color the outlines of things, it's just a habit now, I feel that nothing really looks finished before I do that. It's easy with one character, with no background, but most likely something completely different when you got big crowds, complex backgrounds and weather effects.


Not an actual character from the comic, but still a test.

zeug

Haven't posted in a while, had some nasty computer cooties© and a mushy brain.

Just started working on my first big comic, will update y'all later in the process.

Here's some sketches I did in the back of my old comic, Z.

A drawing for a friend.

Here's two discarded magazine covers. Same issue.

Here's a character I did for a screen-printed flip book where the figures are divided into head, torso and legs, like those children play-books. I'll update you later when the book is printed.

Here's a test I did with soft pencils, searching for that hand-made look.

A commission.

Here's a couple of sketches I did in the back of Obsolete.

Here's a style-test for the comic I just started working on.