 I had to share this little story about my four-year-old son Jackson. For anyone that hasn't met him, this is a pretty typical story in the daily life of my son. He is something of an enigma to his parents, but we don't hold that against him.
The other day we were all in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner. I was doing the dishes and my wife was emptying the dishwasher. The kids were jumping around and vying for our attention in their own ways.
I turned to my son and asked him to take a pair of grill tongs outside and put them by the grill. He happily grabbed the tongs and made his way towards the front door. Upon reaching the door, he found that the screen door had been locked. Being only four years old, he was confounded by the complexity of a locked screen door. Being my son, Jackson decided that instead of asking for help, or wasting time trying to decipher the mysteries of a latch-lock, a more direct approach was required. At this point he put the tongs down, backed up about ten feet, took a deep breath and started running as fast as he could at the locked door.
When my wife caught him about two feet from slamming full speed into the screen door, he looked at her as if she was crazy for stopping him. When we asked him what he was doing, he simply replied that "The door won't open".
I had to hide my laughter.
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This week the pick on the ComicTWART blog was Dan Dare, selected by Dan McDaid. If you don't know Dan McDaid, I highly reccommend checking out his website, danmcdaid.com. He has worked on Dr. Who magazine and the wondrfully Kirby-esque creator owned book Jersey Gods.
As far as the drawing, Dan Dare is not a character I was that familiar with. I did know he was a British Sci-Fi character created by illustrator Frank Hampson in the 1950's. Dan become a very popular character and spawned radio shows, toys, television programs and more. In 2008 Virgin Comics published a 7 issue Dan Dare mini-series written by Garth Ennis, with art by Gary Erskine.
I dod this rather quickly. I started with just the pose from random sketches. Eventually I decided on this one and it made me imagine Dan shooting through space with a pair of rocket boots. I lie it for the most part, but now I wish I would have spent a little more time on it. I tend to rush through things because I'm excited to get to the final drawing. Although I have gotten better at slowing down in the beginning of the process. Now I just need to slow down at the inking stage. Another leson.
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A little something for my buddy John Siuntres.
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A little something new. Just playing around with my laptop and Wacom tablet. I always hated drawing on a tablet, until I bought my Cintiq. Not being able to carry the Cintiq around, I decided to mess around with my old, tablet. I decided to just try something simple and see how things might turn out. I did a few warm up sketches and then decided to just start with a gesture and see where it took me. This is what I ended up with.
Invincible is one of my favorite ongoing comics. Robert Kirkman has such a love of the kind of superhero comics that I read as a youth and it comes out in this book. If you haven't already read it, go give it a try. It's just good, fun superheroes, robots, monsters and aliens. Good stuff.
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This week's ComicTwart selection, courtesy of Mike Hawthorne, is the prototypical hooker with a heart of gold - Clara de Noche.
For those unfamiliar with Clara, she is the creation of Spanish Illustrator Jordi Bernet. She was modeled after Bettie Page and her adventures were extremely erotic but funny and humane at the same time. For more information on Clara and other work by Bernet, I highly recommend the book "BERNET" from Auad publishing. You can get it at Amazon.com.
This piece came together very quickly for me. I was surprised how it went from an idea to a finished piece in such a short time. For whatever reason the idea hit me to put Clara at the zoo, in front of a black panther pen. I waned to try and emulate Bernet's style but not ape it. I tried to really free my hand up and just draw and brush this without trying to be too precise. Overall I am very happy with this one.
One thing though, I have no idea if the Italian on the sign is correct. Anyone that knows for sure, let me know.
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