More Throckmorton

I'm still copying from the Throckmorton strip in HaHa Comics #24. I wish I knew who drew the strip. This time I tried inking with a regular brush instead of a brush pen. Not much better though.

Throckmorton

I've been reading some old Haha Comics and came across a really fantastically drawn strip called "Throckmorton". I had to try my hand at one of the panels. I think I'll be copying that strip for a little while. It was also a nice excuse to whip out some newly acquired Prismacolor markers.Though I really have to stop inking with a brush pen. I can't control it for the life of me.

George Liquor Heads

I'm excited to hear John K. will be producing some more George Liquor shorts. George is a really funny character and I loved "The God Damn George Liquor Show". He's offered advice and tips on drawing George's head properly. It's a lot harder than it looks, at least for me it is. I have trouble leaving space between George's facial features. Here's my go at it using some of the pics John posted and others from "Comic Book".

Getting Back To Practicing

It's been a long time since I've sat down and practiced drawing from model sheets. Between just moving into a new home and getting ready for a new baby in a few weeks there just hasn't been any time. I figured I'd try my hand at some Disney model sheets for awhile since I have such a hard time drawing the characters. Solid construction is still big problem for me. But that's what practice is all about, ain't it?

Jeez, I almost forgot that I even had another blog. I haven't drawn much at all lately. Life seems to be getting in the way of that. I crapped this dog from my pencil in hopes of practicing some animation with him. Not very good but he'll do. Now I just need to make some time to actually animate something while I have the time. Come May another baby boy will be arriving and I'm pretty sure they'll be little time for drawing with all those doodie diapers to be changed. Any suggestions on the character design here?

I haven't picked up a pencil in a while so I sat down to get back to work on construction, practicing from a model sheet from the David Hand Animaland short "The Ostrich".

Ever have one of those days when you hate everything you draw? I hated this one the least.

Is This Thing On?

I haven't posted anything here in quite some time, not that anyone's pining for my hack work, so I figured I'd post something, anything. These are the most recent doodles. I inked them with a brush pen and added some awful color in Photoshop. The bird's head lost a little something when I inked it. The eyes don't look as good as the pencil drawing. Nothing special here, just some lunch break crap.

Heckling Hare-2nd Attempt

John was nice enough to critique my go at this Rod Scribner drawing. I tried to follow John's advice as best as my pencil will let me. I don't think the details on both of Bugs and Willoughby are as crammed together as my first attempt. I corrected the angle of Bugs' neck and also the tilt of the head. Willoughby's head could stand to be tilted just a little more. Not perfect by any means but there's some improvement.

Heckling Hare Construction Lesson

I took a stab at John K's step by step lesson for constructing a Rod Scribner drawing. Though my drawing didn't come out very good I do think it really helped hammer home the concept of having the smaller forms wrap around the larger ones. I love Scribner's drawings but I don't copy them often as I find all those wrinkles kind of intimidating. I guess I should man up and get to studying his work. He's one of my favorite Warner's animators. I did do a couple of drawings from one of his scenes in "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". They're way off compared to the originals so I'm going to go back and try them again.

More Inking Practice

I busted out the ol' brush and ink last night to ink some of those Hank Ketcham studies I did and a couple of quick Owen Fitzgerald copies too. I then decided to try and ink someone else's work, which I've never done. So in order to fail right from the start I printed out a Jim Smith Chestacles drawing from his sketchbook and taped it to the back of a sheet of bristol and light boxed it. Why not screw up the best? Right? The original drawing was already tight to begin with so there wasn't much to do except try and keep the line thickness consistent with Jim's drawing. I still can't get a super clean line with a brush. I should probably splurge on a Kolinsky and see if that helps. I'm going to practice this some more and print out more of Jim's sketches along with other artists pencil drawings.

Awesome original Jim Smith drawing

Carl Barks Studies

Here's just a couple of studies from some Uncle Scrooge comics. Thanks again Thad.

Flexxo Pencil Test

I did this awhile back, there's a lot I should do over but I'm sure I won't.

Flexxo

Scribbles

Fun with Jim Smith's Chestacles characters.

Hank Ketcham Studies

I love Hank Ketcham's work. I have to pick up "Where's Dennis?", it's loaded with his magazine work. I'm give it go inking these tonight or tomorrow if I have the time.

I haven't been drawing all that much over the last couple of weeks and finally decided to sit down and try and shake the rust off. Nothing great here but I did try my hand at a couple of poses from old Esquire magazine pinups. I've never had much interest in drawing real people or objects but I think I'm starting to get the bug.

Tommy Peepers

This is just a quickie comic strip I drew. I figure I'll liven this place up once in a while with this little pervo. Nothing great, just for fun. I might try my hand at a couple of quick Flash shorts with him too. Though I'm not terribly adept at using Flash. (For those who don't know, click to enlarge).

Run Cycle-Re Revised

So after my last lame attempt at animating a run cycle David Gemmill was kind enough to offer me some tips. I sat down last night and tried to apply his advice. I think it's a definite improvement over the last two tries but the overlapping action is screwed up and kind of stiff. Feel free to tell me what else is wrong with it. I threw in some Daffy heads I drew while watching "Riff Raffy Daffy" for the thousandth time. I love that long-billed Daffy from Davis' shorts.