So I haven't been updating the last couple of days, because as it is I could only barely refrain from oversharing at length various gross details of the cough I had. Actually the cough still lingers but now it's just a plain one, also it doesn't hurt as much.

Anyway, I was looking at the Marvel solicitations for May and it occurred to me that ( Read more... )

I liked Scott McCloud's Making Comics a lot better than the previous Reinventing Comics. I didn't find it as cool as I did Understanding Comics way back in the mid-90s, though that's probably also because I hadn't read a lot of other comic meta yet, and also the format was really unusual then ( Read more... )

A while back I posted about women characters in the Wizard How To Draw: Character Creation, however what I didn't really notice at the time (and that says a lot about my own blind spots), but which leapt out to me today when I happened to leaf through it, is that once again there are no non-white characters in the whole thing. Okay, that is not ( Read more... )

Getting facial expressions, especially more subtle ones right, drawing them so that they are immediately recognizable as exactly what you want is really hard. There's a couple of reasons for that, for example that we are very well trained to read facial expressions and the slightest changes will make an immediately recognizable difference, while at ( Read more... )

I'm in the process to color that Snape picture, and drawing bright sunshine just sucks. Why? Because for bright sunshine to look like bright sunshine you have to draw clearly defined shadows. You'd think it was simpler to draw shadows in such a relatively simple light, where you have just the one main light source to consider. But in reality, if ( Read more... )

When I read the epilogue of bethbethbeth's story In From the Cold, I really liked that image of Snape. So I wanted to draw that, and it was supposed to be this quick funny thing, you know, Snape in shorts and a parrot shirt ( Read more... )

Remember a while ago back when I posted this scan of a kind of terrifying smiling Wolverine that was an example in the Wizard How to Draw: Heroic Anatomy book? Well, back when I first leafed through the book I was also pissed off at the chapters on drawing women (at some chapters more than others), but I couldn't quite figure out what exactly ( Read more... )

So I was wasting my time on the internet idly browsing for photo references and came across these two sites from the same company which offers paid access for photo references, which I am not interested in, but the thing is they have one site with photographs of men in various poses called human-anatomy-for-artist.com and one with photographs of ( Read more... )

So I'm in the process of making some more icons, seeing how I'm still far from filling the 100 icon slots I have (right now I have 37). I collected a bunch of more or less useful or amusing icon ideas: Besides the recent yum!/Eating!RatCreature which I have already uploaded, I have finished the drawing for a huh??/Clueless!RatCreature, and in the ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think it's unfair that when you try to create some piece of fan art it's not really possible to post in progress snippets or paragraphs or lines of dialogs like authors of fanfiction can. I mean, I guess I could scan the most recent halfway decent looking gargoyle, which was preceeded by half a dozen failed, awful, hideous ones (and not ( Read more... )