clarification

dropped in some flat colors for this old storyboard so you could follow the action a little better. did it work?

serious injury from above

i have an idea in mind for a character with a cool scar, so here i was trying to work out how i could actually lay out the action shot that explains it. harder than it seems.


and to the right just above is how that character would have ended up as a result.

expensive notebooks

i spent some more time drawing at the coffee shop with todd last night. this time i concentrated on a few doodles of a G.I. joe character called "bazooka." maybe i just like him because the red, white and blue jersey doesn't match the green of his helmet and pants at all. throw in a comically oversized mustache... looking good, fella.


i copied this pose from a google image search result for "assault rifle." it's my favorite of the batch, so i went ahead and colored it.


i went ahead and filled this in with some flat colors because i wanted to emphasize which shapes were blood splatter and which were hewn flesh.

things that directly fed into my week long obsession with G.I. joe:
classic G.I. joe, volume 1 (rereleased comics from the 1980s)
G.I. joe: the movie (watchthe whole thing on youtube)
YoJoe.com (archives of every G.I. joe action figure ever)
G.I. joe article on wikipedia

oh, and it is also notable that this page of doodles exists not in a free notepad, but in an approximately 5'x8' tan paperback moleskine that i bought in a set from barnes & noble.