Scribbles & Sketches

For assignment 3 our teacher gave every student the same story called “The Bank Heist”. The story is broken out into 13 pages so each student is responsible for 1 page (we drew numbers from a hat). I have page 13 which is the end  of the story.

This is the description of page 13:
That evening: The sports car, dented and full of bullet holes, sits at the top of an embankment off to the side of the road. The passenger door is open. Down below, towards the sea we find the man and woman, toasting their heist. The bag of cash at their feet. The two of them kiss as the sun sets. The woman still holding a gun in her hand. She flips off the safety.

He also have us some character descriptions for the characters that are involved.

Woman, Black, 5′ 10
Wearing leather suit, jacket, high heal boots, and gloves, a hair band, and big hoop earings

Man, Black, 6′
Wearing leather jacket, and gloves, jean, and work boot like footwear

Thoughts?

Today is Brian’s birthday. Some people may remember the Lego Brian I posted for his birthday last year. Well, this year I did Brian as Batman.

Let me know what you think.

I have come to accept that I am the slowest illustrator ever. This post only contains half of the second assignment for my comics illustration class because I didn’t finish it. I was really hesitant to post this because I don’t really like to post unfinished work, but I was reminded that I have an obligation. So Here is what I submitted for my second assignment.

Our assignment was to create a 2 panel (horizontal) story. I was inspired by the State of the Union speech. My idea was to have a speaker speaking in the first panel. The second panel was to be a zoomed out view of congress with the left side standing and the right side sitting. I think this had a lot of potential, and I plan on going back to finish this at some point. But, for now, this is as far as I got.

It has been a few years since I have sent out cards for the holiday season, so I decided it was time. This is the first draft. This was created digitally. I’m going to take this sketch and use it in a block printing technique to get a more handmade feel. I’ll post the that version, if it is successful, this weekend.

This weekend I made some progress on a project I started at the beginning of the year. I didn’t get it finished like I had planned, but I as long as I get off work at a decent time tomorrow, I think I should be able to finish it up in the evening.

I tried something a little different this time around. I did a version all in gray scale first. Then I saved a copy and started making a color version. I’m still working through the color version.

This started out as another idea for a Valentine’s Day card. I think it needs to be pushed further for a card concept, but I liked it as a character sketch. I’m working to evolve this style beyond animal portraits.

The truth is, I love animals!

I’m having a lot of fun with this style. Here is another character. “Hello, I’m Laszlo. And. yes, I wear ties.”

I’m usually not very political, but this idea came to mind today. This is my tribute to the Inauguration and the next four years. It turned out a little more detailed than I had intended. Once I started to add stuff in I liked the texture it was creating.

I have been really inspired by all the great work that is being done for Sketch-A-Day. Yesterdays scribble and the Valentine theme post from Thom inspired me to create Ellie.

I decided to work on a piece from an earlier post tonight. Here is a snapshot of the progress I made.