Quick Doom

Here's Doom. The mask is the man. Might mess with the colors more later.

Edit: Remember how bad that looks? Spent another couple hours and made it anew. This is better. This color is still a little funky, but it has a more serious villain vibe, and it does a lot better job stressing the difference between Dumile and the character DOOM. At least I think it does.

Edit: Made some more minor changes.

Full Metal Jacket

Hey. Another Kubrick piece. This time Full Metal Jacket. I'll go back to some earlier stuff next. Maybe The Killing because if I recall it's really good. Full Metal Jacket is actually really good too. I liked it a lot more than I remember. Maybe it's just because I paid closer attention this time, but it is a really upsetting movie. It is structurally weird and stuff, but that somehow builds the impact of the story well. It's hard to come out of this movie thinking war is awesome. A lot of war movies, even some of the good ones,  claim authenticity but end up feeling like ads for the marines. Full Metal Jacket takes people, puts them through a specific military culture, and observes the way that divides and effects them. Sketches!

I liked 2 and 3, they felt uncomfortable like the movie while dealing with the conflict between war and people. But #2 felt more specific to the FMJ. Less heavy handed. I do want to split a drawing right down the middle one of these days though. Anyway I did a bunch of stuff and here's the final. Ended up using a less limited palette on this one to better suit the film's atmosphere.

Back Home

I went to ICON8 in Portland and it was really very cool. If you're considering going to it in the future I would recommend it; I met some very cool people and learned as much as you could hope to at such an event.

Anyway travel was a monster somehow, and although I was able to keep up an OK pace on comics work I didn't get another Kubrick piece done yet. Unless a ton of other jobs pop up I'll have one on Monday. So I'm done traveling, back in New York. Here is a horse to commemorate the occasion. The color on these is always pretty slapdash. Maybe I'll go back and fiddle with it more.

Oh also my favorite people I drew at Icon ripped from a few pages in my sketchbook. If you recognize yourself let me know.

Cowboy Acknowledgement

I'm laying out comics this week so here's a messy cowboy.

2001: a Space Odyssey

I live in New York now. Also if you have a cheap apartment available let me know.

I'm working on comics mostly, but I've just made an editorial poster for 2001: a Space Odyssey. I was testing out whether or not I would do a series of all of Kubrick's movies on weekends and stuff. I will. There is so much to learn from his movies. There is also a ton of conceptual and thematic substance to his work. Kubrick makes it so easy for viewers to connect with his movies in individual and specific ways, so I feel like I should have no problem making some worthwhile art based off his films.

2001 seemed like a good starting point because it is such a classic. Familiar symbols etc... I decided to focus on the the mysterious nature of human development the film presents. Here are a couple sketches I started with.

I went with the first one because it felt truer to the atmosphere of the movie. Here it is inked.

And the final.

Update: Painting and Moving

Oh hey there. Give me a second to get this all together. OK.

So I missed a couple weeks there because I was painting this mural. It looks almost exactly like this except 25 feet long. It took a while because of it's 25 feet long.

If I hadn't been slogging away at that we would have celebrated this blog's one year anniversary. Hooray! Everybody celebrate with me. I thought about doing some sort of reflective post about this year, but just like, scroll down and you'll get a sense of it. Maybe hum something melancholy while you do. 

I'm moving again, this time to New York City, so I couldn't get great scans of stuff in transit. Here are some low quality scans of unlettered comics. This book is almost wrapped. I can give some more details later, but it's written by Sam Costello. It's not always this guy on a phone, but these are some of my favorite pages from it where he is.

Sketchbook Judge Dredd...

And some life drawings with fast color slapped down on them. The only life drawings in my sketchbook that I've inked right now are a couple from Pecha Kucha STL.

Episode 2

New Pages! Read them quickly! I've got a bunch of stuff planned on this, but getting a little done in between other projects here and there.

Edit: This is the whole episode now. Whoop.