Another journal

I recently got (thank you, Chase) a cool USB stick, so I used it to finally move some of last year’s files off the ol’ tablet. Please first, look at this.

Amazing. Anyway, I need to do a blog post and I have doodles that maybe didn’t make it anywhere else (though I think most did?) but they for sure didn’t make it here, so here’s a dump of images.

Mouseworld but make it The Locked Tomb? Don’t mind if I do. Ummm, I think was from this tumblr post. The Flinstones birds are from an illustration for one of the collected zine versions of my newsletter. I think I did the style justice.

Don’t remember why for this one! Shrimp!!

Have you heard the good news about Worm In A Rock God? A great comic that you can read here (and on Bluesky), don’t be put off, the opening pages are empty on purpose.

I won’t stop thinking this is one of the funnier memes/edits I’ve done. See. it’s about how Lancelot was basically a fandom self-insert character. Like how Gopher from the Disney Winnie The Pooh wasn’t in the books. I use “like Gopher” a lot in reference to characters who are added into stories when they change mediums. It’s been funny to me for 30 years.

Anyway! That is it. Everything else is around or was an illustration for something or was a niche meme made for a single person. Oh! Actually, have an emoji I made for the family discord to close it out.

HA. Oh man, I cannot believe I finished an illustration already.  I do plan on scanning some of the stuff I’m using as reference/illustration, but you’ll just have to enjoy some process pictures and finished image until then.  All images link to Flickr where there are more shots and info.

Splash page for end of Morningstar.

First Chase helped me get a reference shot. I kind of hate using myself for reference shots because my frame is weirdly proportioned and I always have to draw on more weight. But my easy-to-see-skeleton was nice for this reference in this case.  I did a rough sketch over the digital image in Photoshop, with a little bit of shading and printed it out.  Then I used a lightbox to do the basic pencils and I dug in with some black acrylic paint.

Kept painting. Started cleaning up with white. Various pen happened too. Sharpie, felt tip, micron.

With the figure done, it’s time for the background.  Since I don’t trust myself I did it on a separate sheet, placed over the figure, on the lightbox.

Looks okay so they both get scanned, cleaned up and composited. It didn’t take long.

I like it. Yay me. I especially like my tasteful way of hiding the bits between the legs. I am classy, is what.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

So, I haven’t really drawn since February. But I used to draw all the time and I should get back into that. But I need a reason to draw that’s more illustrate-y than comics-y. So I figure why not try to make some illustrations to go with all that shit I wrote in January.

I am a huge fan of old sf mags and pulpy mass market paperbacks from the 1970s and 80s. So I’ll be flipping through my old Asimov SF mags and using the black and white illustrations as inspiration (and ignoring the sad moment of the 90s where there was a lot of bad greyscale airbrush work).

Because I know a lot of people who draw for a living, I’m pretty self-conscious about how I do it. But whatever, I’m learning and I don’t quite give a shit. Anyway, finally started sketching out some things this evening. Trying to figure out what I should do for Morning Star.

And you can pretend that she’s wearing underwear if it makes you feel better.

So it will be like a blast from the past, me dumping process sketches of dubious quality on a regular basis. Rock.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.