Studies of a giraffe adult and calf.
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If you’re drawing a comic or an illustration with an animal in it, it’s important to have some degree of familiarity with the animal. The more comfortable you are with drawing animals, the more natural it will be to draw[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There has been a lot of scrutiny over the lack of quality in the lettering of the Twilight manga adaption. I don’t disagree. The lettering is lackluster, difficult to read and feels like an afterthought– word balloons seem to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the questions I’m frequently asked is how to go about “breaking into” the comic industry. It’s a tricky question to answer, because there is no direct path. The comics industry is a tough business to break into. There’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This promo illustration for The Last of the Polar Bears, portraying an iconic scene from the first chapter of the story, had a pack a lot of punch with a minimalist execution. With so little detail, it wasn’t difficult to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the page layout template I’m using to storyboard Last of the Polar Bears. You’re welcome to download and print it out for use in your own comics. The template is sized for printing on standard letter-sized paper. There’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve finished scanning and compiling the roughs for the first chapter of The Last of the Polar Bears, so I thought I’d talk a bit about my storyboarding process. Because I am both the writer and the artist, I bypass[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…