(OK, let's try this again) Number 11

Been a while, so here's a quickie.

Ambiguously brown?

This is mostly playing around with screen tones. I find that flat shading lacks a 'comicky' feeling to it so I hope to incorporate this into more of my work.

First piece of digital work in a while, I got a long ways to go. Join me on my journey to not sucking so hard!

Number 10

Holy crap have I been slacking off. Got no excuses really, just can't seem to get motivated. I think maybe I'll try a weekly schedule, it'll force me to try and finish up old sketches.

Under the sea!

I come up with the dumbest stuff when I'm tired. I think this has some potential for wacky adventures.

Gotta work on those speedlines; subjective motion has been a nut I've been trying to crack for years now.

Day 9

Parents just don't understand

I'm pretty terrible at drawing kids unless they're being petulant.

Other than that, I admit I've been slacking. Life's frustrations (vis-a-vis night school here) stymie efforts; art requires a certain clarity, a lucid state of mind.

Feh.

Day 8

Shaolin Quan!

Conveying kinetic energy has been something I've been trying to work at for a while. I can't quite get the feel of subjective motion quite right. George Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo is where I set my personal barometer, so I have a long way to go. I really want to create a comic with rad fight scenes, but need the skill and grit to do it.

Also time.

Day 7

The Detroit Hitman, The Motor City Cobra

A sketch of Thomas 'The Hitman' Hearns, a boxer who rose to conquer six weight divisions in the 80s. The guy punched so hard that he made Sugar Ray Leonard retire temporarily due to a detached retina!

I tried a bit of a different approach with this one and used non-repro blue pencil for the structure lines. I'd like to improve the cleanliness of my pencils and my rendering, and this seems to be a bit of a start.

Day 6

I listen to The Sex Pistols a lot - or as much as I can, as Never Mind the Bollocks was their only release - and, as much as I can appreciate angry vitriol as any other, I cannot completely identify with the Punk mentality beyond that.

I do like the Ramones though, since they were sincerely awkward geeks who by being brazenly honest amounted to a raw coolness.

Day 5

Way too busy

Bit flustered, so just scribbled madly with a Sharpie. Looking less garbage than I thought!

This is another OC of mine. Princess Ya Xiu is being groomed to be the saviour of weird fish people, but she's not very good at her job. Super salt.

Day 4

What's that?

Working on some inking. While my brushpen died near the end, feels kind of good to give an image some crisper resolution. I have problems with clean lines, I really must improve that.

Day 3

Shenanigans!

I've been learning Ibuki in SSF4: AE 2012. I usually play with Chun-Li, but Ibuki in offering more approach and offense options allows a gateway for me to explore playing the game a different way from pokes, footsies, and laming it out.

Day 2

Galaxy Senshi Bishoujo Mantis

I loved the 2008-2010 Guardians of the Galaxy team, the Nova series, everything Cosmic in that era. Annihilation, (parts of) Conquest, War of Kings, The Thanos Imperative. So rad.

I absolutely loathe Bendis' current, non-explanatory, movie-tie-in, send-Iron-Man-to-upstage-Star-Lord soft reboot that threw out everything from that run.

Also Mantis is my space-waifu. Those weird celestial psychic feels.

(Not-so) Daily Sketches

I've fallen off the wagon, I need to get better, so let's subject the internet to some drawing whether for good or ill.

I'm going to try ti force myself to do one daily, but this hasn't worked out so well in the past, so if I flake out, yell.

Deadlifting nerd

Here's my pet character Mei-Yu for a comic I can't seem to garner the resolve to crank through right now, deadlifting with some yoga pants. If the character's going to be in an action comic, gotta stay fit in the off-season.

Wish me luck.

Sit Down, Do It (Convention Season Post-Mortem)

As August passes us by, so too does the convention season. This year I went off to Seattle, Los Angeles, and what at the time felt like every niche corner and big show in Vancouver (all...uh, four, of them).

It was a tumultuous journey, filled to the brim with a crazy workaholic drive I haven't experienced before, full of no-sleep to the point of near breakdown; a streak of masochism - in the most positive way - driven by a single minded purposefulness.

From entering a contest to breaking positive in gross, I learned quite a bit on my journey of scrounging up art this year. This conceit can be neatly summarized in the following Calvin and Hobbes strip:

This is not philosophy to live by.

Self reflections and self indulgence after the break.

Anime Evolution 2013

Hey everybody. So, I'm at Anime Evolution 2013 this weekend, touted by some as the revival of the heart and soul of the Vancouver anime convention scene. I'm at table 60 under the moniker Mr. 6MK - the guy with a lot of Adventure Time crap.

Anyways, there was a mascot contest, which led me to drop some bomb-ass art. Hit the jump to check it out!

Sakura-Con 2013 Post-Mortem

I just got back from a totally rad Easter Weekend in Seattle, Washington. Unfortunately while I don't have all that much to report, it was a really awesome experience, a big-old eye opener that's forced me to come to a hard truth.

I've seriously got to level my game up.

Hello/Test Post/Convention Circuit 2013

Hello there!

Chances are you're here because I linked you via the internet or you picked up one of my garish and atrocious business cards at a convention.

Filler image after the jump