SKETCHBOOK PAGES, SATURDAY REPORT CARD
Oh man well it looks like all this snow has cancelled my comics class. Or rather, I've heard from 75% of the class that they can't make it. Looks like we'll be NIGHT-SCHOOLIN it before too long. So instead of using the fact that I'm nearly awake to actually work on some comics, I'm just posting stuff. Ha! Take that, comics! Here's a funny picture from last night:
That look is as close as I can get to approximating the utter desolation of adulthood. KIDS TAKE NOTE: enjoy your simple times while you have them, the freedom you think lies ahead does not exist! Look on my face and take heed!
Okay enough of that, let's look at some harpies with gun-boobies instead. NOW THAT'S ADULTHOOD!
My friend Richard Wright has tried again and again to get me hired by his various movie and commercial projects over the years, and I love him for his tireless efforts, which have been universally rebuffed. The spread above is for GENTLEMAN BRONCOS, the recent Jared/Jerusha Hess movie starring Jemaine Clement as Dr. Ronald Chevalier. Richard, who was art director on the movie, asked me to do some sketches for these gun-harpies, which are part of a montage where you see Dr. Chevalier's own weird drawings and paintings. It is pretty hard to try and draw beneath your level--i.e., make it look more stilted/childish than it already does. So much of drawing for me is trying to avoid that stuff, it's hard to shift your muscles in the other direction. I suspect that a better cartoonist could do it better, or maybe one with a less rigid approach than my own.
I used to try and draw pretty much-on full-on sketches for comics in my sketchbook, but then I realized that most of the time I used up my interest in drawing it by doing it the first time. Weird, huh? But my current practice of super-tiny thumbnails isn't the best either, so maybe I'll end up with some hybrid version one day.
I need to take some sort of master class in drawing women, I'm the worst at it. They are showing up more and more in my diary comics too, not to mention my upcoming memoir comics. Hmm.
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