peej

inspired by my brother phil and his halloween costume design, i did a little fan art:


and while i'm at it, here's another drawing of phil, the kind that looks like him and doesn't:


UPDATE: took another crack at it. this one looks less like a frightened lemur:

scout

i drew this to send to my cousin at boy scout camp, so in a way it is based on a true story.

momday 2009

so i drew a comic last friday as a mother's day gift. it's weird to design a character with whom you're already so familiar.


i actually based the final design more on a doodle i remembered posting on the blog than the preparation i did that day. and since the comic involved my mom's second life alter-ego, "thunder," i thought i could use some practice doodling generic females (not my strong suit, as i've mentioned).


and finally i got to work on the comic, starting in pencil and inking panels as i went along.


final product:
inks
colors

family matters

i was confused about the chronology of this one but i think i have it figured out now. you can see the date has been changed - i think because i had dated it retroactively in january 2008, forgetting that the previous month had occured in 2007. it makes sense because that's the year that steve, carly and the twins (pictured) were in town for xmas.

while they were here, we saw steve play in a soccer game with his old teammates, hence the outfit and juggling. what we did not see was laura doing a skateboard trick. artistic license, i guess. maybe that was around the time i first got my hands on "skate" for xbox 360.

mom and dad make a rare appearance here as well. what's more predictable is that something normal (like baby nephews) made me think of something nerdy to draw (like robot suits inspired by a half-remembered arcade game from the pizza hut by my house as a kid).

thanks a lot, brain.