Friday, November 21, 2008

Stroke of (a) genius





So I've been trying to bone up on my inking skills lately, and so I've been scouring the interwebs for new, different pen/brush techniques to little avail. And, lo, I stumbled on an artist that at once melted my face off with awesomness! While reading Proof, there was a secondary story drawn and inked by one Connor Willumsen that reminded me of Paul Pope's style, yet very unique.
At any rate I was thoroughly impressed by his body of work that includes comics and some definitely boss illustration work. And he's a spring chicken at only 22! That makes me feel all old and stuff :3 An inspiration for sheezy!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Ahhhh... the 80's.






Here's some scans I got from my family's Childcraft encyclopedias. I've been looking for a particular late 70's-early 80's illustration style and rummaged though some old books. Hilarity! These photos are are a good indication of why we young people in our twenties are love kitchy crap from childhood. I love the image of the small child using the saw! We need to trust kids in workshops more often :) Oh, and the shell cleaning one is disturbing- just gather the animal-cruelty endorsed in the snippets of text. Good times. Serial killers in training. At any rate, nice, clean drawings+creepy subjects+hideous colors=fun childhood!