Death of a Tube of Toothpaste

 

Since December 31st (2010), I have been drawing a short comic strip everyday. So far so good! Most of these are inked, although I thought I would leave this one penciled. My one regret is that I decided to use the paper from a drawing pad I had and not use a slicker pad of marker paper for these. The result is that most of the inks bleed too much. This is really pronounced as each panel in the comic strips is at most 8 squared centimeters big (or small!).

The idea for the daily strip was not inspired by any of the 365 movements out there on the web; funnily enough I didn't even know about those until after I a few weeks of doing these cartoons! Instead, the idea comes from me trying to encourage myself to draw more. I find that through doing a daily strip (this sound dirty...), I focus more on my surroundings to look for inspiration. It also forces me to hone the craft of sequential art. Hopefully by year's end I'll have a nice size volume of sequential art and have noticeably improved my ability to tell a story through art! Wish me luck!


I don't know if I want to upload all of them as it's a lot of work and really don't know how good they are. So let me know if you would like to see more.

Jamaican Pattiman!

Tried something different here. As I mentioned in the previous post, I picked up some new pens yesterday. So when inking this comic I decided to ink it on some tracing paper overtop the original drawing (I am never happy with my inking and always feel the original penciling is better). I kinda like this approach as it kept my original pencil version and the inks stood out better on the tracing paper. However, in panel 7 you can see the black shape of Jamaican Pattiman's coat is wrinkled. This is a product of the tracing paper not being able to adequately absorb the ink without warping. Oh well. Hope you enjoy regardless of this!

Oh, and what exactly are Jamaican Patties??? Well, go here for more information: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_patty

Muse to Play Concert in Space

Too Early To Draw

There really is a blizzard hitting Calgary right now.

Materialism of the Dead

I've been trying to do a short three-panel comic everyday as a New Year Resolution; we'll see how long that lasts! Since I have today off I decided to do a slightly longer comic to play around with an idea I had where I discuss an anthropological /archaeological issue in a graphic medium. I might do more of these as it was pretty gratifying! 

Click on the image to enlarge!

P.S. I only spend an hour or less on these comics, 

so the art is supposed to be cartoony as it was drawn quickly.