You're looking at great art too much Marv! haha. The washes look like B&W versions of your color stuff.... sort of. I was flipping through Doug Freshley last night.
Nah, you can't look at great art too much. The grey tones, whether they are washes or grey marker pen or photoslop marks tend to replace what I do with black, in terms of light and shadow. I use color to hold forms together, that might fall apart without it. the mark making is simliar becasue that's how my hand works, and my clumsiness with a brush is comparable to me clumsiness with a wacom.
But practice makes perfect, or rather, perfect practice makes perfect.
Hope you enjoyed DOUG. We got some nice comments on it at
A getting-back-into-it drawing, of Thanksgiving dinner at the Baxter Street Home for Wayward Boys. Clockwise from the lower left, we have (residents denoted with a *): Chris and Rachel (the folks Zlatan lived with before me), *Zlatan, Vincent (my old friend), *me, Tyler, Rosemary (Leo's girlfriend), *Leo, and Tim (my drinking buddy). And yes, this is a rip-off of an old Rockwell illustration.
A panel from Black Flies. I worked on this over the summer. Script, lettering and that textural effect by Josh Hechinger. Scribbling and coloring by me.
This is designed as a screen shot. Each screen shot has 1-4 panels, mostly 1-2. Each screenshot should represent a kind of thought or sentence in comics terms.
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Well thanks. but of course in my mind it should look like this illustration by Robert Fawcett.
But practice makes perfect, or rather, perfect practice makes perfect.
Hope you enjoyed DOUG. We got some nice comments on it at
http://investcomics.com/reviews/comic-book-reviews-10-8-11
A panel from Black Flies. I worked on this over the summer. Script, lettering and that textural effect by Josh Hechinger. Scribbling and coloring by me.
OK OK One more. As you can see, Ollie Carne has just experienced an abortive attempt to shift into warpdrive.
From Okita and the Cat, available at iTunes. Also written by Josh Hechinger.
On a whim, I did the blacks first, followed by line art, then color and lettering. Story by Patrick Tkaczynski.