(Continued from Part 1) HOW DOES A COMIC WORK? One of the big questions we are asking in class is “how does a comic work?” Of course we want to know what a comic is and how to make one, but we’re doing so from the inside-out. We’re taking it apart to understand it. For…
A few pages from my sketchbook. I love exploring the qualities of graphite and ink together–a fine pair, don’t you think?
New Drawings A few drawings from a rare night of sketching digitally. I’ve been revisiting Hockney’sย Secret Knowledge in anticipation of my camera lucida and dreaming of the possibilities within drawing. I like the way I think when I am drawing. When I am drawing, I am working to understand both the subject and the medium,…
My wife’s favorite animal is the elephant, so over the last ten years I’ve drawn a lot of ’em. I thought it would be fun to pull some of them out of hiding and see how they all look together. This is a page from last week’s sketchbook:
Drawing is the best. It’s my first love and I’m always trying to squeeze in a few more doodles. Who needs sleep when you can draw?! It’s just as important for me to draw just to mess around and play as it is for me to develop drawings and concepts for projects. If it wasn’t…
More pages from my sketchbook. Some pages are filled with nothing but notes, while others are crammed full of drawings. Nothing in my sketchbook is considered “finished”—it’s all working towards something, working out the ideas, techniques, methods, and content for whatever it is I’m doing. My sketchbook is my notebook, journal, To Do list, calendar…
Dear Quentin Blake’s drawings: I love you. Quentin Blake is one of my favourite illustrators of all time and I recently checked out his book, Alphabeasts, from the library. I couldn’t help but try my hand at some of his drawings. They’re always so energetic. When I was little I would sometimes get frustrated that…