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I forgot to post these! So here they are, gifts I gave my dad and mom for Christmas (respectively). I’ll try to get some higher-res images soon- these were taken with my phone, before the finishing touches to the drawings (highlights, signature, etc.) and obviously before all the pretty matting and framing and all that jazz. Charcoal is pretty much my favorite drawing medium, other than ink on paper. They’re probably tied.
Sometimes I draw things. Other times I don’t draw things but this is an example of when I was drawing things.
The original sketch that inspired the well-liked Pumpkin Head guy first appearing in this strip.
I found a great pen for sketching on normal paper (when not wanting to waste valuable, expensive bristol). It’s the Pilot Laser Point pen. Micron Pigma pens, which I use to draw the comics on bristol, don’t have the same effect on normal paper…and I think normal paper wears out the Micron pen tip.
Here are some doodles from said pen (the Pilot Laser Point), on computer paper. I think it has a good line quality with just the slight amount of bleed that I think makes inked lines look nice and organic. Click the image to view it larger.
Here is the final sketch of the Sasquatch before I inked him into the strip. I always think the sketches look better than the final, inked version, perhaps in the same way that people always say the book is better than the movie. That analogy probably makes no sense, but I’m too lazy to go back and delete it now.
