Charcoal Card-Shark Kevin Controls His "Patients"

I know, this one is not good. That's okay, though, because to reiderate, I was trying to focus on the clothing, plus I had to portray him utilizing form-over-form and wrap-around in his clothing, which I think I did.

Anyway, I know I said There wouldn't be a Golden Brown out this weekend, but I did put up a little sum'n-sum'n for everyone to see regarding the patient he just saw.

Midtone Pyramid

I had to retrace everything, plus add some new things & take away some of the stippling, because my instructor didn't want me to confuse texture with value. I personally think one can compliment the other or used to make the other: stippling, or dotting, is based on the fact that rough surfaces cast many small shadows across a plane, thus indicating a texture of the surface through small value changes.
But he's trying to teach me more about placement of shadows as well as different values of different shadows, so I can't really argue.

Markers!

Alright, I just got these markers, I didn't really even know how people got even midtones into comics without either using photoshop or smearing charcoal like I did. But these markers are freakin cool. I was able to utilize different shades together and even accidentally show dirty or worn spots on the car by not filling it in very well. Next comes the filling in of values on my Mayan pyramid, so hopefully that turns out.

More Homework Done

Again, I didn't focus much on the face, so don't pay attention to that. The colored lines are there to indicate stretch and compression of the body.

Golden Update/Clarification

I've reposted Golden Brown, now you can read the entire 5 pages in the succession they were supposed to have been read. I got impatient and posted a couple pages here and there, causing a lot of misunderstanding, so hopefully this will clear everything up.
Now, I'm going to take that week's break to get back to school work. Instead of a comic next Friday on the Bone Daddy blog, look for a post on this one updating everyone as to the status of my school work and how soon I can resume work on the comic.
Thanks!

More Clothed Figure Assignments

The focus is on the stretch & compression of the torso.

My First Clothed Figure Drawing Assignments

My "warm-up"...It's for creating a fluidity of movement in your arms so you can create more natural-looking lines in your sketches. Believe or not, it does tend to work.

It's Amber! Sorry about the face--the assignment said to do a 20-minute sketch, focusing mainly on a clothed figure, and the face would have taken up more time. 

Santa's Slay

This is one of the funniest movies I've seen in a while. Bill Goldberg (yep, the wrestler) plays an evil Santa Claus who finishes off a 1000-year bet to do goodwill and gift-giving, and returns the next Christmas to basically kill everyone who wrote him letters all those years and get revenge on the Angel who beat him at curling and won the bet.
Stupid? Of course, it's very stupid, but well-done, and funny as hell. Also, it's weird how cool it is to see Santa getting so violent with people.
Anyway, not many may agree with me, but I thought it totally kicked ass, and Karissa, who more often than not hates the movies I find stupidly funny, agrees with me.

We also watched The Benchwarmers, Poseidon, and Aliens Gone Wild. First one was pretty funny, the second one didn't measure up to the original Poseidon Adventure, and the third is not about Aliens shedding their clothing in front of the cameras, but rather a bunch of disjointed stories put together that pretty much sucked. EXCEPT FOR the first one, which had a really fucked up music video in it which was perhaps one of the most memorable videos I've ever seen.

So there.

Back to School

Well, my semester started last week, and I haven't even started my assignments for my Clothed Figure Drawing class, but here is a second assignment from my Perspective class--the first assignment was the car itself. This lesson involves isometric perspective, which is lengthy to explain, but basically all these lines are parallel to their opposites and objects that are farther away (like the building) aren't smaller in proportion because of the angle it's viewed from. April knows some of this stuff, she could probably explain it better than I can.
I'm not impressed with the car, but then I've only started drawing cars like 2 weeks ago or so. Buildings, I'm getting much better with. If you've checked this by about 9am, you will have noticed the pyramid below as well. It's reference source is from Teotehuacan, and I like how I did on it. The little alien is obviously a joke (and please no trying to convince me that aliens could have built the pyramids, remember I've studied this stuff fairly thoroughly).
Anyway, No promises, but I would check the BoneDaddy blog--maybe, -MAYBE the new one is up. I'll have more to post come Sunday night, I'm sure.

Mayan Pyramid, my little tribute to Tatianna Proskouriakoff. 

Not Enough Hours in an Hour

I've been putting off a decision about what to do with the comic once school is started. I would love to keep doing it, but on top of Isabella (pretty big chunk of my time there), work, and schoolwork (which shouldn't be as bad as last year but still), I may not have time to continue it as frequently as I would like. I was doing really well all summer--I managed almost every Friday for like 3 months to have something to show, and it was nice to experiment with my workload to see how efficiently I could wade through the less-fun parts of doing a comic (like lettering and borders). It's also been fun to watch how it evolved since April, both Aesthetically and literary.
I don't want to completely put it on hiatus. To do that usually makes one unsure of its future. My main problem beside my regular workload is that I have a couple of other non-comics projects I want to do, and I've left myself no time for it. On the one hand, I could stop being a baby and take less breaks between comics and projects, on the other I'm still a little new to this, and I don't want to burn out on it. I'd rather work progressively into it and get more done as I get more experience, and as I get more comfortable to draw at a faster pace.
Anyway, Golden Brown is not on hiatus. Not yet, anyway. But I make no promises now for when the next post will be. I have 3 birthday parties in the same week for the same little girl, I have homework, so this Friday will probably not have a post. But even though I'm not posting, I'll still keep you all posted.

Golden Brown With a Cameo

New Golden Brown out, but it's not quite finished. I have more pages, they're just not ready yet. One will be ready for sure this afternoon, not sure yet about the rest, so bear with me on my timing.
That is all.

Two That Are No Longer With Us

Couple things:
I finally got rid of my van! One of my neighbors mentioned a friend of his being interested in it last fall, then he mentioned it again about a week ago. Just last Friday the neighbor came by and paid for it in cash, then they came and got it Saturday. I'll miss that van--it was a very reliable vehicle and I got my money's worth out of hauling stuff with it--but I'm very happy to see it gone.
I was reading the obituraries this morning, and in the "area services" part, I found out an old classmate of mine, Gabe Smith, Jr., died last Saturday. I have no idea how he died, but I knew it was him when I saw his picture & read the names of some of his cousins (who I also knew).
When I first moved to Devils Lake in 1986, my mom took me to Minnie H just for a visit to see the school where I would be going in two or three days. Gabe was in a desk by the door (where they put you when you got in trouble), and when the teacher introduced me to the class, he stood up and said "Hi Doug!".
Later grade school years would show him to be a bully who would pester me and beat on me one week, then play kickball or tag with me the next. He was even among a group of friends invited to my house for a birthday sleepover two years in a row. No matter how mean he was to me, he was good friends with Kristian Overmoe & Alex Leben, so we ended up getting along as well. For what it's worth, he onced chased Kristian & Alex around his house with a steakknife.
Anyway, I stopped hanging around with him in middle school, and never heard much about him again until just this morning.
Weird how that happens.