scribbles & sketches

drawn nov. 18, 2006
pencil on paper

click to see this sketch rotated 180 degress.

drew this while at the creech party back in november. as you can tell from the subject line, my scanner is back! *yay!*
girlwithoutfear and i ate at fuji last night and stopped by an office supply store. i picked up a usb extension cord. they actually made them. who knew?

anyway, this sketch is for renegade 10.
the reporter, tillie, has to get a story on the renegades. deadeye sal, who is dying, calls in a favor that results in a magic potion that puts her soul in tillie's body. the two will share during the adventure. (acutally asqmh and apexofgrace, i thought of this before i met you, but will you do me the honor of being a test reader when i finally get started on this project? i want to make sure i don't offend or anything.)
this service the dual purpose of giving deadeye a change to go down in a "blaze of glory" and tillie a disguise for her story.

the body's appearance changes depending on who's in control. the inner dialouge between the two is visible to the audience and not just in thought balloons. this will be accomplished with the other in chibi form on the dominant person's shoulder.

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i'll be at ken's folks for the holidays.

- drawn 30 June 2006 -
- inked and colored 1 July 2006 -
copics and ink

The lady, or as some would refer to her, "a soiled dove," is Clementime Harvey, one of the outlaws i'm developing for Renegade 10. i strove to make her, well, more plump like a women of this time frame would be, and for a challenge. i'm afraid all the characters i've greated thus far have had about the same body.

where i came up with the pink and purple color scheme, i dunno.

I need more practice drawing guns and hands, i positively suck at them for the moment.
i'd better get good at guns, and hats and horses and cattle if i'm going to do this western comic idea o' mine. any one know where i can get photo reference for such things without payin' an arm and a leg?


man, i wish i could show this to ken...
been missing him a lot but today hit me hard.  eventually, i got out of the house. i think after staying wednesday and thursday night alone, without any plans to go visit a friend of do something, made me crack a bit. i'm still not ok, but i'll live. the art is helping. but i think a bunch of the grief is turning into some anger. i just don't know...
i have a feeling i'll be crying again before i go to sleep. reading helped take my mind off of it some today, before i got out of the apartment, but i feel like i'm running from the issue instead of facing it every time i distract myself. sometimes, i just need to let myself cry.

-drawn 27 Nov 2005 -
pencil on paper

while researching for Renegade 10, i came across an entry for Nellie Bly at wikipedia. very cool! i now have an inspiration for the reporter character. also, she has a name now. Millicent "Millie" Laura Mayes will get the pen name "Virginia Dann" from one of the editors at the paper. i have a feeling that her stubborness will earn her the unpleasant nickname "damn Virginia" around the newsroom. her overall design, however, is up in the air.
this is about how i picture her though, making a local sherrif very uncomfortable in her own stubborn way.
the sherrif needs lots of work! i suck at drawing guys.