Here is where the value of reference photos come into play. You never appreciate the level of detail that goes into something as common as a car until you start drawing it.
Archive for montey
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
It’s very exciting to develop the Boo and Montey mythology. Still have to work on drawing bulldogs, though. Their legs … just don’t seem to work right even in real life.
Once again, scale and sizing is less of a concern rather than telling the story. One sign of improvement was being able to freehand the desk, accoutrements, and the person in one pass. Maybe one day I’ll settle on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one was also drawn in May 2020, right after the previous one. There’s the inclusion of the bar, which I’m hiding “between frames” as you go around the table… including it might have been a little distracting, since there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one was actually drawn in May of 2020, as I had to start on Foul Intentions for the holidays. Definite improvements – a better sense of character size on the page, trying a standardized tavern background template that I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First attempt at trying a fisheye lens view to get as much of the tavern as possible. There might be a way to smooth the curve, but I haven’t found a way to do that yet. Very keen to try[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No. Really.
Around this time I still wasn’t planning to post the strips for public consumption, so that’s why everyone looks small and thin. Later on, I’d try to fill the frame as much as possible.