Picked up Almost Famous for $5 the other day.. I forgot how good it was.. makes me think I gotta do some Penny Lane art!

But not today. Today we have digi scraps. Some atypical stuff from me, trying out things.



.sound_Bebo Best [Sitar & Bossa]

Not sure what happened with th' Hector book - I've been to a comic shop maybe twice in the last 10 months or so... but here's the piece I did for it. Two page spread, with the empty area for instructions on how to carve your very own turnip Jack O' Lantern!



I picked up a 2nd hand Apple Cinema Display, which I have to say makes a big difference when you're painting digitally (unfortunately the Hector piece was painted on a crappy HP LCD display). They do have known issues though, the entire 1/3 left side of my monitor is ever so slightly pink and off gamma... but that's ok coz I've just learned to work with all my menus and toolbars on the left. I also did a little RAM upgrade recently - all in the interest of getting more consistent and efficient with digi painting. I'll post some random experiments and things next time.

.print_ Mr. Popper's Penguins | Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon V.4

.sound_ Oasis [Dig Out Your Soul] | Ratatat [LP3] | Coldplay [Viva La Vida]

Moar doodles. Also, I keep forgetting to link this:

Jackie Karma online for free. Yeaps. Go read!

Some recent doodles, an ancient oil portrait from my college days, and a little test mockup for something I ended up not working on. The goatee's ancient history too.

Got a bunch of books from Amazon (yay gift card <3) - the one I was looking forward to most was Spaghetti Bros. Vol.1 by Carlos Trillo with flat out amazing work by Domingo Mandrafina. I discovered Mandrafina on accident when I found another of his and Trillo's books The Big Hoax at a used book store - and I've desperately been trying to find more of his work since. Thanks, IDW!



.print_Scorchy Smith and the art of Noel Sickles | Spaghetti Bros. Vol.1 | The Education of a Comics Artist

.sound_Bonobo | Kula Shaker | O Brother Where Art Thou [sdtk] | Hamish & Andy [podcast]

.screen_Death at a Funeral | The Good, The Bad and the Weird

Some life drawing from this week. 5-20mins. Also, yay Obama - boo California.