Vacation...

I'm going to take a week off from blogging to finish a few assignments I need to work on. I am finishing up my "Crash! Boom! Bang" submission and starting up a "Claf and Steve" project and possibly few CAS online goodies. Maybe I'll get a surplus of doodles and drawings to post up here..

Here is a lone panel from Claf and Steve...

Be back in a week!
See you later,
Bob

Crash! Boom! Bang!

Almost forgot to post my picture today. I've been so busy!
This little guy is a by-product of the "Crash! Boom! Bang!" comic I'm working on for YAC...
Go here to see what im talking about and join in and submit a strip...come one, come all!
http://www.youngamericancomics.com/category/group-projects/

Gotta run!
Later,
Bob

Tyr the Yeti

Here is a character I created for Jupiter City. I was talking about Bigfoot and Yetis the other day with Andrew. Here is my Yeti, Tyr...


Hint: he's the same color as the Rankin-Bass abominable snowman from the Rudolph movies.

Later
Bob

Claf and Steve Panel

Just getting reacquainted with my old characters. Claf and Steve have an old familiarity to them that makes them easy to draw and a newness that I need to write fresh stories. Here’s a panel with no background, with Steve peeking around the panel border, it shows the “tongue in cheek/fourth wall break” quality to the script I was going for when I created them. And we see Duke Snookie the one eyed nobleman of the Farlands hasn't aged a second.

Camping was fun this weekend, not too hot. We learned my puppy can swim like a fish. I'm exausted and back to work, hopefully not nodding off
See you tommorow,
Bob

Sydney

This is Sydney the bounty hunter from Claf and Steve. I decided to update her look for the new chapters I have for Claf and Steve.

for the old version of this pic go to: http://clafandsteve.8m.com/

Some prelims of Sydney that I worked up.
More Claf and Steve related things abound next week. I'm off tommorow, going camping with my wife and her clan.

Enjoy
Later,
Bob

Sketchbook Wednesday...

I have some good stuff coming up but I took a night off yesterday. Accsidently pass out on my couch and wasted a whole night!

Thus, a sketchbook day!

This guy is an apocalyptic superhero I have no background for...

And my version of a fairy...I'm not that fanciful, she's more realistic sad girl that just happens to have pillowy wings.

More to come...

Enjoy!

Later,

Bob

Young American Comics

Young American Comics (named after the Bowie so... Not some political group!) has a new site that challenges people to draw comics. And will post a challenge a week for a year. I'm trying my best to so some shorts for them.

http://52comicchallenges.com/

I also plan to submit to their Anthology with a "what's in the box" entry. Go to the site to see what that means. I am working on a strip starring my college characters Claf and Steve. They are thieves that collect and sometimes sell the stuff they steal from Duke Snookie.

I will try to post up bad strips on the Claf and Steve: The blog .

Enjoy!

Bob

Sushi Monday...

I took a vacation day last Friday, and will take one next Friday. Sorry for no Friday updates...

We went out to my friend Jeff's family lake, it was too cold to swim, I was very disapointed in not swiming. We took our puppy Chocolate out to see the lake and meet some of my friends that haven't met him yet. He had a blast with his new friends. We built a fire pit, made a nice fire, and cooked brats and chicken, yum. It was a perfect cookout day. I will post some pictures soon.

I think I still have Japanese stuff on the brain, left over from the Japanese Festival. I have been drawing Sushi, ninjas, and Japanese schoolgirls all weekend. Honestly, I draw Japanese Schoolgirls constantly. So here is the out of the ordinary sushi drawings.



Thanks,
Later
Bob

Spider-man Sample

I have been working tirelessly on samples to turn in to CBI... I have about three done and three more in the works. Heres the more mainstream sample of spideman web-slinging.

My other CBI submissons are at:http://blearned.deviantart.com/gallery/

You can keep up with the contest here:http://cbi.comicbookresources.com/

Sketchbook Wednesday!

I still don't have much to show but here are some thumbnails of the Spider-man comic I'm working on. I have a whole bunch of finished work to show you, I swear. I'm also working on the 1st cover to "Beyond: The late adventures of Sebastion Scott" It was really fun to design so I am really trying hard to make it beautiful.


And a girl that was stuck in my head, so I let her live in my sketchbook.

More to come.
Enjoy
Later,
Bob

Post old stuff to recover from weekend!

I worked all the way through the weekend at my Sunday job, they called me in on Saturday. I did get alot of nice work done while I was there. but nothing finished yet I am rotating between three stories, so not to get bored with any of them. So they will be up soon. Until then I had to scour my files for stuff I scanned but never posted. So this is technially a clean up day! Enjoy my Ninja that me and my friend John mused over one day.

I have been very interested in the storytelling of illustration in a single image. Even though I have been working on lots sequential panels. I think a single picture can say a thousand words as an old proverb says. I am very interested in the drawings of Arthur Rackham. He's got so much going into each one of his illustrations. His pen and ink with the watercolors are so lush and beautiful. It's hard not to be inspired by his works here are some examples.





Well thats all i got.
I'll try to scan my thumbnails of the finished comic pages too.
Enjoy!
Later
Bob

Not much...

I don't have much to post today. I am working on some bigger more complicated samples for the CBI contest. I am also going to submit some "Beyond" pages that I was reluctant to show due to the story only being part-way drawn. I am becoming less and less optimistic that I will even make it to the next round by the strong submissions. I wish that you had to show how long it took them to do a particular drawing. I’m wondering, because I am limiting myself to 24 hours for a single drawing and a week for a sequential set of pages. I’m not sure if that is what some of the contestants are doing. They will have to produce on deadline. Which is very hard if not practiced on a normal basis. Well, we will see.

Here is a little pencil doodle I did Saturday.

Please check out the rest of the blog and comment accordingly. And check out Comic Book Resources' Comic Book Idol contest. Links are in earlier posts...

Harry...and CBI

Just finished a little drawing before I go into comic book mode big time for Comic Book Idol see my work featured here:http://cbi.comicbookresources.com/cbi3/idol-thoughts-96/#more-7

And a color version.

More Electric monk soon too

Enjoy

Bob

Comic Book Idol

Hope fully this blog can be my submission to Comic Book Idol. For my sequential work don't miss my "Electric Monk" pages here. Here is the inked version of the birthday card I gave to my nephew Cory.




I also did this little drawing for my wife.

Enjoy,
Later
Bob

Let it snow...

I was thinking about snowman, Christmas and snow in the summertime. Just can't wait for it to cool off.

I got to use my new Staedtler pigment liner pens on his picture. I'm not entirely happy with the darkness of this picture. The trees look ominous, but otherwise I'm happy with the results. I love the liner work on the trees. Looking for more drawings to use the liners on.

Klaatu Barada Nikto...

This is Gort the robot protector of Klaatu in the old 1950's movie "The day the earth stood still." A friend of mine mentioned that they were thinking of remaking the sci-fi classic. Which sounds like kinda cool, then he said that Keanu Reeves was up for the Klaatu part... ahhggggg...nevermind. Ha!

So I sat down and said the words to stop the behemoth robot "Klaatu Barada Nikto" and drew this from my memory of the robot. After I was done I looked up Gort on the internet and was amazed I remembered the visor and his belt design. But I did remember him being much more hulking, thus his proportion.

Wanted to mention that the Japanese festival was awesome, but I left my camera at home so sorry no Japanese Festival pics. We saw the Sumo wrestlers, a geisha presentation, and partook of the asian food, yummy.

And I bought this really cool samurai shirt!
That's all for Tuesday, folks.
More the rest of the week!
Enjoy
Later,
Bob