Sticking to the numbering that we decided on yesterday, here is the 137th Sketch of the Day, this time featuring a Perfect Storm illustration I am working on.
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The other day I got an email from a friend asking if I could do “finishes” on a couple of pin-ups he penciled. Now, for those of you who haven’t heard the term finishes (since it is one they don’t really use in comics nowadays), doing finishes means the penciler is giving you a decent amount of information but they expect you to do some of the heavy lifting too. Now, with “regular” inking you are expected to add a certain amount of yourself to the pages, but there’s a limit with how much you can add before it becomes more your job than the pencilers. Kevin Nowlan is a great example of someone doing finishes, cause no matter whose pencils he works over (with the exception of Mike Minola) when the pages are done it is definitely a Kevin Nowlan job!
For these pieces my friend told me he wanted a combination of his style and my own, and told me to go buck wild on it to get there, so you can see I’ve made a decent amount of adjustments to find the happy middle between his style and mine. It comes through mostly in the faces where I tend to do more referencing than he does, but his figures have a bit more life in them which I struggle to get across.
So, here are a side by side comparison of the pencils by Larry Jarrell, and the finishes I did over them.
When last I left the sketch of the day thread, I was up to #100. That was followed by a long time off, then I started it back up with #inktober, and have continued thus far into November… So, I think this is roughly the 136th sketch of the day.
Yeah, let’s go with that…
Par for the course, I didn’t post any of the final Inktober pieces here on the site, so here is another wrap-up post!
My goal is to keep going with the daily sketches. which will be at least pieces I am working on for my various freelance clients. Hoping to have more updates about my own projects soon, but as they say, the plans of mice and men…
Again my regular updates have been not so regular, so instead here is another inktober catch-up!
Well, obviously, I’ve missed posting a few #inktober pieces here, so rather than faking it with a bunch of individual posts, here’s one good one of the last few pieces, including todays. All of these are from Strong Will, the comic project I’ve been picking at inks on for, wow, many years now… Down to the last few pages so we should be finished up shortly!
Finally!!!
And with this we’re officially caught up!
One of my favorite podcasts is Big Kev’s Geek Stuff (www.bigkevsgeekstuff.com), so when they mentioned doing some auctions at NYCC I did these up to send along. If you are going to be at NYCC this weekend, stop by their booth, #401.
Well, thanks to hurricane Matthew yesterday’s Inktober sketch is a bit late, but still appropriate…
