Yesterday

I did get a lot done, yesterday, and I’m happy with my progress, but not quite ready to scan icons, plus I realized scanning them early would ruin the surprise of who won art cards, so… all things in time.

Anyway, I also made this kitty:

Today, I go to work on the mural, then more iconishness.  Huzzah!

No emails concerning commissions or the sketchbook, so I am going to make that a real auction, as soon as I figure out where and what I’m doing, and where I put the caffeine.

Today!

Comics are all updated!

Page 38 of Ekwara - http://www.ekwara.com

Page 333 and 334 of Dracula, with bonus page thanks to tips reaching 20 dollars.  Enjoy! - http://www.draculacomic.net

Page 84 of Crimson Flag - http://www.crimsonflagcomic.com

Now that those are all in order, I’m spending the rest of the day on icons.

I’m currently open for commissions for April.  A 8.5″x11″ watercolor picture with a full background and one or two characters is $75.  Without a background is $40.  I am not taking commissions for sketches, badges or icon sets right now, because I still haven’t decided what kind of fun thing I’m doing after I finish the current huge batch of icons, and if I do a sale or Day of some sort, I don’t want folks to miss out on that.  However, I am offering a slot for a sketchbook commission, though I’m not sure how much to charge for it.  The size of the sketchbook and number of pages would depend on what we’d work out, but I’m thinking it would be based on a theme or your characters, in pencil, with potential for some inked and color work, depending on how much it went for.  If you’d like to get a commission or make an offer on the sketchbook commission, send me an email at coyotepuck@gmail.com

Behind the cut, progress photos of the mural, from yesterday, plus three little sketches from D&D.

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Mural Progress, Zazzle, Comic News, Life

First of all, today’s comics will be going up at some point tonight - thanks to tips, Dracula will be getting two pages this week, and I need to make sure that happens!  I’m going to work on the mural, though, too.  It will be a busy day.

There are a lot of these icons to pencil.  Apologies for the wait, but this is about as long as I should have expected for it to make me take, especially with the mural eating my brain.  Both are fun.  I worry a little when I have long-term projects, but… well, read on after the cut.  I’ve been thinking about that a lot, this past week.

There is also a ton of art - in-progress photos of the mural, etc.

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Comics, Icons and Mural

First of all, comics updated yesterday!  Dracula updated a little late last night, so if you stopped by and didn’t see a new page, there’s one there for you, now.

Page 332 of Dracula - http://www.draculacomic.net

Page 37 of Ekwara - http://www.ekwara.com

Page 83 of Crimson Flag - http://www.crimsonflagcomic.com

I’m still working on the pencil art for the icons and will upload those as soon as they’re done.  I was aiming to have those done for yesterday, but that project is now sharing time with a huge mural project.  They’ll still get done, of course, and soon!

MURAL PROJECT!  A local restaurant, Jeckyl & Hyde, asked me to make a big sharpie mural on their wall, and I’ve been working on that this week!  It’s a very exciting project - a Victorian street scene.  It’s right up my alley.  Here are some in progress photos.

Shot of the corner near the (real) window.  This part of the mural is the wall of a building up close.  For this part of the mural I needed to incorporate the big restaurant window and a little metal door that hides a water shut off valve.

The disguised metal door.  You can barely tell it’s there, any more, which makes it funny when you do open it.

Of course, I sneaked in a kitty!

Progress on the street scene beyond the close-up building.  I didn’t get a shot of the man standing in the foreground until after yesterday’s work, but here’s this part of the wall before I got started, yesterday.

A closer shot.  You can see my pencil work on here, too.  I’ve blocked out/measured out all the major areas, then go in and add details, measuring more as necessary.  I’m not working from a grid, but using a framework of strings and guidelines.  That’s working out very well with how I create art.  In a larger work, you need to be really careful about distortion.

After yesterday’s work.  Buildings!  There’s going to be a fountain and a number of folks wandering the street.  To the right of the street scene is a closer building in the middle ground, an alley where Mr. Hyde is lurking, and another close-up building on the far edge of the wall.  All of those parts are blocked out, but not inked, yet.

This is at an angle, so I can see some distortion that isn’t actually in the mural itself.  I drew this fellow earlier, but finished the brickwork on the wall yesterday.  He’s about life-size, a hair smaller, and is actually a full figure, but I didn’t get a shot of his feet.  The wall’s going to have a lot more ivy on it, but I’m saving that for last, because it eats sharpies.

Anyway, that’s why I’ve been quiet, though I learned that the pizza place has wireless, so I’m able to do in-progress twitter updates, now!

Comics, etc

It’s Saturday, and that means comics!

Page 331 of Dracula - http://www.draculacomic.net

Page 36 of Ekwara - http://www.ekwara.com

Page 82 of Crimson Flag - http://www.crimsonflagcomic.com

Remember, if you’d like to see extra pages of Dracula or Ekwara, you can leave a tip!

This week I got myself a good little backlog of Ekwara pages finished up, enough to last through March even if I don’t draw more pages, and I’m going to keep plugging away.

This coming week, my goal is to finish penciling the icons and get the lineart posted for you fine people!

I guess it’s daylight savings time, tonight.  Doh.

Here’s a silly superhero sci-fi commission I finished:

Have a good day!

Comics!

Comics have updated!

Page 330 of Dracula - http://www.draculacomic.net
Page 35 of Ekwara - http://www.ekwara.com
Page 81 of Crimson Flag - http://www.crimsonflacomic.com