Rolling along

"Good news, everyone! Bad news!" Over the next few weeks I'm hoping to jumpstart some real, live, comics, like the roughs shown above. Sadly, that means that my near-daily posting schedule will become but a memory. Such is progress! *

*Forget that; I'm gonna post stuff anyway.

ugly doctor

Does his odd exterior belie a kind heart? 

awful apparel

Oh, that's just awful.

Cops

La Policia!

I was going to draw a future police person... but this isn't very futuristic, is it?

Fun Fact: only around 10-12% of police people are women.

Google it!

Dream001

This is based on a dream I had last night. A very large robot was chasing me around a house. It was like a movie.

Catamaran

I like sailing, but haven't been on the water in a while.

Various faces

I'll get serious in a moment, hold on.

Man oh man, what a week with the SOPA and the PIPA and what with the Congress trying to go over our heads and pass laws that only help out the MPAA and RIAA and such...

Wasn't that Internet protesting cool?

Contemplation

Ever sit on your giant robot and look at your bionic hand and wonder if you made good decisions today?

The Blackout

I like the Internet just the way it is, thank you.

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Mercenary

Yet another mercenary. They wear such colorful clothes...

All warmed up

At least I felt more warmed up when I drew this. Some kind of mercenary. 

Warm up

Another warm up doodle

Orange

Nothing special. I have to run some errands and time is short.

Hostage

It's a female convict putting a guard in a headlock.

It's a very, very rough idea I'm developing for a comic. More on this in the future.

I even wrote down some story notes; it was one of my most enjoyable activities of 2012, thus far.

Writing is fun! 

Incidentally, this is my 100th post! (on this blog)

Huzzah.

Update...

I think I'll start writing a bit about the drawings I post here. Just a short paragraph or two to shed some light on my thought process. I may even go back and add retrospectives to past posts.

Stay tuned, and Happy 2012!

Hook

Take this guy here, for instance. As soon as I drew his face I started thinking "gnome" and his clothing just followed suit. Kind of a morlock-creature, grubby sewer-worker look. (do morlocks even wear clothes?) Confession: I added the hook because it looked cool, and b/c I never roughed in the hand. 

Robot

*It's a robot

Sketching after dark

A story is brewing.*

*Doodles I was drawing while watching Metropolis. Not the original - the movie based on the Osamu Tezuka adaptation. It has an interesting soundtrack, beyond that I will not comment. 

For whatever reason, I was thinking of Treasure Island when I drew the pirate-type fellow on the botton right and the kid above him. 

Barbarian

hrrrmmm.

Spaceman Encounters

I think it's going to work out.

Pirate Queen

In the Dark

Destination Wedding