Robots

Robots in my sketchbook? It's more likely than you think.

200 words exactly.

While warming up to write some Riot District I wrote this 200 word flash fiction thingy. It's like doodling for writing, or cracking my knuckles:

"Snow Day"


He followed his commute by foot. If he used the back-doubles he could still intercept him even with hardly any traffic.


I'll run up and smash the glass he thought. I'll make him admit it, then I'll fucking blast him.


He felt slower in the snow so he broke into a jog. Crossing the grassy part of the adjacent street he thought of snow days and his eyes welled up. A quick left put him at the light just as the don't walk sign began to flash. He turned his back to count eighteen.


The itchy hat and snowflakes sent him back to heavy breaths and laughter on a hill. They bumped and rolled the last few feet together as flotsam. He caught the sled, with some skill he thought, and turned to get her reaction. She just stood there biting her lip and he crumbled.


Reaching in for the grip he dropped the gym bag swinging around to the front. He smashed the glass and said "you worm" and aimed the shotgun at him. Then a shock, he thought why was she in the car with him? Why wasn't she at school? But he had already pulled the trigger.

As I'm really focusing on the writing at the moment it's nice to post some. I might try to illustrate it at some point as a one or two pager or just have someone else do it... Ahem.

Speaking of doodles, Riot District is coming along very well. Powering through with the "outline that never ended" and simply turning it into the full story as if it was intentional.
I would say the world building is done at this point. Any additional lore is going to be out of necessity rather than fun.

Pity.

I try to doodle or sketch a character or scene a few times a week just to remind myself that I'm eventually going to have to draw this behemoth.

Father and son, ink on paper.

Beef and heat, onions, carrots and rosemary.

Cast

Sort of a Riot District cast pin-up. Acrylics and a bit of photoshoppery for flavor:

My pin-ups always end up disappointing me somewhat. I feel like I have this great idea and I make a great doodle to go by then I suck all the life out of it and make it this boring static pose. I think this would probably be a better painting if I removed all the foreground elements and just had it be weird background characters scurrying around a cityscape. Next time!

Meltdown and Toi tonight with the lovely Meaghan. Mischief will undoubtedly ensue.

Sunday WIP

Finish this tomorrow maybe...

Black

Sketchbook

Riot District sketches.

Los Angeles Comic Book and Sci Fi Con

Sold a few books, gave away some buttons, froze my bollocks off and almost got raped by the asian Michael Jackson. All in all not a bad way to spend a Sunday.

Adventure!

Some Pinhead painting I ruined, then saved.

Then ruined.

Hate you hate you hate you hate you hate you.

Meg in a painterly way. What's she painting?

Find out here.

Joy Girls

Probably about as finished as this is going to get. It's all just rendering at this point anyway.

Acrylic.

Now revelry.

Thanks CC2K; I'd love to do Hellraiser!

CC2K reviews Something Animal:

Okay fair enough, my Chatterer is a little on the Akbar side here but it's exactly these kinds of trifling details that will get ironed out when I do the comic.

Push Button

It's entirely possible that if you come see me at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Sci-Fi Convention this weekend you could grab an official No Cuddle Time! button.

Profess your distaste for non-sexual intimacy to the world in style!

(Shown against the inch grid of a self-healing cutting mat for scale).

In the meantime.

In the meantime I just wanted to remind everyone that you can buy my comic Something Animal by clicking the link to the right. Here are some nice pics to try to show off the quality. Which to be fair can only really be seen up close, with a copy in your hands.

Bit more

Bit more on this guy; some color etc. This is turning into one of those paintings I'm not sure I'm good enough to do well (or at least as good as I see it in my head). I suppose one has to try.

Some photos up soon and some REAL work I promise.

Sketchbook

Joy Girls - WIP

Ah, works in progress just like the old days.

Will most likely finish this on the weekend.

Sketchbook

"Outline"

Tried to write an outline for Riot District to show to a friend. At 4000+ words I realized it was a little out of hand. I also realized that I haven't even planned for 2/3 of the story at all yet.
A pretty humbling and terrifying realization to be honest.

I went from the "this is the best idea ever" stage to the "Oh Jesus Fucking Christ this is going to be a lot of work" stage just like that.

Wading back in to the Scrivener tutorial now to think about what I've done...

Big boys

Can hold it's own with the big boys.

Now go buy it.

Sketchbook

Mermaid

The lovely Meaghan in front of my lovely camera.

Off to the races.

Better-than-I-thought turn out last night and we sold a bunch of copies (we even had to open a new box at some point!). Big thanks to Emerald Knights and everyone that showed up to let me deface their copy of Something Animal. You have no idea how much I appreciate your participation in this little experiment where I try to become a professional comic artist.

Merch!

Meaghan cares not for your Codes of Conduct.

I'm on a very strict diet comprising of two core principles. 1) eat whatever the hell I want around the clock and b) drink diet soda.

Yo Rob, why aren't you wearing the Fanboy Comics T-shirt we gave you yesterday? Haha suckers.

FUPM

Another satisfied customer.

Comics are serious business.

What can I say? Girls love comic book illustrators.

Plenty more where that came from: let's sell some comics!