More Inky Demos

And here are today's "stupid inking tricks" demos for my college-level comics class. These took about 40 minutes each, and being a good sport, I let my students pick the subjects as long as they included monsters.

Yes, those are fingerprints in her hair. I think after students see you literally inking with your fingers, it reduces the pressure of expectations a little bit.

Quick Studies 10/08/2012

Always a good start to the week when I can make it to the AAU's fabled Quick Studies workshop. Here's this week's highlights (no pun intended), featuring the wonderful Liz Ramsey and whatever I found lying around in my pen case.

Dimple Ducks

Dimple Ducks?

Dimple Ducks!

Beware the Abyss of the Star-Nosed Mole.

Quick Posting

A few pages from this week's Quick Studies workshop. Yay!

Captain Chiroptera!

Here's a goofy little something I whipped up for the AAU Comic Book Club's latest weekly challenge. We were supposed to design a superhero character based on randomly selected powers, and I ended up with "extraordinary hearing"and "sonic blasts". Enter Captain Chiroptera, the Bat Who Walks Like a Man!

Here's a closeup of the Captain, with his sidekick Sanguina to scale.

Since our hero is a bat who was bitten by a radioactive vampire, giving him the size and strength of a full-grown human - plus nifty attributes like day vision and opposable thumbs - it stands to reason that the vampire who bit him would be shrunk down to bat size, becoming an adorable pixie princess. I mean, that's what happened in The Fly, right?

Sketching in Meetings

Lots of meetings and orientation events over the last couple of weeks, and many doodles resulted. First, a few from the pre-semester life drawing workshop; that's Katie Longua in the witch outfit, and Sarafina in the cowgirl togs.

And here are a few of the notes I was taking during those lofty and intellectually demanding faculty meetings and training sessions.

Shiver Me Timbers

This week's Face Off challenge: "A pirate who's become one with the sea." The contestants on the actual show were given random individual prompts, but for the play-along-at-home version I picked the themes "kelp" and "barnacles."

And here she is in color...