Sometimes I forget to do warmups, because y'know.. there's never time. And then I sit there struggling thru work with "cold" hands wondering why the hell I can't draw anymore. Last night I remembered! So here's a warmup of sorts that turned into a portrait.. of sorts.



Thanks for the comments, friends, will reply when I'm feeling more myself.

.sound_PRI - To the Best of our Knowledge

.screen_2 Days in Paris

Just talkin' 'bout scraps~



Tossed in my Photoshop workspace to fill some blank white space.
nada much to say today. Kids, remember, conducting business when you haven't had sleep is a bad idea! And always brush your teeth.

..what it is. The last cover, even though we still have 5 issues to put out.



And hey lookit, Clay's posted all 8 up at the Image forums. Kinda fun to see the progression, I've definitely learned a lot about painting and my process along the way.

Still got a lot to learn, but it's gratifying that the first cover is the "worst" one. Apparently 6 is everyone's fave, despite the fact that I had to turn out those colors overnight and it's at best 25% done... haha. I've got a lot of work to do on it before the actual issue 6 goes out. Oh well.
I'll cobble together the scraps for this cover for the next post hopefully.

*ps - that "QB" graf is supposed to read "CB" - but I am lame. Sorry, Be. I'll fix it for print!

.sound_Dasi | M.Ward | Francoise Hardy

.screen_The Squid and the Whale | Shaun of the Dead | Paris Je'Taime

Some scraps from issue 5, just like it says, nothing fancy, very scrappy.

Cover to the last issue (8/8) and/or scraps for it next time. It's a little strange to be doing the final cover, but it's my favorite one I think. More my vibe than the others I've done - although I had a lot of fun designing Issue 5's poster cover too.

Tonight's life drawing - only threw out one drawing! Model was great, and there were cookies - Oreo AND chocolate chip. Not a bad night at all.





First row are 5 minute poses, last 3 are 25 minutes. Scraps.. next time! Oddly enough scraps actually take a bit of time to organize together in a presentable fashion. Who knew? :(

Just saw the teaser for the Spirit. Is it just me, or is this basically Sin City, with the Sin City/300 font. There's nothing particularly Spirit-y or Will Eisnery about it.. at all.

A present. I think it's done? Gotta comment now, I reckon. ;)



Issue 5 scraps next time! Has anyone read Issue 3 yet? I think it's the first one I'm fairly happy with all-around. Wizard Online digs us too:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/041708tmqb4.html
(last cover/review at the bottom)

concerning recent hysteria:
http://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

Here's a doodle.



In other news - '76 #3 is officially coming out this Wednesday... finally. As I've mentioned before, we've had it in the can for months now, so if readers had the idea that anyone on the creative team was behind the delay, we weren't.

I might be the one who holds up Issue 5 if I don't get back to work though, so... yeap. Back to work for me. I'll probably post up some scraps from it next time, I'm pretty damn happy with how it's turning out.

.sound_Bram Stoker's Dracula [audiobook]

.screen_A Little Romance [1979]