Some random crap

I'm tackling another project. I'm really excited for this one with the shift in style that I'm planning for it. I wanna use more abstract and cartoony designs for the characters while trying my hand at large-scale crosshatching again for the backgrounds. Give it a nice contrast, you know. Kinda like Cerebus, especially when Gerhard took over as background artist while Dave focused on the writing, character drawing, and lettering.

A couple studies. Thank you Google Images.

Using really big, sweeping curves here, gonna try to move away from edges and corners for this one.

Some practice for the backgrounds and observational drawing of arms.

It's mostly in the thumbs stages right now, even then it's still mostly in my head and I have yet to commit it to paper, but I already have a script handed to me and all I need to do is draw it.

I intend to go Chaykin-esque with my layouts. A lot of American Flagg! aping here. That and I wanted to change up the station points of my panels too. Be just as clear but with more esoteric methods of communication of message. In application, think of it like this.

Rather than drawing the main antagonist raising a club to beat the main protagonist with straight. Why not draw suggest the club in the previous pages, devote a good chunk of it a panel or two prior to a certain panel, and in said certain panel, where the antagonist is about to beat the protagonist, just draw the shoulder-chest junction area with the shoulder raised and really exaggerate the cloth folds than focus on the hand and the club itself. I've never been too good with my words so the explanation may not be too clear... bah. You'll see it eventually. 

The after

The before

Apparently, there's a way to transform watercolor sketchbooks into watercolor blocks. I've been itching to try it out with my Grandluxe Sketchpad and a Clairefontaine Paint-On Multi-technique paper, the latter of which I plan to use for drawing comics that involve wet media. If it were dry media, some heavy inking in the big chunks of black aside, I might go with some Hahnemuhle Skizzen Sketch pads. Anyway, all I'd need is a good glue of sorts and a throwaway brush. The glue, made by a company called Redstone who makes cheap Chinese ink and India ink, is cheap too. A little bit less than $2 for 250g. The amount I needed to pay for shipping was more expensive than the actual item itself. Ha. Kinda reminds me of when I bought some fountain pen converters for my Pilot pens off of Amazon. It's always the shipping...

The other method includes glue once again, named Tear Meander, but it's a glue made for fixing shoes and cloth but a watercolorist recommended it and it conforms to ASTM standards so it's gotta be good.

That's all for now.