Scribbles from a Moleskine notebook. In which I’ve recently discovered that I have absolutely no idea how to use non-watercolour colour pencils. Much happier with how the Copics at the bottom turned out. There’s a little pencil in there too Click to see larger. But even if I’ve figured out heads, I should figure out [...]
Posts Tagged ‘extras’
It is very, very hard to get back into drawing again. I’m just saying. Like, even perfectly oval, simple faces are hard. So, here are some new pens I’ve brought out to play…
Sketches of the day: from the trash pile
by klio on February 15th, 2012At the Angoulême comics festival, I was having a late business meeting with someone in a pub that prides itself on serving American beer (Bud) and burgers (I don’t know what it was, but I had a weird allergic reaction to it later; let’s blame the Bearnaise sauce). The bartender brought around a big sketchbook, [...]
Sketch of the Day: convention doodles
by klio on November 29th, 2011Some more flash card scribbles, from NYCC. (click to see larger)
I’ll be sharing a table in Artist’s Alley at NY Comic Con but I’ll only have a few doodads. Mirrors, magnets, whatever buttons I have left, the flashcard art and some other art pieces, and posters/prints of the library-pillaging legionary soldier. You might catch me at the table working on an update to the comic, [...]
Sketch of the Day: more convention doodles
by klio on September 29th, 2011More random sketches from the box of 1000 Latin vocabulary flash cards I got for super-cheap, plus some trading card-size sketches. There were more, but passersby picked them up before I remembered that maybe I should get photographic evidence
An old sketch, but still a goodie, I think. Page 51 of LUMBERJACKS: A FIELD GUIDE: Lumberjacks of the Future. “What the heck is Lumberjack Day?? Lumberjack Day is a wonderfully ridiculous holiday that Marianne Ways and Colleen AF Venable [former lumberjack] invented seven years ago in reaction to Talk Like a Pirate Day. Lumberjack [...]
Took a day trip to Boston for MICE (the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo), where two affable but mysterious young women were asking folks to draw sketches on the theme of libraries and books, for a school library display for students interested in comic art or . . . something like that. They didn’t quite completely explain it. [...]








