This is the last of four redrawings of a series of images I originally drew in 1990. I’m tempted to make this a tradition and redraw these images every five years or so.

We’ll see how I feel (or if I remember) in 2015.

This is both the last of the four cover illustrations I submitted to a forgotten zine back in 1990 and it’s the last illustration from the 1990 sketchbook that I’ve scanned. My next series of posts will feature sketches I’ve done THIS YEAR. I know, shocking.

Third of four redrawings of images I originally illustrated in 1990. See previous posts for more details.

Third of four illustrations from 1990. See previous post for more info.

And this is the second of four redrawing of those cover illustrations that I submitted in 1990 to the zine whose name I have forgotten. One of the difference between the 2010 redos and the 1990 originals is that I now use Photoshop to tweak my illustrations. I couldn’t have done that 20 years ago. Computers couldn’t do anything remotely like what they can now. And I didn’t own one anyway.

This is the second of four cover illustrations I submitted in 1990 to a zine the name of which I have forgotten.

As I was scanning that sketchbook from 1990 it occurred to me that it might be fun to redraw some of the images. I decided to redo the four illustrations I’d submitted for the cover of the Forgotten Zine. When the idea first hit me I thought I’d redraw them in the same style that I used in 1990, brush and pen and ink with stippling and crosshatching for the shadows. After thinking about it a bit I decided to just redo the images in the style I’m using today. Number one, I haven’t done much stippling in years. Number two, it’s a fairly time consuming process. And number three, stippling was part of my style in 1990 and it’s not in 2010. If I’m going to redraw an image now I might as well draw it the way I draw today.

One of the first things that hit me when I was sketching out the image was that I know more about anatomy now. I can’t just copy and improve on what I did twenty years ago. I had to start from scratch.

Once I’d discovered the small press underground I was pretty active. From 1989 until about 1992 or 1993 I published 19 minicomics and contributed to countless minicomics and zines. (I also drew five issues of Misspent Youths in 1990/91.) I should have samples of most of that work in the stack of boxes that sitting my “library”. If I ever sort those boxes I might find the title of the zine this illustration was submitted to. It and three others (to follow) were submitted for cover illustrations. I know at least two of them were used but I don’t remember which two.