Zombies

I have recently been hired to draw a comic book, which excites me to no end, and which I probably will be talking your ear off about for the rest of the time I'm working on it... and possibly later too.

I love comic books, even though I've been horrible and am back on pretty much every comic I'd like to be reading, and should by all accounts be whipping myself for still having not read Batman RIP. There really is no excuse. Anyway, I love a good graphic novel, and have spent many a time devoting countless hours gobbling up a new story. Some top faves: Kingdom Come (Favorite), Transmetropolitan, Infinite Crisis, Year One, Walking Dead, Dawn (guilty Pleasure),Astonishing X Men, Lex Luthor Man of Steel (amazing work of art, telling the story from the side of the villain. If you haven't read it, you should. This is what Superman Returns was missing). Wait, I'm rambling.. back to why I'm writing this.


I also love zombies. Zombie comics, zombie movies and zombie paraphernalia. Hell, who doesn't? You get to see people managing at their best when everyone is at their worst. Not to mention all the zombie fodder and general mayhem. (Side note: 28 Weeks Later has the best cinematic kiss of all time. Hands down. You know the scene). Each story has a different mode of transmission and different level of zombie effects, which is the fun part, and I have to say, I'm really really excited about how the zombie outbreak is spread in this comic. If I weren't working on this, and had heard about just how it is transmitted, I'd be on the freaking newsletter.

So what this is all leading up to is that, Yes, I've been hired by Rachel Mohr (as in someone is actually paying me to do this) to draw a comic book about Zombies. Needles to say, I am beyond happy about this.. possibly even giddy.

And for now on, I will be uploading sketches from my work on the comic

Meet Max. This past week, I've been drawing character sketches for the main characters of the comic. Below are some of the drawing stages for Max and his mother Soli Miracle.
I will be posting more sketches as I go along, and soon there will be a site where you can see the pages as they come as well.

Sketching and The Art of Sneaky Life Drawing

Lately I've taken to carrying around my drawing pad again and have been drawing every chance I get. Generally I get at least one out a day, so I thought I'd start this blog to update them, and possibly keep me doing this.

A couple weeks ago, a woman approached me about drawing a comic book with her, which I'm really excited about. To get into the vibe, I started drawing all the people I see around me and sketching more from my ha, attempting to keep it simple. With my numberism drawings, I get very technical, so I sort of had to re-acclimate myself to the technique.





I ride on the Portland Street car all the time, and have not a lot to do in between stops, so I've started drawing the people on the bus to pass the time. It's amazing how many kinds of facial shapes and body types you see on the streetcar. A lot of these people, I never would have just come up with from my mind, so this has been really helpful. However, when I do this, I tend to miss my stop.

I don't think everyone likes the idea of me drawing them while they're dragging themselves back home after a long day at work and vegging out on the train... so I've gotten sneaky.... I draw their reflections on windows.



As far as they're concerned, I'm drawing what's outside, and they're never the wiser. One man noticed me drawing and kept looking from me to the window. "What the hell is she drawing? She keeps looking at the same spot out the window, but we're in a moving vehicle!" I could almost hear him say. He was very animated. Anyway, I'm simply loving this, catching people in their comfortable day to day routine... as long as they'll stay still long enough for me to draw them.

These are just quick snap shots with my camera, so they're not really that great. I will take better pictures from here on out. After this post, I will be uploading daily. This is a backlog from the last week or so. I will be uploading these to my new Flickr site too at Flickr.com/photos/roguesketc