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anytime i do a slight 3/4 pose (specifically with an arm back behind the shoulder) I call it the Cory Walker pose! I started to notice it on his first go sketch-a-day go around. He manages to find dynamic ways to pose figures ALL the time and they don't really need to be doing much for him to make them look good.

so the arm-behind-the-shoulder has become a staple of mine, thanks Corenthal.

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bulletproof emo

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scribbling.
trying to get more kinetic with the brush pen

Sketch-A-Day 197

when in Italy...do as the Italians do.

y'know...those striped shirt guys

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playing with negative space

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do you know what days doing daily sketching sucks?
...most of them.


'sup holmes

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yup

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finished up the IndianaBeetle...or BulletproofJones. I like the swagger of this one.

Sketch-A-Day 192

i was looking at a bunch of Indiana Jones reference (including Beavers run on the comic). I'm having alot of fun dashing in other character's elements into BpB.

Sketch-A-Day 191

I'm not usually one to over-endorse a book on the merits of only it's first issue...but THOR: The Mighty Avenger is just better than everything!

Samnee is always a freakin genius and the book is just good old fun. There's some fisticuffs and then a buncha nice character stuff. Right off the bat, you can feel that it's a different take on Thor and that's a big part of the charm.

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so here's the inks after some clean-up. I might kill that thick shape on the left arm...it feels out of balance now. We'll see

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I'm experimenting a little by drawing the shadow parts first. That might seem like a no-brainer to most, but for me it's a way of getting my mind around how the shadows work.

Most of the time, I'll draw the drawing and then if I go heavy on the shadows with it, I end up back filling over a bunch of the stuff that I just drew. Doing it this way allows me to go into it knowing what will be spot blacked so i don't waste time filling in detail that's just gonna be covered up.

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I'm really proud of this one. I think he feels properly weighted and relaxed (no photo reference this time). A very simple unfinished drawing, but I like it.

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somebody got his ass kicked

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Danny in the pub...with a little friend

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Happy 4th, folks!

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putting little-to-no weight on a rope...not that difficult

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We've spent the last 3 days dealing with a water pipe issue in our flooded backyard. It's not sewer water (which is a bonus from last time). But now it's the back and forth about whether it's our line so our responsibility or if it's a matter of the problem being inches closer to the junction thereby making it the city's headache. Our water being shut off while the small lake dries up and then city guys "fixing" and reburying the problem just to have a pond reappear in a few hours.

Liz was knee deep in a hole we had to dig in order to get to the problem...so I put BpB right in there with her.

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playing with brush pen

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i'm working on the different ways to get his differing age across at different points by making small variations in face shape and structure

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This is Danny Garrety before he gets his mask and hat and really before he even considers himself a super hero. At this point in his career he's just out for some good old fashioned vengeance.

He's supposed to look young but i think the head is still too big (making him look too young). But who knows

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an older version of BpB...after some shit goes down

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a double-fecta of 90's goodness...a big collared jacket AND rolled up sleeves

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the arm's way out of proportion...hopefully i'll go back and fix it later

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This expresses how i've been feeling lately (creatively speaking). I'm in a bit of a funk and trying to dig my way out of it.

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random drawing playing with facial shadows

Sketch-A-Day 174

finally some colors to round out the idea. I haven't added any shadow tones yet because i've been re-thinking the shading lines on the feet. originally i had planned on a gradient fill from the rock through the pants.

As you can see, during the color stage, is when I usually play with some of the extra elements that I may have drawn off to the side.

Sketch-A-Day 173

Now here's all the cheating!

I'll usually go in digitally and futz around with whatever I don't like or all the different bad decisions that a drawing will pick up along the way. I've been saving a lot of my fills to be done digitally too. It allows me to balance the composition a bit better.

Some elements added in, others taken out to land on the final "inks."

Sketch-A-Day 172

okay, so here are the raw inks with all the blemishes and fuck ups before I've fixed them. I'll usually draw out all kinds of other shit off to the side, that I'll fuck with digitally to see if something else works better....almost like a fancy paper doll.

Sketch-A-Day 171

okay, I'm finally gonna do one of those process pieces up right. Here's some pencil scribbles (or a sketch as it's called in the biz). I'll jump in with some brush pen tomorrow.

Happy Mother Fucker's Day!

Sketch-A-Day 170

I really like this one (even though he looks too well built). It's a trick of the trench coat that over broadens his shoulders...but again, I still really like it. I've been having a buncha fun scribbling in definition and shadow with the brush pen and chisel.

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BpB beat to shit and looking smelly

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BpB bust...barely

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so here's Emperor Zombie

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an undead leprechaun...he's a very important character, down the road, for Bulletproof Beetle. I was trying to nail rotting flesh on skeleton heads and everything kept coming out looking like Emperor Zombie.

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catch of the day

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it feels good to punch the ground! It's like socking the earth in the gut...stupid earth.

Sketch-A-Day 163

off screen light source? you guessed it

Sketch-A-Day 162

okay, so i'll be up in the sticks for a few days...no internet service. I was able to keep up with the daily posts during the Con 'cause I was still within civilization. I don't know if the place i'm headed has even HEARD of the internet.

I'll still do a sketch each day, I just won't post it until we get back

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when all else fails...I go Invincible

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play play play

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taking a few pages out of Scottygod's book and trying to apply them to my simple as shit style...still working

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a snippit of more trial and error w/ inks

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I know, obsessed much?

Sketch-A-Day 156

playing around with some panel ideas for a new project from Fiction House Mafia. This will be for Healy and Pina's new baby due out by Halloween.

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oooh, strike a pose...a limited line pose

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inks over Dave...we're trying to find an ink style for the upcoming SgtZero story

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later in life when BpB ditches all the superhero flair

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super-fast sketchy Starshield...still wiped out from the con & flight