Studio Fabricari

Posted: 9/02/2010 8:59:03 PM

First strip of Parity complete. I love the painfully arduous beauty of thatch hatching.

Posted: 8/18/2010 9:23:15 PM

Study

Posted: 8/17/2010 9:23:22 PM

Sketch Study: Depression Era Girl

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:51:27 PM

30s Hollywood Cowboy

Posted: 8/15/2010 6:14:12 PM

Here’s a preview of the Fabricari cover.

Posted: 8/11/2010 10:23:19 PM

Einstein

Posted: 8/10/2010 7:17:43 PM

Posted: 8/09/2010 9:17:33 PM

George from Of Mice And Men

Posted: 8/09/2010 8:28:53 PM

I guess this is an original murder ballad if you disregard that I ripped off Townes Van Zandt’s Snake Song.

Posted: 8/08/2010 10:00:24 PM

I’ve finished scanning every last page of Fabricari. Including this pin-up from ‘90-something drawn during my Mucha phase.

Posted: 8/03/2010 9:07:59 PM

Sketching

Posted: 7/29/2010 9:00:26 PM

Cover is done!

Posted: 7/25/2010 7:39:27 AM

I’ve finally completed the re-scanning and re-lettering of Fabricari #2 (1998). It’s an awkward comic because, at the time, I had challenged myself to complete it within a month. I took far too many shortcuts with the art. Despite that, I was happy to prove to myself that I could finish a page a day. And it does reveal another perspective of Ber Dosa even if using broad-swords to fight robots is a bit implausible. But hey, that’s comics!

Posted: 7/25/2010 7:34:44 AM

While the pose might be considered a bit racy; I was sweating more over how to get the foot and the foreshortening of the leg right. Feet are weird, fun things to draw.

Posted: 7/22/2010 8:27:25 PM

I had a lot of fun at this Dr. Sketchy’s, but I still think the art I ended up with wasn’t quite right. Maybe it’s because I changed my approach starting with a light lead and detailing with the softer HB. I think it got me drawing more tightly than I had at the previous sessions. Also, I seldom make the model look better. I make people look older or less attractive. That’s my super power.

Posted: 7/21/2010 10:06:22 PM

My contribution to the Dr. Sketchy Sketchbook making its was across the country. Ended up being my favorite for the night.

Posted: 7/18/2010 5:33:07 PM

Wanting to carry some of the momentum I got with that 30 day project, I asked for some friends to send me some photos to draw from. Alexander Danner sent this one in. It’s a great photo with a lot of story packed into the details. Of course, I still have a long way to go before I successfully capture a person’s image accurately. So, I’ll practice some more!

Posted: 7/17/2010 8:28:43 PM

Ahead

Posted: 7/17/2010 6:18:00 PM

I posted the last of the “pre”-fabricari pages. I’m really pleased to have put this book to rest. In a way, I feel as though I’ve made good on a promise I made to my 19 year-old self to finish this pages that I had started way back when. It also brings the theme full-circle.

I drew these ideas and cliches again and again as I tried to improve myself as an artist. The theme was simple: I was too young, too immature, to have really experienced anything worth sharing in my art, so I created a character to create interesting things for me to draw - fabricari. I opted to leave these pages without any dialog simply due to the fact that I hadn’t written any. Fabricari was always an ad hoc project.

It gives me a great big smile to ink away some bad habits in my old art - a time-traveling collaboration! I hope you enjoy!

Posted: 7/14/2010 9:48:11 PM

Inking Progress. This was the first (and hopefully last) of my cliched robot/workshop scenes.