Warm up sketches of polar bears. The bears here range in age from a week to six months. Instead of my standard mechanical pencil, I decided to try a new technique: sketching with blue line pencil, and finishing with Tombow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Studies of a Batagur Turtle hatchling, and an Asian Elephant calf.
Studies of Fennec Fox kits. Source: Referenced from photos on Los Angeles Zoo.
Studies of black-footed ferret kits. These cute little critters are the endangered wild relatives of the domestic ferret. The ferret is one of my favorite animals. I used to share my home with two adorable ferrets–Momoko and Elf. Their crazy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…