character challenge

Hey gang, haven't updated in awhile. Been busy. But now there is new stuff!

These Noiry people came out pretty darn good.

There's a thing I just learned about for the month of November called 30 characters in which you create 30 all new characters in 30 days, one for every day in November. I found out about it too late to register officially, but I decided to try it unofficially anyways because it seemed like a good exercise. So here's my first character!

She's a badass zombie killer. Haven't thought of a name yet. Pamela? She looks like a Pamela.

Also, there will be a new Barber and new Purple Boy and Turquoise Girl next week. Without fail. So there.

Radical New Barber Design

I was penciling a few new Barber pages(yes it is coming back once I have a nice buffer) and I was suddenly hit by some new designs. I've kept The Barber mostly the same from the start and I've always wanted to try some radical redesigns to get the most out of the character. So I started with these:

A little different in the head shape, kind of a sterner look. Then I got this crazy idea and ran with it:

SWEET MARTHA MOTHER OF BATMAN HE HAS EYES.

I mean, yes, it was always assumed he had eyes, but I originally wanted a more graphical look, so I kept the white glasses look. But this, this is so very different. It just completely changes the character. I also added detail to his head, changed up the mustache, and defined his jawline more.

I'm still working on it, and it's different from what I was doing, but honestly it's closer to the character design I want to be drawing. I can save the no eyes version for more graphical pages anyways. But for now, aw man is this cool.

Also, deserts!

ahead of the sketches(see what I did there)

I just really like this sketch from my review of Delicatessen over at Sketched Screenings. But there's more stuff!

A few weeks ago I said that if I hit 150 fans on twitter I would draw Optimus Prime riding a unicorn. So....

Conan the Barberarian

I did a review over at Sketched Screenings of Conan the Barbarian, and you should totally read it. It's pooptastic. But then I got the best idea ever:

Who wouldn't rather watch this instead?! Especially with the little bow-tie and possibly suspenders? Look! He thinks he's people!  I kinda really want to put him in my barber comic.

Alice and more

 A friend of mine said she was thinking of being Alice form Alice: Madness Returns for NYCC, but thought the look had been too done. So I suggested the obvious conclusion: Steampunk Alice!  She wanted to know what that would look like, so I took the liberty of sketching up a few possible designs.  Colorwise, I'm thinking lots of brown, dark faded blue, and dirty white. Basically, it's Alice's regular attire but with gears and leather and a corset. The corset is integral to the steampunkiness for some reason.

heroes and barbers

Hey guys, I have produced more sketches for your amusement. Actually, this is so I can practice. I don't really care for your amusement. If I did, I would be a funny cat video. 

Starting out with the basics.

 You guys. This was Christopher Walken once. The Walken had abs. how crazy is that.

Wednesday Weekly Something Something

I don't even do this on purpose, it just keeps ending up I update on Wednesdays. But anyways, sketches!

I tried this thing in which I started out by copying from a photograph and then slightly cartoonized the sketch. I like the guy but I gave the girl way too big lips.

Hey, I did a blogpost over at Rocket Powered Dragon with some Barber sketches. You should go check it out because I'm too lazy to repost them all here.

Also, over at Sketched Screenings, I did reviews of Cowboys and Aliens and Summer Wars. The latter was good, the former, not so much. Check them out!

Hmm, not as many sketches as I thought. I will have to do more for tomorrow.

Friday Night Updates

Wow, today I realized I haven't done a blog update all week! Unfortunately I haven't been doing much sketching, I've been too busy in other places!  You know what that means. LINKSTORM! Linkstorm, activate!

First off, new Book of the Barber over at Rocket Powered Dragon!

The fight with the Overgrown comes to an explosive conclusion!  I really like this page, and that panel in particular. More after the jump!

buttload of links

First I did this semi cartoony sketch of Rita Hayworth:

Finished!

Hey guys! I've finally finished my Fiction Project journal! So relieved. I'll have more time to not worry about that now, so more time for comics and animations and all that jazz(maybe)!

It's pretty rough (I didn't even erase the pencils) and near illegible. I'm most likely going to post it here or make a new Tumblr for it. I'm not happy with it enough to post it on Rocket Powered Dragon with my other webcomics, but people still might enjoy it.

Also if you noticed at the left, I added a button for Rocket Powered Dragon! If you haven't checked out our stuff, you should!

I also finally got to playtest the newest version of my Rickety Rat boardgame. It was semi successful, but still needs to iron out some kinks. I'll do a post o the Rickety Rat blog soon.

I have plans to keep busy this week, so Look out for a new Barber, a new Purple Boy and Turquoise Girl, a new Random Awesome comic, and Sketched Screenings post! Plus more sketches and random junk.

cards, sketches, and draggins

Hey guys! I did stuff today!

So first off I have a bunch of new card designs, which is great because I'm really digging the style, but it's bad because I have so many I like.

The first I'm going to put on the back of all my cards. It's for the site I'm working with, Rocket Powered Dragon. And since I don't want to carry 2 sets of cards around, I'd figure I'd fashion one similar to the style of card I'm using.

Noir sketches and webcomics!

Hey guys! I haven't really posted on here in awhile, so I thought I'd give you a look at some noir sketches! It's for an upcoming sketchbook project and I'll most likely be done and posting about it in about a month, so look forward to that!

One of the protagonists-The Florist

A saucy Secretary

Two sisters. Hmm, "opposites attract" or "Twisted Sister"?

Bad Cop Good Cop

Some skeevy character: A business man, drug dealer, and a druggie

Some lovely ladies

A bartender, an old guy, and a psychiatrist

Also, I haven't been doing comics here, because I've been doing comics for another site I've become a part of, Rocket Powered Dragon! We have comics, animations, games, illustrations and more! You should really check out our stuff! Also, I animated the banner, which I'm pretty proud of.

If you've been going through Josh comic withdrawl, you'll be happy to know I have three webcomics up there! The Adventures of Purple Boy and Turquoise Girl, which is funny and light hearted, The Book of the Barber, which I've finally started up, and Brother Rabbit comics, which I'll be doing a couple of every now and then.

We also have Random Awesome comics, which I did one for, and I might do one there every now and again.

Considering I have 3 of them, and I'm trying to be professional and not BS them, they updates on all of them might be sporadic, but I'll try to get a new one of each up every week.

Oh also, if you didn't know, I did a bunch of reviews over at Sketched Screenings! So you should check those out too!

need a hug?

Man, I say this all the time, so I'm just waiting for this to happen in real life.

Also, I got a new website! Yay me!

Also also, check out some sketches for my upcoming Barber comic!



Yep, check those weapons out. A comb scythe, a brush shield, and some sort of comb/scissors/sword contraption. I think I'll call it Barberpunk.

ideas?

Sooo yeah. Hate running out of ideas. But it's like when you have a daily journal ad you didn't do anything and you're like, what do I write about? But then you stop writing and don't start up again. And I don't want that to happen here.

This also introduces a character I want to use in other places, the barber. Although, I think here he looks more like a landscaper.

Oh and tomorrow I may or may not have a comic because I may or may not be close to a scanner computer. Now if I were someone who's smart I'd do a comic tomorrow and just upload it sometime on Friday. If.