A page of general practice sketches.
Golliwogs and the Hulk
I’m pretty sure that the faces here with the big lips and the yarnish hair are my attempt at drawing golliwogs. I was picturing these as multicolored characters rather than the standard black skin and red lips. Really multicolored – blue, green, yellow, red, orange, white – with the hair, mouth and eyes one color and the body another. They’d be in every combination but black and red (unless the lips and such were black and the body red). The golliwogs have a nice simple cartoon design. It’s too bad that design is a racist sneer.
The overly muscled fellow at the bottom of the page is the Hulk. The Hulk was the second comic book character (after Spider-Man) whose series I read regularly. The version I read was the early seventies stupid Hulk. I’ve always been impressed by the artists who managed to draw that huge bulky physique and make it look, if not natural, at least real within the comic.
Long Hair and Glasses
These are sketches of the protagonist of that early attempt at a webcomic. I don’t believe I ever gave her a name. The weird clown is just a bonus.
Beginning a New Sketchbook
Well, it’s not really a new sketchbook. Just new as far as posting images here. But you knew that. I’m pretty sure that all the work in here was done in 2003.
Not much to say about this page. It’s primarily inking practice, playing with my Micron pens.
Ilf About Town – Color
As I said yesterday, this is the last of the postcard series for now. I’ve done some since I finished this one but not enough to have a good run of them. Once I’ve at least a month’s worth I’ll put it out.
Ilf About Town – Black and White
This card has Tom Lawson’s name on it. It’s sitting on the table until I hear back from him with an address.
This is also the last of this set of postcards. I’ll post the color version tomorrow and Saturday we’ll start reviewing another sketchbook.
Not Really Scary – Color
All dressed up.
Not Really Scary – Black and White
This one went to Kent Mannis.
The post title refers to the idea that many people find clowns frightening. I can’t remember if I thought they were scary when I was a kid. I don’t remember finding them very funny though.
Better Than a Bow and Arrow
Can you feel the love?
Better Than a Bow and Arrow – Black and White
This one went to Barbara. Barbara and I met once or twice many years ago. She was one of the first people who friended me after I put up my MySpace page.
