Work in progress...

Didn't get too far on this one, but trying to turn the head a little for more of a 3/4 view... something I need to do more of.

Ichabod...

My doodle from this week's drink-n-draw. I was kinda going for an Ichabod Crane feel.

It came from the deep...

Currently on my drawing table ...

From last week's drink-n-draw

Kinda looks like Yoda's evil cousin with a stupid long neck.

Hellboy sketch

Trying to post pics from my phone.... hopefully thus will work. :)

BnD at Sergio's

The group met up at Sergio's bar this week. There were 6 or 8 of us there and we all really enjoyed the new venue. There's talk of us coming there on a regular basis, since our first pick, Zanzabar has so frequent live acts that mess up our schedule... but we'll see.

Sergio's has plenty of room in the back, seemed interested in having us there, have an impressive selection of beers and the food wasn't bad. It was just kinda warm in that back room area, unlike Z-bar where it's nice and cool... I personally don't mind going back-n-forth between the two places and like a little variety.

As a group, we are all genuinely excited about our upcoming horror anthology, and can't wait to get an update from our fearless leader, Ted, at the next LCS meeting.

As for art this week, I spent some time brainstorming some story ideas with writing powerhouse, Troy (look for our Frankenstein story in the horror anthology next month). I also managed to doodle a few little pics in my sketchbook:

Sketches from this week...

Here are a few of the doodles I did at BND this week. Crappy phone pics as usual:

Rooftops by Steven Bowman

Just saw our very own Steven Bowman's new comic on the stands out at Great Escape today, cool!

http://stevenbowman.deviantart.com/#/d2r2763

Ink!

Once again, we had a great time this week with the group out at Zanzabar. Bunch of new faces and lots of drawing going on. It is cool seeing some of the Horror anthology projects coming to life. As Ted mentioned last night, this book is going to be great. I'm pretty excited about it, personally. I've never really been "in" to horror per se, but I do love creatures and monsters. I have to admit I'm having a lot of fun working on my story. Here's a work-in-progress of one of the pages I'm doing. I'm in the process of inking it, and it's really going slower than I hoped. I'm gaining a new appreciation for master inkers like Tim Townsend, Richard Friend and Scott Williams... I just don't see how they do it!

Creature Inks

This week, I decided to focus on a single creature drawing I've been messing around with. Originally, this was one of my ideas for the monster at the end of the short story I'm doing for the LCS Horror Anthology... hopefully I can get it done in time! Well, turns out the creature I'm going with is a little simpler, but hopefully just as creepy... this one is just for fun.

For this image, I tried a new technique: I penciled just half the face then photocopied and flipped it over for perfect symmetry. I then ran a copy of the 2 halves together, slightly lighter so I could practice my inks over it. As I go along, I'm adding some randomness so it doesn't appear too symmetrical. Inking has always been a challenging area for me, so has been good practice, plus inking over a photocopy allows me to try different techniques without ruining the original pencil drawing.

Another night at Zanzabar

A few more sketches from our Booze-N-Doodle at Zanzabar this past week. I had trouble finding my rhythm this week. I've started penciling a story for the LCS Horror anthology, so I think my thoughts were focused on that... so it made it a little tough to loosen up and just draw. So in this batch, I have a conan-esque warrior, a couple of weird creatures, plus a quick space girl, inspired by the art book Tobin brought in (can't remember the artist's name). Also, I really enjoyed checking out Damon's sketchbook of creatures — amazing work!

First 3 meetings

Unfortunately I have not made it to any of the official LCS meetings, yet I still feel like I'm part of the group. The Wednesday night Drink-n-Draw works well with my schedule, so I've been able to hit the first three, so far. This is a collection of some of my drawings from the first three sessions. Some are more finished than others. Since I don't draw much during the week, I like to use these sessions to crank out as many ideas as I can. Note: I just snapped these with my phone and then did a quick levels adjustment in Photoshop:

Just getting started...

I plan to use this blog to display some of the drawings I do in our Wednesday Drink-n-Draw sessions. I'd also like to open this blog up to anyone who attends the Drink-n-Draw, so we can get a sampling of some of the sketches and doodles that the group is working on.

To get things started, here's a poster I created for the heck of it, to promote the Louisville Cartoonist Society (LCS). I love posters done up in a revolution/propaganda-style, and this is my first attempt at it.