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Window gazing on a lazy Saturday morning, coffee shop drawings, and thoughts of pixels…
The 8-bit comic was re-done for one of my dailies, but I think I like this version better.
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Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they’ve been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don’t explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing.
- Tom Waits
When drawing in my sketchbook I always struggle with this. It becomes too easy to just draw the same things over and over again– the things that worked once or twice.
So to shake things up a little, I’ve taken to drawing spontaneous and quick comic strips. Usually they start with a title or an image, and then I have to quickly complete them for good or bad.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Other times I draw characters from Zelda instead of Mario.
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As a kid, my summers were often spent visiting my grandparents in Regina Beach. There used to be a little book store in the town from which my folks purchased a number of Peanuts collections in pocket book format.
I spent weeks poring over the little drawings. The covers always struck me as odd because Charlie Brown’s shirt was always coloured red … probably to reduce the number of colours needed for printing. Anyway, I only recently realized this when I went to colour Chuck with a red ballpoint pen.
And what was with the shape of Linus’ head anyway? He must have taken a pretty bad hit sometime in the 1970s.
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These sketches were done during the winter.
I really like winter for two reasons demonstrated above: 1) It’s nice to huddle under a blanket and travel across landscapes of pixels, and 2) It’s fun to bundle up and travel across landscapes of snowflakes.
Unfortunately winter somehow makes me curse like a drunk high school teacher and draw cats really badly.
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Also this comic was done after drinking wine and playing Beatles: Rock Band.
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