Fathoms+random dump

Been drawing Fathoms-stuff lately, to get myself back into the groove before starting the layout-sketches for chapter two. I've got the first three pages or so more or less figured out, but I needed to sort out some details before I get started on the whole thing.

Like the lighthouse Talassa mentions in the first chapter. It shows up in this one, so I needed to know what it looked like. Still haven't figured out the interior yet, but I'll get there.



Dialogue-scrap/brainstorming, as well as main-cast lineup scribble - Talassa, Gale and Khazri (minus his glorious flying whale, of course). Khazri's outfit keeps changing in my scribbles, but I've posted a sort-of final version on dA; the other costume-choices will simply have to go to other Whaleriders. Of which I think there might be a few showing up later.


I've also been watching movies (Kung Fu Panda, Babylon AD, Treasure Planet, etc.,), and scribbled this while watching the first Hellboy-movie. Ron Perlman is the best casting-choice EVER.

SPX - photo-edition!

Found my camera. Alas, I only took a few photos before the doors opened and the horde descended on Saturday morning, but here's the Comic Royale-table:

Note the shiny diploma for Best Fanzine (People's Choice) 2010.

And here's a close-up view of the fanzines:


And, of course, the glory of Comic Royale #5.

SPX-dump

Brush-pen sketches, from SPX-weekend.





Drawn sitting outside Bryan Lee O'Malley-signing, waiting for people to return from lunch, waiting for stuff to happen, testing a different brush-pen, etc., etc.

Acrylics

I've been watching Kung Fu Panda. It's been getting it's visuals into my brain, and I can't stop painting trees and bridges in blue, red and orange. My scanner amped up the saturation on this one, but I kind of like it.


Lighting-study for a larger acrylic painting that I hope to paint one day.

Practise-dump

Someone (rightly) pointed out that I need to work on how I draw faces. So I cracked open my big folder of photo-references of people's faces and got to work.



Music: Midnight Special - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Project-dump

Stuff. It's happening, I promise.


WIP Acrylic painting, along with the sketch for it.


Random marker sketches.


Shaun Tan is awesome (don't believe me? - Check him out!), and he's ridiculously inspiring, so I sat down the other day and let my pencil run away with me. This is what came out. A girl, who is a crow - and a king, and the beginnings of a very weird picture-book. All I've got thus far is this sketch, and this layout-idea-thing;


... I'm also working on that mahjong-tile-set-project I showed in my last post, but things are going kind of slowly. It's tricky to saw tiny bits of wood straight, so I've got a pile of unusable crooked bits and a lot of experimenting with colour and lacquer going on.

Happy Easter, everyone!

April 12th - new project in progress

First, fanart of the excellent Mike Mignola's Abe Sapien - not quite the right colours, because I didn't have them.

Markers and some white acrylics.

Aaaaaand (drum-roll please) - my new, somewhat crackpot summer project!

(apologies for blurry photo - my camera is shit at closeups)
I'm making a 144-piece set of mahjong tiles - from scratch! - because I can. This is a picture of the test-tile; I needed to test whether painting it in acrylics would work, whether the scale was good enough, and after I took this picture, I tested the lacquer which I'll be coating them all with. And I have to say that thus far, things are going well, except for a few very minor setbacks.