Lunch Sketches

Some sketches I did on my lunch break over the past week:



An ogre catching some shade at the beach.


Beach time for wolfboy.


Medusa wears sunscreen.

Wolfboy prototype

Prototype for the wolfboy project that I will one day finish.... sometime.

Last stretch before finals!

Old Wolfboy!

Old Wolf Boy 4

Another piece of my abandoned work.

Old Wolf boy 3

Here is another old wolf boy image.




This image was colored digitally, in Painter I believe. For a lot of the images I also cleaned up the black lines quite a bit in Photoshop. For example, the last image I added the cross hatched border. The original was in black and white and was not framed in that round border. Using the copy stamp tool and cutting the cross hatching from my other drawings I was able to convincingly place the drawing into a framed format. It looks like it was physically drawn in that manner. This saved me lots of tedious cross-hatching and ink.

Old Wolf Boy Process

For this series of images I drew them out on a heavier printmaking paper using a Staedtler 0.3 pen. Once they were all drawn out in black and white I photographed them and edited them with Corel Painter X, making slight changes and adding color.

Wolf Boy

Every once in a while I have mentioned a story book or multimedia comic book. back in 2005 at William and Mary I made a print of a wolf creature standing under a tree on top of a mountain. This image was the beginning of a story that I hadn't created. Since that print I have made many images featuring that character. Its been an evolving process. At various points in 2008 I actually set out to create a definite plot and images to follow along with that plot. I got pretty far and ended up with over fifty images of different qualities. I started compiling them in 2009 then abandoned the project for a couple of reasons. I didn't really like the quality of the images. Only a very few of them held up to what I had envisioned. The story also had never been outlined clearly enough. I had been focusing on the images almost exclusively.

I've come back to the project several times since then. While I still have yet to get a solid collection of images the story is starting to solidify in my mind, and come together on paper. For a class this quarter here at Drexel I'll be looking at multimedia storytelling and comics on the internet. I'll be starting a concept of a project that will use pieces of the "Wolf-Boy" story line to demonstrate certain principles of this medium.

I have had this collection of art from the false starts sitting around that very few people have seen and I thought that I would start showing it. There is a narrative and I'll post it on this blog in the narrative order. This is all abandoned work, I won't be using this in the final wolf boy (whatever that may be) but it is worth checking out.