90 Minute Comics

For the past 9 weeks on Monday at 8:30, the gang and I have been meeting over google hangout and drawing comics based on the elimination competition in Penny Arcade's reality youtube show, "Strip Search." The show is a competition for web comic artists where every 3 episodes two artists would face off and draw a comic in 90 minutes based on two words randomly pulled from the "wastebasket of broken dreams." We don't have such a wastebasket but we do have a random word generator.

Check out all of the past comics.

This is my comic from this week, the words were fridge and discussion:

Figure Drawing

Its a narrow line between fantastical creatures drawn at figure drawing and furries.

Figure Drawing

For a long time I was really frustrated with my lack of ability to draw from imagination. I feel most at home drawing from a model. When I get to drawing something purely from my head I have a really hard time. I was always terrible at drawing cartoon characters. I just could never simplify people enough so that I could make them appealing to look at. I have slowly gotten marginally better at this. Turning the figure's from figure drawing is a way for me to practice both drawing from life and drawing from imagination.

Happy Father's Day

To my father, William J Shaw III, on Father's Day. Thanks for being a great dad, you taught me a lot and I couldn't ask for a better father.

Figure Drawing

Sometimes its more fun to make things up.

Figure Drawing

Figure drawing from the YWCA model sessions:

Melissa

Melissa kindly posed for a quick 20 minute drawing/painting. Drawing people that you know is the most difficult because the pressure to get a decent likeness is quite high. I see her every day so I should be able to ballpark it, right? If it looks off its because she's fidgety, thats my excuse anyway ;)