After nine hours at the drawing board today, this is how I feel.
Don’t get me wrong, a lot of good things came out of drawing today, maybe my best page thus far I just have a headache now and feel completely whipped.
I started with a plan and reference for said plan, but “a plan is just a list of things that don’t happen”.
So many panels were drawn, erased, redrawn, erased, reredrawn, and finally finished. I restructured the page and added panels to “decompress” a little of the story telling. Some of it I felt was necessary for the benefit of the story, other panels were added I think because of my short comings as an artist at this point.
I try to approach my layout, storytelling, and movement of the panels so that things would make sense if the reader only had the pictures to tell the story. Even if they were making up dialog in their head the story would come out to the same conclusion.
In my head I think this is the best approach but I still kind of hate deviating from the script as it stands. But I think it’s a big part of my job that if in my head something doesn’t read I need to spell it out so it does.
But now it’s late and I have no idea if this post is coherent and I don’t want to read back through and make sure it is. Cause myhead hurts and proofreading these things just isn’t my style.

Total random sketch tonight. No idea where it, the style, or anything else came from.
Maybe I’m still in the Halloween mood?

Quick sketc at the end of the night of Green Lantern

I was feeling a hippo today.
Maybe it’s because that’s how I’ve been feeling as of late. People perceive the hippo as a big cuddly thing, thanks Disney. The truth being that they kill people.
Wait that makes me sound like a serial killer…
I think I was trying to talk about perception, I think…
Crap.
Anyway I drew a hippo tonight.

Not very happy with this but it’s late so it will have to do

Getting into the Halloween spirit with a crazy little goblin thing.
The bigger the top of his head got the cooler he looked.
I also made no attempt to add any finish to this sketch whatsoever.

I drew Iron Man tonight in more of his classic 80’s style armor.
I like keeping the sketchy structure drawing under these. I keeps the sketch style, adds a little more movement to the piece and I like the not-so-finished look to the piece this way.

I have no idea where this came from but I wish I had the guts to draw like this all the time.
Something about the scribbles makes it feel more kinetic to me.
I can’t really tell that I screwed up the position of the head when I started and just got over myself and fixed with the lasso tool and a few more scribbles.
I’m hoping that this drawing isn’t some Bob Ross “Happy Accident”.

I wanted to do a drawing using a full figure and a few other elements.
I used Batman and drew my inspiration from a drawing by Dave Mazzuchelli as I suck at drawing Batman and he most definitely does not.