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.