211 - Who dem guys?

More of the standardized male body types from Christopher Hart's spectacular book Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist. I'm thinking of going back through these and practicing my digital inking right over the top of them for practice and because in the book Hart gives the under anatomy and a finished version.

Working my sketches in between coloring pages of GEEK which is finally starting to speed up as I am finding new faster ways to get the same results I was getting at the beginning so fingers crossed I can start really turning out pages to ease the minds of the GEEK guys.

ECCC is less than 2 weeks away now and I am getting really excited! Got my tattoos prepped and ready to go. Got a nice New Warriors convention sketchbook ready to get it's first sketch in it! I'm SO ready to go!

And if I didn't have enough other things going on I am now prepping to start a new pod cast. If you have listened to Tom vs The Flash by Tom Katers or Tales From the Attic by the always hilarous Donny Salvo on the PKD podcast you have an idea of what I want to do, roughly. If I tell you that I am going to name it the Crash Pad Podcast and you are a fan of a certain book then you now have a really good idea of what I'm going to be doing. I think it's going to be fun. Planning on recording the first test pod in the next couple of days and I have a couple guys ready to review it for me and hit me with some feedback. Fingers crossed.

209 - Whose's that guy?

Standardized male body types. More of the awesome Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist by Christopher Hart. Still enjoying my way through this book in between bouts of coloring.
Hope you are all enjoying your year so far.

201 - Mutant backside for your viewing pleasure!

Never give up!

Yep, that's right still not giving up on working my way through the entire Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist by Christopher Hart. It's a fun book and I'm still enjoying it everyone once in awhile in between my other projects. There is much rejoicing in my mind as posters are finishing up and comic pages are being colored. But here we have the Mutant fellow for his final appearance as you get the muscle groups in the rear view. Good stuff, enjoy.

Tomorrow I turn 35.
I'm rocking a mohawk while still working a government job. I'm on 2 different podcasts and I am currently coloring a 130 page OGN with an amazing group of guys.
This is definitely not things I would think that I would have been able to say a couple years ago.
Things are good.

Hope you are all enjoying your new year so far.

187 - on a mutha funkin Mutant!

Back again with some more of that Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist by Christopher Hart because I just can't be stopped! This one turned out really well I think especially as the image on the right was done while racing the clock trying to finish it before the wife hollered that dinner was ready. I actually finished it about 4 minutes after she hollered but it was a really close race, fun was had.

Bonus! As of this post #187 on a mutha fuckin blog I have tied last year for 59 posts so far in 2012. There have been a few posts that did not have a sketch attached but I still am very happy that I'm getting more posts up and I hope everyone following and reading is enjoying.

182 - Sweet sweet backside - female back muscle groups

Again. Again Again. Again again again. Back to the Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist by Christopher Hart. I am still working my way through this fun little book as a learning tool and as a path to follow as I try to just simply increase my output. Of all the artists out there whose work I love I have seen them say constantly that the only way to really improve is to just keep drawing, so that's the goal. So I keep going. I keep sketching. I'm stubborn. I'm pig and bullheaded. It seems to help with my work outs and hopefully will keep improving my art. It just doesn't always make me popular.

Okay. Back to work.

P.S. The blog is creeping up on 10,000 views and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that has stopped by to check things out. A little bigger thanks for those that have dropped in comments and +'s. And a huge thanks for those that are subscribed to the blog and hopefully are liking what they see and that's why you are hanging around. It will keep going. Hope you enjoy the ride.

171 - check out the side view

Another day another sketch from the Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist by Christopher Hart. The female form simplified into muscle groups from the side view. Not a bad view indeed. 

165 - look at them hips

Back with more of the Christopher Hart Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist. The simplified female front view muscle groups, enjoy.

156 - backside round # 1

Still working my way through the Christopher Hart book. Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist is a great book that I would recommend to anyone that wants to try and work in a more simplified style but maybe doesn't know how to get started. It's a fun read with really good instructions.

I've got some color work to do on some pages and some more sketches that just aren't ready to go up here yet but soon.

138 - what's on the side? or Hero side view muscle groups

Back at the Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist by Christopher Hart. Here we have the Hero muscle groups from the side view. The most important part in the book is showing that the neck does not indeed connect to the back of your arms. There is back muscles and shoulders in the way. No flat backs peoples.

133 - simplified male muscle groups

Moving along through the Christopher Hart book still, Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist. Simplified muscle groups of the male superhero type from the front. Yep, yep.
I'm still loving working my way through this book while I work on other stuff and I'll be damned if this isn't going to be the book I finally draw all the way through.

Friday the 13th is coming people!

Damn I love Friday the 13ths. I graduated boot camp on a Friday the 13th. Hopefully this one will rock!

114 - mutant quarters

The Mutant part 3! Here we gots the 3/4 perspective views for the big ol' mutant head, fun stuff. I will not stop, I will make it all the way through drawing the stuff in this book. I have a mental block now telling me there's no way I can be an actual artist until I draw my way through one of these drawing books I have hundreds of. And hell the practice won't hurt. Still have like 893 bad drawings to get my first 1000 out of my system. Better get to it.

113 - a mutant a side

Here we have a mutant head side view. That is all.

112 - looking at the Mutant! or hey ain't nothing wrong with Ultimate Spider-Man!

Keep on cooking through August! Well 2 days in and doing well. Here we have the front view of the mutant character, nice horns, small forehead, high set eyes with a big ass jaw. More loving for my Hart book, I think I'm finally starting to pick up a little speed.

Bonus section - I've just got to put my 2 cents in about this whole new Ultimate Spider-Man thing. I read the USA Today article and it's a nice, short, well written article that first completely spoils what probably would have been a great reveal for people that planned on buying Ultimate Fallout #4 tomorrow when it actually hits comic shops, and second has given rise to a thousand idiots that feel the need to spout off about a character change.

First - damn it quit giving up details about comics to the damn media! Okay I know this one is going to raise Marvel's sales numbers which will keep the Mouse happy so this is how things will probably be from now on so there is no chance of fighting it. But damn, can't they find a way to bring in new readers without telling the stories in the comics I was going to buy before they come out?

Second - everyone of the people that put up a comment on the USA Today article need to ask themselves 1 question, are you going to buy the new Ultimate Spider-Man comic when it comes out and read it as a fan? If not, shut up, no one cares, you are complaining about a product that you don't buy. I could give a damn who is on the cover of the next Glamour magazine, I'm not going to buy it so my opinion of their choice of cover girl has no bearing. For those of us that are Spider-Man fans, and specifically Ultimate Spider-Man fans, we hopefully all feel as I do that it's great to have new Ultimate Spides stories after the great ending that Brian Michael Bendis gave us to the Peter Parker of the Marvel Ultimate universe. I have been reading Amazing Spider-Man for years, love the character. I own every single issue of Ultimate Spider-Man and have been reading it from launch, love the book, love the character. Ultimate Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man are 2 very different Peter Parker's, and I found that after 5 issues of Ultimate Spider-Man that that was a great and wonderful thing. If you are a Spider-Man fan then do the only thing that can be asked of the fans, read the first issue and then decide if it's a story for you. All this uneducated prejudging is a bit ridiculous. And just remember, Miles Morales isn't even the first non-Peter Parker Spider-Man with a different ethnicity people! I own a full run of Spider-Man 2099 by the amazing Peter David that starred Miguel O'Hara and that book rocked! Give Miles Morales a chance and let's see what Bendis can do with him. I have my fingers crossed that the Spider family is about to get another great member, but I could be wrong, either way I won't know until I start buying and READING the book.

I'll now step down from and put my soap-box away. Thank you.

111 - 3/4's of the girl's I know

Back on the track with a bit more of the pages and pages of Christopher Hart's Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist. This is a great book and I'm really enjoying working my way through it. I knew one of these days I would actually get around to plowing through one of these books. After all the money I have spent on these art books I need to do something with them.

A small aside - still loving my Netflix. 9 episodes into Dirt and loving every moment. It's so awesome to watch a full series on Netflix from start to finish. I finished watching all of the Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoons start to finish, awesomeness.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program...

101 - side view female

A nice little profile piece. That is all.

100 - and still rolling with a Dash of Dredd

So the big 100! And things keep on rolling. We have here a little doodle for the PencilJack Weekly Sketch Blog and a nice Female head from the frontal view in my continuing attempt to draw my way through Christopher Hart's Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist. Things are good things are well. Enjoy all.

P.S. I am working on an idea for my first full fledged comic with a great guy and right now we are running through some great ideas and throwing things at the fridge to see what sticks. If all goes well we will have are own original tale of a zombie, with a twist no one has seen yet! How you like dem apples!
But for now we will keep all the details on the hush hush.

95 - more male views...huh?

Here we have more of the male hero head views. Big shot of the male hero from the side with the underlying structure sketch. Next is a page of 4 varying perspectives on the hero's head, with some very concerning changes to the size of the hero's hair, hmmm.  Oh well, could have turned out worse. Props as always go to the Christopher Hart book Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist.
And remember just because they offer it to you, doesn't mean you have to take it.

93 - wicked right hook

On to the next steps we go. We have the hero's head from the front view from our amazing book Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist followed by a real quick 10 min sketch for this weeks weekly sketch group over at PencilJack. If you have a moment it's a great site to go through, 1000's of drawings by 100's of artists of varying skill range from raw beginners up to professional comic artists, great stuff going up there daily.

92 - the female mouth...shhhhhh

A new page of sketches...the female mouth and specific handling of the lips from the Hart book, Simplified  Anatomy striking again, fun book, I'm learning lots I think. The important part is I'm still having fun, so I keep on going.

And on this the weekend of of my second anniversary with my lovely wife we went out for a really nice dinner, went to see Drive Angry in 3D - which is a bucket of fun crazy, and when I got a little bit bored over the weekend the mohawk found its way home again. It is fun, and it is to laugh.

90 - look whose talking - or the male mouth

The male mouth and lips, them there things that make ya talk as it were. More form the Christopher Hart book, I refuse to stop.